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The Real Wedding Crashers
''The Real Wedding Crashers'' was an American prank/hidden camera series on NBC, inspired by the 2005 comedy film ''Wedding Crashers'', that premiered on April 23, 2007. Ashton Kutcher, who helped create the concept, has explored a similar idea in ''Punk'd''. The series was produced by the aforementioned Ashton Kutcher, Karey Burke, Rich Meehan, Jon Kroll, Jim Rosenthal, and Jason Goldberg with RDF USA, the production company of shows such as Wife Swap, in association with New Line Television, part of the studio that produced the film. No one among the show's main cast and crew were involved in the original film, nor were the cast and crew of the film involved with the series. It was announced on May 7, 2007, that the series would be pulled after three episodes. NBC subsequently announced on its website that a fourth episode would air on May 28, 2007. NBC announced on July 20, 2007 that the show was not renewed. The two episodes not aired on NBC (along with those that did) have ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ben Gleib
Ben Nathan Gleiberman (born June 18, 1978), known professionally as Ben Gleib, is an American actor, comedian, satirist, and writer. Early life and education Gleib was born to Nate and Ziva Gleiberman in Los Angeles, California, on June 18, 1978. He has one brother, Ron Gleiberman, who is younger. Gleib attended the University of California, San Diego, where he studied communications and theater. His honors thesis work included producing a four-year campus TV talk show, ''The Gleib Show'', the finale of which included Gleib's delivery to UC San Diego's Price Center Plaza by marines in a military tank, followed by an interview with Carmen Electra. Career In 2006, Gleib sold a television pilot, ''The Gleib Show'', to Fox. The pilot was produced by ''Saturday Night Live'' creator Lorne Michaels, Broadway Video, and NBC/Universal. It was based on a TV show that Gleib directed, wrote, and starred in for three seasons on the National Lampoon College Network from 2003 to 2005 that ai ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wedding Crashers
''Wedding Crashers'' is a 2005 American comedy film directed by David Dobkin, written by Steve Faber and Bob Fisher, starring Owen Wilson, Vince Vaughn and Christopher Walken with Rachel McAdams, Isla Fisher, Bradley Cooper and Jane Seymour in supporting roles. The film follows two divorce mediators (Wilson and Vaughn) who crash weddings in an attempt to meet and seduce women. A sleeper hit, the film opened on July 15, 2005, through New Line Cinema to critical and commercial success, grossing $288.5 million worldwide on a $40 million budget. It was the 6th highest grossing film of 2005 in the United States and became the first R rated comedy to make $200 million at the domestic box office. The success of the film has been credited with helping to revive the popularity of adult-oriented, R-rated comedies. Plot John Beckwith and Jeremy Grey are Washington, D.C. divorce mediators who crash weddings under false identities to meet and have sex with women. At the end of a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Comedy
Comedy is a genre of fiction that consists of discourses or works intended to be humorous or amusing by inducing laughter, especially in theatre, film, stand-up comedy, television, radio, books, or any other entertainment medium. The term originated in ancient Greece: in Athenian democracy, the public opinion of voters was influenced by political satire performed by comic poets in theaters. The theatrical genre of Greek comedy can be described as a dramatic performance pitting two groups, ages, genders, or societies against each other in an amusing '' agon'' or conflict. Northrop Frye depicted these two opposing sides as a "Society of Youth" and a "Society of the Old". A revised view characterizes the essential agon of comedy as a struggle between a relatively powerless youth and the societal conventions posing obstacles to his hopes. In this struggle, the youth then becomes constrained by his lack of social authority, and is left with little choice but to resort to ruses w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Style Network
Esquire Network was an American pay television network that was a 50/50 joint venture between NBCUniversal and the Hearst Corporation. The network carried programs aimed at a metrosexual audience centering on travel, cooking, sports and fashion, along with reruns of popular sitcoms and dramas. History Style Network The channel was originally launched as the Style Network (although on-air promotions typically referred to it as simply "Style") on October 1, 1998, serving as a spin-off of E!. It was intended to leverage E!'s coverage of fashion and to provide an expanded venue for shows such as ''Fashion Emergency''. The network focused on fashion, design, interior decoration and urban lifestyle-related programming. Style provided coverage of events like New York Fashion Week and showcased various designers. Early programming included: ''The Look for Less'', ''Shabby Chic with Rachel Ashwell'', ''Glow: The Beauty Show'', ''Vogue Takes...'', ''Stylemaker'', ''Model'', ''Runway'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2000s American Reality Television Series
S, or s, is the nineteenth letter in the Latin alphabet, used in the modern English alphabet, the alphabets of other western European languages and others worldwide. Its name in English is ''ess'' (pronounced ), plural ''esses''. History Origin Northwest Semitic šîn represented a voiceless postalveolar fricative (as in 'ip'). It originated most likely as a pictogram of a tooth () and represented the phoneme via the acrophonic principle. Ancient Greek did not have a phoneme, so the derived Greek letter sigma () came to represent the voiceless alveolar sibilant . While the letter shape Σ continues Phoenician ''šîn'', its name ''sigma'' is taken from the letter ''samekh'', while the shape and position of ''samekh'' but name of ''šîn'' is continued in the '' xi''. Within Greek, the name of ''sigma'' was influenced by its association with the Greek word (earlier ) "to hiss". The original name of the letter "sigma" may have been ''san'', but due to the complica ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2007 American Television Series Endings
7 (seven) is the natural number following 6 and preceding 8. It is the only prime number preceding a cube. As an early prime number in the series of positive integers, the number seven has greatly symbolic associations in religion, mythology, superstition and philosophy. The seven Classical planets resulted in seven being the number of days in a week. It is often considered lucky in Western culture and is often seen as highly symbolic. Unlike Western culture, in Vietnamese culture, the number seven is sometimes considered unlucky. It is the first natural number whose pronunciation contains more than one syllable. Evolution of the Arabic digit In the beginning, Indians wrote 7 more or less in one stroke as a curve that looks like an uppercase vertically inverted. The western Ghubar Arabs' main contribution was to make the longer line diagonal rather than straight, though they showed some tendencies to making the digit more rectilinear. The eastern Arabs developed the digit f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2007 American Television Series Debuts
7 (seven) is the natural number following 6 and preceding 8. It is the only prime number preceding a cube. As an early prime number in the series of positive integers, the number seven has greatly symbolic associations in religion, mythology, superstition and philosophy. The seven Classical planets resulted in seven being the number of days in a week. It is often considered lucky in Western culture and is often seen as highly symbolic. Unlike Western culture, in Vietnamese culture, the number seven is sometimes considered unlucky. It is the first natural number whose pronunciation contains more than one syllable. Evolution of the Arabic digit In the beginning, Indians wrote 7 more or less in one stroke as a curve that looks like an uppercase vertically inverted. The western Ghubar Arabs' main contribution was to make the longer line diagonal rather than straight, though they showed some tendencies to making the digit more rectilinear. The eastern Arabs developed the digit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robin Bain
Robin Bain (born February 12, 1980) is an American actress, writer and director. Career Early work Robin Bain is a graduate of the University of Southern California and holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Theater from the USC School of Dramatic Arts. Bain appeared in Playboy in 2002 and was named as one of Playboy Magazine's Rising Stars in 2008. Bain went on to perform as an actress on the NBC comedy series, ''The Real Wedding Crashers'', Comedy Central's ''Mind of Mencia'' and alongside rockstar, Gene Simmons in a commercial promoting his television series, ''Gene Simmons Family Jewels''. Bain then made guest appearances on ''The Tonight Show with Jay Leno'' and ''Real Time with Bill Maher''. Bain acted as a live-action character on Seth Green's Emmy Award-winning animated show ''Robot Chicken,'' which airs on the Cartoon Network's Adult Swim. She also voiced multiple characters for the 2009 ''Robot Chicken'' Christmas special. Writer and director Robin Bain wrote, directed ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Desi Lydic
Lani Desmonet Lydic ( ; born June 30, 1981) is an American comedian and actress who is a correspondent on ''The Daily Show'' with Trevor Noah. From 2011 to 2016, she starred as guidance counselor Valerie Marks on the MTV comedy-drama series ''Awkward''. She got her start in the 2001 parody film ''Not Another Teen Movie''. She also starred in the Spike miniseries '' Invasion Iowa'' alongside William Shatner, and the parody series ''The Real Wedding Crashers''. She appeared as Shea Seger in the 2011 film ''We Bought a Zoo'' alongside Matt Damon and Scarlett Johansson, and in the 2013 film ''The Babymakers'' with Olivia Munn. Lydic also appeared as one half of a lesbian couple on an episode of the Disney Channel series ''Good Luck Charlie'' in 2014. She joined Trevor Noah's lineup of correspondents for ''The Daily Show'' on September 29, 2015. Early life Lydic was born in Louisville, Kentucky. At age of 3, Lydic became enamored of comedic acting from watching Carol Burnett play Mis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Catherine Reitman
Catherine Marcelle Reitman (; born April 28, 1981) is a Canadian-American actress, producer, and writer. She is the creator, executive producer, writer, and star of the CBC comedy series ''Workin' Moms''. Early life Reitman was born in Los Angeles, California, the daughter of French-Canadian actress Geneviève Robert and Slovak-born Canadian film director Ivan Reitman. Her father was from a Jewish family and her mother converted to Judaism. She attended the Cate School and majored in acting at University of Southern California. She is the sister of Caroline Reitman and director Jason Reitman. Career In January 2011, Reitman launched ''Breakin' It Down with Catherine Reitman'', a film review web show on YouTube, which ended in July 2013. She occasionally filled in for Kevin Smith as a guest co-host with Ralph Garman on their podcast, ''Hollywood Babble-On''. Reitman starred in the television series '' The Real Wedding Crashers'', based on the hit movie ''Wedding Crashers''. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Steve Byrne
Steve Byrne (born July 21, 1974) is an American stand-up comedian and actor. He is best known from his multiple stand up comedy hour specials, creating, writing and starring in ''Sullivan & Son'' and as the writer/director of the feature film '' The Opening Act''. Early life and education Byrne was born in Freehold, New Jersey. Byrne grew up in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and went to Hampton High School. He graduated from Kent State University in Kent, Ohio. His mother is Korean and his father is of Irish descent. Steve has a younger brother, William. He studied theatre at Kent State University. Career Byrne was exposed to stand up comedy by working at the comedy club Caroline's in New York City. The first time he ever got on stage was at Stand Up New York on September 30, 1997. Byrne spent the early part of 2018 directing a documentary about Las Vegas headliner, magician and comedian The Amazing Johnathan, entitled ''Always Amazin. The documentary won best documentary fi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jason Goldberg
Jason Goldberg (born 1972) is an American film and television producer. Goldberg is the producer of the films ''Guess Who'' and ''The Butterfly Effect'' and executive producer of the shows ''Beauty and the Geek'' and ''Punk'd''. He often works with Ashton Kutcher. Early life and education Jason Goldberg was born in Bel Air, Los Angeles, California. Career Goldberg began working as a producer in 1994 on the Blythe Danner film ''Homage''. Next, he produced ''Cafe Society'' with Lara Flynn Boyle and Peter Gallagher. He and Ashton Kutcher run a production company, Katalyst Films. He has been on the board of directors for Environmental Media Association (EMA), an environmental action group based in Los Angeles. Personal life Goldberg married actress Soleil Moon Frye (best known as the child actress who portrayed the title character on the 1980s TV sitcom ''Punky Brewster'') on October 25, 1998. They wed in a traditional Jew Jews ( he, יְהוּדִים, , ) or Jew ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
