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SPOILER ALERT: I Know How Get Him To The Greek Ends

Gabe — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 09:00:30 +0000

Get Him to the Greek trailer, you guys:

No offense to Mr. Hill or Mr. Apatow or Mr. Combs (none taken!) but I am just not a big fan of Impossible Task comedies (sorry to get so technical on you this early in the morning). An Impossible Task comedy, of course, is a comedy in which the characters find themselves routinely thwarted in their attempts to achieve a particular goal, the resolution of which would provide the dramatic and emotional resolution to the entire narrative. It is the driving momentum behind movies like Steve Martin and John Candy’s Planes, Trains, and Automobiles, Billy Murray’s Quick Change, and the Breckin Meyer vehicle, Road Trip. As far as I am concerned, this genre of comedy is the Saw of comedies. It is just torture for an hour and a half, and then at the end you’re like, what was the point? Because I do not want to blow your mind or ruin anything for you, but HIM GETS TO THE GREEK. Maybe my dislike of these types of movies stems from the same place that causes my frequent anxiety dreams about not being able to get to the airport on time, and then getting there but being in the wrong terminal. But this is a blog, not a THERAPIST’S COUCH, isn’t that right Dr. Melfi?

Russell Brand Is In Serious Trouble For Prank Calling An Old Man

Lindsay Robertson — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 09:29:20 +0000

I watched Forgetting Sarah Marshall again last night (best) and I’m still on the fence about Russell Brand. On the one hand, the VMAs happened. On the other, the guy does clearly have comedic talent, as evidenced by his performance as Aldous Snow in FSM. On the third hand, HE PRANK CALLED AN OLD MAN IN ENGLAND AND SAID HE SCREWED THE OLD MAN’S GRANDDAUGHTER:

Apatow Puts Together A Team For “A Dirty Version Of Almost Famous“

Lindsay Robertson — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 09:56:13 +0000

Fresh off the semi-success of Forgetting Sarah Marshall, producer Judd Apatow has announced that two of its stars, Jonah Hill and Russell Brand, will star in Get Him To The Greek, a buddy-comedy to be written and directed by Marshall director Nick Stoller. Variety reports:

[Greek] centers on a fresh-out-of-college insurance adjuster (Hill) who is hired to accompany an out-of-control rock star (Brand) from London to a gig at L.A.’s Greek Theater.

Apparently, Hill and Brand had such great chemistry during the filming of Marshall that a movie idea was born. Brand was hilarious as a promiscuous British pop star in Marshall, but who are we kidding, I’ll get behind any movie “the guys” bring us. Suggestion: have the two play the same characters and call it a sequel, that way all of the STD jokes about Brand’s character can be considered “references” to the ones in Marshall. Because that guy was made for STD jokes.