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Queen Latifah has made her return to daytime television with a brand new talk show that promises to be as exciting as the Queen herself.
The show which debuted on Monday, September 16, 2013, has already played host to top celebrity guest including: Will Smith, John Travolta, Alicia Keys, Jamie Fox and Sharon Stone. And with a her stellar A-list Hollywood status, we are sure Queen, who has an Oscar nomination to her credit and has also won numerous awards including: a Golden Globe (Life Support), Grammy (UNITY), and BET Award (Chicago-Best Actress) will have no problem luring big named stars to her couch.
Hoping to have a fresh new approach to the daytime format, the producers have chosen to go with a very light upbeat tone for the show. A cross between a game show/ talk-show/ inspirational hour, this show seems to be fresh and innovative. Some of the more inspiring moments occur when Queen leaves the studio and takes her camera crew on the road to discover many of America's local unsung heroes. One such discovery was Walt Whitman and The Soul Children of Chicago choir. In this particular episode Queen surprises the motivational choir director and students as they are rehearsing after school. During her surprise visit Latifah informs the group that she will be flying all of them to LA so that they can perform with her before an audience of 18,000 people.
Queen Latifah Show is produced by Queen's very own production company, Flava Unit Entertainment in conjunction with her long-time good friends and business partners, Will and Jada Pinkett Smith at Overbrook Entertainment. It is distributed by Sony Pictures on the NBC Network . Please check your local listings for broadcast times.
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DeAlan Wilson is an independent writer / entertainment correspondent and blogger for www.ComedyE.com
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Queen Latifah Show -NBC Television - Review By DeAlan Wilson of www.ComedyE.com
Joe Pontillo Stand-up Comedian Profile By DeAlan Wilson - posted on ComedyE.com
JOE PONTILLO
(COMEDIAN)
KNOCKS 'EM OUT!
 Joe Pontillo Image: Courtesy Artist & BBR Productions Inc. |
Born in Rockville Centre, NY and raised in Valley Stream, NY, Joe says this simple fact often confused people. “Valley Stream has it’s own hospital but I guess my parents were too good for it! Anyway I am a comedian.”
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| Comedian Joe Pontillo Image: Courtesy Artist & BBR Productions Inc. |
A local Long Island man, he has appeared on IFC and TLC. Most recently one of his original jokes got national play and was featured on ESPN.com. Joe, who says “I’m always performing and always tweeting... plotting someone’s demise. Sometimes I sleep.” he laughs.
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| Performing live stand-up Comedian Joe Pontillo Image: Courtesy Artist & BBR Productions Inc. |
For a full listing of Joe's upcoming show dates and locations visit: http://www.joepontillo.com/show-list/
ComedyE.com salutes Joe Pontillo as one of our industry's up and coming stars of tomorrow. We think he is definitely someone to watch now and in the future.
Website: www.joepontillo.com
Press & Bookings:
Ryan Van Nostrand PR
BBR Productions Inc.
www.bbrproductions.com
Broadway / Theatre Review:
Written by: DeAlan Wilson
Written by: DeAlan Wilson
Storyville, the new off -Broadway musical made its New York City debut this past week with a smash hit new production by The York Theatre Company. The show, with book by Ed Bullins, music and lyrics by Mildred Kayden is set in spicy New Orleans during the turn of the century when brothels and shady dealings ruled.
Michael Leonard James (standing-top) leads cast of Storyville in a show-stopping number.
Photo: The York Theatre Company Publicity
The time was Mardi Gras, the place was called Storyville. It was the red light district of New Orleans just two blocks from the French Quarter. Saloons, gambling joints, brothels and pervasive political corruption set the scene for a new kind of music. People fell in love, a world disappeared and the music moved upriver. Within all this, a new style of American music was born. It was called “Jazz”.
Tony Award nominee Ernestine Jackson
brings down the house in Storyville
Photo: The York Theatre Company
brings down the house in Storyville
Photo: The York Theatre Company
Starring two-time Tony Award nominee, Ernestine Jackson as Countess Willy Danger, Storyville takes flight from the very beginning as Michael Leonard James, Hot Licks Sam is joined by the entire cast in the opening number Welcome to New Orleans. The show moves to even greater heights when Ernestine Jackson, is joined by Leajato Robinson who plays Hot Feet Punchie in the sexy and sultry show-stopping number A Touch of Danger.
Debra Walton, Fifi Foxy knocks the audience for a loop as she
performs her sexy "fan dance" in Storyville.
performs her sexy "fan dance" in Storyville.
Photo: The York Theatre Company
Featuring dazzling choreography by Mercedes Ellington, (Duke Ellington's Granddaughter) Storyville displays all the makings of a long-running, hit off-Broadway musical. Great story, music and talented performers.
In this show, Ellington has masterfully created choreography that is loose in feel therefore giving the characters real and natural movement. Such is evident in the steamy dance number featuring Debra Walton, as Fifi Foxy and the ladies of the brothel as they perform their rendition of an enticing fan dance.
Musical numbers featuring Michael Leonard James are not only brilliant, but make you sit-up in your seat.Watching James is like seeing many legendary Broadway "song-&-dance" men rolled into one. A phenomenal showman.
Michael Leonard James
is Hot Licks Sam in Storyville.
Photo: The York Theatre Company
Zakiya Young as Tigre Savoy in Storyville.
Photo: The York Theatre Company Publicity
All Photos: Carol Rosegg for Y.T.C.
Photo: The York Theatre Company
Other stellar lead performances including the one delivered by Zakiya Young. With a voice that seems to float on air, young brings life to the love seeking character of Tigre Savoy with style and finesse.
The cast includes: D.C. Anderson, Cory Bretsch, Karen Burthwright, Kyle Robert Carter, Dameka Hayes, Ernestine Jackson, Michael Leonard James, Leajato Robinson, Clifton Samuels, Christopher Spaulding, Carl Wallnau, Debra Walton, NaTasha Yvette Williams and Zakiya Young.
Photo: The York Theatre Company Publicity
All Photos: Carol Rosegg for Y.T.C.
Storyville is Directed by Bill Castellino. Artistic Director, James Morgan and Executive Director, Andrew Levin. The show will run through August 17, 2013, at The York Theatre Company. See this one for sure.
Mike & Molly - Get Ready For Forth Season of Laughs! - On CBS
Image Courtesy: CBS Television
Just back from her super-summer blockbuster movie The Heat, Melissa McCarthy returns for a forth season on the CBS Television Network comedy, Mike & Molly to air in 2013 -2014.Starring alongside McCarthy in this hit new comedy for CBS is actor Billy Gardell in a simple story about a working-class Chicago couple who had almost given up on love… and then found who find love at an Overeaters Anonymous meeting.
Gardell plays officer Mike Biggs, who's a good-hearted cop sincerely wanting to lose weight. Mike's partner, Officer Carl McMillan (Reno Wilson), is a thin, fast-talking wise-guy always teasing Mike yet remains a loyal friend and partner supporting Mike's weight loss efforts.
Molly lives with her sexy older sister, Victoria (Katy Mixon), and their flirtatious, wine-loving mother, Joyce (Swoosie Kurtz). Mike and Carl often frequent a diner where they've become friends with a funny Senegalese waiter, Samuel (Nyambi Nyambi).
Mike and Molly’s relationship is often complicated by the interference and unsolicited advice on love by family and friends including: Mike’s mom, Peggy (Rondi Reed), Carl’s Grandma (Cleo King) and Joyce’s fiancé Vince (Louis Mustillo).
Finally finding love now, Mike and Molly get married and begin their lives together in the midst of all this interference resulting in great laughs and comedy for all.
(Check your local listings for dates and times.)
Written By: DeAlanWilson
Mike and Molly’s relationship is often complicated by the interference and unsolicited advice on love by family and friends including: Mike’s mom, Peggy (Rondi Reed), Carl’s Grandma (Cleo King) and Joyce’s fiancé Vince (Louis Mustillo).
Finally finding love now, Mike and Molly get married and begin their lives together in the midst of all this interference resulting in great laughs and comedy for all.
(Check your local listings for dates and times.)
Written By: DeAlanWilson
The Heat - Movie Review By DeAlan Wilson of ComedyE.com
Movie Review: By DeAlan Wilson
Sandra Bullock & Melissa McCarthy
Hands down this is a winner. This new film with Sandra Bullock and Melissa McCarthy has great laughs for everyone.
Bullock, who never ceases to amaze us, is back again with another film destined to be a hit. In this new comedy movie, The Heat, she pairs up with Melissa McCarthy to bring us non-stop laughs in a new film directed by Emmy® nominee Paul Feig, the director of Bridesmaids.
FBI Special Agent Sarah Ashburn (Sandra Bullock) – the Fed – and Boston cop Shannon Mullins (Melissa McCarthy) – the Fuzz – couldn’t be more incompatible. But when they join forces to bring down a ruthless drug lord, they become the last thing anyone expected: buddies.
Melissa McCarthy & Sandra Bullock bust some moves
in their new comedy film "The Heat"
Photo: Courtesy 20th Century Fox
When we meet Sarah Ashburn (Bullock), she’s hoping for a promotion and high-tails it from her home base in New York City to Boston, to help solve the mystery behind several murders. Standing in Ashburn’s way is a hard-hitting Boston police officer, Shannon Mullins, who’s not so happy that the FBI is treading on her turf. Ashburn is determined to wrestle the case away from Mullins, but the disheveled, foul-mouthed, in-your-face cop is a formidable adversary. They’ll soon discover they have more in common than they ever thought possible.
“Ashburn’s effectiveness as an FBI agent comes from her meticulousness, stubbornness and thoroughness,” says Bullock. “But she’s completely inept when it comes to any kind of social interaction.” If Ashburn needs to be taken down a notch, then Mullins is only too happy to oblige.
Capt. Woods (Tom Wilson) tries to break up
Mullins(Melissa McCarthy -L) & Ashburn (Sandra Bullock-R)
in the new comedy film "The Heat".
Photo: Courtesy 20th Century Fox
Photo: Courtesy 20th Century Fox
“Mullins”, says Melissa McCarthy, is “all kinds of bark, but no bite – though she might actually bite people.” Mullins grew up on the streets of Boston, and has a shoot-from-the-hip (and mouth) style of dealing with crime . She’s the “yang” to Ashburn’s “yin.”
Throughout the movie I could not stop laughing. There is one scene early in the film where McCarthy actually chases down a local teen who she caught smoking pot and captured him by throwing a watermelon at him and knocking him down before aresting him.
Adding to the fun of this film are starring cast members Demian Bichir as Ashburn’s superior, Capt. Hale, and Marlon Wayans as Levy, an FBI agent who has what he calls, a “thing” for Ashburn. The city of Boston itself also takes center stage.
McCarthy who co-stars in The Heat, by the way, has had herself two consecutive smash hit comedies in the last two years – Bridesmaids and Identity Thief.
So, if you are looking for some good laughs definitely go check this one out. Lots of laughs here and worth a trip to the theatre for sure.
Written By: DeAlan Wilson
PBS' Animation and Cartoons Keep us Smiling!
The Thinga-ma-jigger is Coming!
One thing is for sure. We can always count on THE CAT IN THE HAT to allow us to jump into his "Thinga-ma-jigger", take off on an adventure, and keep us smiling and laughing.This long-running animation voiced by award-winning actor Martin Short, Dr. Seuss's The Cat in the Hat guides friends Sally and Nick - with a little help from the Fish, Thing 1 and Thing 2 - on fun-filled adventures where they make natural-science discoveries, from how bees make honey to why owls sleep during the day. Filled with both adventure and silliness, THE CAT IN THE HAT KNOWS A LOT ABOUT THAT!- Yes he does!
Recently, “Fabulous Animal Families Week"
Aired: April 15 -19, 2013 on PBS KIDS
Based on the acclaimed The Cat in the Hat's Learning Library book series, this show appeals to preschoolers' natural curiosity, and engages them in the process of scientific exploration and discovery.
Big kids like myself, well, I must admit, we simply like to laugh and smile. That's why we watch it!
Written By: DeAlanWilson 6/13/13
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The Man On The Bench
Written By: DeAlan Wilson
Written By: DeAlan Wilson
A TRUE STORY:
Walking to the
office this morning, I stopped near a bench to adjust my personal belongings. A young man came over to the bench, sat down
and began to observe a loaf of wheat bread he held.
He longingly
looked at the bread. You could tell he only had one desire in mind…to burst
that bag of bread open and have himself one good ’ole slice.
From his
outward appearance, he did not appear hungry.
Nor did he appear to be in need at all.
However, something was amiss. Taking a moment to observe, you’d notice.
I reached into my pocket and pulled out $10.00. I gestured towards the man. He promptly looked up, reach for the money saying “Oh, thank you.” I asked, “Have you eaten today?” He replied "No." I handed him the cash and politely suggested he use the money to get him breakfast today. He smiled. I walked away.
As I entered my
office building this morning a gentleman walks up to me and hands me a crisp
$10.00 bill, shakes my hand and yells "Thanks D!" as he rushed towards
his elevator bank.
I yelled back, "For
What!?" He replied, "The
restaurant you told me to take my client to was phenomenal! We got the account!"
DeAlan Wilson
March 5,2013
"Gangnam Style" - Mania
Takes Over The World!
"Gangnam Style" is a K-pop single by South Korean musician PSY. The song was released on July 15, 2012, as the lead single of his sixth studio album PSY 6 (Six Rules), Part 1. "Gangnam Style" debuted at number one on the Gaon Chart, the national record chart of South Korea. As of December 10, 2012 the misuc video has been viewed over 924 million times on YouTube (view video link above) and is the site's most watched video after surpassing Justin Bieber's single "Baby."
The popular and catchy tunewas written by writers Park Jae-Sang, Yoo Gun Hyung, Producer Park Jae-Sang and Yoo Gun Hyung. The phrase "Gangnam Style" is a Korean neologism that refers to a lifestyle associated with the Gangnam District of Seoul. The song and its accompanying music video went viral in August 2012 and have influenced popular culture since then.
"Gangnam Style" received mixed to positive reviews, with praise going to its catchy beat and PSY's amusing dance moves in the music video.
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