Superbowl LV yielded many new and innovative commercials this year with many making the ComedyE.com list of favorites. While there were many hits, many were misses as well. This year, TV commercials during Super Bowl LV went for around $5.5 million per 30-second spot. With some advertisers running 1-2 minute commercials you can see the big bucks were on the table this year to capture your attention. Check out these ComedyE.com favorite five spots in this video.
Chris Rock to Host SNL - Oct 3rd - Megan Thee Stallion To Appear
Rock was a SNL cast member from 1990-1993 and he previously hosted the show in 1996 and 2014. The multiple Emmy and Grammy Award winner, Rock, currently stars in the fourth installment of FX’s critically acclaimed drama series “Fargo,” which launches tonight.
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RAISED BY WOLVES Returns for Season Two
Ridley Scott’s Raised by Wolves will return on the impressive debut it made on HBO Max as the Top Performing Max Original since the platform’s launch.
After
a striking debut on the streamer as the #1 performing Max original
since the platform’s launch, HBO Max has ordered a second season of Raised by Wolves, a serialized sci-fi series from master storyteller and filmmaker Ridley Scott (The Martian, Gladiator, Alien),
which has immersed fans into the rich, intricate world of Kepler 22-b.
The series, which debuted with three episodes on Sept. 3, has continued
to be a strong performer in its second week on the platform, growing its
audience by nearly 50% week over week.
Raised by Wolves centers on two androids tasked with raising human children on a mysterious virgin planet. As the burgeoning colony of humans threatens to be torn apart by religious differences, the androids learn that controlling the beliefs of humans is a treacherous and difficult task. Scott serves as an executive producer on the series and directed the first two episodes, marking his television series directorial debut for American audiences. The series was created by Aaron Guzikowski, acclaimed writer and visionary behind the highly lauded film, Prisoners.
"When I think of Raised by Wolves, I think of artistry; artistry in crafting a compelling storyline, artistry in the out-of-this-world production design, special effects and cinematography, artistry in our actor’s portrayals of these memorable characters, and artistry attached to the legendary work of Ridley Scott, Aaron Guzikowski and our phenomenal crew,” said Sarah Aubrey, head of HBO Max. “This chart-topping series beautifully weaves together Ridley’s hallmarks of sci-fi and horror while offering fans one of the most original storylines they’ve seen in some time. I can’t wait to see what’s in store for season two.”
Critics have lauded the series, with IGN calling it “one of the most interesting sci-fi shows in years. Meanwhile, The Wall Street Journal heaps praise on Amanda Collin (A Conspiracy of Faith, A Horrible Woman), who stars as Mother, as “one of the most memorable female/female-like space entity since Sigourney Weaver’s Ripley in “Alien”—or the alien in “Aliens.” Collin’s performance, alongside her character’s counterpart, Father, played by Abubakar Salim (Fortitude, Jamestown), has been underscored as “top-notch” by Forbes.
In addition to Collin and Salim, Raised by Wolves stars Winta McGrath (Aloft, Red Dog: True Blue), Niamh Algar (The Virtues, Calm With Horses), Jordan Loughran (The Infiltrator, Emerald City), Matias Varela (Narcos, Point Break), Felix Jamieson (Game of Thrones, The Ghost), Ethan Hazzard (The Long Song, Damned), Aasiya Shah (Call the Midwife, Unforgotten) Ivy Wong (Star Wars: Rogue One, Maleficent 2) and Travis Fimmel (Vikings).
The series is produced by Scott's Scott Free Productions, with Scott, Guzikowski, David W. Zucker (The Man in the High Castle), Jordan Sheehan (The Terror), Adam Kolbrenner (Prisoners) and Mark Huffam (The Martian) serving as executive producers.
Courtesy: HBOMax.com
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GO-BIG SHOW Extreme Talent Competition To Premiere in 2021
Go-Big Show is set to be an hour-long extreme talent competition starring celebrity judges Snoop Dogg, Rosario Dawson, Jennifer Nettles and “The American Nightmare” Cody and hosted by popular comedian Bert Kreischer. It will showcases supersized talents on a scale never before seen on television. Featuring monster trucks, alligator trainers, stunt archery and other radical feats, the program celebrates daring acts alongside personal, behind-the-scenes stories from the challengers as they battle head-to-head to impress the judges and advance toward the finale’s ultimate $100,000 prize.
Go-Big Show has begun production on 10 episodes at the Macon Coliseum in Georgia, where contenders and staff are operating under strict Covid-19 safety protocols and isolating together for the duration of production.
While the 7,000 seats within the arena will remain empty during tapings, the show’s lively indoor festivities will extend outdoors to TV’s first-ever, interactive drive-in audience. Spectators will cheer for their favorite competitors in real time during a socially-distanced tailgate party just outside the venue.
“Go-Big Show celebrates unique, nontraditional and unforgettable American talent,” said Corie Henson, EVP and head of unscripted programming for TBS, TNT and truTV. “Each contestant brings tremendous heart and swagger, which also perfectly describes Bert and our judges, a dream team of larger-than-life talent.”
Go-Big Show debuts on TBS in 2021, and is produced by Propagate and Matador Content, a Boatrocker Company.
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Photographer: Jeremy Freeman for TBS
Will Smith & Cast Celebrate 30 Years of FRESH PRINCE
The reunion will launch exclusively on HBO Max around Thanksgiving 2020. The upcoming special will be a funny and heartfelt night full of music, dancing, and more special surprise guests, in honor of the series that ran for six seasons and 148 episodes.
The iconic series starred Will Smith as a teenager from inner city
Philadelphia who's sent to California to live in with his wealthy
relatives in the hopes that they will "straighten him out and teach him
some good old-fashioned values," but Will soon takes his rightful place
as The Fresh Prince of Bel Air.
HBO Max will be the exclusive home for the upcoming cast reunion special for the series which taped on September 10, 2020.
Written By: DeAlan Wilson On ComedyE.com
Full Frontal Samantha Bee on Covid-19's Politicization
Sam dons her best lab coat blazer to deliver an in-depth look at the politicization of the COVID-19 vaccine and the history of vaccine science. According to Frontal, It’s not surprising that Trump is pushing for a rushed COVID-19 vaccine in order to gain cheap political points. But good things take time! So plan on taking shots, not getting them, come November.
Is It Vaccine Season, Yet?
As
summer ends and fall begins, nothing sounds better than a pumpkin spice
latte and a shot of COVID-19 vaccine! But if we can wait all year for
Starbucks to release the PSL, we can wait a little longer for a safe and
effective vaccine.
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JOHN LEWIS: GOOD TROUBLE (2020) - New Documentary Review
On July 3, 2020 I saw a pre-screening
of the new John Lewis documentary JOHN
LEWIS: GOOD TROUBLE (2020), produced by Magnolia
Pictures, I am saddened that my scheduled review of the film would be released one day
after his passing. Nonetheless, I am
honored to have had to opportunity to get up-close and personal with Lewis, via
this documentary.
JOHN
LEWIS: GOOD TROUBLE (2020) is
simply brilliant! From the moment the film begins and we see Lewis
walk into an almost empty auditorium, for what would be his private
viewing of images and video related to this documentary, we know we are in for
a special treat.
As he gently sits on the stage,
looking up towards the black & white images as they flash across the
screen, he admits he has never seen many of the images before. However, you quickly come to understand his
in-depth knowledge of the moments the images were captured more than 60 years
prior. He asks the theatre technician
to pause an image for a moment. Lewis
then states, “I’ve never seen this photo before. You see the man standing next to me? He’s got his hand up to his nose because he
knows we are getting ready to be gassed.”
JOHN LEWIS: GOOD TROUBLE fast forward and rewinds us back and forth
60 plus years throughout Congressman
John Robert Lewis’ life. We are afforded
the opportunity to walk with him through the halls of the US Congress, the
streets of Washington D.C., his private home, and then back to his childhood farm
where, as he says, “As a child, I wanted
to be a preacher SO bad, that I’d gather the chickens around and I’d preach to
the chickens!” Lewis laughs and goes
on…
“Yes, my siblings wouldn’t sit long enough to listen to me. So I’d
preach to those chickens.” He laughs some more.
Through the age of 80 he preached
a new message to the world from his seat in the US Congress. And his message is simple. “Go out
and get into some good trouble!” Lewis would say. And with these words, Lewis is told us to not
be afraid to speak up and spark the kind of trouble that will cause positive
change in our society and world.
In JOHN LEWIS: GOOD TROUBLE (2020)
the film’s Director, Dawn Porter (Trapped (2016) -
Gideons Army (2013), along with Producers: Erika Alexander, Ben Arnon
and Laura
Michalchyshyn, do an excellent job of not only getting up-close and
personal with Congressman Lewis, who
represented the 5th District of Georgia, they are able to capture
the true sense of Lewis’ character. We witness
how Lewis sincerely cared, not only for the public, but for those who work for and
serve him in private. We watch the gentle
way in which he addressed his personal executive assistants, drivers and staff,
giving back to them equal, if not more, service than they render unto him.
JOHN LEWIS: GOOD TROUBLE (2020)
chronicles Lewis' 60-plus years of social activism and legislative action on issues
including: civil rights, voting rights, gun control, health-care reform and
immigration. The film co-stars, Alexandria
Ocasio-Cortez, Bill Clinton, Hillary Clinton, Henry Louis Gates Jr. Corey
Booker, ILhan Omar, Nancy Pelosi, Eric Holder, Michael Collins, Jamila
Thompson, Beto O’Rourke and Stacey
Abrams. Rare images and video footage of Julian Bond, Lyndon B. Johnson, Malcolm X,
Robert F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr. are also contained within the
documentary as well.
US Congressman and
Representative, John Robert Lewis passed away on July 17, 2020, at age 80. He was a key figure and confidante of Dr.
Martin Luther King Jr. during the height of the Civil Rights Movement. And through this film, we learn the very
private details of exactly how he and King met after unknown activist; Lewis
wrote Dr. King a personal letter. King would
later invite Lewis for a private meeting eventually adopting Lewis into his
inner circle with Lewis ultimately becoming one of Dr. King’s most trusted
confidants and advocates of the non-violent philosophy and Civil Rights
Movement.
JOHN LEWIS: GOOD TROUBLE (2020) is a great historical film about US Congressman and Representative, John
Robert Lewis (February 21, 1940 – July 17, 2020). It is a documentary people of all races
should see along with their children. It
will be the best “GOOD TROUBLE” you’ll ever watch.
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“Thank you Congressman
John Robert Lewis for your life of
service and for teaching us all how not only to serve our Nation, but how to serve
one another and GOD. May you forever Rest in Peace. AMEN.” –
DeAlan Wilson (Saturday, July 18, 2020)
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Someone is asking for your help. Don't close the door on them. Thanks, @DeAlanW .
See: Martin Luther King Jr. “A Knock at Midnight” - February 11, 1962 https://youtu.be/GDRQTzNzu1I via @YouTube
See: Martin Luther King Jr. “A Knock at Midnight” - February 11, 1962 https://youtu.be/GDRQTzNzu1I via @YouTube
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