Category: US
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Bob Patterson
A couple of years after concluding his stint as George Costanza, Jason Alexander returned to our screens amid some fanfare from ABC, in his new starring vehicle Bob Patterson. The show was created by Alexander, Michael Markovitz, and Peter Tilden. He plays America’s third more popular self-help guru, and in this clip, he meets the…
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Mr Robinson’s Neighborhood
When Eddie Murphy returned to guest host Saturday Night Live in 2019, he revisited some of his old characters. Eddie Murphy is the subject of the latest episode of Comedy Is …
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Best Defense
If you’ve listened to the latest episode of Comedy Is …, or if you know such things, you’ll be aware that the movie Best Defense is not considered by Eddie Murphy to be his finest hour. The film was shot with Dudley Moore, and when it tested poorly with preview audiences, Jeffrey Katzenberg took a…
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The PJs
Because there are choices based on time constraints, I can’t always get to things on Comedy Is … that I might otherwise like to. One such thing for the recent episode about Coming To America, was Eddie Murphy’s stop motion animated sitcom The PJs. He co-created it with Steve Tompkins and Larry Wilmore, and it…
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Buchwald Vs Paramount
I spent some time on this in the latest episode of Comedy Is …, but there’s so much more to the Art Buchwald versus Paramount Pictures case, and the contract breach around Coming To America. It lead to a second, and then a third, trial, both of which were landmarks in their own right. Here’s…
