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Wonder Wheel, the new film written and directed by Woody Allen, is set to hit select theatres on Friday. In the lead up, all four of the film’s big stars have been on the US TV circuit. Here’s a round up of all the videos. Jim Belushi on The Today Show. Belushi on The Tonight […]
News Bits! Our round up of Woody Allen bits from around the web. This is the 104th edition! Jerry Lewis has passed away. He was an American comic legend, and there’s been plenty of features in the recent days, gamely trying to honor his amazing legacy. The New York Times has one many great obits. […]
Before he became a film director, Allen was famously a stand-up comedian. What seems to be more forgotten was he was a big TV personality as well. In the 60s he appeared on game shows, panel shows and even guest hosted The Tonight Show. Allen even had a prime time special, and a newly uploaded […]
News Bits! Our twice monthly round up of Woody Allen bits from around the web. The film world were saddened to hear about the passing of Christopher Lee, and so were we. He appeared in dozens of films we loved – from ‘Lord Of the Rings‘, ‘Hugo‘ and, our personal fave, ‘The Wicker Man‘. Despite […]
News Bits! Our twice monthly round up of Woody Allen bits from around the web. The Cannes Film Festival just started, and Woody Allen is expected to appear with his new film Irrational Man being screened out of competition. The Hollywood Reporter spoke to Mariel Hemingway about her first time at Cannes, which was also […]
Jesse Eisenberg recently appeared on The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon, talking about his new play ‘The Spoils‘. During the interview, Eisenberg and Fallon briefly discussed working with Woody Allen in our video of the week. Eisenberg starred in To Rome With Love, and is set to join Allen again in a new, 2016 film. […]
News Bits! Our twice monthly round up of Woody Allen bits from around the web. Michael Rapaport appears in the latest series of ‘Louie‘, the show created, written, directed and starring Louis CK (who worked with Allen on Blue Jasmine). Rappaport worked with Allen on two films (Mighty Aphrodite and Small Time Crooks), and he […]
Johnny Carson and Woody Allen both loved eachother. Carson helped to make Allen a national star, inviting him regularly and even letting him guest host the Tonight Show. Allen for his part always gave Carson his best stuff. This week’s video is just the two of them having fun. Allen obviously has a prepared story, […]
News bits! Our twice monthly round up of Woody Allen bits from around the web. As you’ve no doubt heard, Joan Rivers has passed away. She was a fantastic comedienne and we will miss her. Rivers was a contemporary of the 60s stand up scene where Woody Allen also got her start. She wrote about […]
Our video of the week this week is our first to have almost nothing to do with Woody Allen. But it’s one of the funniest things we saw this week. It’s Diane Keaton on ‘The Tonight Show‘ with Jimmy Fallon. Keaton is out promoting her new book ‘Let’s Just Say It Wasn’t Pretty‘. She stopped […]
News bits! Our round up of Woody Allen bits from around the web. Diane Keaton is out promoting her new book ‘Let’s Just Say It Wasn’t Pretty’, just released yesterday. It’s a memoir focussed on “beauty, aging, and the importance of staying true to yourself—no matter what anyone else thinks”. Of course, she’s being asked […]
Don’t know about you, but we are very much enjoying Jimmy Fallon as the new host of The Tonight Show. Fallon, who appeared in the Allen film Anything Else, is a comedy encyclopedia, very much acknowledging the rich comedy history of ‘The Tonight Show‘. It reminds us of this video, which we are making our […]
Here we are in 2014, celebrating the start of another year. Amazingly, we know where Woody Allen was when the new year started exactly 50 years ago. Already a working comedian, Allen was actually part of a live broadcast of ‘The Tonight Show‘, hosted by Johnny Carson. We don’t really have a video – this […]
We were very sad to hear that Mickey Rose, a lifelong friend and early collaborator of Woody Allen’s, has passed away. The cancer related death occurred on 7th April 2013, and an obiturary was just published in the LA Times. He was 77. Allen released the following statement through his biographer, Eric Lax. Mickey was one of […]