Having trouble predicting who will win Best Comedy Actor at the 2024 Emmy Awards? Let’s consult Gold Derby’s Emmy Experts! These savvy pundits from major media outlets have chimed in with their first set of predictions, and they say the trophy will go to Jeremy Allen White (“The Bear”). The other potential nominees at this early stage are Martin Short (“Only Murders in the Building”), Steve Martin (“Only Murders in the Building”), Larry David (“Curb Your Enthusiasm”) and Kelsey Grammer (“Frasier”) — but that could all change in the coming months.
As of this writing, nine out of our 10 Emmy Experts predict a victory for White for Season 2 of “The Bear”: Christopher Rosen (Gold Derby), Clayton Davis (Variety), Eric Deggans (NPR), Joyce Eng (Gold Derby), Peter Travers (ABC), Ray Richmond (Gold Derby), Shawn Edwards (Wdaf-tv Fox), Susan King (Gold Derby) and Thelma Adams (Gold Derby). He plays Carmen “Carmy” Berzatto,...
As of this writing, nine out of our 10 Emmy Experts predict a victory for White for Season 2 of “The Bear”: Christopher Rosen (Gold Derby), Clayton Davis (Variety), Eric Deggans (NPR), Joyce Eng (Gold Derby), Peter Travers (ABC), Ray Richmond (Gold Derby), Shawn Edwards (Wdaf-tv Fox), Susan King (Gold Derby) and Thelma Adams (Gold Derby). He plays Carmen “Carmy” Berzatto,...
- 4/3/2024
- by Marcus James Dixon
- Gold Derby
Brian McConnachie, who was one of the chief contributors to the groundbreaking National Lampoon magazine, a writer on Saturday Night Live and Sctv and also an actor in seven Woody Allen Films, has died according to a statement from The American Bystander, which McConnachie founded in 1981. He was 81 years old.
McConnachie became a writer at National Lampoon by sending the magazine a series of badly-drawn cartoons the best (or worst) of which were published. He later became a writer for the publication, specializing in the absurdist pieces with titles like “Amish in Space” and parodies such as Guns and Sandwiches magazine and Negligent Mother, a takeoff on women’s magazines. He also penned Kit ’n’ Kaboodle, a Tom and Jerry-esque comic with very real violence.
“It’s with great sadness that we announce the death of our dear Brian McConnachie. In addition to being the Founder of The American...
McConnachie became a writer at National Lampoon by sending the magazine a series of badly-drawn cartoons the best (or worst) of which were published. He later became a writer for the publication, specializing in the absurdist pieces with titles like “Amish in Space” and parodies such as Guns and Sandwiches magazine and Negligent Mother, a takeoff on women’s magazines. He also penned Kit ’n’ Kaboodle, a Tom and Jerry-esque comic with very real violence.
“It’s with great sadness that we announce the death of our dear Brian McConnachie. In addition to being the Founder of The American...
- 1/9/2024
- by Tom Tapp
- Deadline Film + TV
Martin Short is represented by two of the whopping 17 Emmy nominations for Hulu’s “Only Murders in the Building.” He is one of the nominated producers in the Best Comedy Series race, but his Best Comedy Actor bid is even more enticing. That’s because despite an impressive career in television, Short has never won an Emmy for acting. Perhaps his performance as flamboyant theater director and newly minted true-crime podcaster, Oliver Putnam, will finally earn this funnyman a statue to honor his work as a performer.
With the addition of two bids this year, Short has amassed an impressive 14 Emmy nominations, winning twice. He first entered the Emmy race in 1983 where he earned five writing nominations for “Sctv Network 90,” winning one of them. He won again in the Best Variety Special category for hosting “A Tribute to Mel Brooks” in 2014. He would pick up a pair of nominations...
With the addition of two bids this year, Short has amassed an impressive 14 Emmy nominations, winning twice. He first entered the Emmy race in 1983 where he earned five writing nominations for “Sctv Network 90,” winning one of them. He won again in the Best Variety Special category for hosting “A Tribute to Mel Brooks” in 2014. He would pick up a pair of nominations...
- 8/23/2022
- by Sam Eckmann
- Gold Derby
The last time a show won the top Emmy trifecta of Best Comedy Series, Best Comedy Actress and Best Comedy Actor in the same year, it was 2008. The second season of NBC’s “30 Rock” achieved this rare feat when leads Tina Fey and Alec Baldwin took home prizes along with the series itself. Will the buzzed-about final season of Pop’s “Schitt’s Creek” enter the Emmy history books by claiming Comedy Series, Comedy Actress (Catherine O’Hara) and Comedy Actor (Eugene Levy) at the 2020 ceremony?
See‘One Day at a Time’: Pop’s Emmy success with ‘Schitt’s Creek’ could boost their other acclaimed family sitcom
According to Gold Derby’s 24 Emmy Experts from major media outlets, these 17 predict Levy will win for playing failed businessman Johnny Rose: Thelma Adams (Gold Derby), Debbie Day (Rotten Tomatoes), Joyce Eng (Gold Derby), Tim Gray (Variety), Chris Harnick (E!), Libby Hill (Indiewire...
See‘One Day at a Time’: Pop’s Emmy success with ‘Schitt’s Creek’ could boost their other acclaimed family sitcom
According to Gold Derby’s 24 Emmy Experts from major media outlets, these 17 predict Levy will win for playing failed businessman Johnny Rose: Thelma Adams (Gold Derby), Debbie Day (Rotten Tomatoes), Joyce Eng (Gold Derby), Tim Gray (Variety), Chris Harnick (E!), Libby Hill (Indiewire...
- 6/10/2020
- by Marcus James Dixon
- Gold Derby
Eddie Gorodetsky, a producer and writer who has long worked closely with Chuck Lorre, is striking out on his own with a multi-camera comedy series in the works at CBS.
“Extended Family” is described by the network as an unconventional family ensemble comedy. Written and produced by Gorodetsky along with Warner Bros. TV, it follows a brother and sister who are at ground zero when a family secret sends shock waves through an already dysfunctional family.
Gorodetsky most recently co-created the freshman CBS series “Bob ♥ Abishola” along with Lorre, Gina Yashere and Alan J. Higgins. Prior to that, he’s worked with Lorre almost exclusively for 20 years. He, Lorre and Gemma Baker co-created “Mom,” which stars Allison Janney and Ana Faris on CBS. Gorodetsky also worked on several of Lorre’s hit series, including “The Kominsky Method,” “Two and a Half Men,” and “The Big Bang Theory.” Gorodetsky has also...
“Extended Family” is described by the network as an unconventional family ensemble comedy. Written and produced by Gorodetsky along with Warner Bros. TV, it follows a brother and sister who are at ground zero when a family secret sends shock waves through an already dysfunctional family.
Gorodetsky most recently co-created the freshman CBS series “Bob ♥ Abishola” along with Lorre, Gina Yashere and Alan J. Higgins. Prior to that, he’s worked with Lorre almost exclusively for 20 years. He, Lorre and Gemma Baker co-created “Mom,” which stars Allison Janney and Ana Faris on CBS. Gorodetsky also worked on several of Lorre’s hit series, including “The Kominsky Method,” “Two and a Half Men,” and “The Big Bang Theory.” Gorodetsky has also...
- 11/7/2019
- by Margeaux Sippell
- The Wrap
Let’s take a moment to give Julia Louis-Dreyfus some much-deserved praise. As HBO’s “Veep” ends its run — and aims to add a coda to its already amazing haul over the years at the Emmys — the actress is poised to make history one more time this September.
All signs point to another win in the lead comedy actress category for Louis-Dreyfus, which would make her ninth as a performer overall. That would place her ahead of Cloris Leachman, with whom she’s currently tied, at eight each. Louis-Dreyfus already is in the books for winning the most acting Emmys in the same role and on the same series — six, for playing Selina Meyer on “Veep.”
That makes it all the more funny to think that once upon a time there was such a thing as a “‘Seinfeld’ curse.” In the years that followed the 1998 series finale of “Seinfeld,” the...
All signs point to another win in the lead comedy actress category for Louis-Dreyfus, which would make her ninth as a performer overall. That would place her ahead of Cloris Leachman, with whom she’s currently tied, at eight each. Louis-Dreyfus already is in the books for winning the most acting Emmys in the same role and on the same series — six, for playing Selina Meyer on “Veep.”
That makes it all the more funny to think that once upon a time there was such a thing as a “‘Seinfeld’ curse.” In the years that followed the 1998 series finale of “Seinfeld,” the...
- 8/12/2019
- by Michael Schneider
- Variety Film + TV
Welcome to Back Stage's exclusive guide to this year's Screen Actors Guild Award nominees in film and television. Here, you will find a write-up of every nominee for SAG Awards in 2011. Be sure to look for continued coverage of the awards race at our awards blog, "Behind the Scenes." The 17th annual SAG Awards will be broadcast live Sunday, January 30, on TNT and TBS. Outstanding Performance By A Female Actor In A Television Movie Or Miniseriesclaire Danes"Temple Grandin"Claire Danes so convincingly becomes Temple Grandin that it's almost inconceivable that the actor was the face of 1990s teen angst as Angela Chase in the short-lived but beloved "My So-Called Life." Danes is so brave and daring in her performance as the woman who changed the face of autism—singing "You'll Never Walk Alone" at her college graduation—it's no wonder the real-life Grandin felt proud to be affiliated with the HBO project,...
- 1/13/2011
- backstage.com
SyFy’s Three Inches gets bigger and bigger by the minute! James Marsters (Dragonball 2, Caprica, Smallville) recently revealed that he will be starring in SyFy’s upcoming ninety-minute pilot, Three Inches. In addition to Marsters, Stephanie Jacobsen (Melrose Place, Battlestar Galactica: Razor) and Naoko Mori (Lennon Naked, Torchwood) have been cast as regulars.
Check out the show’s press release with official summary and breakdown in the casting line-up:
Syfy Pilot Three Inches Casts James Marsters, Andrea Martin, Stephanie Jacobsen, Antony Del Rio, Naoko Mori, Kyle Schmid And Brandon Jay McLaren
New York City, New York – August 26, 2010 – Syfy’s Three Inches has added an all-star cast to the 90-minute pilot, starring Noah Reid (Strange Days at Blake Holsey High). James Marsters (Smallville, Caprica, Buffy the Vampire Slayer), Andrea Martin (My Big Fat Greek Wedding, Sctv Network), Stephanie Jacobsen (Melrose Place, Battlestar Galactica: Razor), Antony Del Rio (The Super Hero Squad Show...
Check out the show’s press release with official summary and breakdown in the casting line-up:
Syfy Pilot Three Inches Casts James Marsters, Andrea Martin, Stephanie Jacobsen, Antony Del Rio, Naoko Mori, Kyle Schmid And Brandon Jay McLaren
New York City, New York – August 26, 2010 – Syfy’s Three Inches has added an all-star cast to the 90-minute pilot, starring Noah Reid (Strange Days at Blake Holsey High). James Marsters (Smallville, Caprica, Buffy the Vampire Slayer), Andrea Martin (My Big Fat Greek Wedding, Sctv Network), Stephanie Jacobsen (Melrose Place, Battlestar Galactica: Razor), Antony Del Rio (The Super Hero Squad Show...
- 8/27/2010
- by Lillian 'zenbitch' Standefer
- ScifiMafia
Toronto in the 1970s was a talent pool awaiting a trawler. Picture it: Gilda Radner transitioned from a starring role at the Royal Alex one month to working coat check at the local comedy revue the next. Her boyfriend at the time, Martin Short, and his McMaster University buddies Eugene Levy and Dave Thomas were holding 'Friday Night Services' at 1063 Avenue Road, informal and competitive parties where the main activity was topping each other with new routines, characters, and bits developed between small time gigs and day jobs. Eugene was briefly dating Andrea Martin, who knocked them all out with her sexy, sailor-shaming jokes when she dropped by. Dan Aykroyd was doing radio ads, youth theatre, and closing down comedy clubs after last call. Catherine O'Hara was waiting tables at the same clubs straight out of high school, and the youngest of the group, John Candy, was selling Kleenex. He had a route.
- 2/17/2010
- by Dustin Rowles
Screened at the Toronto International Film Festival
TORONTO -- It's not every year that the Toronto International Film Festival finds a closer as ideally suited as Martin Short's Jiminy Glick in LalaWood.
Not only is the comedy crammed with celebrity appearances (just like the festival itself), but a number of them were captured on camera doing the red-carpet thing at last year's event.
While giving Short's fawning, Skip E. Lowe-inspired interviewer the feature-length treatment comes with the hit-and-miss baggage often associated with big-screen extensions of small-screen concepts, whenever the heavily improvised picture hits its mark, it often does so with potent comic accuracy.
The whole package may not be as tidy as Christopher Guest's satiric gems, but Short, drawing heavily on the spirit of his SCTV/Saturday Night Live past, keeps the chuckles coming.
After a brief prologue introduci ng unofficial narrator David Lynch (at least, Short doing a savagely dead-on impersonation), Glick leaves his Butte, Mont., base for the glitzy Toronto festival, accompanied by his wife, Dixie (Jan Hooks), and equally rotund twin sons Modine and Matthew. He and Dixie were big fans of Birdy.
Although the festival's got more celebs than you can shake a microphone at, including Sharon Stone, Whoopi Goldberg, Kevin Kline and Kiefer Sutherland, Jiminy ends up in the company of the sexy but alcoholic movie star Miranda Coolidge (Elizabeth Perkins) and her Eurotrash boyfriend, the language-mangling Andre Devine (Guest regular John Michael Higgins).
But things quickly turn positively Lynchian as Glick finds himself traveling down his very own Lost Highway, waking up in bed (or does he?) beside a dead Coolidge (or is she?) after spending a drunken night rapping in a Canadian hip-hop club called Pimps and Hosers.
Using an outline of a script as their jump-off point, Short and longtime collaborators Michael Short and Paul Flaherty, along with director Vadim Jean, deliberately keep everything loose and flexible, allowing the extensive improv to take it from there.
Of course, it's not all comic gold -- things have a habit of drifting too easily into bodily function territory -- but when Jiminy actually gets around to going one-on-one with his interview subjects, including Kurt Russell and specifically Steve Martin, the movie hits pay dirt.
And while it packs plenty of universal appeal, Jiminy Glick in Lalawood remains the quintessential Toronto movie. As personified by Glick and Lynch, the festival has earned a reputation for its enviable ability to seamlessly blend blatant star worship with artier cinematic aspirations.
TORONTO -- It's not every year that the Toronto International Film Festival finds a closer as ideally suited as Martin Short's Jiminy Glick in LalaWood.
Not only is the comedy crammed with celebrity appearances (just like the festival itself), but a number of them were captured on camera doing the red-carpet thing at last year's event.
While giving Short's fawning, Skip E. Lowe-inspired interviewer the feature-length treatment comes with the hit-and-miss baggage often associated with big-screen extensions of small-screen concepts, whenever the heavily improvised picture hits its mark, it often does so with potent comic accuracy.
The whole package may not be as tidy as Christopher Guest's satiric gems, but Short, drawing heavily on the spirit of his SCTV/Saturday Night Live past, keeps the chuckles coming.
After a brief prologue introduci ng unofficial narrator David Lynch (at least, Short doing a savagely dead-on impersonation), Glick leaves his Butte, Mont., base for the glitzy Toronto festival, accompanied by his wife, Dixie (Jan Hooks), and equally rotund twin sons Modine and Matthew. He and Dixie were big fans of Birdy.
Although the festival's got more celebs than you can shake a microphone at, including Sharon Stone, Whoopi Goldberg, Kevin Kline and Kiefer Sutherland, Jiminy ends up in the company of the sexy but alcoholic movie star Miranda Coolidge (Elizabeth Perkins) and her Eurotrash boyfriend, the language-mangling Andre Devine (Guest regular John Michael Higgins).
But things quickly turn positively Lynchian as Glick finds himself traveling down his very own Lost Highway, waking up in bed (or does he?) beside a dead Coolidge (or is she?) after spending a drunken night rapping in a Canadian hip-hop club called Pimps and Hosers.
Using an outline of a script as their jump-off point, Short and longtime collaborators Michael Short and Paul Flaherty, along with director Vadim Jean, deliberately keep everything loose and flexible, allowing the extensive improv to take it from there.
Of course, it's not all comic gold -- things have a habit of drifting too easily into bodily function territory -- but when Jiminy actually gets around to going one-on-one with his interview subjects, including Kurt Russell and specifically Steve Martin, the movie hits pay dirt.
And while it packs plenty of universal appeal, Jiminy Glick in Lalawood remains the quintessential Toronto movie. As personified by Glick and Lynch, the festival has earned a reputation for its enviable ability to seamlessly blend blatant star worship with artier cinematic aspirations.
- 9/20/2004
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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