In his latest movie, The Woman In Black, Dan traded his Hogwarts uniform for a totally new role as a Dad.
Natalia brings you the latest news on Adele’s interview with Anderson Cooper, Kristen Bell’s interview on Ellen is auto tuned, Ladyhawke’s latest music video and much more!
Natalia discusses what’s new with Pharrell Williams and her thoughts on Karl Lagerfeld’s mean comments towards Adele’s weight. She also shows a roster of animals behaving like humans and, wait until you see the new size of coffee available at Starbucks!
Natalia dishes the latest news on the Juno Awards nominees, the upcoming Spiderman 3D film starring Emma Stone and Andrew Garfield and is Katy Perry hooking up with Tim Tebow? Watch today’s episode to find out.
When The Kooks are in the studio they’re focused and most importantly, sober. Watch Hugh and Luke explain their reasoning below.
The Kooks released a new album called “Junk of the Heart,” and you would think Hugh and Luke would be very excited about it. Well, they seemed rather indifferent to be honest. We spoke about that and why they don’t care about critics.
Natalia dishes the latest in entertainment news on Joan Rivers, Lana Del Rey and a brand new trailer for the movie Hunger Games.
Natalia talks about how Snooki might be pregnant, Nicolas Cage’s Cage Rage, Elisabetta Canalis is dating Steve-O and more for Feb 1, 2012.
Natalia dishes the news on Miley Cyrus breaking her tailbone, a 100 year old woman who plays the Nintendo DS to stay young and Houston, Texas contemplating a statute of Beyonce.
David Beckham debuts a new line of underwear, the worst dressed celebrity – Shy’m and Matthew Broderick is back as Ferris Bueller with a brand new commercial airing during the Super Bowl on Feb 5th 2012.
Daniel Radcliffe is back with his new movie The Woman In Black. It’s a bone chilling remake of a film from the ’80s. Ironically, Daniel actually scares very easily but he’s not afraid of ghosts. In this interview he tells us what really gives him the creeps.
Next time you’re struggling to make conversation, try asking this question: “If you could invite anyone (living or dead) to the perfect house party, who would it be?”
Graffiti6 is starting to make their North American invasion, and they are hitting up the Tonight Show. Does this sound familiar? Well the Beatles made the exact same journey over 40 years ago. Naturally, @jordans_life had to make some comparisons.
Nick plays World of Warcraft. Not only that, he’s the head of his guild, demonstrating that it IS possible to juggle being a hardcore gamer with being a top-selling recording artist.
During a LIVE interview on andPOP.com Nick Carter gave out a number and took phone calls from his fans. These were real phone calls from real fans who we gave exclusive access to one of the biggest recording artists of our generation.
There were great questions about music, fitness, the backstreet boys but the most popular question, however, was about his underwear. In this clip Nick talks about his his ‘Haynes’ and covering his fans with glow in the dark paint.
When releasing new music today, half the battle is online promotion. However, contests, signed merch and giveaways aren’t always the best solutions. When working on their latest album, Hedley came up with a brilliant idea, they decided to make trailers.
It’s hard to prepare for an interview with Hedley. So in this interview, we threw caution to the wind, got a 24 of beer and broadcast the interview live on our USTREAM (andPOP.tv). Eventually Jacob, Dave and @jordans_life ended up talking about hairy legs, their newest music video and more.
Diamandis from Marina and The Diamonds talks to us about her very serious disease. It’s called synaesthetic. And we lied, it’s not a disease. More like a cool condition. Diamandis explains further.
Would you be embarrassed if someone scrolled through your iPod? We sit down with Spee and Brendan to talk about the diverse music on their playlist.
The world’s biggest and best comedy festival, which runs July 5th – 31 is ready to give audiences one of the best line-ups on record. They’re also grabbing social media by the horns and have completely changed their site, the result… it kicks ass.
Not only is the site a great destination for comedy, it’s now dong a series of what they’re calling TWITTERVIEWS… interviews on Twitter. Just For Laughs is interviewing the hottest comedians coming to the fest. So far their impressive roster includes Jeremy Hotz, Ari Shaffir, Kenny Hotz, and on Tuesday, June 28, at 3PM Eastern… one of the biggest names in the comedy world… RUSSELL PETERS.
Fans will have the chance to tweet their questions to Russell during the interview as well as follow along by hashtagging #JFLInterview
Just For Laughs will be asking questions that they tell us will be fun, comedic and interesting. Russell is hosting one of the biggest shows at the fest called RUSSELL PETERS: BEST NIGHT EVER (http://www.hahaha.com/en/montreal/act/1062).
For this show, Russell personally selected a line-up of his favourite and funniest comedian friends. It features special guest Jeremy Hotz. Also, Jimmy Carr, Dom Irrera, Sebastian Maniscalco, Nick Thune and others will be joining Russell as well.
If Russell wasn’t enough, they snagged the star of the hit sitcom MODERN FAMILY, Eric Stonestreet, who plays Cal. Eric will be doing a Twitterview Thursday, June 30 at 4:30PM Eastern. Fans can tweet their questions and follow along.
It’s an interesting approach to an old form of entertainment… the interview. It’s a great chance to try and ask your fav comedians your questions and follow the interview.
Offline and live on stage, big shows coming to the festival this summer include Craig Ferguson’s International House of Comedy, and Decline of the American Empire!? hosted by The Daily Show’s John Oliver.
For Just For Laughs ticket info, check out the newly revamped site at www.HaHaHa.com. Newly designed, this site has great features including a new mobile app, and creative English and French blogs that take you inside the fest in a comedic way.
Bo Burnham is a new generation of entertainer and comedian. He found his audience after gaining millions of views on YouTube with his unique brand of satire. Now he is releasing albums and selling out venues, and also causing some controversy with a comedic voice that some are saying is too edgy. Jordan sat down with Bo before his recent performance at Just For Laughs in Toronto. Oh ya – he’s also working with Judd Apatow!
It takes some serious balls to be joking about arranged Indian marriages- especially in front of an audience in Dubai. Or to be doing a schtick in Saudi Arabia about how the Arabic language is so hard to understand, that it needs to buy a vowel.
Luckily, Sam Khullar packs a solid pair.
As one of the upcoming masters of ethnic comedy, Khullar- better known by his stage name Sugar Sammy- never passes up a chance to break the boundaries of what some people may call dirty jokes. He calls it the facets of life.
“Look, there’s reason men think about sex every 52 seconds,” Sammy tells andPOP. “I’m not gonna deny it, and just be a clean comic. It’s sort of like denying the fact that life is clean or life is dirty- you have to address both. So I’m an in-between type of guy.”
That persona is the reason why the 30-year-old Montreal native is on a Just for Laughs-sponsored Canadian theatre tour- which to Sammy, is the ultimate rite of passage as a stand-up comic.
“It’s all been club acts for the last few years,” explains Sammy, who was voted as ‘the funniest comedian’ by the Montreal Mirror three years in a row. “But everyone knows that the next big step for comics is doing it in theatres. And to add on the fact that it’s Just for Laughs, it’s really awesome.”
Sammy agrees that he’s come quite the long way since his days aspiring to become a comedian at eight-years-old while watching Eddie Murphy’s Delirious. He vividly remembers pointing to the comedian on the television screen and telling his mom that’s exactly what he wanted to be. Not exactly the ideal career that a parent hopes their child to pursue, but luckily, Sammy’s family was always in full support.
“My home is such a great environment to thrive in,” says Sammy. “We’re always messing around, and I’ve always been running my material by my parents, my brother and my sister. They’re all jokers.”
Eventually when he was 19, the Indo-Canadian was offered his first chance to rock the mic on-stage at an unpaid student fundraiser at McGill University- where he was pursuing cultural studies. Sammy recalls the rush that he felt after the first gig -it was like a comedy drug- and it prompted him to seek bigger outlets.
He became a regular at Montreal’s Comedy Works club.
And then in 2004, Just for Laughs, the mecca of all comedy festivals, came to recruit.
“That’s when I started planning my career steps,” says Sammy. “My foot was in the door, and I knew for sure I wanted to do that for a living. So I just laid it all out on the table, planned it, and now I’m going to try and follow it.”
The surprising thing about the plan, is that it ended up having Sammy use the entire world as his audience- on an international scale. Literally. Last year, the comic went on a world tour to 13 different countries, five different continents.
“We really went all over, it was exciting,” says Sammy. “We toured for 11 months, South Africa, the Middle East, Dubai, the US, the UK, Australia. I love touring and finding new audiences. That’s how it’s been for a while now, haven’t been home for more than a month or two per year.”
But he’s still not satisfied. The comedy drug nags at him- just like after his first taste on-stage back at the student fundraiser- because there’s still one continent left to leave in gut-busting laughter.
“Haven’t done South America yet, but we’re working on that,” says Sammy.
Though the most important question seems to be, how does one man manage to take on a world audience? Well it does help if you can speak four languages. Sammy may be the funniest quadra-lingual ever.
“It definitely helps me take on a more global perspective,” says Sammy, who can speak English, French, Punjabi and Hindi.
“My reaction time is a lot better in English, but I’ve been working at getting the other languages up to speed. Yet, I can adapt my act to all four.”
Adds Sammy, “but everyone has NBC and CNN, so even the furthest places around the world understand what I’m talking about. It’s not like they think I’m some guy coming to the village bringing them fire.”
Even more interesting enough is that Sammy enjoys all forms of international heckling. He’s become a staple for regularly incooperating the crowd into his gigs, and although most comedians view hecklers to kryptonite, Sammy agrees that he can’t survive without them.
“Most comics hate it, but I can’t get enough of them,” he says. ”I know my material, I rehearse, edit it, so to have that fun with the crowd, that’s my reward with that show.”
It’s just one of the many things that make Sammy such a unique comedian. But the comic shares some insight to why he’s determined to carve his own path in the industry.
“I try to stand out, rather than blend in,” says Sammy. “My dad tells me every day ‘don’t listen to anyone, do what you want to do, and follow your own path.’ And because I do that, I’m totally in charge of my career.
“All the things I do- including the way I market myself- are different from the traditional style of being a comic. And I think that’s gonna help me be the best comedian I could be.”
andPOP’s Jordan Bortolotti took to the streets of Toronto to see if he could make people laugh.
He couldn’t.
So he caught up with some real comedians, who were in town for the second Just For Laughs festival.
Check out the piece, featuring Sugar Sammy, Jeffrey Ross, Jo Koy and Kevin Hart.
Come back soon to see the full – hilarious – interviews with the comedians.
The Just for Laughs Festival will kick off its second year in Toronto at the Wintergarden Theatre on Wednesday night.
CBC’s George Stroumboulopoulos (try to say that ten times fast) hosts Wednesday’s festivities, The All-Star Ethnic Show, a showcase of ethnic comedians.
The show hosted by Strombo will feature comedians from Canada, the U.S. and Britain. Most noticeable is Shaun Majumder whose previous roles include “This Hour Has 22 Minutes” and in the film, “Harold and Kumar”.
A gala will also be hosted by comedian and “SCTV” alum Martin Short. Other comedians at the festival who have gala hosting duties include Jason Alexander from Seinfeld and Jimmy Fallon from Saturday Night Live.
The festival runs from July 23 to July 27.
Jimmy Fallon, heir to NBC’s “Late Night” throne, will have the chance to flex his hosting muscles at this summer’s Just For Laughs Festival in Toronto.
Fallon, who was recently confirmed as Conan O’Brien’s replacement on “Late Night” next year, is set to emcee at the comedy festival along with two faces familiar to TV audiences: “SCTV” and “Saturday Night Live” alumnus Martin Short and “Seinfeld” actor Jason Alexander.
It’s the second year that Toronto is hosting the event, which launched in Montreal.
The gala events, which Fallon, Short and Alexander will take turns hosting, take place at Massey Hall over several nights. Among those performing will be popular Canadian comedian Shaun Majumder and Craig Robinson, who plays Darryl Philbin in TV’s “The Office.”
Other events include a one-man concert event by ventriloquist Jeff Dunham, the Best Homegrown Comic Competition with host Debra DiGiovanni and two ethnic-themed shows dubbed “The Asian Invasion” and “Wiseguys.”
The Toronto Just For Laughs festival runs from July 23 to 27. Its debut in the city last year attracted 60,000 people to outdoor events, with 20,000 buying tickets for the indoor shows.
Just for Laughs, the Montreal comedy festival which has just celebrated its 25th anniversary announced yesterday it would be taking its show to Chicago in 2009.
The Globe and Mail reports the festival will be partnering with Turner Entertainment Networks to bring the festival south of the boarder next summer.
The festival – known as Just for Laughs: A Very Funny Festival – will kick off a five day comedy festival with a special by Ellen DeGeneres.
The festival will also feature top names in comedy, improv and sketch comedians including Second City, and will feature a film component to the show.
Montreal’s Just For Laughs is taking its hilarity and hijinks south of the border.
The legendary comedy fest, which just celebrated its 25th anniversary, is teaming up with U.S. cable station TBS to launch a five-day event in Chicago next year, called “Just For Laughs: A Very Funny Festival.”
The festival will include the taping of a TBS stand-up special featuring Ellen DeGeneres and improv from Chicago’s world-famous comedy troupe, The Second City.
On top of its annual cross-country comedy tour, Just For Laughs also launched a smaller festival in Toronto last year.
Details for “Just for Laughs: A Very Funny Festival,” including exact dates and ticket information, will be released this fall.
The Just for Laughs festival is finally hitting Toronto next week.
After 25 years of laughs in Montreal, the festival will branch off into Toronto for the first time for three days starting Thursday, July 26.
Deal or No Deal’s Howie Mandel hosts two shows at Massey Hall on Thursday. Also on the bill are John Pinette, Alonzo Bodden, Bill Burr, John Mendoza, Kathleen Madigan and Frank Skinner.
The next night, Lewis Black hosts two galas at Massey Hall with special guest Richard Lewis and other comics including Jeremy Hotz, Jo Koy, Bob Marley, Nikki Payne and Ardal O’Hanlon.
Late Late Show host Craig Ferguson will be in town for two shows on Saturday at Massey Hall and will share the bill with Russell Peters, Greg Giraldo, Tom Papa, Derek Edwards and Elvira Kurt.
Also Saturday, Angelo Tsarouchas will host the Ethnic Heroes of Comedy at Winter Garden Theatre with comics Frank Spadone, Jo Koy, Sugar Sammy and the Doo Wops.
Friday night, Peters will also perform a free show outside at Dundas Sqaure, home of a two-day street theatre (Friday and Saturday).
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