Posts Tagged ‘Comedy’

Dog Comedy

Burt Reynolds at the Dog Comedy Jam 2003 at the Dog Auditorium in Philadelphia.

THE APPRENTICE COMEDY PARODY – BURT ANNOYS ALAN SUGAR

Burt is in the boardroom with a furious Sir Alan Sugar over some sausages and a bit of hanky panky in a shed!

Sonny & Cher Comedy Hour #3 w/ Burt Reynolds

Another comedy sketch with Burt Reynolds. If you like this video, let me know and I will make more! Be sure to rate it and leave a comment! For more great clips visit my website www.retro-cafe.com

Sonny & Cher Comedy Hour #2 w/ Burt Reynolds

Comedy sketch with Burt Reynolds. If you like this video, let me know and I will make more! Be sure to rate it and leave a comment! For more great clips visit my website www.retro-cafe.com

Sonny & Cher Comedy Hour #4 w/ Burt Reynolds Steve Martin

Comedy sketch with Steve Martin and Burt Reynolds. If you like this video, let me know and I will make more! Be sure to rate it and leave a comment! For more great clips visit my website www.retro-cafe.com

Movie Review – The Longest Yard(2005 ) An American Sports Comedy

The Longest Yard is a 2005 American sports comedy remake of the 1974 movie of the same name starring Adam Sandler, Burt Reynolds, Chris Rock, Nelly and Michael Irvin and directed by Peter Segal.

Paul Crewe (Adam Sandler) is a former NFL player dishonored for shaving points in a big match, after a heated argument with his affluent girlfriend Lena (Courtney Cox) about his failure. He locks her in a wardrobe, gets drunk, and goes riding in her Bentley Continental GT throughout San Diego. After absolutely damaging the car, he gets prisoned for three years in Ellenville Penitentiary in Texas, as it was prearranged by the prison’s warden Hazen (James Cromwell).

In prison, the superintendent asks Paul to assist the prison guards’ football team. After being roughed up a bit, Paul decides to help him. He tells the superintendent that what his team needs is a tune-up game. This gives the superintendent an idea: Paul, with the help of fellow inmate Caretaker (Chris Rock), will make a team out of the prisoners for them to play as their tune-up match. He starts off with a weakly organized players, before being noticed by another inmate, former football player Nate Scarborough (Reynolds), who decides to assist him by coaching the team.

Paul, Nate, and Caretaker find a rating scheme on the criminals (up to five stars, depending on how prone to aggression they are). They all set out to find and engage some five star prisoners: linebacker Joey Battle (Goldberg); fullback Turley (Singh Rana); and at safety, Torres (Lobo Sebastian). Paul realizes he needs more players. Caretaker suggests that it is due to their lack of “brothers”, as they only have one currently on their team defensive lineman Switowski (Sapp), an brainless, child-like, and friendly but huge strongman.They go to the black inmates leader Deacon Moss (Irvin), who confesses that none of them want to play on his players because of Paul’s point-shaving account. So Paul challenges them to a 1 on 1 basketball match where if Paul wins, the men will join the team. They play basketball and call their own fouls, with Paul getting physically punished during the match. Despite Paul losing, one of the black inmates, Earl Megget (Nelly), is overwhelmed by Paul’s flexibility and joins the players. Megget becomes the players’s running back by impressing Paul with his running skill.

After a tip from Unger (David Patrick Kelly) that Paul and Megget are the only real nasty threats on the players, Captain Knauer (Fichtner), the guards’ quarterback, decides that the guards should try to stop Megget by trying to get him to attack one of them and sticking them in solitary captivity. Three guards Dunham (Austin), Garner (Bosworth) and Engelheart (Nash) try to incite Megget by using racial slurs and making him pick up books they dropped on the ground frequently. The guards give up after he does not react to  their harassment. Witnessing this, Moss and Cheeseburger Eddy (Crews), persuade the rest of black inmates to join the football team. The superintendent and guards go to extreme lengths to stop Paul’s squad, even flooding their field, but the players overcomes these troubles.

Caretaker advises that since the guards have been playing dirty that the prisoners should substitute Engelheart’s anabolic steroids for estrogen pills, examining x-rays of guards with broken bones, and stealing tapes of the guards older games. The guards Garner, Engelheart, Holland and Lambert (Romanowski) then make a decision to do something about Paul, and have Unger plant a bomb, hidden as a radio, in his chamber. After the closing day of training for the big game, Caretaker leaves before time and places a present for Paul in his cell and accidentally sets off the bomb, and is killed in the explosion. During game day, the prisoners overcome a rough opening and end the first half with the score tied.

The warden is annoyed, and tells Paul that if he doesn’t lose then he would be framed for the murder of Caretaker. Paul says meanly, “Fine, but you get a 2 touchdown lead and you coast”. The warden accepts to Paul’s face, but he tells the guards’ quarterback to get ahead by three touchdowns and inflict as much trouble as possible. After the guards score two touchdowns (and Paul steps out faking hurt), they opening hurting players before scoring a third touchdown. After the guards injure two of the players, Paul goes back in. The prisoners pay no attention to Paul, letting him get sacked twice and forcing him to run the ball himself. After losing his helmet and still getting the first down, Paul accepts his sabotage and they rely on him again. They get back in it, but Megget gets wounded. Scarborough comes in for one play as substitute, and scores a touchdown off a trick play including a drop called a Fumblerooski. They decide to go for the two point conversion, and they win. They get up to the line and seem to be baffled, and Paul and Coach start arguing. The play is in fact a trap, and then Moss gets the snap and passes it to Paul, who scores the winning exchange. Ultimately Captain Knauer respects Paul’s move and lets him know he will testify that Paul had nothing to do with Caretaker’s demise.

The warden comes over and starts to admonish Captain Knauer for losing a fixed game and notices that Paul is going towards the outlet along with the fans. Pulling a sniper over, he asks that Paul be killed for attempting to flee. The sniper hesitates because of the many people near Paul, so the superintendent grabs the gun and passes it to Knauer, insisting that he should take the shot. Knauer sights up Paul, but hesitates, calling out Paul’s name several times to get him to stay. Paul does stop, but he was actually going to pick up the ball and head back. Knauer angrily hands the rifle back to the superintendent and exits. Paul and Scarborough go towards the locker room and agree that they should tell the others where Unger is hiding. As the superintendent watches them leave, Moss and Battle pour a cooler of Gatorade on Hazen in a sham of a typical football match celebration

It was released on March 27, 2005. The movie did well at the box office. Its $47.6 million dollar opening weekend was the largest of Sandler’s career and only second to The Day After Tomorrow. It was rated 4.8/10 from 162 reviews counted by Rotten Tomatoes.

Comedy review: Celebrity Autobiography

Comedy review: Celebrity Autobiography
The old saw about comics being so funny they could get laughs by reading the telephone book may very well be true of the eight comics who took the stage at Cobb’s Saturday for one of the highlights of the ninth annual Sketchfest. The one difference is that…

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