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film: Strangers with Candy, Primetime Glick - Coming to the big screen

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Strangers with Candy - The Motion Picture has just started production. The feature length film written by Amy Sedaris and Steven Colbert will bring all your favorite characters to the big screen. No word on a plot yet. In a play for legitimate success, Matthew Broderick and wife Sarah Jessica Parker have signed to play teachers at Flatpoint High.

In related news, Martin Short's annoyingly aloof Comedy Centeal character Jiminy Glick is also getting his own feature length film. The story has something to do with Glick attending a film festival in France where he becomes the prime suspect in a murder... hilarity ensues. No doubt Short will play not only Glick, but countless other characters, proving once again that his ability to act in heavy amounts of makeup and foam latex makes him the white Eddie Murphy.

Both of these movies come as a bit of a surprise, since they have both been canceled amid poor ratings and lack of intrest. Strangers with Candy has had a rabid cult following since it's first episode, and has made decent money in DVD sales, but it still has great odds of being a box office flop. Primetime Glick didn't have half the cult following that Strangers did... in fact, most people found Short's character too obnoxious to watch, making the movie a prime candidate for direct to TV exhibition.

Adios,
Steve
 
Barring the comedy of Steven Colbert, Strangers with Candy was easily one of the most annoying and unfunny shows I've ever had the displeasure to watch on Comedy Central..
 
i liked it :) i think that would be a cool movie, but i really doubt it'd do well outside of the following the show had

glick just grosses me out though :p and i'm really not fond of martin short in general
 
It wasn't a bad series, but it wasn't great either. Glick seems like an even worse idea, he's a character w/ a talk show...that be like giving John Stewart a "Daily Show" movie (which, as funny as he is, would suck).

Why can't Upright Citzens Brigade get a movie? Or another series. :X
 
South Park is about due for another go, I say. That shit is what keeps Comedy Central afloat.
 
Orpheus420 said:
Barring the comedy of Steven Colbert, Strangers with Candy was easily one of the most annoying and unfunny shows I've ever had the displeasure to watch on Comedy Central..
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^^^
I agree with you 100%
I am so glad that show was cancelled.
 
I never really liked "Strangers With Candy" when it was originally on, all though I watched it a few times simply because there was nothing better to do, but a while back (maybe a week or so), I saw a few episodes on Comedy Central at like 3 AM. Again, nothing else was on so I decided to watch it. It was the one with the cult, and I had remembered seeing it a long while back and not thinking much of it, but when I watched it this time, it seemed like it was fuckin hilarious. The part where steven colbert tries to convince jerry to escape the school through some sort of chute in the basement had me laughing my ass off. It may have been because I was high off my ass, but it still seemed pretty fuckin funny to me even after. The principle and the teachers were hilarious, but the rest seemed pretty unspectacular.

All things considered, I'm not so sure it would make a good movie though. I might get around to seeing it eventually, but I doubt it'll be something that I rush out to see.
 
^^^The episode of TV Funhouse w/ the "Christmas Cheer" still makes me laugh just thinking about it. :D
 
sketch comedy shows generally have problems crossing over into feature film land. The Upright Citizens Brigade would probably be the most successful sketch comedy movie since it was the only show that had a lose plot. The State was too free-form to really be able to make a coherent movie (think Kids in the Hall, Brain Candy).

Remember though, that most of the cast of The State mad "Hot Wet American Summer", which is a great movie with plenty of The State sensibilities.
 
ego_loss said:
Remember though, that most of the cast of The State mad "Hot Wet American Summer", which is a great movie with plenty of The State sensibilities.
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that was easily one of the funniest movies i've ever seen :)
 
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