They say analyzing comedy is akin to autopsying a dead frog. Let's try it anyway! Comedy operates on setting up expectations, then breaking those expectations with a surprise. So when Paul Rudd appeared on Late Night with Conan O'Brien in 2004 to promote the series finale of Friends, announcing to a surprised-looking Conan O'Brien that he had a secret clip to show, it made for the perfect punchline that he instead showed a clip from Mac and Me, a notoriously terrible E.T. ripoff. This started a chain of repeat O'Brien appearances where Rudd would …
Few showbiz stories are as heartbreaking as that of Judy Garland, something that director Rupert Goold is looking to explore, in part, in his biopic Judy. Written by Tom Edge and starring Renée Zellweger as the iconic performer, Judy will chronicle the final year of Garland's life, where she embarks on a new tour and a new romance while fighting an exhaustion that has long plagued her as someone who worked nonstop since she was practically a baby. The teaser trailer shows a biopic full of all of the drama and spectacle that you would imagine from such …