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A Failed ‘Eastbound And Down’ Audition Led To Walton Goggins’ Role In ‘Vice...
HBO Not only does Danny McBride and Walton Goggins’ new comedy Vice Principals explain Donald Trump’s America, but it’s also very funny. After all, the entire premise of the show revolves around the...
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‘Art Should Be Polarizing’: Walton Goggins Sticks Up For ‘Vice Principals’
HBO Perhaps no other actor right now is more skilled at authentically portraying despicable people than Walton Goggins. In the past 15 years, Goggins has made his name with a series of memorable turns...
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The ‘Vice Principals’ Demand Respect In A Series Of Exclusive Open Letters
HBO What exactly do vice principals… do? If you asked that question to Neal Gamby and Lee Russell, the main characters on HBO’s uproarious new comedy Vice Principals, you’d probably hear a string of...
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‘Vice Principals’ Star Kimberly Hebert Gregory Says Criticism Of Her...
HBO As hilarious and insightful as Danny McBride and Jody Hill’s Eastbound & Down followup, Vice Principals, can be (see our review here), the limited comedy series co-starring Walton Goggins isn’t...
View ArticleDanny McBride Thought He Had A UFO Encounter During One Of His...
Most of Danny McBride’s pals from his college days are still the ones helping keep his career chugging along throughout all of his projects. If you enjoyed Eastbound And Down, The Foot Fist Way, or...
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Danny McBride Talks About That Shocking ‘Vice Principals’ Season Finale
HBO Even by the insane standards of the HBO comedy’s inaugural season, Sunday’s Vice Principals season finale was, well, very insane. Over the course of nine polarizing episodes, in which co-creators...
View Article‘Vice Principals’ won’t go where you expect according to Danny McBride and Jody
When you look at the first episode of Eastbound & Down and the final episode, it”s surprising to see just how much emotional ground that show covered. If the entire series had been set at that...
View ArticleMeet the reason ‘Vice Principals’ doesn’t sound like any other comedy on TV
Have you been watching Vice Principals on HBO so far? If not, you”re missing a completely deranged new comedy that is only going to get more deranged as it goes. This should not be a surprise since...
View ArticleWhy the slow knife of Jody Hill is one of comedy’s deadliest tools
Since the first time I saw The Foot Fist Way, I have been a fan of the work of Jody Hill and Danny McBride. They have a number of other regular collaborators who are part of the wonderful work they”ve...
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A New ‘Halloween’ Is On The Way And It Has John Carpenter’s Enthusiastic...
Compass International Halloween director John Carpenter wasn’t shy about expressing his distaste for Rob Zombie’s spin on his durable franchise. (Not shy meaning he called Zombie a liar and a “piece of...
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Ranking Kenny Powers’ Most Formidable Rivals On ‘Eastbound And Down’
HBO Like any great saga, Kenny Powers faced his share of enemies on his personal journey from cocky fallen athlete to not-completely-terrible-human being-all-of-the-time. Kenny was a hero to no one...
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Take Another Hit Off Of The Finest Quotes That ‘Pineapple Express’ Has To Offer
Columbia If you want to make a cult classic, the quickest way to do it is to cater to stoners. Chances are they won’t be going anywhere once they pop in the movie and they’ll pretty much laugh at...
View ArticleDanny McBride’s Son Repeated One Of His ‘Truly Tasteless Jokes’ To His Entire...
Danny McBride stopped by Jimmy Kimmel Live on Tuesday evening while doing the rounds for Alien: Covenant, where he talked for a bit about the trials and tribulations parenting. As you may or may not...
View ArticleThe Revenge-Filled ‘Vice Principals’ Season 2 Gets A First Teaser Trailer And...
HBO’s Vice Principals is a bizarre, hilarious and oddly relevant comedy show. Just in case you didn’t follow along with the first season last year, Danny McBride and Walton Goggins play Neal Gamby and...
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Danny McBride Looks For Payback In The ‘Vice Principals’ Season Two Trailer
The last time we saw Neal Gamby (Danny McBride) and Lee Russell (Walton Goggins) of Vice Principals (available to stream anytime on HBO Now), they were gleefully celebrating their new roles as interim...
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Sam Rockwell’s ‘Don Verdean’ already has a home before its Sundance premiere
There has been a lot of heat going into Sundance that this year's festival could be another buyer's market for mini-majors and indie distributors looking to fill out their 2015 slates. Fox Searchlight...
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Walton Goggins Will Co-Star With Danny McBride In HBO’s ‘Vice Principals’
Getty Image HBO’s upcoming series Vice Principals already sounded promising before today, mostly because it is the follow-up to Eastbound & Down by Danny McBride and Jody Hill, and it will again...
View ArticleWhich Beloved Actors Aren’t In The First Trailer For Cameron Crowe’s ‘Aloha’?
Bill Murray, Bradley Cooper, Emma Stone, Danny McBride, Rachel McAdams, John Krasinski, Jay Baruchel, and… wait, did I mention Bill Murray? Hell, I know some people still think the guy’s an A-hole,...
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Danny McBride finally joins ‘Game of Thrones’
Funny or Die, the folks who brought you “Fifty Shades of Buscemi,” just realized another brilliant absinthe dream: Danny McBride joining the cast of “Game of Thrones.” Pretty perfect. I'm ready for...
View Article‘McBride Of Thrones’ Reveals What It Would Look Like If ‘Game Of Thrones’ Had...
After the YouTube success of 50 Shades of Buscemi, it was going to be tough for the folks at Boo Ya Pictures to top the idea of Steve Buscemi playing Christian Grey. With this latest effort, McBride...
View ArticleReview: As destinations go, ‘Aloha’ makes ‘Elizabethtown’ look irresistible
If you were to show me “Aloha” with no credits on the film, my reaction would remain just as complicated as it is now, but I'd say, “There are a few moments here that are promising, and I feel like...
View ArticleBill Murray Is Stranded In Afghanistan In The First Trailer For ‘Rock The...
The first minute or so of the long-awaited official trailer for Barry Levinson’s Rock the Kasbah would have us believe that Bill Murray’s totally screwed music manager is simply trying to find his way...
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Be A Bulletproof Tiger With These Kenny Powers Lines And GIFS From ‘Eastbound...
HBO Are you crying into your hands about not going to San Diego Comic-Con or otherwise down about pedestrian weekend plans? Well… HBO That’s right, Kenny Powers is here to save your weekend. Just...
View ArticleYou’re invited to James Franco’s house for Halloween Horror Nights this year
Now we're talking. I admire the team at Universal Studios Hollywood and their dedication to making each year's Halloween Horror Nights experience brand-new for the audiences that sell out something...
View ArticleThe ‘Angry Birds’ Movie Trailer Is Here And Boy Are Those Birds Angry
It seems like there’s not a week that goes by without news that some studio has ponied up serious cash to own the movie rights to some ridiculous property. It’s never something cool or clever or smart...
View ArticleReview: Bill Murray takes a ridiculous tour of the Middle East in ‘Rock The...
Oh, Bill. I recently wrote a piece about how Bill Murray has transcended being a mere living legend and has become a urban myth, and I stand behind every word of that. Unfortunately, Bill often makes...
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Why You Wish You Were Spending Thanksgiving With Kenny Powers And His Family
HBO Thanksgiving is a time for gathering around dead animals and feasting like hedonistic Romans. It’s also a time for watching your drunk uncle pass out at the dinner table after drinking one too...
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These ‘Eastbound And Down’ Facts Will Deepen Your Love For Kenny Powers
HBO For four seasons, Eastbound & Down (which you can stream on HBO NOW) was one of the funniest shows on television. The show wasn’t supposed to last, though, and every season seemed like it was...
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Let Kenny Powers Show You How To Be A Winner In 2016
HBO It’s that time of year again. The day when you stare into the bathroom mirror and regret those third servings of stuffing that you pounded amidst various holiday feasts. It’s that time of year...
View ArticleMeet The Real-Life Inspirations Behind Lovable Legend Kenny Powers
Many are familiar with the awesome quotes (that will f*ck you up with all kinds of truth) from Eastbound and Down‘s Kenny Powers, but few realize the many real-life inspirations behind the fictional...
View ArticleDanny McBride in ‘Alien: Covenant’? You’re not dreaming
Alien: Covenant is in “early discussions” with an unlikely new actor: Eastbound & Down star Danny McBride, known to fans of the HBO comedy series as former Major League Baseball player Kenny...
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Kenny Powers Might Head To Space And Fight Xenomorphs In Ridley Scott’s...
Fox / HBO If you needed a reason to give Ridley Scott and the Alien franchise another chance following Prometheus, you might have your reason. Danny McBride is in talks to take to the stars and head...
View ArticleA regular column returns with a look at an unproduced Aziz Ansari script
One Thing I Love Today is a daily column dedicated to putting a spotlight on some pop culture item worth your attention. After all, there's enough snark out there. Why not start every day with one...
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‘Angry Birds’ star Bill Hader stops pretending to know ‘Angry Birds’
Everybody and their uncle has played “Angry Birds.” Except some select members of the voice cast of The Angry Birds Movie. The birds-vs.-pigs mobile app and its various editions have been downloaded...
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Watch Danny McBride And Walton Goggins Wage War In The First Trailer For...
Vice Principals is a new comedy from the Eastbound and Down team that debuts on HBO this July. It stars Danny McBride and Walton Goggins as feuding high school vice principals. It stars Kenny Powers...
View ArticleDanny McBride and Walter Goggins duke it out in HBO’s ‘Vice Principals’
Danny McBride's triumphant return to HBO in Vice Principals seems like a long time coming. His last series, Eastbound & Down, wrapped up in 2013, and Vice Principals, which will reunite McBride...
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Kenny Powers Quotes For When You Gotta Drop A Truth Bomb
HBO Kenny Powers isn’t always honest with himself, but he’s always honest when it comes to expressing how he feels about others. Through four seasons of Eastbound & Down (which is available to...
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HBO NOW Highlights For July (Including The Premiere Of ‘Vice Principals’)
Cross Creek Pictures Summer is officially upon us, which means you’ll have to slather yourself in sunscreen just to go outside to get your mail. Don’t do that. You’ll need much less UV protection if...
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Get To Know Characters From HBO’s ‘Vice Principals’ With These Yearbook Photos
hbo HBO‘s newest original series, Vice Principals, looks like one of the year’s most promising comedies. Co-creators Jody Hill and Danny McBride last collaborated on the terrific Eastbound & Down,...
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Familiarize Yourself With Some Of The Characters Of HBO’s ‘Vice Principals’
HBO What made Jody Hill and Danny McBride’s Eastbound and Down such a joy? It often boiled down to finding out just what the f*ck will Kenny Powers do next. Vice Principals, the next series from Hill...
View Article‘Vice Principals’: Danny McBride explains why show will only be 18 episodes
TV history is littered with series that suffer from not knowing how many episodes they need to tell their story. The one I always come back to is LOST. If producers and the network could have just...
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Don’t Expect More Than Two Seasons Of Danny McBride’s New HBO Series ‘Vice...
HBO It looks like the new HBO comedy Vice Principals is equipped with an expiration date even before the premiere of its first episode. The pay cable’s latest offering from Eastbound & Down...
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Danny McBride Went To A Baseball Game To Land Bill Murray For ‘Vice Principals’
HBO The more we hear about Danny McBride and Walton Goggins’ new HBO comedy, Vice Principals, the more excited we get. Even the news that its two-season run would never expand beyond 18 episodes (by...
View ArticleDanny McBride is shocked he’s in the new ‘Alien’ movie, too
It feels like Danny McBride and Jody Hill are old friends at this point, even though I think I”ve only ever been around them, face to face, a few times. Part of that is just because of how loose and...
View ArticleDanny McBride And Walton Goggins Meet The New Principal In This ‘Vice...
With Bill Murray departing as principal in HBO’s Vice Principals, it’s easy to see where the series is going to go for its spark of conflict from this clip from HBO. In it, Danny McBride and Walton...
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HBO’s Uproarious ‘Vice Principals’ Will Help You To Better Comprehend Trump’s...
hbo In a 2014 Esquire interview, film director Steven Soderbergh forwarded what was quickly dubbed The One-Asshole Theory. “The analogy that I use is you throw a party with 40 people you’ve selected....
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Danny McBride And Walton Goggins On Syntax, Decor, And The Beginning Of The...
Getty/HBO If you’re a fan of Vice Principals, Danny McBride and Jody Hill’s slice of high school chaos and power lust, you might be a little pissed off about the fact that the show is heading toward...
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Danny McBride Is Crocodile Dundee’s Long-Lost Son In The Mysterious (And...
In the 1980s, America was powerless to resist the charms of Australia. Between all the koalas, Kylies and film projects of varying quality, it was an exciting time for Aussie pop culture in the States...
View ArticleThat’s Not A ‘Dundee’ Teaser, This Is A ‘Dundee’ Teaser (With Chris Hemsworth)
Crocodile Dundee was such a relic of its time — the Vegemite-loving late 1980s when, in the words of Phil Hartman, “the U.S. experienced a short-lived infatuation with Australian culture” — that it’s...
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The Reason For Danny McBride’s Surprise ‘Crocodile Dundee’ Reboot Has Been...
Tourism Australia So about that Crocodile Dundee reboot starring Danny McBride and Chris Hemsworth that popped up outta nowhere and looked too surreal to be true? Well, um… How do I put this? If you...
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