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Samantha Bee and Patton Oswalt Take an Orson-Welles-F-For-Fake Angle When Discussing the Hoax That Is Crisis Pregnancy Centers

May 10, 2016

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We’re not exactly sure who on the Full Frontal with Samantha Bee writing staff is or are cineaste(s), but we really dig what they’re doing. Already, they’ve made a great Werner Herzog style piece on Jeb Bush.

Their latest piece sharply debunks “Crisis Pregnancy Centers”, which falsely parade around as places that you might be able to get an abortion. That got cleverly framed around a riff on Orson Welles’ fantastic meta-documentary about grifters, F For Fake.

On top of that, they got one the biggest cineastes of them all, Patton Oswalt, to play Welles’ role.

Watch it all here.

Tony Hale, Anna Camp, and More Are Starring in a Comedy About Orson Welles’ Legendary “War of the Worlds”

June 24, 2015

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(via Deadline)

This already has the makings of something great.

In 1938, famed film auteur Orson Welles aired his famous War of the Worlds radio broadcast that was so good that so many people thought real alien invaders had traveled across galaxies and started delving into panic and hysteria.

This comedy that’s in development follows the events of one town as they deal what they think is a real alien invasion and with Tony Hale and Anna Camp aboard, we’re thinking that it’s going to be a hoot.

We hope to see this on any sort of screen soon.

Drunk History Tries to Get Through the Story of Judge Waties Waring and Citizen Kane

July 31, 2014

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Drunk History enlisted the drunk storytelling skills of Dave Ross and Steve Berg to tell the amazing stories of the anti-segregation Judge Waties Waring and how Citizen Kane was made, respectively.

The reenactments bleeding into the drunkenness of the storyteller along with Rich Fulcher as Waring and Jack Black as Orson Welles are priceless in these clips.

February 28, 2011

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Recently: The Oscars happened much to a bore with mostly dull speeches and several failed attempts at humor/entertainment, proving once again, that it should be a private party and not televised for the confused, out-of-context viewing public. That is, unless someone’s acceptance speech was more unhinged and freewheeling like the brilliant James Adomian as Orson Welles merely trying to plug a wine. It’s kind of like Mickey Rourke any time that he wins an award anywhere. That’s how acceptance speeches should be.

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