Matt LeBlanc Stars In BBC Friends Spin Off
HAVING earlier showcased Move Like Michael Jackson – a BBC3 show in which Jermaine Jackson will find someone who can move like his dead brother – my money’s on Kate Garraway – the BBC is now breathing life into the dead career of the man who will be forever known as “Former Friends star Matt LeBlanc”.
Le Blanc is to appear in a new BBC comedy show which tells the story of a British couple trying to recreate their hit UK show for American TV. It’s another telly show about the telly.
And this means LeBlanc gets to play himself. Says he:
“I am so glad I got the part, seeing someone else playing Matt LeBlanc would have been devastating.”
The Fonz must be kicking himself.
So here’s the show about a show that’s not funny any more starring an actor who’s not funny any more (was he ever funny?).
Why not feature the show about someone who is funny, like Larry David, Jerry Seinfeld or Jerry Sadowitz?
Or a madcap show in which a former Jackson Five member goes on a remote cable TV station to find someone who can dance like a dead Michael Jackson?
Nah – real cutting-edge comedy needs to look like the real world; it needs to look possible…
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October 9th, 2009 at 7:45 pm
Bat E Bird, sorry but I’m afraid that Jerry doesn’t have anything in TV lined up that I know of. Every once in a while there is a bit of interest from C4 for example but Jerry isn’t a man who knows how to compromise and things tend to fall through in the very early stages of negotiations. He does still tour Scotland every year in the spring / summer so if your ever up that way you could perhaps catch him live however the shows tend not to be advertised and he doesn’t even list them on his own website. The current tour dates on his website are actually for the new Frankie Boyle tour!
October 9th, 2009 at 5:48 pm
Thanks Oil & Water.
I’m glad Mr. Sadowitz is still around - he used to make me laugh.
Does he have any telly work lined up or is he out of fashion these days? Not gay or foppish enough I suppose.
October 9th, 2009 at 3:23 pm
Couldn’t he take her with him. You don’t need a visa for Scotland……yet
October 9th, 2009 at 2:53 pm
Haha, very funny! Sadowitz may not be a handsome man but he has other lovable qualities and is actually a lovely guy in person. He didn’t do his normal turn at edinbugh this year because of his new lady friend guess he didn’t want to mess it up by leaving her in London all alone.
October 9th, 2009 at 2:12 pm
Why? Does she hide just before he comes home?
October 9th, 2009 at 2:04 pm
I know Mr Sadowitz and can confirm that he is still working doing stand up, teaching magic to beginners and was even on TV recently in a cameo on Stewart Lee’s Comedy Vehicle. He also currently has a much younger, very beautiful girlfriend who keeps him more than busy!
October 2nd, 2009 at 7:40 pm
Or Jason Alaxander, or Lewis Black, or Victor Borge, or Lenny Bruce, or Christopher Guest, or Andy Kaufman, or Bill Maher, or the Marx Brothers, or Jackie Mason, or Spencer Rice, or Gary Shandling, or Phil Silvers, or Jon Stewart, or Jerry Stiller - but not Ben (Oh God, not Ben), or Steven Wright.
Just not Larry David (curmudgeon without pathos), Jerry Seinfeld (charmless in stand-up, annoying in sitcoms), or Andrew Dice Clay (positioned as, and may have been, prick)
I know that some of the above are dead. They’re still all amazing. Except the last three.
October 2nd, 2009 at 7:07 pm
What’s Jerry Sadowitz doing these days? I used to watch his show yonks ago and haven’t seen him since.