Craig Robinson Hangs Out on ‘Reno 911!’
June 10, 2009 by Chandra
There’s a nice episode of Comedy Central’s Reno 911! coming up tonight, June 10. It’s called “Deputy Dance” and features guest star Craig Robinson of The Office over on NBC and flicks like Pineapple Express.
The latest law-enforcement shenanigans in Nevada revolve around the Reno Sheriff’s Department decision to hire the city’s so-called “finest director” to help them make a new recruitment commercial. Considering the recruitment advertisements fans have seen in the past, the cops are gonna need a whole lot more than just a measly top-notch director to help them attract non-crazy potential new recruits. Just sayin’.
Follow the jump for this week’s set of mildly offensive/inexplicable video clips, the first featuring Deputy Travis Junior’s attempt to correct lost workforce productivity due to the Internet, which apparently has caused American workers to become 80 to 87 percent lazier. I had no idea.
And in the second masterpiece, Deputy Raineesha Williams pours her poor heart out to snag a date with “a beautiful man with the gentle soul of a pastor and the heart of a gangster.” Hope she finds herself one just like that and that it doesn’t take too long.
‘Zack and Miri Make a Porno’ on DVD February 3
January 25, 2009 by Chandra
Director and writer Kevin Smith has done it again. Combining the talents of Seth Rogen (Pineapple Express, Superbad, Knocked Up) and Elizabeth Banks (Scrubs, The 40 Year Old Virgin, the Spider-Man trilogy) with a hilarious script helped him create his latest hit flick, last year’s distinctively titled sex comedy Zack and Miri Make a Porno.
The movie follows the adventures of Zack Brown (Rogen) and Miriam Linky (Banks) as they attempt to do exactly what the title says. Nobody can claim they don’t know what they’re getting themselves into when they sit down to watch this one.
But, Zack and Miri have a method to their madness besides playing nasty — they need the money to pay their bills. In the process of getting down to business, however, the two oddballs discover their mutual feelings for each other, giving viewers a romance and a porno all rolled up in one!
‘The Office’ Webisode: The Outburst, Part 1
November 20, 2008 by Chandra
And the latest round of fun Office webisodes begins today with the first part of the Oscar-centric entry “The Outburst.”
Everyone at work overhears when Oscar Martinez gets way frazzled on the phone, thus commencing a nosy investigation into what’s going on with the accountant.
Check out the two-minute opening installment after the jump. So far, so good says me.
‘Office’ Worker Craig Robinson Busted
August 16, 2008 by Chandra
Oh, no! Say it isn’t so! But, it is, unfortunately. Office cast member Craig Robinson, 36, has been busted for various drug offenses in California.
Celeb-crazed website TMZ.com got the scoop and reported just yesterday that Robinson, better known to many fans as warehouse supervisor Darryl Philbin on NBC’s The Office, was stopped by the police on June 29 for a traffic violation in Culver City, California. Upon searching his car, the cops found what sounds like a near pharmacy of hardcore drugs, including ecstasy and meth.
The Los Angeles County District Attorney’s office subsequently charged Robinson with not only a misdemeanor DUI and felony possession of meth and ecstasy, but also being under the influence of cocaine, amphetamines, and cannabinoids … while driving in a car down a street that other people have to navigate. It’s the last part that bothers me most.
‘Office’ Worker Craig Robinson Speaks
August 12, 2008 by Chandra
The Office cast member Craig Robinson (pictured at left with co-star Leslie David Baker), best known to fans of the NBC sitcom as warehouse specialist Darryl Philbin, recently set aside some time to talk to Pop Candy blogger Whitney Matheson. Craig also stars in the new Seth Rogen and Judd Apatow big-screen comedy Pineapple Express, in which he plays a villain named Matheson, just like Whitney’s surname.
She’s a fan of his for more reasons than that, though, because Craig is yet another talented actor from the standup school of comedy. He’s been getting some great parts lately in feature films like Pineapple Express and Apatow’s Knocked Up, and he reveals in the interview that we’ll be seeing him soon in other movie projects brought to us by Kevin Smith and a couple of players from sketch comedy’s The Whitest Kids U’ Know.
Check out the interview to learn more interesting things about Craig, such as how he feels about being increasingly recognizable in public and the one comedy character that would make him freak out if he met them in real life. You’ll never guess who that is, either.
Kevin’s Loan: The Complete ‘Office’ Webisode Series
Miss the four-webisode series for The Office that kicked off in July? Well, never fear or fret because I’ve got the entire run after the jump. Of course, I don’t know how long NBC and its online video-sharing partners will keep the footage available, but fans can still watch for the time being.
The focus of the series, the show’s second successful set of summer webisodes, is Kevin’s Loan. It seems our poor, some think mentally challenged office worker Kevin Malone (Brian Baumgartner) literally is poor due to his bad luck gambling. As a result, he gets a silly half-baked idea for a business that will, he believes, help him land a bank loan to pay off his debts.
Will this scheme work? This is The Office, so what do you think?
Watch all four installments of the Kevin’s Loan webisode series after the jump … until NBC and/or Hulu take them offline.
Get Ready for ‘The Office’ Webisodes, Take Two
It’s almost time for the second series of webisodes for The Office, which will kick off in just two days, on Thursday, July 10, at 3pm EST.
The place to be for a front-row virtual seat is The Office web space at NBC.com, of course, where fans will get treated to some extra face time with four guys who totally deserve more of the limelight — Darryl (Craig Robinson), Kevin (Brian Baumgartner), Oscar (Oscar Nuñez), and Stanley (Leslie David Baker) — as well as one lone woman, played by Samantha Albert.
Kevin fans will learn a lot about their favorite character since the webisodes reportedly revolve around a gambling problem he’s developed and his plan for getting out of debt. In fact, Albert portrays his loan officer, who I’m guessing will be one of those no-nonsense types, à la Angela, probably placed in the series to keep Kevin’s wild fantasies in check.
While we wait for the exciting Dunder Mifflin mini-adventures to officially launch, a sneak peek and a behind-the scenes clip follow the jump for advance viewing pleasure.
The Office: 4.18-4.19 ‘Goodbye, Toby’ Recap
Original Air Date: May 15, 2008
Well, it looks like H.R. man Toby really is leaving, after twelve years at Dunder Mifflin, and for Costa Rica, too. Despite the fact that he despises him, Michael wants to throw a big farewell party for Toby to celebrate having a huge weight lifted off his back. Obsessively frugal Angela is against a huge to-do due to a lack of funds, which leaves Phyllis in charge of finding an anti-gravity machine per Michael’s request after the boss hands over a shoeful of dough he’s saved.
Toby’s replacement, Holly (Academy Award nominee Amy Ryan, who was so good in Gone Baby Gone that I expected her to turn up looking haggard after a night of boozing and drugging), arrives and quickly manages to convince a downright rude Michael that she’s nothing like her predecessor by calling Toby boring to his face. She later reveals a charming ability to “get” Michael and his weird (for a grown businessman, at least) eccentricities, such as imitating Yoda.
It’s only a matter of time at this point before Michael falls hopelessly in love with the new woman in the office, and, sure enough, in the span of one commercial break, he’s already calling her Hollygram and making a mix tape for her commute into Scranton. Unfortunately, he forgets/doesn’t bother to inform Dwight that the hazing they agreed on before they met Holly is no longer necessary.
So, Dwight continues to feed her lies, including the claim that Kevin is slow in the brain. This inevitably leads to a love triangle of sorts because Holly is extra nice to allegedly mentally challenged Kevin, who predictably gets the idea that she’s totally into him because she wants him to bang her.
Linked Up: ‘Office’ Webisodes, New ‘Scrubs’ Interns, and Other Stuff
May 17, 2008 by Chandra
The Office
The Futon Critic posts the NBC press release announcing that the second round of Office webisodes, as well as the first round for Heroes, will premiere at the beginning of July. Series cast members appearing online include Brian Baumgartner (Kevin), Oscar Nunez (Oscar), Leslie David Baker (Stanley), and Craig Robinson (Darryl).
Scrubs
TV Guide reports that, à la House, Scrubs is getting some fresh shiny faces to go along with its new shiny network next season, the show’s last. Joining the cast are Aziz Ansari (Human Giant), Betsy Beutler (The Black Donnellys), and Eliza Coupe (Unhitched, The Flight of the Conchords).
I’m not too familiar with any of the newbies but best wishes to them at the new gig all the same.
The Big Bang Theory
Fancast not only interviews Big Bang Theory standout Jim Parsons (Sheldon, the sheltered genius), but the website also posts a slew of very nice photos snapped on-set during the filming of the most recent episode, “The Peanut Reaction.”
Four-Episode ‘Office’ Party Tonight
May 11, 2008 by Chandra
If you’ve been hankering for more of Michael and Dwight and Pam and Jim and everybody else on The Office, tonight is your night.
After pulling Monk and Psych from the schedule last week due to unimpressive ratings, NBC has replaced the repurposed cable programming with a two-hour block of Dunder Mifflin repeats tonight.
Each hour will feature one of those double episodes the sitcom is known for: both installments of the fourth-season premiere “Fun Run” at 8pm EST, followed by the two parts of “Dunder-Mifflin Infinity” at 9pm.