Kevin James

Kevin James

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Kevin James

Born April 26, 1965

Kevin James is a truly funny guy. He has played a variety of roles and he seems to be able to play just about any role, some of which we will dig into below. He is very deft at physical humor but then you watch him act and emote and he is a very talented as an actor.

Noteworthy

  • Hitch – This was the first movie that I remember Kevin James in. He was fantastic in this role. In particular, the training montage with Will Smith is one of the funniest things that Will Smith has been involved in, in a long time.
  • The King of Queens – Doug Heffernan, as a character, ran across three different shows. Doug was the springboard for Kevin James onto the large screen and really gave a jolt to his career. Add Leah Remini to this and it is no wonder that James is as big a star as he is.
  • I Now Pronounce You Chuck & Larry – Kevin James and Adam Sandler are box office gold. Having them marry each other for health benefits – genius. Such a funny thought provoking movie.
  • Paul Blart: Mall Cop – Bag on this movie all you want. They had me when he slid across the floor and didn’t quite make it to cover. Laughed my ass off.
  • Here Comes the Boom – A much more trim Kevin James learning to MMA fight to save a program in his school. Bizarre plot great flick. Loved it.

There’s no better feeling in the world than a warm pizza box on your lap.

-Kevin James

Brian Quinn

by | March 14, 2018 | Comedy, Featured, Movies, Podcast, Television | 0 Comments

Brian Quinn Born March 14, 1976   Brian Quinn, BQQuinn to some, will always be part of the trio that is Tell Em Steve Dave. This is where I got to know him first and this is where he will always belong in my head. From listening to that podcast I learned about...
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Cedric the Entertainer

by | April 24, 2018 | Comedy, Featured, Movies, Television | 0 Comments

Cedric the Entertainer Born April 24, 1964   Cedric the Entertainer is one of the funniest people on the planet. Since his stand-up days, I have been following his career and catching him everywhere that I can. Noteworthy The Original Kings of Comedy - Cedric the...
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Plantains- The Other Starch of the Americas

by | September 22, 2016 | Featured, Food | 0 Comments

I’ve been a pretty fortunate gringo as I am blessed with three families, one by blood and two by adoption of sorts.  After I moved to DC in the early 2000s not knowing a person in the world I quickly made two friends, one Colombian and the other Cuban; both obviously...
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Good Riddance 2016

by | December 31, 2016 | Featured, Pop Culture | 0 Comments

Good Riddance 2016 From a pop-culture perspective, 2016 sucked. We lost icon after icon in 2016 and at this point as I reflect on the year, it is really what I am focused on. Below is a brief list of some of the losses that stuck out to me. It is not all inclusive and...
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The Geek and I

by | February 23, 2017 | Comic Books, Featured, Movies, Pop Culture, Television | 0 Comments

The Geek and I As a little girl, growing up playing with Strawberry Shortcake, Rainbow Brite and Barbie.  I thought for sure I would live in my Malibu Barbie Dream House with my hot pink Barbie convertible, but in March 2009, I met my geek. He opened a whole new world...
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Jason Lee

Jason Lee

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Jason Lee

Born April 25, 1970

Jason Lee has been someone I have watched in everything they have been in since I saw him in Mallrats back in the day. Love his acting style and love the way he approaches a character.

Noteworthy

  • Mallrats – Lee is Brodie. Brodie is Lee. This is still my favorite character that he has ever performed. The delivery is amazing and so much fun to watch.
  • Dogma – Lee is a bad guy. He is Azrael a bad angel looking to help end the world.
  • The Incredibles -Lee is the voice of Syndrome. I don’t think that it would have been quite as good without Jason Lee voicing the bad guy.
  • My Name is Earl – A storyline based around Karma with a kinda white-trash set of characters. Such a timeless and amusing show. Very re-watchable unless you are my wife. She hates it.

I was a little nerdy, but I got along with everybody. I had fun at school – skateboarding, surfing, getting kicked out of class for making too much noise.

-Jason Lee

Christian Finnegan

by | April 1, 2018 | Comedy, Featured, Movies, Television | 0 Comments

Christian Finnegan Born Aril 1, 1973   New York native Christian Finnegan is a brilliant stand up comedian. Ad to that his acting chops and his writing abilities and you have someone at home in front of the cameras or on a stage. A matter-of-fact delivery and...
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Clint Howard

by | April 20, 2018 | Beyond Geek, Featured, Movies, Pop Culture, Television, Trivia | 0 Comments

Clint Howard Born April 20, 1959   Clint Howard has been acting, small screen and large screen, since he was a child. His unique look, his acting chops, and the fact that he has been literally acting for his entire life makes Howard someone to look like whenever he...
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Elizabeth Banks

by | February 11, 2018 | Featured, Movies | 0 Comments

Elizabeth Banks Born February 10, 1974   Elizabeth Banks is one of those truly funny people in Hollywood. On top of that, she is a director and a producer. Banks is going to be pushing the envelope and setting the trend in Hollywood for a long time. Noteworthy Pitch...
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Forgotten Books – Sorta

by | March 23, 2017 | Books, Featured | 0 Comments

Forgotten Books - Sorta Yes, I'm a geek hence the reason I write for thisgeeksworld.com.  Or at least I was before kids when I still had time for geeky endeavors. Video games have taken a back seat to Elmo and the rest of the Sesame Street gang, Epic Rap Battles of...
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What if the Flintstones Were More Realistic?

by | April 14, 2017 | Comic Books, Featured, Pop Culture | 0 Comments

Slate.com had a great review of DC Comics new version of The Flintstones. Gone is the goofy group of cave people that lived in a little town called bedrock. Wilma and Fred are still here but they are less like the Honey Mooners and more up to date in a 1 million year...
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Cedric the Entertainer

Cedric the Entertainer

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Cedric the Entertainer

Born April 24, 1964

Cedric the Entertainer is one of the funniest people on the planet. Since his stand-up days, I have been following his career and catching him everywhere that I can.

Noteworthy

  • The Original Kings of Comedy – Cedric the Entertainer, Bernie Mac, Steve Harvey, and DL Hughley. This is still one of the best stand-up special of all time.
  • Barbershop – Cedric is Eddie. Barbershop is awesome and worth a re-watch every couple of years.
  • The Honeymooners – Who else can take Gleason’s place in this reboot… that is all I am asking.

We as comics do want an immediate response from the audience. It’s really quiet on the set, and there are only the producers, and the director, so a comic is looking for someone to give a reaction, even if it is the camera guy.

-Cedric the Entertainer

The Undertaker

by | March 24, 2018 | Featured, Pop Culture, Wrestling | 0 Comments

The Undertaker Born March 24, 1965   The Undertaker debuted as a gimmick for Mark Calaway in 1990. By that point, Calaway had been wrestling for about 6 years in various territories under various gimmicks. They call The Undertaker the Phenom and they are right. He is...
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Jay Chandrasekhar

by | April 9, 2018 | Comedy, Featured, Movies | 0 Comments

Jay Chandrasekhar Born April 9, 1968   Love Jay Chandrasekhar and all things Broken Lizard. Whether he is rolling with that crew, doing stand up, or producing movies on his own - Chandrasekhar always brings the funny. Noteworthy Super Troopers - director/actor - This...
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Seth Green

by | February 8, 2018 | Featured, Movies, Pop Culture, Television | 0 Comments

Seth Green - Born February 8, 1974 Seth Green should be in more stuff. Whether he is creating (Robot Chicken) or acting (Without a Paddle), Seth Green always brings a smile to my face. Noteworthy Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery - Scott Evil makes this...
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Manimal

by | April 7, 2017 | Featured, Television | 0 Comments

CBR.com had an article called: 15 CLASSIC SUPERHERO SHOWS THAT NEED TV REBOOTS. They covered a plethora of shows most of which I saw when they came out or at least caught them in reruns. There was something missing though. One show that came out in 1983 that was...
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Martin Lawrence

by | April 16, 2018 | Comedy, Featured, Movies, Television | 0 Comments

Martin Lawrence Born April 16, 1965   I first remember Martin Lawrence as a stand-up comedian. After that, he made the move to the small screen and then to movies. The whole time, Lawrence has kept his sense of humor, his sense of self and he has continued to turn out...
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Clint Howard

Clint Howard

by | Beyond Geek, Featured, Movies, Pop Culture, Television, Trivia

Clint Howard

Born April 20, 1959

Clint Howard has been acting, small screen and large screen, since he was a child. His unique look, his acting chops, and the fact that he has been literally acting for his entire life makes Howard someone to look like whenever he shows up in a movie.

Noteworthy

  • Star Trek (TOS) – Balok – Howard played an alien and an adversary to Kirk and the Enterprise.
  • Gentle Ben – This was the first place that I remember seeing Clint Howard. I saw it in reruns but I do remember my mom telling me that he was Opie’s brother off the Andy Griffith Show.
  • Tango & Cash – Howard has a brief cameo in this 80s action film.
  • Backdraft – Another cameo and you can see in his career that it has become a badge of honor having Clint Howard show up in your movie.
  • Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me – He has one of the best running bits in all of these movies. The radar operator bit is a classic.

One of my earliest memories is being inside the recording studio and I see the shadow of a figure that looks an awful lot like Walt Disney. Then the door opened and Mr. Disney walked in and said, ‘Hi Clint.’ I won’t ever forget that.

-Clint Howard

Blurry Photos Podcast – Episode 157 Numerology

by | August 22, 2016 | Featured, Podcast | 0 Comments

I am jumping ahead of myself but I need to share a podcast that I listened to today - Blurry Photos Podcast: Episode 157 Numerology. I have not taken the time to give them a full review on the website yet, or even to delve into my deep love of podcasts or podcasting...
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Michael Rapaport

by | March 20, 2018 | Comedy, Featured, Movies, Podcast, Television | 0 Comments

Michael Rapaport Born March 20, 1970   Michael Rapaport has been around since 1990 as part of our pop-culture. Starting with China Beach, he has appeared on TV, on the big screen, been pumped into your ear on his own podcast and is a documentarian in his own right....
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DL Hughley

by | March 6, 2018 | Comedy, Featured, Movies, Pop Culture, Television | 0 Comments

DL Hughley Born March 6, 1963   DL Hughley first dropped onto my radar when he was part of the Original Kings of Comedy. I had probably seen him before that but this was my first exposure to his style of comedy, his perspective, and his brilliant mind. Noteworthy...
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You Hate Anchovies You Say- Balderdash!

by | September 11, 2016 | Featured, Food | 0 Comments

You hate Anchovies?!? Are you freaking kidding me, I ask anyone making such a bold and usually uninformed pronouncement?  Anchovies are one of, maybe even the greatest flavor enhancing magic carpet ride that mere culinary mortals readily have at their disposal to add...
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Zooey Deschanel Triple Threat

by | January 17, 2018 | Featured, Movies, Music, Television | 0 Comments

Zooey Deschanel Stick around read what I write or what I say on this website enough and you will learn that I highly revere those actors, actresses, and creators of Hollywood's heyday. I would also contend that the actors and actresses of the 40s, 50s, and 60s had to...
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Rick Moranis

Rick Moranis

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Rick Moranis

Born April 18, 1953

Rick Moranis has been a part of my Geeks World for as long as I can remember. From Ghostbusters to Spaceballs and beyond he has been a part of some of the biggest geek-fests in the world. I miss Rick Moranis but I get the fact that he is a single dad now and raising kids.

Noteworthy

  • Ghostbusters – This is one of my favorite comedies of all time. Moranis plays one of those secondary roles that is so outstanding that the movie would not have worked without him in it.
  • Little Shop of Horrors – Seymour is one of the roles that I would love to play on stage. Rick Moranis made me fall in love with this character.
  • Spaceballs – Moranis as Dark Helmet – “And I see your Schwartz is as big as mine…”
  • Honey, I Shrunk the Kids – Completely dug this movie as a kid. Liked all of the spin-offs too.
  • Splitting Heirs – Here is one you might not be familiar with. Moranis and Monty Python alum Eric Idle as kids switched at birth. Holy crap it is a funny movie.

I’m a single parent, and I just found that it was too difficult to manage raising my kids and doing the traveling involved in making movies. So I took a little bit of a break. And the little bit of a break turned into a longer break, and then I found that I really didn’t miss it.

-Rick Moranis

Spoilers Be Damned

by | August 21, 2016 | Beyond Geek, Featured, Movies | 0 Comments

I am no respecter of spoilers or of spoiling movies for other people - Spoilers Be Damned. It is not because I am unkind or because I look to spoil someone else's fun but I think the amount of time we spend focused on spoilers is a little ridiculous. I tire of hearing...
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Must See TV

by | March 26, 2017 | Featured, Pop Culture, Television | 0 Comments

Do you remember, back in the idea, the idea of Must See TV? This was a slogan created by NBC to convince viewers that the hour prior to Seinfeld in the 90s was comedy gold and that you had to watch it. Great advertising slogan and with the lineup of shows that they...
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Jeremy Clarkson

by | April 11, 2018 | Featured, Pop Culture, Television | 0 Comments

Jeremy Clarkson Born April 11, 1960   Jeremy Clarkson Noteworthy Top Gear - As part of the Top Gear Trinity he and May and Hammond were amazing and they contributed to one of the most watched and most downloaded shows on TV. The fact that they were not sponsored by a...
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Logan

by | April 5, 2017 | Featured, Movies | 0 Comments

We have now seen our last film with Hugh Jackman playing Wolverine. Logan is the Story of Wolverine - in a time, in the future - he is dying and he is trying to help Professor X. Past the plot you have an outstanding performance by Hugh Jackman and newcomer Dafne Keen...
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Jessica Alba

by | April 28, 2018 | Featured, Movies | 0 Comments

Jessica Alba Born April 28, 1981   Jessica Alba started out acting as a teenager and has been turning out great entertainment for all of us ever since then. She is one of those actresses that makes interesting choices and elevates the role. Noteworthy Idle Hands - I...
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