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

Things About Goats You May Not Know

by | August 31, 2016 | Beyond Geek, Featured | 0 Comments

I guess we should start off with the biggest and most believed misconception of them all. Goats will eat anything including tin cans, cardboard boxes and in the case of “The Andy Griffith Show”, dynamite. The truth of the matter is that they are fairly picky...
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Welcome to Nuka World

by | September 20, 2016 | Featured, Video Games | 0 Comments

Welcome to Nuka World boys and girls, children of all ages. What do you add to the game that has everything... an amusement park themed after the most famous soda in 2077 - Nuka Cola. In case you are unaware, Fallout 4 released its latest and last piece of DLC - Nuka...
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Sara Gilbert

by | January 29, 2018 | Featured, Pop Culture, Television | 0 Comments

Sara Gilbert - Born January 29, 1975 Sara Gilbert - I remember watching her a spunky kid on Roseanne. Watching her grow up on a show that I didn't watch all the time. Seeing her pop back up years later on The Big Bang Theory and then seeing her really take the...
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Matthew Gray Gubler

by | March 9, 2018 | Featured, Movies, Television | 0 Comments

Matthew Gray Gubler Born March 9, 1980   Matthew Gray Gubler has long been one of my favorite characters on Criminal Minds. There is something about the character of Spencer Reid, the brains, the wit, the naivete - that makes the character work. But Gubler is a...
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2017 Goodbye

by | January 1, 2018 | Comedy, Featured, Movies, Pop Culture | 0 Comments

2017 Goodbye - you took away a lot of our pop culture icons and we are mad at you for it. A brief in memoriam in no real order: Mary Tyler Moore 1936 - 2017 Mary Tyler Moore was an American actress, known for her roles in the television sitcoms The Mary Tyler...
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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

Sean Astin

by | February 25, 2018 | Featured, Movies, Pop Culture | 0 Comments

Sean Astin Born February 25, 1971   Sean Astin is, was, and will always be the leader of the Goonies for me. As a kid, hell right now, I would follow Mikey into the pits of hell to find One-Eyed Willy's treasure. I still pine for a Goonies 2 and I still want...
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The Eighties – A Documentary

by | January 13, 2017 | Featured, Pop Culture, Television | 0 Comments

The Eighties - A Documentary Recently watched The Eighties - A Documentary on Netflix. My wife and I are hooked on documentaries and we will watch one on almost anything but this one, covering one of the decades that we both grew up on was a no-brainer.Add to that...
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Justin Timberlake

by | January 31, 2018 | Featured, Movies, Music, Pop Culture, Television | 0 Comments

Justin Timberlake - Born January 31, 1981 Justin Timberlake Noteworthy Can't Stop the Feeling - Best Original Song - Academy Awards 2017 - Nominated Best New Artist - BET Awards 2003 - Nominated Can't Stop the Feeling - Top Selling Song - Billboard Music Awards 2017...
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Alan Tudyk

by | March 16, 2018 | Comic Books, Featured, Movies, Pop Culture, Television | 0 Comments

Alan Tudyk Born March 16, 1971   Alan Tudyk has embraced the geek over and over in his career. I will watch him in just about anything and go out of my way to keep an eye on what he has been in or what he has coming out soon. Below is such a small list of what...
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Jason Lee

by | April 25, 2018 | Featured, Movies, Television | 0 Comments

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...
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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

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...
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Rob Zombie Renaissance Man

by | January 12, 2018 | Featured, Movies, Pop Culture | 0 Comments

Rob Zombie Let's talk about Rob Zombie Renaissance Man. He is a musician, a filmmaker and a screenwriter. He is amazing at all three and while I really dig his music, I want to celebrate his birthday (January 12, 1965) by talking about his movies. Noteworthy House...
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Caroline Rhea

by | April 13, 2018 | Comedy, Featured, Movies, Television | 0 Comments

Caroline Rhea Born April 13, 1964   So I have a bit of a crush on Caroline Rhea. It is not only her looks, it is her wit, and her intelligence. Comedians have to be smart to be funny in my book and she certainly fits that bill. Noteworthy Sabrina, the Teenage...
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Podcasts – Talk Radio Whenever You Need It

by | September 15, 2016 | Featured, Podcast, Technology | 0 Comments

Much earlier in y life, I was Talk Radio junkie. High School and college, if I was in the car be myself I was most likely listening to the local talk radio station. Saturdays I looked forward to ar Talk and Wait Wait Don't Tell me on NPR. At some point, with my...
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Jim Jefferies

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

Jim Jefferies Born February 14, 1977   Jim Jefferies not only is he my favorite Australian comedian, he is one of my favorite comedians... period. He is also a great writer, talk show host, etc. Noteworthy The Jim Jefferies Show - Jim Jefferies applies his own...
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Clint Howard

Clint Howard

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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

Rick Moranis

by | April 18, 2018 | Comedy, Featured, Movies, Television | 0 Comments

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...
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Passing the Torch or Lightsaber

by | August 27, 2016 | Featured, Movies, Pop Culture | 0 Comments

Passing the Torch or Lightsaber I am one of the few people that can brag about having seen all of the live action star wars movies in the theater.  I’m sure my parents had no idea what they were starting when they took me to see Star Wars in 1977. I’m fairly...
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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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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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Bad Movies – Bad Puns: But Great Company

by | March 3, 2017 | Featured, Movies, Pop Culture | 0 Comments

Bad Movies - Bad Puns: But Great Company Back in the stone ages before we had streaming services like Hulu, Netflix, or even YouTube, we had these primitive devices called DVDs and actually had to have the disc in a physical machine that, after the viewing, you had...
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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

Patton Oswalt

by | January 27, 2018 | Comedy, Featured, Movies, Television | 0 Comments

Patton Oswalt - Born January 27, 1969 As a professed stand-up comedy addict, Patton Oswalt is one of my drugs of choice. I really dig smart humor and when a comedian uses language well, wraps their humor and stories back around to a common thread, and at the end...
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What Kind of Gamer are You?

by | February 10, 2017 | Featured, Video Games | 0 Comments

What Kind of Gamer are you? What kind of gamer am I? I was asked this recently and it made me stop in my tracks. What kind of gamer am I? One that plays games, isn't that enough? Now, in a day with so many games to choose from and all falling into different...
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Dana Delany

by | March 13, 2018 | Featured, Movies, Television | 0 Comments

Dana Delany Born March 13, 1956   Dana Delany has been a Silver Screen and TV screen staple for years. She can always be counted on to turn out a great performance whether she is being called on to deliver the comedy or the drama. Noteworthy China Beach - This...
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25 Leaked New Features of the Galaxy S8

by | April 1, 2017 | Featured, Technology | 0 Comments

Below is a list of the 25 Leaked New Features of the Galaxy S8 which is set to be released on April 21st. Hopefully, I will have one of these sooner than later. I will be waiting to make sure it doesn't blow up first. 5.8 Inch Display 148.9mm x 68.1 mm x 8.0 mm and...
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And It Is Patrick Dempsey for the WIN

by | January 13, 2018 | Featured, Movies, Pop Culture, Television | 0 Comments

Patrick Dempsey It is always fun when you get to learn something new about a celebrity that you like. Who would have thought that some race announcer has said: And It Is Patrick Dempsey for the WIN - at some point in the history of motorsports. So Patrick Dempsey,...
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