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Montreal Gazette
5 days ago
- Entertainment
- Montreal Gazette
Photos: Ryan Reynolds, Rob Mac and more at the Just For Laughs Awards in Montreal
Comedy stars gathered at M Telus in Montreal on Friday to present the annual Just For Laughs Awards. Canadian movie star Ryan Reynolds presented the Generation Award to fellow Wrexham AFC owner Rob Mac (formerly known as Rob McElhenney), star and co-creator of It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia. Have I Got News for You host Roy Wood Jr. presented the Lifetime Achievement Award to veteran comedian George Wallace. Handsome, a podcast hosted by comedians Tig Notaro, Fortune Feimster and Mae Martin, was awarded Podcast of the Year. Two awards were also given to up-and-coming comedians. Benito Skinner, creator of the Amazon Prime Video series Overcompensating, was awarded Breakout Comedy Star of the Year. He celebrated by kissing presented Mary Beth Barone, his podcast co-host. And Hannah Berner, co-host of the Giggly Squad podcast, was named Rising Comedy Star of the Year.
Montreal Gazette
18-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Montreal Gazette
Brownstein: Satirist Roy Wood Jr. will win hearts at Just for Laughs
Festivals By Roy Wood Jr. should touch all the bases when he hits Just for Laughs — both literally and figuratively. One of the sharpest satirists on the continent, the former Daily show correspondent and host of CNN's Have I Got News for You news-panel series is equally adept at discoursing on American political buffoonery as he is on baseball. Audiences may even catch him sporting his beloved Expos jacket when he takes to the stage hosting a Gala, July 25 at Théâtre Maisonneuve, or when he does his solo 'experimental talk-show,' Today, Tonight … Tomorrow, July 26 at Théâtre Ste-Catherine. Though a lifelong Chicago Cubs fan, Wood can feel our city's collective pain on the loss of the 'Spos. He makes his living taking shots at the powers-that-be, but baseball remains his holy ground, and little is more sacred to him than the power of a home run as exemplified in his new TV special, Going, Going, Gone: The Magic of the Home Run, now streaming on Roku. Wood was in suburban Atlanta on Tuesday, both taking in the baseball All-Star Game in suburban Atlanta and commenting on the pure poetry of hitting dingers for the MLB Network. As always, Wood, who played some high-school and college ball, took his glove to the game — just in case. 'I love that old-school Expos logo and I'm also a big Andre Dawson fan,' says Wood in a Zoom interview, referring to the star outfielder known here as the Hawk, who spent most of his career with the Expos and Cubs. Wood, like many an up-and-coming comic, got his start in the JFL New Faces series in 2006 and came back a decade later to perform in another show. But this is the first time he'll do the fest as a solo artist. 'I felt that an Expos jacket as a non-Canadian would be the safest thing to wear,' he cracks, noting he purchased the jacket in — yikes — Toronto on a JFL tour — that didn't come to Montreal — two years ago. As a non-Canadian, he is also up to speed on the angst his president is imposing on Canadians with his ever-volatile trade tariffs. 'It's definitely a time now when as an American you're paying the price for someone else's policy,' he says, before jumping in with this chestnut: 'I just almost want that our voting results be made public so I could just go through Customs in the I-Didn't-Vote-for-Him Lane.' 'Regardless of what's happening on the federal level, Americans still have to pay close attention to state and local politics — when you look at the flash flooding that's happening in Texas that's taken over 100 lives. And when it's time to figure out who to blame, it's state and local … But I'm thankful to get up to Canada and argue with you guys about your politics,' he quips. Anything to get his mind off the current state of affairs back home. 'It's almost surreal what's happening now. You've got one group of Americans who are basically still celebrating the (Trump) win, but still can't really tell you what they won. There's another group of Americans still fighting it. And then there is a third group who are in their own Dystopian let-me-know-when-this-is-over type situation. It's like a roller-coaster … you've got people up front with their heads down and their eyes closed, and you've got people in the back hanging on for dear life. 'People who love Trump still love him, but we will still need more time on blowback of some of his policies. It will be interesting to see what happens with his cuts on Medicaid in the next couple of years, with his spending-bill cuts. I'm not calling it 'a Big Beautiful Bill.' That's part of the problem: Americans want to give everything a title to make everything more glorious than what it is. … Stop it. 'It used to be kick-ass to be an American … now you just have to tuck your head down and go whoops and say 'sorry about that.'' The good news is American political parodists have an abundance of fodder, and Wood's career has been going gangbusters of late. It shouldn't come as much of a surprise that with his carving skills, Wood headlined the White House Correspondents' Dinner in 2023 — under Biden as president — to its highest ratings since 2017. He also served as a Daily Show correspondent for eight years and later guest-hosted it for a period. Apart from his baseball special, he appears in the coming film comedy Outcome, alongside Keanu Reeves and Jonah Hill. And his book memoir, The Man of Many Fathers, will be released in October. 'That book is about all the dads who helped raise me after my father passed when I was 16,' elaborates Wood, the father of a 9-year-old son. 'We all encounter various people from whom we get our values. I don't feel our parents are exclusive instructors of a child's moral core. This is a collection of stories of random people, some of whom I can't even remember their names, and others like high-school coaches and Trevor Noah, all of whom helped me in one capacity or another. I'm just thankful to all these people who saw enough in me to take me under their wing. 'And I just want my son to learn and appreciate failure, because that is the key to success.'
Irish Independent
15-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Irish Independent
‘Have I Got News for You' star visits Skellig Michael on Kerry holiday
Best known for his regular appearances on 'Have I Got News for You', Andy Hamilton, is currently visiting The Kingdom and was in Portmagee at the weekend before taking a trip to Skellig Michael – the world famous UNESCO site. The British comedian is a regular contributor to a host range of comedy programmes, and co-created The Kit Curran Radio Show, Drop the Dead Donkey, and Outnumbered. He is also renowned for his role in children's programmes, including as the voice of Dr Elephant, the dentist in the animation series Peppa Pig and he is the voice of Captain Squid, the pirate in the children's show Ben & Holly's Little Kingdom. He is a regular contributor to BBC radio on a number of shows. Andy Hamilton is married to Libby Asher and they have three children. He was in Kerry with Libby and was spotted by Kerry photographer Stephen Power who said he spent a wonderful half an hour in their company in Portmagee.
Irish Independent
15-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Irish Independent
UK comedian and TV star pays visits to Skellig Michael on Kerry holiday
Best known for his regular appearances on 'Have I Got News for You', Andy Hamilton, is currently visiting The Kingdom and was in Portmagee at the weekend before taking a trip to Skellig Michael – the world famous UNESCO site. The British comedian is a regular contributor to a host range of comedy programmes, and co-created The Kit Curran Radio Show, Drop the Dead Donkey, and Outnumbered. He is also renowned for his role in children's programmes, including as the voice of Dr Elephant, the dentist in the animation series Peppa Pig and he is the voice of Captain Squid, the pirate in the children's show Ben & Holly's Little Kingdom. He is a regular contributor to BBC radio on a number of shows. Andy Hamilton is married to Libby Asher and they have three children. He was in Kerry with Libby and was spotted by Kerry photographer Stephen Power who said he spent a wonderful half an hour in their company in Portmagee.
Daily Mirror
08-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Daily Mirror
Comedian Ross Noble bitten by shark while filming ITV reality show
Comedian Ross Noble was bitten while filming ITV's Shark! in the Caribbean. But the Geordie funnyman, a regular on Have I Got News for You, said he didn't blame the shark in question for wanting to see how he tasted. 'Potentially, depending on what got caught on the camera, you could see me get nibbled by a shark,' he explained.. 'The only way a shark has got to find out what another thing is, is to have a little nibble of it and see. I've seen a lot of shark documentaries. The big thing that I realised is, it's not Jaws, sharks don't attack people. I always knew that when they attacked surfers, it's because they think they're seals. 'I think a lot of people would just instantly think, 'Oh, sharks, danger, big teeth.' I've never really had that fear. I watch a lot of telly, so I've seen a lot of shark documentaries.' Ross, 49, said he and the other celebs taking part felt like the 'idiot mate' of Sir David Attenborough as they swam in the seas of Bimini and realised that the sharks were far bigger than he'd previously thought. 'Imagine a David Attenborough documentary, right? But Attenborough has got an idiot mate who has just jumped in with the animals, so we can see how big they are and you can learn something about these creatures along the way. 'Basically, if you love a beautiful nature documentary but also like seeing how big things are against Dougie from McFly, you'll love it.' The comic admitted he'd initially signed up purely for the free holiday. "I've got a feeling that quite a few of us looked at it and just went, 'It's three weeks in the Bahamas, yes!' And then we read the rest of the information. That's what Michael Caine used to do when he was picking films. He used to go, 'It's in the Bahamas. I'll do it.'' Describing Dougie Poynter as the 'perfect measuring stick' for sharks, he laughed: 'I now measure everything in Dougie from McFly. I now go, 'How big's an elephant?' And I say, 'At least five Dougie from McFly's'.' He said his biggest surprise had been just how big the apex ocean predators actually were. 'In nature documentaries, there's never any scale because they're just in the vast expanse of blue and usually they're either on their own or they're swimming next to other sharks that are a similar size,' he told the Mirror. 'The difference is when you're down there and there's people next to a giant shark, that makes you realise just how massive they are. You could watch a hundred nature documentaries and not get it.' Dougie, 37, said that making the programme had changed him forever. 'It's confirmed that I really should do more stuff with nature,' he explained. 'I came back and it just hit me so hard that I'm not still out there doing it. I think I just want to do nature stuff for the rest of my life, in any sort of capacity. Any trip I do, or holiday or TV show, I hope it has some sort of nature element in it, because that's what I'm so happy doing. I'm so content, it's almost like I switch into this other person and any other worries completely disappear. 'I feel connected, back to what I think we actually are, just creatures of Earth. Without sounding cheesy, I'm sharing the planet with all these other things that are way more fascinating than myself.' He said he didn't feel too frightened, despite the danger. 'There were a couple of hairy moments, but I was never really scared,' he insisted. 'Sharks are villainised and everyone hates them compared to lions that get Disney movies made out of them. Sharks are not as cute as Simba and Mufasa, but I'd quite happily dive with Tiger sharks over running with lions.' But Amandaland star Lucy Punch has no qualms admitting she'd found it 'very scary'. 'It feels dangerous and they're huge and intimidating. But I was surprised at how exhilarating and sometimes even how peaceful the shark encounters were,' she said. The comedy acrtress found that Countdown's Rachel Riley helped her overcome her fears. 'I panicked before the first proper dive. Lovely Rachel reassured me that fear and excitement share the same physiological reaction, which I reminded myself of regularly for the rest of the trip - I'm not terrified, I'm thrilled!' Call the Midwife's Helen George said it wasn't the wildlife she found difficult, but the water. 'I am quite scared of swimming and I started to think, is this a good idea? Let alone the sharks. But I really wanted to push myself and it sounded like such an interesting thing to be part of.' For the five-part series the celebs were flown to the sanctuary in the Bahamas, home to around 10 different species of shark. Once there, they took the plunge together alongside Hammerheads, Bull sharks and Tiger sharks. There is no elimination process in the series, but the dives got progressively harder, with each involving a bigger and tougher breed of shark. - Shark: Celebrity Infested Waters, Monday 14th July, 9pm, ITV1/ITVX
