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Chris Elliott Cast as Lily's Father on How I Met Your Mother

9 October 2009 11:14 AM, PDT | TVfanatic | See recent TVfanatic news »

The role of Lily's father on How I Met Your Mother has been cast.

Actor/comedian Chris Elliott has landed the pivotal role, as he'll appear on the November 23 episode of the sitcom, which focuses on an awkward family reunion hosted by Lily’s grandparents.

According to Entertainment Weekly, the half hour will feature childhood flashbacks that shed light on Lily’s troubled relationship with her dad.

Elliott's face should be familiar to TV and movie fans. He's probably best known for his roles in There's Something About Mary and Cabin Boy. »

- matt@iscribelimited.com (M.L. House)

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Cool Stuff Reviewed: Adult Swim’s $75 Pants, Ghostbusters: The Video Game

28 July 2009 6:00 AM, PDT | Slash Film | See recent Slash Film news »

Some free stuff showed up in the mail and we decided to review it. Well, in one case, we let some guy down the street review the stuff, but we still kept the stuff. - Regards, the /Film Cool Stuff Dept. [adult swim] sent me these $75 pants from their new “Finer Things” line. Wait, I’m not bragging. I’m not even sure what I’m typing because I’ve never reviewed pants. Thinking back, the closest pants-related thing I have ever reviewed (until these $75 pants) was Cabin Boy, which famously co-starred David Letterman, who owns Worldwide Pants, which is worth about 7.5-$75 million without fact-checking. Yeah, these pants, they arrived at my door, and they are navy, with bright pink, intricately stitched (by Williams Street interns?) Mooninites all over them. It's really something; almost like a low-bit invasion on cotton or a cotton-candy-colored bout of formication. Per the pants' ... »

- Hunter Stephenson

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On the Late Show: Talk Show Hosts in Movies

3 March 2009 6:35 AM, PST | ifc.com | See recent IFC news »

This week, the world of late night television experiences its biggest shakeup in years, as Jimmy Fallon takes the reigns of NBC's "Late Night" from Conan O'Brien, who, at the start of June, will take over "The Tonight Show" from Jay Leno, who moves on to start his own talk show at 10pm. With talk show hosts on our minds these days, it seemed like a good time to look back and see how they've fared on the silver screen.

Qualifications for inclusion were simple: the talk show host in question has to be best known -- and most successful -- in their show business career as a talk show host. Craig Ferguson, current host of CBS' "Late Late Show," carved out a long and successful career as an actor and director of such films as "The Big Tease" before accepting the slot after David Letterman, so he was out. »

- Matt Singer

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2009 | 2008

3 articles from 2009

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