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Nothing Is Calm and Bright in Trailer for Reno 911! Christmas Special: Watch
Crime doesn’t wait for the holidays to pass, especially for the Reno Sheriff’s Department. Comedy Central has today revealed the trailer for Reno 911!: It’s a Wonderful Heist, the upcoming feature-length Christmas special featuring the cast of the satirical cop comedy. The season isn’t so cheerful for Lieutenant Dangle (Thomas Lennon), who finds himself wishing he’d never been born. He’s visited by a Christmas “angel” (Nick Swardson), who gives Dangle the chance to see what his colleagues and hometown would be like if he was never there. Unfortunately, everyone appears to be doing much, much better. Never one to take things subtly, Dangle decides he should stay alive — for better or for worse. When a potential theft threatens a local mall owner, the sheriffs do what they do best: Kind...
New Reno 911! and Beavis and Butt-Head Movies Coming to Paramount+
During a TCA event on Wednesday, ViacomCBS unveiled some of the exclusive titles coming to its new streaming platform Paramount+ in the near future. On the comedy front, the streamer is reviving both Reno 911! and Beavis and Butt-Head for new movies. Following a six season run on Comedy Central between 2003 and 2009, Reno 911! was revived by Quibi for a seventh season in 2020. Paramount+’s upcoming revival is billed as a “super-sized event” titled Reno 911! The Hunt for QAnon. As for Beavis and Butt-Head, the upcoming untitled movie will serve as a precursor to a series revival set to air on Comedy Central. This will be the second Beavis and Butt-Head movie, following 1996’s Beavis and Butt-Head Do America. Paramount+, a rebranding of ViacomCBS’ CBS All Access platform,...
Chappelle’s Show, Nathan For You, Reno 911!, and Key & Peele Coming to HBO Max
Several of Comedy Central’s premiere titles — including Chappelle’s Show, Nathan For You, Reno 911!, and Key & Peele — are coming to HBO Max starting November 1st. These series will be streaming on WarnerMedia’s premium streaming services as part of an ongoing licensing deal forged with Comedy Central’s parent company ViacomCBS. The deal also gives HBO Max access to the entire South Park library as well as Inside Amy Schumer. It’s worth noting that all of these titles will be non-exclusive to HBO Max, which explains why Chappelle’s Show is also coming to Netflix starting November 1st. These titles are also available on ViacomCBS’s own streaming platform, CBS All Access, which will be rebranded as Paramount+ in 2021. According to The Hollywood Reporter, at some point ViacomCBS inte...
“Weird Al” Plays a Trigger-Happy Ted Nugent in Reno 911! Reboot: Watch
Earlier this year, it was revealed that “Weird Al” Yankovic would be portraying Ted Nugent on the Quibi reboot of Reno 911!. Now, we have a full clip of our favorite parody expert fully embodying the disgraced Southern rocker/right-wing asshole. In a scene titled “T-Shirt Gun”, one of Nugent’s employees meets him before a political rally to show him the high-powered t-shirt cannon that he prepared for use on stage. Nugent jokes about putting a silencer on it and the two laugh, but as Nugent approaches the scrum of police officers and screaming fans, he accidentally takes the stage with a different long rifle. Hilarity ensues, but we won’t spoil the fun for ya. Watch the video below. Editors’ Picks The bit is from the latest episode of the police show satire, which airs on the mobile-...
Reno 911! and the Thin Blue Line Between Satire and Cruelty
In a world where micro-streaming service Quibi was watched by anyone except exhausted culture writers assigned to cover it, their relaunch of the mockumentary sketch show Reno 911! would take up at least a couple days’ worth of exhaustive Twitter culture war discourse. For what it’s worth, the cast of the acclaimed Comedy Central show are all back and haven’t missed a step, sliding back into their roles as if no time has passed. Unfortunately, that same sense of nostalgic comfort is also the show’s greatest weakness; for better and for worse, the show (and its sense of humor) hasn’t changed a whit since it went off the air in 2009. In the Bush-era heyday of Reno 911!, the show perfectly fit that South Park peak of edgy, subversive humor. The sketch-based, improv-heavy nature...
