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5 June 2008 12:29 AM, PDT | From buddytv.com | See recent BuddyTV news

With the sixth season of NBC’s Last Comic Standing premiering a couple of weeks ago, we have host Bill Bellamy speaking about what else is up and coming in the wacky stand-up comedy-meets-reality series.

The 43-year-old Bellamy, who began his career in acting and stand-up comedy, familiarized the term “booty call,” and subsequently appeared on MTV as a Vj and host.  Later on, he appeared in films Fled, Love Jones, How to Be a Player and Any Given Sunday. Coming back to stand up comedy, he appeared Bill Bellamy’s Who’s Got Jokes and NBC’s Last Comic Standing.  Recently, he talked to TV Guide to reveal what is in store for the sixth season of the NBC series.

"It’s going to be an exhilarating, funny, super-duper show. The scope — the world wide search — is bigger [this year]," Bill Bellamy told TV Guide.  "It’s like the Super Bowl of comedy!

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29 May 2008 10:40 AM, PDT | From ifc.com | See recent IFC news

By Matt Singer

It wasn't just the weather that was gloomy at the 61st Cannes Film Festival. By the time the skies above southern France briefly cleared for a few days during the second week of the festival, the international press corps had been infected by a mass plague, not unlike the one portrayed in this opening night selection "Blindness," done in reverse . instead of losing their sight, hundreds of journalists stumbled around in a fog, obliged to do nothing but look, and after 12-plus days of looking at a selection of tasteful, well-made and entirely bleak movies, society's rules were breaking down into sweaty anarchy. Those waiting in line for press screenings, always ready to devolve into contentious, multilingual shoving matches, were especially cranky. The traditional applause during a film's closing credits was muted at best, nonexistent or drowned out by boos at the worst. Walking out of a

Matt Singer

2 articles from 2008