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30 Rock’s show-within-a-show TGS
welcomed Danny Baker to its cast, a Canadian performer literally picked off the street Danny was a robot impersonator that Alec Baldwin’s Jack Donaghy took a liking to because he was unafraid to shake Jack’s bedbug-infested hand. Not unlike Danny, the actor Cheyenne Jackson was green to the world of television when he joined Tina Fey’s hit comedy (though,
unlike Danny, Jackson was not Canadian, nor was he a robot street artist). “There was no acting,” Jackson says, “I was petrified, terrified, and did not know what I was doing.” Of course, Jackson’s selling himself a bit short though
Paramount has acquired the rights to Monty Python’s
Spamalot. According to Deadline, the studio is set to make a movie production of the popular musical, which is already is fully developed with a screenplay by Pythoner Eric Idle and songs by Idle and John DuPrez.
Spamalot was initially in production at Fox; once Disney bought the company, however, the film lost momentum. The movie will be directed by Casey Nicholaw, who was the choreographer on the Broadway production.
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The movie and the musical are based on the 1975 cult classic,
Monty Python and the Holy Grail, the comedic troupe’s take on the legend of King Arthur. The film includes iconic scenes such as the Black Knight, Killer Rabbit, Not Dead Fred, and Knights of Ni.
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