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The great Martin Mull passed away recently, leaving behind a prodigious comedic legacy that included Fernwood 2 Night, Clue and that one scene in Jingle All the Way — not to mention his oddball discography and acclaimed fine art career. Most remembrances of Mull, though, singled out his work in Roseanne, where he played Roseanne Conner’s boss/frenemy Leon.
Less well-known is Mull’s role in another Roseanne-produced project, 1992’s The Jackie Thomas Show, a short-lived sitcom starring Tom Arnold as the unhinged star of a fictional sitcom.
Mull played a network executive who once worked at NBC, where he tried to cancel Cheers before it became a hit. “A bunch of slobs sitting around a bar, who knew?” he asked in the pilot episode.
Created by Arnold and Roseanne, the series featured guest stars that included Roseanne herself, as a crazed fan, and Chris Farley, as Arnold’s younger brother.
Less well-known is Mull’s role in another Roseanne-produced project, 1992’s The Jackie Thomas Show, a short-lived sitcom starring Tom Arnold as the unhinged star of a fictional sitcom.
Mull played a network executive who once worked at NBC, where he tried to cancel Cheers before it became a hit. “A bunch of slobs sitting around a bar, who knew?” he asked in the pilot episode.
Created by Arnold and Roseanne, the series featured guest stars that included Roseanne herself, as a crazed fan, and Chris Farley, as Arnold’s younger brother.
- 7/4/2024
- Cracked
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He was one of the major stars of the 1970s, first as a singer/songwriter and then as part of the iconic Norman Lear comedies Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman and its spinoff, Fernwood 2 Night.
Today, the wit and charisma Mull brought to his craft was fondly remembered by his peers as word of his passing at age 80 spread.
Some of the reactions:
Although I Hadnt Seen Him In Decades, He Was Lit 1 Of Those Who Helped Launch My Career! My 1St Ever Comedy Sketches Were Playing Him & #Fredwillard On #Fernwood @ 5Yo! Always Kind, & A Comedy Legend! #Ripmartinmull Martin Mull, Funnyman & Star Dies at 80: https://t.co/gYo4imDQcn
— Corey Feldman (@Corey_Feldman) June 29, 2024
Martin Mull you always made me laugh. God bless the Mull family. Rip
— Dane Cook (@DaneCook) June 29, 2024
Rip the great Martin Mull. I used to love watching Fernwood Tonight even though I didn't always know what was going on.
Today, the wit and charisma Mull brought to his craft was fondly remembered by his peers as word of his passing at age 80 spread.
Some of the reactions:
Although I Hadnt Seen Him In Decades, He Was Lit 1 Of Those Who Helped Launch My Career! My 1St Ever Comedy Sketches Were Playing Him & #Fredwillard On #Fernwood @ 5Yo! Always Kind, & A Comedy Legend! #Ripmartinmull Martin Mull, Funnyman & Star Dies at 80: https://t.co/gYo4imDQcn
— Corey Feldman (@Corey_Feldman) June 29, 2024
Martin Mull you always made me laugh. God bless the Mull family. Rip
— Dane Cook (@DaneCook) June 29, 2024
Rip the great Martin Mull. I used to love watching Fernwood Tonight even though I didn't always know what was going on.
- 6/29/2024
- by Bruce Haring
- Deadline Film + TV
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Tom Arnold was a showbiz joke in the early 1990s.
The unknown actor suddenly became a gossip mag regular in 1990 as Roseanne Barr's publicity-hungry husband. When she brought Arnold in as a writer on her hugely popular sitcom, there was a sense of coattail-riding. When she cast him on the show, and, two years later, convinced ABC to give him his own sitcom, this sense curdled for some into fact. And when several prominent TV critics shredded the series, Barr created a PR crisis by firing off nasty faxes to the naysayers (including a homophobia-tinged screed to USA Today's Matt Roush that brought her bigotry to the fore decades prior to her Trump-era meltdown). It was all terribly ugly. Barr had more than enough Nielsen ratings juice to weather this storm, but Arnold's fame seemed to be nearing its fifteenth minute.
For those who didn't care about the media maelstrom,...
The unknown actor suddenly became a gossip mag regular in 1990 as Roseanne Barr's publicity-hungry husband. When she brought Arnold in as a writer on her hugely popular sitcom, there was a sense of coattail-riding. When she cast him on the show, and, two years later, convinced ABC to give him his own sitcom, this sense curdled for some into fact. And when several prominent TV critics shredded the series, Barr created a PR crisis by firing off nasty faxes to the naysayers (including a homophobia-tinged screed to USA Today's Matt Roush that brought her bigotry to the fore decades prior to her Trump-era meltdown). It was all terribly ugly. Barr had more than enough Nielsen ratings juice to weather this storm, but Arnold's fame seemed to be nearing its fifteenth minute.
For those who didn't care about the media maelstrom,...
- 2/11/2024
- by Jeremy Smith
- Slash Film
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Hard to imagine, but it’s 25 years ago today that Paramount released Tommy Boy, the road-trip comedy that featured the best representation of the movie star potential of Chris Farley. Paired with Saturday Night Live castmate and close friend David Spade, Farley’s athleticism and physical comic ability was used to maximum effect in a career cut way short as a life of excess caught up to him and he died at age 33 in 1997. Only two years after his breakout performance. Here, director Pete Segal recalls the unforgettable experience of working with him.
Deadline: Farley fans have his SNL skits and this movie to remind us of his combustible talent. How are you feeling on this quarter-century anniversary?
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Deadline: Farley fans have his SNL skits and this movie to remind us of his combustible talent. How are you feeling on this quarter-century anniversary?
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- 3/31/2020
- by Mike Fleming Jr
- Deadline Film + TV
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The marriage of Roseanne Barr and Tom Arnold was a tumultuous affair that provided the public with a lot of raucous entertainment. For those working around them at the time, it was also a crazy adventure.
Emmy Award-winning producer and screenwriter David Fury worked with the former couple on "The Jackie Thomas Show," which they co-created in 1992 while "Roseanne" was still a top-rated program. On HuffPost Live Thursday, Fury said writing for that sitcom was one of his most memorable projects because there was "something really exhilarating about being in the eye of the storm that was the craziness of those two."
"It was insane," Fury told HuffPost Live's Jacob Soboroff. "Coke-fueled rages, people fired left and right, there were fights between Tom Arnold and Julia Louis Dreyfus parking in his spot. You can't be thrown into show business more violently than working for Roseanne and Tom."
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Emmy Award-winning producer and screenwriter David Fury worked with the former couple on "The Jackie Thomas Show," which they co-created in 1992 while "Roseanne" was still a top-rated program. On HuffPost Live Thursday, Fury said writing for that sitcom was one of his most memorable projects because there was "something really exhilarating about being in the eye of the storm that was the craziness of those two."
"It was insane," Fury told HuffPost Live's Jacob Soboroff. "Coke-fueled rages, people fired left and right, there were fights between Tom Arnold and Julia Louis Dreyfus parking in his spot. You can't be thrown into show business more violently than working for Roseanne and Tom."
"The Jackie Thomas Show...
- 3/2/2013
- by Lindsay Wilkes-Edrington
- Huffington Post
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It was the wedding that rocked Hollywood: Sitcom diva Roseanne Barr said "I do" to comedian (and Roseanne writer-actor) Tom Arnold on Jan. 20, 1990 -- a mere four days after she divorced her husband of nearly 16 years, Bill Pentland. At the reception, Arnold famously bellowed, "We're America's worst nightmare: white trash with money!" The couple's tabloid-ready antics -- out-of-control spending and tyrannical behavior on the Roseanne set, along with Barr's dabbling in plastic surgery -- were chronicled meticulously by the press, and the public happily devoured every morsel of the soap opera. Of course, fans were also eating up Roseanne, which was television's No.
- 1/27/2010
- by Tanner Stransky
- EW.com - PopWatch
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