Where are they Now? | The Old Lady from The Wedding Singer aka Ellen Albertini Dow

Posted on January 16, 2012 by pellm

Ellen Albertini Dow will probably forever be known as the rapping grandma in The Wedding Singer – and why the hell not, can your Nan recite ‘Rapper’s Delight’? Thought not. Although mine can make a mean apple pie…Ellen Albertini Dow in The Wedding Singer

Raising a smile every time she appears on screen Ellen played the adorable Rosie in the classic Adam Sandler comedy who paid Robbie in meatballs for giving her singing lessons so she could perform at her 50th wedding anniversary…and what a performance it was.

Beginning her on-screen career in the mid-80s the feisty Ellen can be found rocking out with Whoopi Goldberg in both Sister Act films, K-9, The Wonder Years, Family Matters and Seinfeld.

Having looked the same age for the past two decades (bravo Ellen, what’s your secret?) the question you’re all probably asking right now (and feeling slightly bad about) is probably ‘is she still alive?’

Ellen Albertini Dow at the Wedding Crashers premiereYES! As of 2012 she reached the incredible age of 93 and she’s still working!

Since The Wedding Singer, Ellen appeared in movies like Road Trip and Wedding Crashers and in a lot of telly like Will & Grace, Scrubs, Six Feet Under, My Name is Earl and she played Aunt Ginger in the US remake of Shameless.  She’s also voiced various ‘old women’ in American Dad! And Family Guy.

Forthcoming projects Ellen can be seen in are a Hilary Duff and Charlie Sheen-starring comedy She Wants Me and a thriller titled Frank the Bastard.

Keep it up Ellen!

Altogether now ‘I said a hip hop the hippie the hippie to the hip hip hop, a you don’t stop the rock it to the bang bang boogie say up jumped the boogie to the rhythm of the boogie, the beat!’

MORE WHERE ARE THEY NOWS:
Janice from Friends – Maggie Wheeler
The Cast of Sesame Street
Kenan & Kel

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New Comedy Shows 2012

Posted on January 1, 2012 by allleo

Comedy Central laughs in 2012 with a sneak peek of some of the comedy shows to look out for this year across all channels. This doesn’t include Celebrity Big Brother fyi.

 

Zooey Deschanel

Sitcom: New Girl
New Girl comes with quite a write-up: 10 million viewers in the States enough for ya? Zooey Deschanel splits up with her boyfriend and moves in with three new dysfunctional ones. The show throws a whole new modern and outrageous spin on male and female relationships ‘parently.

Cartoon: Napoleon Dynamite
Not content with executively producing the most hilarious animation of all time, the man behind The Simpsons, Mike Scully has taken the cult film, Napoleon Dynamite and coloured it in with a felt tip pen. The Napoleon Dynamite cartoon does what the movie did with many of the original cast reprising their roles, including Jon Heder as the main man.

Comedy: 2 Broke Girls
From the writer of Sex and The City, Michael Patrick King, comes the much talked-about smash hit US comedy about a trust fund girl down on her luck and another one, just down on her luck. Both need to raise $250,000 to start a business but can’t even find the money down the back of the sofa to pay their rent.

UK cult show: Stella
Coming off the back of Gavin and Stacey, Ruth Jones, its co-writer and co-star is launching Stella. A take on life in the Welsh Valleys, the ensemble cast centres around Ruth’s Stella as a fortysomething hardworking mum and her extended offbeat family.

Obligatory Olympics-related show: Twenty Twelve
The BBC gets behind the biggest event of 2012 with a mockumentary based in the fictional offices of the games’ organisers who’ve got £9billion to spend on the Biggest Show on Earth. Uh-oh. Hugh Bonneville and Jessica Hynes star while David Tennant narrates for the sitcom that’s already won a British Comedy Award.

Comedienne-vehicle: Whitney
US comedienne Whitney Cummings takes centre-stage in Comedy Central’s hilarious new show about an insecure woman, her put-upon boyf and a bunch of female friends with far too many opinions on their relationship.

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Comedy Movies 2012 – Part 2

Posted on December 31, 2011 by allleo

Our second look at what’s coming to add to your merriment in 2012. These films better be funny, there’s a recession on out there.

The Three Stooges
The latest from the Farrelly Brothers, Sean Hayes, Chris Diamantopoulos and Will Sasso inadvertently stumble into a murder plot and a reality TV show.

The Dictator
The latest masterpiece from Sacha Baron Cohen, below, sees Mr Dictator fight to keep the country he’s so lovingly oppressed under his thumb. Anna Faris and Megan Fox aid and abet.

Sacha Baron Cohen unleashes the Dictator

The Five-Year Engagement
From the producer of Bridesmaids, Jason Segel and Emily Blunt in a rom-com charting the ups and downs from engagement to tying the knot. Expect more com than most rom-coms deliver.

Scary Movie 5
What to say? You know the deal.

Bad Santa 2
Billy Bob Thornton doesn’t care whether you’ve been naughty or nice, he just wants to act in an un-Santa-ly way, but you’re going to have to wait a full 12 months.

Movie 43
Stephen Merchant goes all Hollywood with a who’s who that includes – deep breath – Hugh Jackman, Kate Winslet, Anna Faris, Gerard Butler, Emma Stone, Naomi Watts, Uma Thurman, Richard Gere etc…

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Comedy Movies 2012 – Part 1

Posted on December 30, 2011 by allleo

Do you have sides to split this year? Here’s our pick of comedy movies that are scheduled to appear at your multiplex over the coming 12 months – just add popcorn and mega-gulp of drink. Or perhaps even nachos. Go on treat yourself.

The Sitter
Would you let Superbad’s Jonah Hill act as your babysitter? No. There’s a reason for this but should be great in a film via the director of Pineapple Express.

Casa De Mi Padre
It’s a new Will Ferrell film. Hurrah. Here things go awry when Will’s younger brother turns up at his ranch, the ‘casa’ of the title with a hot fiancée and bad business connections.

Will Ferrell
Ghostbusters 3
If you ain’t afraid of no ghost, you’ll be happy to go back for a third time with some of the original cast (Sigourney Weaver and Dan Ackroyd) and a franchise makeover from The Office writer-producers, Gene Stupnitsky and Lee Eisenberg.
Buffy the Vampire Slayer
If it ain’t broke, why not go back, dust it off and remarket it. Yes, a re-thinking of Buffy is on the cards. And that ladies and gentlemen, is about all we know.

Three Men and a Bride
And in a similar spirit… after raising the baby and the little lady, our three bachelors must now marry her off. Ted Danson, Steve Guttenberg and Tom Selleck should be nicely pleased with the work.

American Reunion
Believe it or not, it was over 12 years ago when Jason Biggs, Chris Klein and co began a quest to lose their virginity. Now they’re back for a high school reunion and a walk down memory lane. Look out for a guest appearance from the pie.

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