Zach Galifianakis News

MTV today announced that British acting sensation Emma Watson will receive the second annual "MTV Trailblazer Award" LIVE during the "2013 MTV Movie Awards" on Sunday, April 14 at 9:00 p.m. ET/PT from the Sony Pictures Studios Lot in Culver City, CA.

Deadline reports that Amy Ryan has signed on for Alejandro Gonzalez-Inarritu's upcoming Broadway-themed comedy BIRDMAN.

According to Deadline.com, The Office's Jenna Fischer will be starring in Neil LaBute's Reasons To Be Happy off-Broadway at MCC Theater's Lucille Lortel Theater, beginning May 16, the same night The Office finale will air on NBC. The show will open on June 11, 2013. This will be Fischer's stage debut.

Tickets are currently on sale for UP Comedy Club's roster of stand-up, sketch shows, and newly added special engagements including the Chicago Improv Festival's 30 Rock show (April 7), Greg Proops podcast show (April 10), and CHIRP Radio's First Time: First Crime show (April 17). Also added by popular demand two shows of Team StarKid: Airport for Birds and Other Great Ideas (March 24 & 31) and an encore one-weekend return engagement of Four Girls (And A Guy): A One Night Stand with The Second City (April 11-13). Tickets can be purchased by calling 312-662-4562 or visiting UPComedyClub.com. UP Comedy Club is located at 230 W. North Ave, 3rd Floor of Piper's Alley in Chicago.

"Comedian's comedian" Eddie Pepitone and director Steven Feinartz, a Columbia College alum, return to Chicago for a special one-night showing of their film festival hit The Bitter Buddha. Author and AV Club editor Nathan Rabin moderates a post-screening conversation Friday, March 15, 9:30 p.m. at Music Box Theatre, 3733 N. Southport.

Warner Bros. Pictures has revealed the trailer for THE HANGOVER PART III, opening in theaters on May 24. Get a first look below!

MTV announced the categories and nominees for the '2013 MTV Movie Awards', honoring the actors and films that enthralled and electrified audiences this year. Anne Hathaway and Jessica Chastain were among the Broadway stars who received nods for their big screen performances.

Movieie reports that Michael Keaton ('RoboCop'), Emma Stone ('The Amazing Spider-Man'), Naomi Watts ('The Impossible') and Zach Galifianakis ('The Hangover') have all signed on to star in the upcoming dark-comedy BIRDMAN.

Alejandro Gonzalez Innaritu has recruited some high-caliber names for his latest project, BIRDMAN.

Tickets are currently on sale for UP Comedy Club's roster of stand-up and sketch comedy shows running now through June 1 including recently added stand-up comics Jeff Garlin (April 5-6), Ben Bailey (May 10-11), and the Sklar Brothers (May 30 – June 1). Tickets can be purchased by calling 312-662-4562 or visiting UPComedyClub.com. UP Comedy Club is located at 230 W. North Ave, 3rd Floor of Piper's Alley in Chicago. For schedule updates and the latest news about shows at UP Comedy Club visit UPComedyClub.com.

Stage and screen stars Anne Hathaway and Amy Adams took some time off from their Academy Award preparations to sit down with actor Zach Galifianakis for an amusing award show interview special spoof as a segment on his fictional BETWEEN TWO FERMS public access program - with hilarious and surprising results! Enjoy the entire Funny Or Die! parody, which also features fellow nominees Jennifer Lawrence, Naomi Watts and more here.

IFC announced today that the comedy network has ordered a second season of its original series, Comedy Bang! Bang!, hosted by comedian/writer and podcast host Scott Aukerman

According to The Hollywood Reporter, HBO has officially put a BORED TO DEATH feature film into development, based upon its short-lived series.

Eddie Pepitone is a man at war with himself. And he has the scars to prove it. The Bitter Buddha takes the viewer backstage in the alternative comedy scene to reveal one of its most undervalued treasures. This portrait of a comedian looks at Pepitone's offbeat humor and lifestyle as he battles the world around him. Stand-up comedy, original animation and interviews with Patton Oswalt, Sarah Silverman, Zach Galifianakis and others provide insight into this beloved career comedian known as 'the guitarist that all the other guitarists go to see.'

Winning a Pulitzer Prize in 1988 and the Oscar for Best Picture in 1989, "Driving Miss Daisy" is opening at the Alhambra Theatre on February 5. Appropriate for a play of such esteem, the Alhambra has brought in not one, as has been its custom of late, but two stars to carry the show: four-time Emmy Award Winner, Michael Learned will star as Daisy Werthan and Lance Nichols, star of the HBO series TREME, as her chauffeur, Hoke Coleburn. This will be the fourth time Learned and Nichols will star together in "Driving Miss Daisy." Rounding out the three-person cast is Michael Edward Hodge, a New York actor who plays Daisy's son, Boolie Werthan.

Steppenwolf Theatre Company welcomes back Second City alum and star of HBO's hit comedy Curb Your Enthusiasm, Jeff Garlin in Closer Than I Appear, December 4 - 16, 2012. Jeff returns to Steppenwolf following his popular, sold-out run of No Sugar Tonight in 2011. Join him for a hilarious and ever-changing night of stand-up comedy in Steppenwolf's intimate Upstairs Theatre (1650 N Halsted St). Jeff will be "up there doing his thing" for at least one hour 15 minutes. Check out photos of Garlin onstage below!