Tonight's guests are Bill Hader on The Daily Show and Unlocking the Truth on The Colbert Report.
Bill Hader is an actor, voice actor, comedian, producer and writer.
He is known for his work as a cast member on Saturday Night Live, his lead voice role in Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs, and his supporting roles in comedy films such as Superbad, Pineapple Express, Tropic Thunder, Adventureland, Men in Black 3, Paul, Forgetting Sarah Marshall, Doogal, and Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian.
You might think he is on to promote the movie
The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby however, that is why we will see Jessica Chastain on Thursday. He is on, instead to promote
The Skeleton Twins
Having both coincidentally cheated death on the same day, estranged twins reunite with the possibility of mending their relationship.
Like Tweedledum and Tweedledee, Only They’re Angsty Kristen Wiig and Bill Hader Star in ‘The Skeleton Twins’
As “The Skeleton Twins” deftly glides between drama and comedy, it peels away layers of personal history in the lives of its troubled main characters, twin siblings estranged for a decade who share an eerie emotional synchronicity. At the very moment Maggie Dean (Kristen Wiig), a dental hygienist in upstate New York, is about to gulp a lethal fistful of sleeping pills, she receives a call informing her that her brother, Milo (Bill Hader), a failed actor in Hollywood, is in the hospital after slashing his wrists.
The movie, directed by Craig Johnson (the tiny indie “True Adolescents”) from a screenplay he wrote with Mark Heyman (a writer on “Black Swan”), is keenly attuned to the bonds of siblings, especially twins. If countless movies about brothers and sisters reveal common family traits, “The Skeleton Twins” is subtler than most in evoking a mutual sympathy that might be called a cellular understanding.
It sounds interesting and at the very least not the same old plots that the studios keep trotting out.
Unlocking the Truth is a Heavy Metal /Hard Rock band from Brooklyn, NY. Also the entire band is 13 or younger!
A Heavy Metal Alloy, Fused With Youth Unlocking the Truth Is a Band That Rocks Beyond Its Years
They are very clear about their musical intentions. “We do heavy metal,” the band’s 13-year-old guitarist, Malcolm Brickhouse, said one recent afternoon on a playground bench at P.S. 282 in Park Slope, sporting a new shock of red in his Afro, flanked by his band mates, the 12-year-old drummer Jarad Dawkins and the 13-year-old bassist Alec Atkins. “We don’t have kid audiences.”
Mr. Atkins added: “We want to bring it back to the way it was in the ’80s. We don’t want to switch up our style and do pop or rap.” Already, they have opened for hard-rock acts like Queens of the Stone Age and Scar the Martyr, as well as appeared at Coachella and on the Vans Warped Tour. And they share a booking agency with legacy bands like Guns N’ Roses and Motorhead, for whom they opened in April.
Jolene Cherry, chief executive and founder of the Cherry Party, a newly formed Sony joint venture that signed the group, declined to discuss the terms of the deal. But according to published reports, it includes a $60,000 advance for the first album, with the figure rising for each successive one, totaling $1.78 million for as many as six albums, provided sales reach a prescribed number of records. The boys have a book contract with Penguin. And there are plans to film a documentary à la “One Direction: This Is Us.”
They sound pretty good, although it is difficult to tell with the quality of live recordings.
This Week's Guests
THE DAILY SHOW
We 9/17: Zephyr Teachout
Th 9/18: Jessica Chastain
THE COLBERT REPORT
We 9/17: Viggo Mortensen
Th 9/18: Terry Gilliam