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In truly frightening news Tom Cruise and Ben Stiller are in talks to star in a Hardy Boys all grown up comedy Hardy Men. It all started when
Tom Cruise met with Ben Stiller about possibly starring Ben’s newest project Tropic Thunder, a film that mocks the Mission Impossible trilogy, but that Cruise won’t be involved with that project. The site also reports that Cruise sees the Stiller comedy as a way to remold his image after a string of bad publicity surrounding his odd behavior including jumping on couches and calling Matt Lauer glib.
Having recently finished impregnating (?) and re-sculpting Katie Holmes both outside and inside, nasally and spiritually, Cruise is busting a Betsy Ross on the tatters of his reputation.
The theory being that a comedy will make him both likable again and somehow imply that he’s in on the joke – rather than the personally trained butt of it.
When looking for a comedy project - clearly the Ben Stiller train is leaving every five minutes. Stiller’s manic over-production seems to turn major motion picture production into a weekly Sketch Comedy show. Something will be rolling out with a catch phrase and a basic parody concept no matter what day of the week it is. Mission Impossible parody not a good fit … no worries … he has baker’s dozen of half-conceived projects already in pre-production. This boy needs a lot of love from a lot of people all the time.
Lucky for Ben The Wayan Brother keep churning out their product — insuring the Hollywood bottom feeders rung is always occupied … sometimes your competition is the only thing that keeps you from coming in last.
Stills via Tenth Planet.net
Written by UrbanDK
Posted in Ben Stiller, Business ventures, Tom Cruise
10 Responses to “Cruise and Stiller Plan Least Funny Comedy Ever”
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Oh my, that will bomb. Cruise is as funny as lymphatic cancer.
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It doesn’t seem as though he can come up with anything original. All of the movies he’s optioned over the years have been someone else’s idea.
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aneurysm I do have a psych background but UrbanDK wrote that. I wish I was as clever as he is. You can see who wrote a post by looking at the “written by” notice at the bottom on the main page and in the individual article.
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You have a psych background … how very Janet Leigh …
and you are far cleverer than the likes of me … just stay out of the shower
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A Mission Impossible parody would be a bad fit for Tom, but I would like him better if he did one.
Hardy Men? Ewwwww. Not with Tom. That would be so . . . gay? (please don’t beat me up, any homosexuals out there–just can’t think of a corresponding adjective)
Ben Stiller certainly churns them out, but they’re usually pretty funny, so it’s all good for now.
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Ben does like to work out and strip down for his movies … so that’s its always a thin edge of Stiller humiliation slash … hmm. isnt he really fit and cut … that’s a little gay … and homosexuals please do come and beat me … lets have drinks first
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La Cruise will never allow anyone to humiliate him, not even in a comedy that’s supposed to reinvent him. There will be no scatological humor, no vomiting, physical or psychological humiliation so common in Stiller movies. I don’t think Cruise can do comedy–just looking at his face on this photo gives me chills. He thinks that laughing like a maniac while slapping his knee is hilarious. Stiller is starting to get overexposed too, imo. Has he done any good adult comedy since Meet the Parents/Fockers?
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i just noticed that cb. many apologies to urban. so urban, do you have a psych background as well?
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Ben Stiller does do an amazing impersonation of Cruise. He should just keep doing that instead of working with him.
He did a whole thing on his own show a few years back, sending up A Few Good Men, and he had the voice and bizarro-eyes and mannerisms just perfect!
aneurysm:
Other Karen:
Loob:
“The theory being that a comedy will make him both likable again and somehow imply that hes in on the joke rather than the personally trained butt of it.”
Excellent writing & excellent observation celebitchy! Were you a psychiatrist in a former life?
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