Happy Endings lived up to its name last week when ABC picked up the perennial bubble show for a full third season! That means we’ll be getting, for the first time, 22 episodes of hibernating gays, invisible hula hooping, slutty baby tees and anything else this decadently daffy show can dream up.
But, in perhaps the best news of all, fans won’t have to wait until September for a new installment of TV’s best comedy — turns out there is a season two episode that has yet to air!
“There’s a lost episode, coming at ya this summer,” Casey Wilson told me at last night’s ABC Upfront Party in NYC. “It’s a kickball episode and Football star Lance Briggs plays my boyfriend. It may not be the first thing that comes to your mind, but it was magic.” Less wondrous for the team is one glaring omission: “We leave Jane off our team,” Casey adds. “Needless to say, Jane does not love it.”
“Yea, I get left out … but I take my shirt off, so it works out,” Eliza Coupe countered. But it sounds like the episode will actually give Max-fans the most to celebrate.
“It’s Bad News Bears and I play the Walter Matthau role,” Adam Pally told me. “It’s basically my dream: I get to drink and smoke while coaching this kickball team. Plus, I showed up to work with no makeup and my own wardrobe, so I actually looked like Walter Matthau.”
As for next season, the cast is looking forward to continuing to ramp up the crazy as Damon and Eliza would like to tackle a Mission: Impossible themed episode (“Is that so you can descend into my vagina?” Eliza asked when Damon suggested the visuals) while Adam is looking forward to really unleashing Max’s full pooh-tential.
“I’d love to see Max becoming even more unhinged next season,” he says. “It’s cute and adorable when there’s a 30 year old with no job for a couple of years, but now that he’s getting older, I think it would be great to see him really turn into a recluse.”
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ABC announced its 2012-2013 schedule today and it shows that “Happy Endings” will be moving to Tuesday night at 9:00 PM. No official season 3 premiere date has been announced yet, but we will post once that is available!
According to TV By The Numbers, “Happy Endings” has been renewed for a third season of 22 episodes!
Eliza Coupe is featured in a new Funny or Die video titled “Rick Santorum Aborts Presidential Campaign”.
There are a few things Rick Santorum should keep in mind before terminating his candidacy. Ashley Judd, Michelle Trachtenberg, Katy Mixon, and Eliza Coupe weigh in.
Its been announced that “Shanghai Calling” will be the opening feature at the 2012 Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival! The Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival (LAAPFF) will be held beginning May 10 – 20, 2012 at the Director’s Guild of America (DGA), CGV Cinemas located in Koreatown, and for the first time, the Art Theater in Long Beach.
The festival kicks off with the Los Angeles premiere of SHANGHAI CALLING, directed by Daniel Hsia. Hsia is a 2003 alumnus of Visual Communications’ Armed With A Camera Fellowship. Starring international hearthrob Daniel Henney (X-MEN ORIGINS: WOLVERINE; THREE RIVERS) SHANGHAI CALLING is a romantic comedy about modern-day immigrants living in an unfamiliar land. When an ambitious New York attorney (Daniel Henney) is sent to Shanghai on assignment, he immediately stumbles into a legal mess that could spell the end of his career. But with help from a beautiful relocation specialist, a well-connected foreign businessman, a clever but unassuming journalist, and a street-smart assistant, he might just save his job, discover romance, and finally learn to appreciate the many wonders of Shanghai. This is Hsia’s feature-length directorial debut, and co-stars Eliza Coupe (HAPPY ENDINGS) and Bill Paxton (BIG LOVE, HAYWIRE). Filmmaker, cast and crew to attend screening.
“We are excited to present Hsia’s film as our opening night, says David Magdael, Festival CoProducer. “As one of one of our talented alums, we are proud to watch him grow as a filmmaker.”
“Happy Endings” finishes its season season on Wednesday (April 4) night with a finale that totally delivers on the promise of its title, “Four Weddings and a Funeral (Minus Three Weddings and One Funeral).”
It’s a madcap episode that includes Madonna impersonators, Brian Austin Green and even a couple surprising relationship zigs and zags. It’s also a terrific showcase for Eliza Coupe and Casey Wilson, who never hesitate to make themselves look ridiculous in the name of hilarity.
Last week, I ran my recent interview with Damon Wayans Jr. and Zachary Knighton, who talked about the show’s Season 2 improvements, its impressive punchline pace and more.
This conversation with Coupe and Wilson continues on those themes, with a lot of amusing and interesting back-and-forths between the two stars.
HitFix: I was talking with Zach and Damon. They agreed with me that the show has taken a jump this season, that it has become more confident and more consistent. How do you guys feel like this season was different from the small batch you did last year?
Eliza Coupe: I won’t speak for everyone, but I feel like every person upped their game, not that they needed to, but I think you just get more comfortable in the character and I think that through that, it just kinda changes the whole dynamic a little bit. It’s like with people: If you’re secure as a person, you’re gonna be able to be a lot more flexible. So I think that as these characters have become more defined, they’re able to play more. We also have incredible writers to help us with that. As we were defined, they defined us more and it was a great kind of back-and-forth.
Casey Wilson: Yeah, I think the writers found the characters a lot more this year, what was funny about each of them. And then Eliza’s right, everyone just upped their game, I think. And I think the show really took on its own style and rhythm and really solidified it more, which is a very fast pace. And the look of the show is very poppy. I think it just sorta all congealed better this year. There are a lot more jokes and I think it became it became a little weirder.
Eliza Coupe: But I think “weirder” in a great way, where we’re hitting something… Everything I read, if it’s on Twitter or whatever, people are like, “Oh my God, that’s so how I think!” Not to compare us to any iconic show, but when I would watch “Seinfeld,” I’d be like, “How are they? That’s exactly the way I would react to something.” People have been saying that it makes you feel like you’re in on the joke, it also makes you feel like, “Oh, these people are like my friends. This is who I would hang out with.”
Casey Wilson: Yeah, it’s weirdly specific stuff. And every storyline’s obviously traditional in the sense that it’s a sitcom, but I think they’re very creative.
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Zap2it hit the red carpet for the 33rd College Television Awards where we caught up with “Happy Endings” stars Eliza Coupe and Zachary Knighton. The show’s finale airs on April 4, and they gave us a few teasers about what we have to look forward to.
Knighton says everyone should tune in. “I would say you should watch the finale if you want to see a big gay wedding. That’s always exciting for comedy.” Coupe tells us where we first see Jane in the episode. “I”m cleaning the underside of a couch on a very fun automotive-type apparatus.” She ends up in a mustard-yellow suit. She would say why, except that “Jane likes to help.”
In the episode, Penny (Casey Wilson) is forced to sit at the Skype table, which is full of faces of people who couldn’t make it on laptops. She’s even forced to dance with one. We asked Coupe what she thought of the idea. She loves it. “Yeah, I’d love to phone in a few weddings!”
There are a few unexpected relationship twists and turns, and Knighton gave us his opinion about what should happen for Dave in the romance department. “You know, I think it’s really funny for Dave to be dating a lot of different women because, one, it’s fun to go to work and meet a new girl every day. But also we can keep the tension going. Also there is a lot of comedy in getting back together and it maybe not working. Who knows?
There is also a musical number involving a Madonna song. Coupe tells us “I can’t sing. I dance though. I’m a great dancer. My dance skills are really solid. It’s just for a moment, but yeah. I dance.”
Finally, we asked Knighton about his favorite invention on the show. “The Steak-tanic,” he says. “My signature sandwich. It’s like three pounds of bacon and all this other stuff. I think in my dreamworld if I could have this for breakfast, I think I’d be good.”
Another clip of Eliza Coupe’s appearance on “Conan” has been added! You can watch the entire show from last night over at TeamCoco.com.
Check out the first clip of Eliza Coupe being interviewed on “Conan” tonight!
What’s it like being part of one of the funniest married couples in primetime?
“Damon and I are very close in real life too, and we have so much fun together,” said Eliza Coupe (“Scrubs”), who plays Jane to Damon Wayans Jr.’s Brad on ABC’s “Happy Endings.”
“I feel like he and I, really more than anyone else, are like a little machine. [We go] back and forth [joking], and we’re like that off-camera too. Damon and Eliza are just dirty birds – they make Brad and Jane look like Puritans.”
In a recent episode, Brad and Jane had a fake fight, and long story short, it involved lots and lots of pigeons.
“I’m not a huge fan of pigeons,” Coupe confessed. “I went on a field trip once to New York City, and we went to this cathedral and climbed up this winding, crazy cobblestone staircase. I had a skirt on, and two pigeons got caught in between my legs, and I was scarred for life! They were dirty and gross. So when I had to work with the pigeons, I was not a fan.”
What about kids for Brad and Jane?
“I don’t know if anyone needs to introduce that. If the show continues on, hopefully, we’ll have to do something like that, but I would like to see Brad and Jane get into even more craziness, where maybe they have to rob a bank. I don’t know – something like that.”
The biggest question of all, of course, is if “Happy Endings,” which was something of a surprise renewal for season 2, will get a third season. Coupe said that the cast is taking that in their own hands via social media.
“People need to watch the show!” she said. “We’re just trying to get the word out [via Twitter and Facebook].” (Every cast member but Elisha Cuthbert is on Twitter.)
In the meantime, Coupe just hopes that Michael Fassbender will talk to her. She shot a series of videos on YouTube during her downtime on the set of “Happy Endings” (check out the first one below).
“I had a crush on him, and he was one of the many on my list of people, and my friend Bree put up pictures of him all over the place in my trailer. I never expected anybody to actually watch them….We may be onto another man. Fassbender’s not being responsive! So the next logical step is either Tom Hardy or Ryan Gosling.”
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