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Lisa Kudrow: “Gay Men Are Superior Beings”

Lisa Kudrow on her love of her gay fans, via PrideSource:

“I don’t know who I’m going to offend by leaving them out, but I need to say that I think gay men are superior beings in my mind. I do believe that.

“It’s all so tricky. I studied biology and the brains are anatomically different. They just are. There’s a stronger connection with the corpus callosum (in gay men). The two sides of the brain communicate better than a straight man’s, and I think that has to be really important.

“They’re not women – they’re still men – and women also have thicker corpus callosums, so I think it’s the combination of those qualities that makes them like a superhuman to me.”

Kudrow’s ground-breaking series returns for a second season after a ten year hiatus on HBO November 9th. Don’t miss it.

(h/t Bilerico)

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Trailer: The Comeback of THE COMEBACK

Lisa Kudrow is just brilliant as “Valerie Cherish” in The Comeback which returns to HBO on November 9th for a new season after a nine year hiatus.

Can. Not. Wait.

OUT’s Aaron Hicklin got the chance to ask Lisa Kudrow about The Comeback‘s first season in 2005 and how Kudrow’s “Valerie Cherish” is different today:

Kudrow on the 2014 “Valerie”
“This season, things are just a little bigger. Valerie’s not in a four-year marriage—it’s a 14-year marriage. Also, her mind-set about reality and dignity is a little different, because we’ve all since accepted, Oh, there’s probably a camera somewhere. You know, someone flips a table: ‘Well, I guess that’s good TV.’ Back then, she really thought everything about her was fantastic, and the only time she started to crack was when she began to suspect she’d been taken advantage of. We have a little more of that earlier on this time around.”

The uncomfortability of indignity
“My husband has a hard time watching The Comeback. When we were first making the show, he came to visit the set and saw a scene and said, ‘Who wrote that? Who’s making my wife do that?’ And they replied, ‘Uh, your wife wrote it.’ A couple of years ago, I watched all of them again. And with the first two, I thought, Wow, this is brutal. There was no violence and no sex, and yet it was really uncomfortable. But that’s how it is everywhere. Everyone has to suffer some kind of indignity to get along in his or her professional pursuit.”

Read more at OUT.

And mark your calendars – The Comeback Season 2 begins November 9 on HBO.

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HBO’s “The Comeback” Is Back – November 9th

First look at the new season of "The Comeback" starring Lisa Kudrow
First look at HBO’s “The Comeback” starring Lisa Kudrow

Lisa Kudrow’s under-appreciated 2005 HBO series “The Comeback,” about a faded sitcom star who banks on reality show cameras following her return to TV, won critics but floundered in it’s fight to find an audience.  I thought it was brilliant. Sadly, in spite of an Emmy nomination for Kudrow, it was cancelled after one season.

The world wasn’t ready, in my opinion.

But now, it is.  HBO has brought Kudrow and her creative partner Michael Patrick King together again for 8 new episodes that finds Kudrow’s “Valerie Cherish” in the year 2014. And she’s still coming back.  Or at least trying to.

Beginning November 9 at 10PM on HBO.

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HBO’s “The Comeback” gets a Twitter account

HBO’s “The Comeback” returns this fall with a six episode mini-season.

And what’s a TV show without a Twitter account? Follow Lisa Kudrow as “Valerie Cherish” on Twitter at @TheComebackHBO

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Lisa Kudrow is back on “The Comeback” trail

Lisa Kudrow as “Valerie Cherish”

Dan Bucatinsky posted a few sneak peek pics on his Facebook from the first day of shooting of “The Comeback” comeback.

Can’t wait to see the six episode mini-season this fall on HBO.

The 2005 series followed Lisa Kudrow as D-list TV star Valerie Cherish trying desperately to make a career comeback while filming a reality show.

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Lisa Kudrow’s “The Comeback” to get 6 episode reboot

Kenneth In The (212) is reporting that “The Comeback ” is coming back!

Kenneth says he spoke with a representative in the Manhattan HBO offices and they confirmed the rumor.

Lisa Kudrow’s brilliant, one-season series will receive a six-episode reboot — “Revisiting ‘The Comeback’ 10 Years Later” — and will feature all of the main characters, including Kellan Lutz, Malin Ackerman, Lance Barber, etc.

I was a big fan of the series when it debuted in 2005.  Many folks look back now and agree it was simply a matter of being “before it’s time.”

Kudrow played an actress who had once been the star of her own sitcom, but was on the downside of that fame. She agrees to star in a reality show chronicling her return to TV as a supporting character in a new series. The tight-rope walk of sharing her true reality versus what we see under a veneer of desperation was expertly done. At times hysterical and other times heart-breaking, the show, once again, confirmed Kudrow’s acting chops in top form.

Here’s the full pilot episode:

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A new season of Lisa Kudrow’s “The Comeback” could be in the works

Deadline is reporting that talks are underway to possibly bring back a new season of Lisa Kudrow’s brilliant HBO series “The Comeback.”

HBO is in discussions with the series creators/executive producers Michael Partick King, who also served as director, and Lisa Kudrow, who toplined the show, about doing a new installment almost a decade after the first season. I hear it is being envisioned as a limited/event series.

“Comeback,” which debuted in June 2005, was a docu-style single-camera comedy starring Kudrow as washed-up sitcom actress Valerie Cherish, who gets a reality show documenting her attempt at a career comeback with a role on a new sitcom.

The series, whose cast included Malin Akerman, didn’t go beyond the 13-episode first season, which earned three Emmy nominations, including a lead actress nom for Kudrow and a directing nom for King.

While it didn’t get a lot of traction during its original run, Comeback quickly achieved cult status, with fans still buzzing about it.

Viewers are far more used to the style and pace of shows like “The Comeback” and Arrested Development now with a slew of series that also include another TV industry satire toplined by a former Friends star, Matt LeBlanc’s Showtime comedy Episodes.

The Comeback has been listed by many as one of the most undervalued series in the past decade.

I personally LOVED the show. The line Kudrow walked as “Valerie Cherish” was amazing as she straddled being an out of touch loser versus rolling with the obstacles thrown her way.

I agree with Deadline in that the show was probably ahead of it’s time.  But audiences will now be more open to the