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Celebrate this Friendship’s Day with Comedy Central’s Happiest Mutual Friend!
MUMBAI: Usually, there are 4 types of friends – The funny one, the fearless adventurer, the OCDish one and the IDGAF friend. Comedy Central has a friend who’s got all these 4 qualities and someone who is known for playing the most embarrassing pranks on his other life long friends. The meaning of his nickname is completely apt for his personality as he has made millions of people around the world happy.
Comedy Central will be a hosting a Facebook Live with the star of Impractical Jokers James Murray on Friday 3rd August at 6:30 PM to kickstart it’s Friendship’s Day celebrations.
Taking this a notch higher, Comedy Central will be airing episodes of ‘Impractical Jokers’ that are handpicked by James Murray on Sunday, 5th August, 10 AM onwards. The show revolves around 4 real-life best friends who love challenging each other to the most outrageous dares and stunts ever caught on hidden camera.
A delighted James Murray, said,“Impractical Jokers is all about friendship. There’s no one in the world I’d rather laugh with and get embarrassed by than my best friends of 28 years – Sal, Joey and Q. But no matter what they put me through, I would not have it any other way – they are my dearest friends. Our fans worldwide have become our friends as well. It makes me so happy to know that we have so many viewers in India. For me, there’s no better way than friendship’s day to connect with my new Indian friends and get to know them better. I cannot wait to visit India this Fall for my first time to celebrate Impractical Jokers and the Indian release of my book AWAKENED. Huge thanks to Comedy Central for making this Facebook Live happen!”
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Ellison takes his Paramount-Warner Bros case straight to theater owners
The Skydance chief goes to CinemaCon with promises and a skeptical crowd waiting
CALIFORNIA: David Ellison strode into a room packed with thousands of cinema owners and executives at CinemaCon in Las Vegas on Thursday and did something rather bold: he looked them in the eye and asked them to trust him.
The chief executive of Paramount Skydance vowed that his company would release a minimum of 30 films a year if regulators greenlight its proposed $110 billion acquisition of Warner Bros Discovery, a deal that has made theater owners deeply, and loudly, nervous.
“I wanted to look every single one of you in the eye and give you my word,” Ellison told the crowd. “Once we combine with Warner Bros, we are going to make a minimum of 30 films annually across both studios.”
It was a confident pitch. Whether it landed is another matter. Cinema operators have already called on regulators to block the deal, and scepticism in the room was hardly concealed.
Ellison pushed back by pointing to recent form. Paramount, born from the merger of Paramount Global and Skydance Media last August, plans to release 15 films this year, nearly double the eight it put out in 2025. Progress, he argued, was already underway.
He also threw theater owners a bone they have long been chasing: all films, he pledged, would run exclusively in cinemas for a minimum of 45 days, drawing applause from a crowd that has spent years fighting for exactly that commitment across the industry.
“People can speculate all they want,” Ellison said, “but I am standing here today telling you personally that you can count on our complete commitment. And we’ll show you we mean it.”
Fine words. The regulators, however, will have the last one.
