'Your Highness' star Danny McBride and wife are expecting a baby

"Your Highness" star and co-writer Danny McBride has announced that he and his wife Gia Ruiz are expecting a baby.

"I got married last October," McBride said on Conan O'Brien's show Wednesday. "I wasted zero time. Three months later I knocked my wife up. It happened very quickly."

That would make his wife about three months pregnant, according to super-rudimentary Ministry calculations.

"I had never impregnated anyone before," the 34-year-old actor quipped. "So I didn't really realize that what they teach you in health class is actually true. That's all it takes."

When Coco asked the sex of the baby, the "Eastbound and Down" star suggested in his own humorous way that it's a boy.

"We've been told that it's either a three-legged girl or ... we either have a marathon runner or a porn star," he joked.

When this Ministry writer offered McBride congratulations during a Hero Complex live chat Thursday, he joked, "Nardine! Thank you ... we will name the baby after you." (This Ministry writer is now considering alternate careers as a marathon runner or porn star.)

McBride, who plays retired baseball player-turned high school coach Kenny Powers in the HBO comedy "Eastbound and Down," stars in the upcoming stoner comedy with James Franco and Natalie Portman. It is directed by McBride's film school buddy David Gordon Green who with McBride came up with the concept for the film.

"The idea for the movie honestly started out as a joke," he told O'Brien. "We would come up with just titles of movies and we'd quickly figure out what the movie was and if the movie wasn't good you had a drink or something like that. And 'Your Highness' was born that way ... It's about a prince who gets stoned and fights dragons. And 10 years later we have Natalie Portman and James Franco -- Oscar-nominated and winning actors."

Click the pic for more photos from the premiere.

Green said the movie was influenced by various '80s genre films including "Barbarian Queen," "Hawk the Slayer," "Labyrinth," "The Sword and the Sorcerer" "Fire and Ice" and "Barbarians" among others.

But McBride told O'Brien he had a different idea for the film.

"We could make this look like it was 'Lord of the Rings' and make it look beautiful but at the end of the day it's just one giant ... joke."

"Your Highness" hits theaters Friday.

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-- Nardine Saad
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Photo: Danny McBride and James Franco pose together on the red carpet at the "Your Highness" premiere Friday. Credit: Alberto E. Rodriguez / Getty Images

Exclusive: Sarah Silverman, Conan O'Brien, David Arquette tapped for 'Hollywood Bites Back!'

Sarah Silverman is known for her funny bark, but come April she'll be using her bite. So will Conan O'Brien, David Arquette, Elizabeth Banks and B.J. Novak.

Those stars will align April 16 at L.A.'s Nokia Theatre for "Hollywood Bites Back!," an evening of laughs to support the Comedy Fights Malaria campaign, launched in October 2010 to address the devastating effects of the disease worldwide.

"I am honored to have been asked to take part in this important event," O'Brien said in a statement.
"I just hope that we can find a better cure for malaria than comedy."

The organization launched with a series of PSAs starring the likes of Banks, John Mayer, Lake Bell and Orlando Bloom, aiming to raise funds for malaria treatment and prevention in regions including Africa, which saw about 781,000 deaths last year from malaria, mostly among children under 5.

For comedy fans in Los Angeles, or those looking to swat at malaria, tickets for the show are available through Ticketmaster. 

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-- Matt Donnelly
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Photos, from left: Sarah Silverman Conan O'Brien and David Arquette. Credits, from left: Jason Merritt / Getty Images; Jason Merritt / Getty Images; Michael Buckner / Getty Images

Jon Cryer goes on Charlie Sheen troll patrol on 'Conan'

 

Everyone has a breaking point, and for the always-classy Jon Cryer, that point came Thursday night on Conan O'Brien's show, in a statement that included brutal truth and even some mild profanity. 

In an interview Tuesday, Cryer had been the subject of a verbal attack by Charlie Sheen, his former "Two and a Half Men" costar.

"He's a turncoat, a traitor, a troll. Clearly, he's a troll," Sheen said on the radio, slamming a costar who despite some ripples caused by a fake Twitter account in his name had yet to breathe a bad word about the Vatican assassin warlock's escapades, recent or otherwise.

On "Conan," Cryer let it all out. 

Sheen had apologized Wednesday, saying he was "in a mood" when he hurled those insults -- but now that Cryer has said his piece, we wonder if the apology wasn't a bit premature.

Hold it together, Jon. It gets better.

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-- Christie D'Zurilla

Photo: Jon Cryer at People magazine's Emmy Awards party in  2009. Credit: Kirk McKoy / Los Angeles Times.

Conan O'Brien gives Kim Kardashian's song the Angry Birds treatment [Video]

We love you, Conan O'Brien -- not only for referencing our beloved Angry Birds, but also for voicing the almost universal sentiment regarding Kim Kardashian's debut song, the dance track "JAM (Turn It Up)."

On Monday's "Conan," the comic used a life-size Angry Birds setup (the lovable app in which a slingshot and some fired-up fowl try to destroy egg-stealing green pigs) to destroy a boombox blasting the she-did-it-for-charity Kardashian dance track.

"The only way to make this horrible song stop is by using the Angry Birds to destroy it, and the sooner the better," he said.

See it to believe it, below, and share it with a friend. And for those who would try this at home, know that Mattel has an offline version of the game coming out in May.

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-- Matt Donnelly
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Photo: Mattel's Angry Birds board game, shown in January at the 2011 International Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, will be available for $14.99 starting in May. Credit: Robyn Beck / AFP / Getty Images

Conan O'Brien does Tom Hanks a favor at 'An Unforgettable Evening'

It's a very Hollywood favor to ask, but still sweet that Tom Hanks got Conan O'Brien to do him a solid by hosting an annual charity event.

The Entertainment Industry Foundation's "An Unforgettable Evening" went down Thursday in Beverly Hills, where Hanks' bride Rita Wilson, along with event chairs Kate Capshaw and Steven Spielberg, welcomed guests to raise cash for EIF's Women's Cancer Research Fund.

"Thank you for doing this Conan, and giving our families some time off," Wilson said, noting that Hanks has hosted the bash for some five years.

Conan admitted he was hesitant to host anything in the last year after his NBC disaster, but was persuaded by Hanks and Wilson to take the gig. (Click here or click the pic for more photos from the event.)

More persuasion had been required when previously announced singer Rihanna, slated to perform five songs at the bash, dropped out due to the flu. "Forget You" singer Cee Lo Green stepped up at the last minute for a few numbers at the Beverly Wilshire Hotel.

Honorees included Annette Bening, nabbing the organization's Nat King Cole Award, and comedian Martin Short, who took the courage award on behalf of his wife Nancy Dolman, who died in August.

In a collected but touching speech, he commended Nancy for her optimism and unending love.

"As my hilarious wife always said, 'It is better to have loved a Short than never to have loved a Tall.'"

Other attendees included Tobey Maguire and Jen Meyer, Leona Lewis, Kirk and Anne Douglas, Buzz Aldrin, Rosanna Arquette and Billy Crystal.

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-- Matt Donnelly
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Photo: Martin Short, left, and Conan O'Brien, who hosted "An Unforgettable Evening" event benefiting women's cancer research. Short accepted the 2011 courage award on behalf of his wife, who died of cancer in 2010. Credit: Chris Pizzello / Associated Press

Wait, wasn't Jon Cryer *joking* about Charlie Sheen on Conan?

Jon Cryer stopped by Conan O’Brien’s show Wednesday night to chat about his "Two and a Half Men" costar Charlie Sheen. And given Thursday's news about Sheen being taken to the hospital in the early hours, we wonder what he might have known that he wasn't spilling. 

"I'm checking TMZ, as I do every day, to check if I have to go to work at all," Cryer quipped.

O'Brien, whose talk show shares the Warner Bros. lot with Cryer's CBS comedy, cut to the chase to ask about the pesky cameras he sees stalking Sheen whenever the bad boy goes on a bender. And Cryer, the typically mum Emmy winner, took the opportunity to poke fun at his costar's recent run of car troubles.

"I said, 'How ya doing, man?' and he said, 'I'm doing OK, except that somebody stole my car and ran it off a cliff last night,'" Cryer said, regarding their morning-after chat.

"And normally you would not believe that from somebody. But from Charlie Sheen: You believe that because that happened to him. Twice!"

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Seth Rogen is so engaged it's making him sick

 

Seth Rogen is engaged to be married. Unfortunately, "The Green Hornet" actor is also suffering from a serious illness, treatable only by certain doctors in California.

"I have a very specific ailment," Rogen said Monday night on "Conan." "It's called, 'I ain't got no weed on me right now.'" Fortunately, he said, Prop. 19 or not, the weed doctor had just the prescription for that.

Rogen, Conan O'Brien's first interview on TBS, shared more than enough details about his proposal to longtime girlfriend Lauren Miller -- in their closet, her naked from the waist up, him feeling like he was in possession of a shipment of heroin.

"I didn't picture it like this," Rogen said, "and I know she didn't picture it like this."

The video's above, but please realize before you hit "play" that TBS' censors are a bit looser than NBC's were. You may be stuck with a mental picture you can never forget.

-- Christie D'Zurilla

Photo: Seth Rogen in September 2010. Credit: Kevin Mazur/ABC via Getty Images

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Conan O'Brien debuts on TBS, for 'people who can't afford HBO'

 

Conan O'Brien debuted his "second annual first show" Monday night on TBS, riffing off his unceremonious departure from NBC and the "much less" he says he's making doing "Conan" on basic cable.

So, all of you "people who can't afford HBO" who also couldn't find TBS Monday night, pull up a beverage of your choice -- remember, it's still morning, so the boss would probably smile on, you know, coffee -- and mainline a Team Coco fix. The cold opening to the show is embedded above, and his first monologue is below.

By the way, a lot has happened since Conan went off the air, and unlike Jay Leno did when his new show launched, the redhead covers all the old stuff in one fell swoop, instead of pretending folks hadn't heard any jokes since his last show aired.

-- Christie D'Zurilla

 

 

 

 

 

George Lopez on late night with Conan, golf and, yes, 'The Smurfs'

Two of the biggest celeb sagas to play out over recent months share common threads: betrayal, heroes and villains, major crisis management to preserve brands and legacies, and, finally, George Lopez.

Indeed, the long-working Latino comic seems caught between the anointing of Conan O'Brien as his late-night TBS lead-in and the marital meltdown of his close pal and creative collaborator Sandra Bullock.

There's the cliche that no bad press exists as long as they spell your name right, but in Lopez's case, the secondary spotlight should call attention to what makes him worthy on his own.

"When you're a fighter, you want to win," Lopez said Wednesday, calling in as part of a long to-do list consisting of prep for his daily program "Lopez Tonight," his varied charitable efforts and lending his voice for any number of animated box-office giants.

"With Conan coming in November, we get along and we want to win. I think it's going to be a compelling block of television. He's going to help me."

Not that he needed much -- Lopez's audience hovers around the 1-million mark, consisting largely ...

George Lopez puts out the welcome mat for Conan O'Brien

George Lopez welcomed Conan O'Brien to the neighborhood on Monday night, saying he is "completely, 100% on board" with his new 11 p.m. lead-in on TBS and putting his own spin on the news. 

"I talked to Conan on Wednesday and I talked to him last night, and I said, 'I welcome you into my deep loving embrace.' Then I said, 'Let's take the party and make it bigger and take it into the next generation of late-night TV.' ... Everybody's heard of 'I'm with Coco,' but now everybody can 'Go LoCo.'"

Guest Chris Rock, who was promoting his new film "Death at a Funeral," noticed that in the process Lopez would be bumped to midnight.

"So you're gonna move for the white man, huh? I hope he appreciates this," Rock said.

"I think the white man does appreciate it very much," Lopez replied.

"You don't gotta clean a park or nothing, right?"

"No," Lopez said, "and I get to go to work an hour later. That's a Latino dream come true."

TBS allows George a lot of late-night leeway. Let's see what Conan can do with that freedom, shall we?

-- Christie D'Zurilla

Photo: Chris Rock arrives at the premiere of "Death at a Funeral" in Los Angeles on Monday. Credit: Matt Sayles / Associated Press

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