LA Times Profiles Dave Thomas

The Los Angeles Times Sunday edition included a fun profile of Dave Thomas. Dave talked about comedy, Ashton Kutcher, celebrities, Popzilla, SCTV and Animax.

The Man Show

Animax Entertainment's Dave Thomas is featured in Adam Carolla's latest podcast from JackFM here in Los Angeles. The subjects ranged from Godspell to Palm Springs to falling asleep on Letterman (which could be risky nowadays) to an update on Popzilla.

SCTV Reunion!

This December 2009, Second City is going to be celebrating it's 50th Anniversary. As part of the slate of shows, panels, and activities, there is going to be a reunion of the cast of SCTV. Animax Entertainment's Dave Thomas will be live on stage along with appearances by Joe Flaherty, Eugene Levy, Andrea Martin, Catherine O'Hara, Harold Ramis, and Martin Short.

It's going to be a total comedy geekfest with the other celebs partaking in the festivities like Jim Belushi, Jeff Garlin, Alan Arkin, Dan Castellaneta, Tim Meadows, Jack McBrayer, Tim Kazurinsky, Richard Kind, Fred Willard, Dick Schaal, Scott Adsit, David Rasche, David Steinberg, Robert Klein and many others. Invitations have also been sent to other powerful Second City alumni, including Tina Fey, Stephen Colbert, Rachel Dratch, Steve Carell, Mike Myers, Bill Murray and Dan Aykroyd.

"Strange Brew" Turns 25

Strange Brew turns 25 today - in the US at least. The film was released on August 26, 1983. For those of you living under a rock, The Adventures of Bob & Doug McKenzie: Strange Brew starred the SCTV characters Bob & Doug McKenzie, played by Dave Thomas and Rick Moranis, who also served as co-directors. The venerable Max von Sydow co-stars.

And if you haven't heard by now, Bob & Doug are soon to return to a small screen near you in the aptly named TV show Bob & Doug - this time in animated form. The first season of episodes is in production now with an early 2009 air date.

Animax "in" TV Guide

It was recently brought to our attention that Animax Entertainment has had a 6 Degrees of Separation kind of relationship with TV Guide. The Ashley Tisdale front page online video is only the most recent example.

Then a bunch of Dave Thomas, our Executive Creative Director, as well. Even some available for sale on ebay and here !