Blowing Smoke: A movie about poker, cigars, women, and getting screwed

Thursday
February 21, 2008

A guy who's friends with somebody I sort-of-know just became famous, almost

Male Jim Treacher | Category: Comedy • TV • Web

Which is to say, DC Pierson is an online acquaintance of mine who's in a great sketch comedy group called Derrick, along with a guy by the name of Donald Glover. I've said it before and I'll say it again, Glover is going to be a star. If you don't believe me, watch this:

I don't know exactly what "It" is, but he's got it.

It looked like Lorne Michaels thought so too, at least according to the Chicago Sun-Times, which reported yesterday that Glover was in the running to play Obama when Saturday Night Live comes back this week. But DC himself told New York magazine it's not true: "It's like, someone started a rumor online, basically, and a bunch of people picked it up."

Assuming DC's telling the truth, that's a shame. Still, it's pretty cool to have to deny to the press that you've been hired on SNL!

Check out Derrick. They are funny.


Trackback URL for this entry:
http://blowingsmokethemovie.com/cgi-bin/mt-app/mt-tb.cgi/2343
Comments