The Comeback

68
Metascore
2005-2026
3 seasons
HBO
Comedy
TV-MA

Ten years ago she was TV's "It" girl. Now desperate to revive her career, actress Valerie Cherish (Lisa Kudrow) agrees to star in a reality show that follows her efforts to land a part in a new sitcom.

68
Metascore
2005-2026
3 seasons
HBO
Comedy
TV-MA

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He Plays: Mickey Deane, personal hairdresser and trusty confidant to has-been actress Valerie Cherish (Lisa Kudrow) on the HBO comedy The Comeback. "Mickey isn't just a great friend to Valerie," Robert Michael Morris says. "He's much more like a mother — and he has the patience of a saint." Make that a Saint Bernard. "We should all have a pal who is as unconditionally loyal," he adds. "Fans always say, 'Valerie is so mean to Mickey!' but he doesn't see it that way. He would walk through fire for her."

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Valerie Cherish is forever seeking the most flattering light — from the cameras of the hapless reality-TV crew that surround her, from the two-faced Hollywood cronies who mock her, from life itself — and the tragic comedy of HBO's The Comeback, making its own most-welcome comeback (Sunday, 10/9c) after nearly a decade off the air, is that she so rarely finds it...

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She never took it personally. Nearly a decade has passed since HBO canceled Lisa Kudrow's Emmy-nominated, cult-hit comedy The Comeback — a prickly satire on Hollywood neediness — but now, in a startling mea culpa, the cable channel is reviving the series for another season. Kudrow calls the rebirth "crazy and miraculous," but you won't find her sitting around feeling vindicated.

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Each week, executive editor Adam Bryant satisfies your need for TV scoop. Please send all questions to megascoop@tvguide.com.Got any new Bones scoop? — HeatherThose of you hankering for another Bones wedding might want to keep those expectations in check. Although the subject of a marriage between Cam and Arastoo comes up again in the Nov. 6 episode, one member of the couple isn't exactly ready for a new level of commitment. Worse, that fight spills into the Jeffersonian when Arastoo's dissertation proposal is rejected by Dr. Brennan and Cam tries to change Brennan's mind. Unfortunately for Cam, she'll quickly learn that opening her mouth has only made things worse between her and Arastoo.I don't understand why Rick would let Glen and Maggie leave with Abraham on the The Walking Dead. Shouldn't they all stick together? — ValerieHaven't you learned not to question Rick?!  Actually, Andrew Lincoln agrees that Rick's choice is cause for concern....

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Mark your calendars: The Comeback, The Newsroom and Getting On will all return on Sunday, Nov. 9, HBO announced Tuesday.

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Despite its loyal fan base and critical adoration, series co-creator Michael Patrick King and co-creator and star Lisa Kudrow admit they used to have a hard time talking about their short-lived 2005 HBO satire The Comeback for many years. "[It was] too much of an ...

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Why yes, you can call it a comeback. After weeks of rumors, HBO finally announced on Monday that it has ordered a new season of The Comeback, the 2005 comedy starring Friends vet Lisa Kudrow and created by Sex and the City'sMichael Patrick King. Six new episodes of the series will premiere this fall...

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HBO Eyes Resurrection of Lisa Kudrow's The Comeback

Lisa Kudrow's The Comeback might make a ... comeback. HBO is reportedly in discussions with series creators Michael Patrick King and Kudrow about resurrecting the comedy for a second season...

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Question: What were your Top 10 favorite shows of 2005, and why?Answer: I thought you'd never ask, Jackie! 1. Battlestar Galactica: I haven't been this excited about a TV show since... ever. And if that makes me a sci-fi geek, so be it. (But please, no wedgies.)2. Deadwood: Can't understand what they're sayin' half the time, but I sure like how they're sayin' it.3. Lost: Season 2 not only exceeded my expectations, it upended them. 4. Grey's Anatomy: Makes me want to be a doctor, if only to hang out with these people. And have lots of sex.5. Veronica Mars: If this is what happens when UPN meddles with a show, I say keep those notes c

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SCOOPAPALOOZA

Another bitch is about to get welcomed to The O.C. As reported exclusively in today's Ask Ausiello, The Comeback's Willa Holland has been tapped to play Marissa's MIA younger sis, Kaitlin. She'll surface in early '06 and, according to Fox, "wreak havoc, turn heads and introduce a darker, edgier element" to the show. Also in today's AA: Major Gilmore Girls spoilage, breaking casting news on House and Will & Grace and another clue about the big Las Vegas death.

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Could you please tell your ...

Question: Could you please tell your readers to sign the petition to resurrect The Comeback?Answer: Consider it told. That'll be $2, please.

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Question: What are the chances HBO's The Comeback will come back? It's so funny! Canceled? "I don't wanna see that!"Answer: Sorry, but I think the show is as dead as Valerie's career. It didn't help that the season finale was seen by fewer than a million people. Heck, Carnivàle pulled in more than 2 million and it got put down, but don't get me started on that.

Wed, Sep 14, 2005

Am I allowed to quote other magazine's...

Am I allowed to quote other magazine's quotes about The Comeback? I hope so. I've been reading some really great stuff in the last few weeks. People recently wrote a "love note for TV's most misunderstood show" and called it a "brilliant high-wire act" and "acid Hollywood satire — I hope it comes back." Entertainment Weekly wrote: "Love it or hate it, the HBO comedy (in fact, a tragedy) features Lisa Kudrow giving one of the best performances of the year." After reading all of this, I pictured Michael Jackson coming toward me singing "You Are Not Alone…." And I'm so glad I'm not alone. I keep running into more and more people who love it and say the catchphrase. I just told a fellow fan that sometimes I think I am Valerie Cherish. Like when I'm at the gym and that same out-of-shape man walks around the locker room completely naked, I become Valerie and think to myself "I don't need to see that!" But I'm glad I did see

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Well, it was about time! I was...

Well, it was about time! I was ecstatic when Valerie triumphantly punched Paulie G in the stomach after his being so mean to her all this time. I literally screamed "Yes!" And how classic that she was dressed as a cupcake when she did it. The whole sequence of Valerie punching Paulie G, him puking and then her puking after seeing him puke was just hilarious — so funny I had to rewind twice. Other moments I enjoyed:- Valerie first telling Jane "That was not good" after Jane told Tom and Paulie G that Valerie needed more lines and, after Jane got her way, Valerie saying "Good job, Jane. Well done!"- Valerie asking Jimmy Burrows, the master of physical comedy, for some tips on her pratfall. "You're a giant cupcake. Fall backward — it's always funnier."- Valerie practicing her pratfall in her bedroom over and over again and her hubby Mark, of course, walking in.- Valerie singing "I Will Survive" before and after being told she was sounding "too vanilla"

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Did you see last night's premiere of HBO's The Comeback (Sundays, 9:30 pm/ET)? This certainly looks suspicious.Valerie Cherish starred in a hit sitcom during the '90s. Lisa Kudrow starred in a hit sitcom during the '90s. Valerie Cherish is returning to TV with a new comedy. Lisa Kudrow is returning to TV with a new comedy. Valerie Cherish is seriously self-absorbed and desperately career-obsessed. Lisa Kudrow is... "OK, there's no element of her life that collides with mine," says a smiling Kudrow, 41, taking a break from filming. "I don't worry about what she worries about. Some of the Valerie stuff comes from observations of ego-based, needy people, not just actors. People who have everything &#151 great spouse, great children, no financial needs — but can't feel alive unless they have drama." After Friends finished its 10-year run last spring, Kudrow seemed ready to spend more time at home with husband Michel Stern and

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