Spade Ready to Dig Hollywood

Tue., Jun. 21, 2005 9:45 PM PDT by

David Spade may be used to dispensing "no's" in his new credit card commercials, but this week, he got a big "yes" from Comedy Central.

The cable network has ordered 13 episodes of The Showbiz Show with David Spade, featuring the snarkmeister building on shtick perfected years ago during his "Hollywood Minute" segments on Saturday Night Live.

Created by Spade and writing partner Hugh Fink, The Showbiz Show will bow this September and be similar in theme to Comedy Central's Daily Show and E!'s own The Soup. (E! Online is part of E! Networks.)

"It will be a little bit of "Weekend Update," a little bit of The Daily Show and a little bit of Entertainment Tonight," Spade told the New York Daily News.

"There's so much that's funny in all these magazines and shows that there needs to be a different point of view," the former Just Shoot Me star tells the Associated Press. "I'm not saying it has to be mean--mean jokes aren't always the funniest. I think it's just making fun and...kind of doing what people are thinking for real."

The Showbiz Show With David Spade will have a rotating cast of special correspondents, critics and commentators, and mix goofy in-the-field segments with actual video footage, ? la The Daily Show.

The Showbiz Show was one of several celebrity-skewering faux news programs Comedy Central had in development. Spade had originally signed on only as a producer, with comic Greg Giraldo hosting the pilot, which was shot last year under the title Gone Hollywood. But when ABC canceled 8 Simple Rules and Spade became available, Comedy Central persuaded him to serve as onair ringleader.

The show was originally conceived as a daily program, but will premiere as a half-hour weekly series.

Aside from his TV work, Spade will make cameos in several films due out in 2006, including Adam Sandler's The Benchwarmers.

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