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The Comeback

Year:

2005

Duration:

USA:30 min

Genres:

Comedy

IMDB rate:

8.1

Awards:

Nominated for 3 Primetime Emmys. Another 2 wins & 3 nominations

Details

Country: USA

Release Date: 2005-06-05

Filming Locations: Warner Brothers Burbank Studios - 4000 Warner Boulevard, Burbank, California, USA

Cast

Actor

Character

Malin Akerman

The Comeback

Hannah Leder

Anna Belknap

Willa Holland

Colby Paul

Nikki McKenzie

Asif Ali

Lisa Kudrow

Valerie Cherish

Lance Barber

Paulie G.

Robert Michael Morris

Mickey Deane (21 episodes, 2005-2014)

Laura Silverman

Jane Benson

Damian Young

Mark Berman

Robert Bagnell

Tom Peterman

Kellan Lutz

Chris MacNess

Jason Olive

Jesse Wood

Kimberly Kevon Williams

Shayne Thomas (13 episodes, 2005)

Vanessa Marano

Franchesca

JT Alexander

Actor (12 episodes, 2005)

Lillian Hurst

Esperanza (11 episodes, 2005-2014)

Dan Bucatinsky

Billy Stanton

Bayne Gibby

Gigi (9 episodes, 2005-2014)

Did you know?

Trivia

The Osbournes (2002), The Anna Nicole Show (2002) and the 2nd season of The Amazing Race (2001) were the basic inspirations for the humiliating level they were heading to achieve for the character. Also, they stated that only after watching a raw footage of The Osbournes (2002) that they discovered how boring the raw material is, that's why they came up with the idea of the episodes to be "raw footages".

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Character Jimmy says to Valerie that the real reason which "I'm It" was canceled was because they hired a monkey to star its last season. Despite its success "Friends" also had a monkey named Marcel.

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Although rumor has it that the show was canceled because of the low ratings, on several interviews (EmmyTVledgends.org, The Writers Guild Foundation and Kevin Pollack's Chat Show) Michael Patrick and Lisa Kudrow have stated that they never knew the real reasons.

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Quotes

Valerie Cherish: Well, this is it, this is my It-wall. Used to be bigger, but then I got married and you know, you have to share. So... Um, let me show you this. *This* here is my people's choice award, that I got for I'm It. And it means a lot to me because it's from the people. So... and right here is my Leno. There it is.

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Valerie Cherish: You see puppies, I see Korean barbeque!

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Valerie Cherish: *This* is my comeback. All right, let me take that again... So *this* is my come - Jane, I'm sorry, the, um, camera keeps moving in and out.

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Faq

What are the names of Valerie's old and new sitcom?

Valierie's old sitcom was called "I'm It" which ran for four season and her new running sitcom is called "Room and Bored," which started out pretty badly.

Why are there so many people who are mean to Valerie?

This is how most of show business is. Lisa Kudrow deserves a lot of credit here, because she manged her character in a very interesting approach: Ms. Cherish is all about being famous again but she's just so sweet in her own way and as the series goes along you can actually notice she is heartfelt and deep. So, maybe people took Valerie as a big sell out. But the thing is, fame is a fleeting thing and getting it back is very difficult. Valerie has a tremendous ego and she's nice to a fault and doesn't fight back very well. She refuses to give up. Her antagonists know this and most of the time take advantage of her.

Why Didn't Paulie G. badmouth Valerie in that last episode?

There is never one clear answer, but the best possible reason is that the Paulie is smart and realizes an even better way to hurt Valerie would be to give the interview, but fake it and be really nice. He would never give her the satisfaction of giving her show what it needed.

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