Hollywood’s Funny Men rule on 2nd Avenue’s Third Row
Who can resist a funny man? They lighten the mood, brighten up any situation and are the only ones who can put a smile back on your face after a tough day. This September join 2nd Avenue as they celebrate four of Hollywood’s top Funny men every Saturday night at 9PM on Third Row.
Kicking off the laugh fest on September 4 is Man of the Year starring Robin Williams as Tom Dobbs, a comedic host of a news satire show. As a joke Dobbs decides to run for the presidency of the United States. But much to his and many others surprise he wins the election and is named the new president. But what Dobbs doesn’t know is that he won due to a computerized voting machine malfunction. When an employee from the voting machine company, Eleanor Green (Laura Linney) discovers the anomaly, it’s up to her to decide if she will reveal the truth.
On September 11 get ready for the most stylishly hilarious road trip ever filmed when drag queens, Noxeema (Wesley Snipes) and Vida (Patrick Swayze), and newbie drag queen Chi-Chi (John Leguizamo) travel across America to make it to the Drag Queen finals in Hollywood in To Wong Foo. Riding a cheap and beat-up Cadillac it’s not long before the queens are stranded in the middle of nowhere and they have to use their wits and endless supply of dazzling costumes to get by.
Chuckle your Saturday night away with the zany Hoover family in Little Miss Sunshine on September 18. Putting behind them their differences, the members of the Hoover family come together for youngest member Olive, who wants to join the finals of a beauty pageant. Traveling across the country in their mini van, will they make it to the Little Miss Sunshine pageant or will their differences get the better of them? Stars Abigail Breslin, Greg Kinnear, Toni Collette and Steve Carell.
Round off the month on September 20 with the side-splitting English comedy The Full Monty. With steel not in demand, the city of Sheffield has fallen into ruin with steel factories closing and thousands loosing their jobs. Six unemployed steel workers, depressed, bored and looking for money decide to come up with a “get rich quick scheme.” Inspired by the Chippendale’s dancers, the men form a striptease act that not only lifts their spirits but the towns too. Stars Robert Carlyle and Tom Wilkinson.
Third Row airs every Saturday at 9PM with a replay Sundays at 3PM on 2nd Avenue.