Skip to main content
  1. Home
  2. Entertainment
  3. News

Jamie Foxx and Jay Pharoah are ‘White Famous’ in new Showtime series trailer

By

Fame is not the same for everyone, and Showtime has a new show intended to dramatize this. On August 8, the premium cable network announced it will be debuting White Famous — a new series starring Jamie Foxx and Saturday Night Live alum Jay Pharaoh — this fall.

White Famous is not too far of a departure from the two comedians’ real lives. In the upcoming series, Pharaoh plays an up-and-coming comedian named Floyd Mooney dealing with stardom and crossing over into being “white famous.” Foxx plays himself and meets up with Floyd after Pharaoh’s character was advised to meet with Foxx by Stu Beggs, played by Silicon Valley‘s Stephen Tobolowsky. Foxx and Pharaoh share a hilariously awkward exchange in the show’s first trailer when Pharaoh’s character has a sit down with the Ray actor while Foxx is wearing skirt.

Recommended Videos

The show was ordered by Showtime in January  with Californication creator Tom Kapinos serving as writer, executive producer, and showrunner.  The first season will consist of 10 episodes, and will be executive produced by Foxx. The series is based on real experiences Foxx has had on his rise to fame. “I came up from standup comedy, so to be able to share that aspect of my life on screen with a project like ‘White Famous’ is incredibly exciting,” Foxx said in a statement.

Related

This will be Showtime’s second series about standup comedy that was executive produced by a comedian in the past year. Earlier this year, the Jim Carrey executive-produced I’m Dying Up Here debuted. The comedy is centered on a group of standup comedians trying to make it in 1970s Los Angeles. If Foxx is smart, he’ll make sure White Famous has a killer soundtrack like I’m Dying Up Here’s. 

Showtime also announced the release date for new comedy SMILF, starring Mr. Robot‘s Frankie Shaw. Rosie O’Donnell will also star in the show, marking the first-ever recurring TV role for the 55-year-old-actress in her career. The show will be focused on Bridgette, played by Shaw, attempting to juggle her career with a dating life and her role as a single mother. SMILF is set to air on Showtime on Sunday, November 5 at 10 p.m.

White Famous is scheduled to debut on Showtime on Sunday, October 15  at 10 p.m. ET, following an episode from Ray Donovan‘s new season. It will move to 10:30 p.m. once SMILF debuts.

Editors' Recommendations

Topics
Keith Nelson Jr.
Keith Nelson Jr.
Former Digital Trends Contributor
Keith Nelson Jr is a music/tech journalist making big pictures by connecting dots. Born and raised in Brooklyn, NY he…
Big Hero 6’s breakout star, Baymax, returns in a new trailer
Big Hero 6's Baymax returns in a new series.

Casual fans may not realize it, but Baymax is a Marvel superhero. However, Disney took a number of creative liberties when they adapted Baymax and his team into the 2014 feature film, Big Hero 6. In this continuity, Baymax is an inflatable health care robot created by Tadashi Hamada. Upon Tadashi's apparent death, his younger brother, Hiro Hamada, reprogrammed Baymax so he could become a superhero. But now, it's time for Baymax to live up to his original programming.

Next month, Disney+ will debut Baymax! -- a new original series that spins out of Big Hero 6. If you're expecting superhero fights, you won't find them here. In the new trailer for the series, Hiro is surprised when Baymax strikes out on his own to heal the people of San Fransokyo ... whether they want his help or not! The lush CGI animation of the trailer is also very impressive.

Read more
The Umbrella Academy season 3 trailer twists the timeline
The cast of The Umbrella Academy.

During the second season of The Umbrella Academy, the Hargreeves family was stuck in the past as they tried to avert an apocalypse. They succeeded, but that success had a big price. Upon their return to the present, the Hargreeves clan discovered that they no longer belonged to the new timeline. The Umbrella Academy itself no longer exists, because Sir Reginald Hargreeves adopted an almost entirely different family of superheroes: The Sparrows.

In the new trailer for The Umbrella Academy season 3, Sir Reginald is still alive, but he has no idea who the original Hargreeves siblings are. And the Sparrows don't exactly hold back on their cross-temporal siblings. A superhero fight was always inevitable, but it doesn't solve the key problem. The new timeline is violently unstable, and it will collapse in just a few days.

Read more
New Bros trailer highlights the LGBT romance and comedy
Bobby and Aaron looking confused and squinting their eyes in the 2022 film Bros.

Have you ever noticed that there's not an abundance of LGBT romantic comedies? Oh, to be sure, there have almost always been gay best friends, as well as gay and lesbian relationships among the side characters. But for films with LGBT leading characters, only the independent movie studios went for those stories ... until now. Billy Eichner took it upon himself to change that trend, and it's happening with Bros, a new LGBT romantic comedy that he co-wrote with director Nicholas Stoller, with the full backing of producer Judd Apatow and Universal Pictures.

Bros | Official NSFW Trailer [HD]

Read more