''The Daily Show'' apparently is ready to fill the void left after the University of Illinois retired the mascot earlier this year.
April 26, 2007 (Press Release) --
A crew from the popular Comedy Central fake-news program was on campus Monday, filming ''correspondent'' Aasif Mandvi in a bar.
Mandvi, wearing a suit and blue and orange face paint, drank fake shots with a group of students, chanted the Illinois fight song ''Oskee Wow Wow'' and staggered with the help of students -- faking again -- onto the sidewalk outside Brothers Bar.
A spokeswoman for ''The Daily Show'' said Wednesday it hasn't determined when the segment will run.
After Smith herself died in February, screenings of "Illegal Aliens" were canceled, but the filmmakers eventually went ahead with plans to release the movie through MTI Home Video, which already had negotiated for the rights, Giancola said.
Smith's share of the profits will go to her infant daughter, Dannielynn, Giancola said.
"My intention was to distance the movie as much as possible from her death so people could laugh," Giancola said. "That was her intention. That was Daniel's intention. To get people to laugh. Some people are making the wrong assumption that we are trying to capitalize off her death. But she and Daniel were investors in the movie, and we're basically just fulfilling hers and Daniel's wishes."
Source: http://movies.yahoo.com
Mandvi, wearing a suit and blue and orange face paint, drank fake shots with a group of students, chanted the Illinois fight song ''Oskee Wow Wow'' and staggered with the help of students -- faking again -- onto the sidewalk outside Brothers Bar.
A spokeswoman for ''The Daily Show'' said Wednesday it hasn't determined when the segment will run.
After Smith herself died in February, screenings of "Illegal Aliens" were canceled, but the filmmakers eventually went ahead with plans to release the movie through MTI Home Video, which already had negotiated for the rights, Giancola said.
Smith's share of the profits will go to her infant daughter, Dannielynn, Giancola said.
"My intention was to distance the movie as much as possible from her death so people could laugh," Giancola said. "That was her intention. That was Daniel's intention. To get people to laugh. Some people are making the wrong assumption that we are trying to capitalize off her death. But she and Daniel were investors in the movie, and we're basically just fulfilling hers and Daniel's wishes."
Source: http://movies.yahoo.com
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