Nuts Entertainment
| Nuts Entertainment | |
|---|---|
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| Created by | GMA Network |
| Starring |
Joey De Leon Janno Gibbs Anjo Yllana, et al. |
| Country of origin | Philippines |
| No. of episodes | 608 |
| Production | |
| Running time | 45 minutes |
| Release | |
| Original network | GMA Network |
| Picture format | 480i SDTV |
| Original release | April 23, 2003 – December 27, 2008 |
| External links | |
| Website | |
Nuts Entertainment (new full title: Nuts Entertainment It's Playtime) was a sketch comedy television show in the Philippines that aired every Saturday evening by GMA Network (replacing Obra to Thursdays). It was part of the network's GMA KiliTV block. The show originally aired every Wednesdays.
The show was very popular for its unscripted, spontaneous and off-the-wall party games between two teams of cast members with celebrity guests and audience participants. The party games proved so popular that the sketch comedies were completely dropped to give more time to them. The games have even evolved from being just played in the studio to popular tourist resorts around the country and done in a sort of Amazing Race fashion. Other popular segments of the show were Balakubak: Balita At Kuwentong Bakla, a no-holds-barred celebrity hotseat interview portion, and Jak en Poy, a pie-throwing and water balloon battle between two teams of ordinary citizens led by Cookie and Belli based on the outcome of the game of Rock Paper Scissors.
In December 2008, the show had a Christmas holiday drama special called "Nut's Entertainment Holiday Drama Special", with included the Nuts casts for their acting and dramatic skills instead of comedy laughs. The episode was the last to be aired. It has since been replaced by Kapuso Movie Festival.
It was already announced by GMA that a new comedy talk show, Cool Center, would be occupying Nuts Entertainment's time slot starting in February, with Anjo Yllana hosting. The network was looking for a female host to co-star with Yllana who turned out to be Eugene Domingo.
Cast
Repertory cast members
- Joey De Leon (2003–2008)
- Janno Gibbs (2003–2008)
- Anjo Yllana (2003–2008)
Featured cast members
- Mike "Pekto" Nacua (2003–2008) was discovered by Joey De Leon. Nacua was a former segment host of a defunct ABC-5 (now TV5) Gag Show, Wow Mali later Wow Maling Mali.
- John Feir (2004–2008, also the show's associate producer) was winner of the show's beauty pageant segment "30 Gays".
- Iwa Moto (2006–2008) was a First Princess (runner-up) in the reality contest StarStruck Season 3. Joey De Leon, one of the judges of StarStruck, took her under his wing as a comedy protégée.
- Alfred Vargas (2007–2008)
- Ehra Madrigal (2007–2008)
- Keempee de Leon (2008)
- Ariel Villasanta (2008)
- Maverick Relova (2008)
Uncredited regular cast
- Baba Gee
- Peejay
Previous cast
- Rufa Mi (2007)
- MC (2007)
- Anne Curtis (2003–2004)
- Richard Gutierrez (2003–2008)
- Joyce Jimenez (May–July 2007)
- Gelli de Belen (2003–2007)
- Carmina Villaroel (2003–2007)
- Sherwin Ordonez (2003–2007)
- Brad Turvey (2003–2007)
- Aleck Bovick (2003–2004)
- Greg Turvey (2003–2004)
- Jacky Woo (2008, first International star to be included in the cast)
Segments
- Jak en Poy
- Balakubak: Balita at Kuwentong Bakla
- Kaso de Bola
- Asar Talo
- 30 Gays
- L.B.M. (Lusob Bahay Mo)
- I Write the Songs
- Korteng Mani
- Here, Dare and Everywhere
- Manibela / Manobela
- Pu-Tetris Ka!
- Pares Pares