{"id":116677,"date":"2026-01-29T21:25:19","date_gmt":"2026-01-29T21:25:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/116677\/"},"modified":"2026-01-29T21:25:19","modified_gmt":"2026-01-29T21:25:19","slug":"kevin-james-strikes-king-of-queens-pose-amid-reboot-rumors-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/116677\/","title":{"rendered":"Kevin James Strikes \u2018King of Queens\u2019 Pose Amid Reboot Rumors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0416673\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kevin James<\/a> just can\u2019t escape that goofy pose he made for a King of <a class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt14040910\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Queens<\/a> photoshoot more than 20 years ago. The actor was attending the red carpet premiere of his new movie, <a class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt32306991\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Solo Mio<\/a>, on Tuesday (January 27), when an <a class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/company\/co0293181\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Entertainment Tonight<\/a> reporter asked if he\u2019d recreate the pose that has since become a frequently used reaction meme across social media. For those unfamiliar, the original photo shows James as his <a class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0165581\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">King of Queens<\/a> character <a class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm3041523\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Doug Heffernan<\/a>, dressed in a plaid shirt, shrugging, and pulling an exasperated expression. In recent years, the photo resurfaced as a viral meme, with social media users regularly using it to react. \u201cThis is&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kevin James just can\u2019t escape that goofy pose he made for a King of Queens photoshoot more than&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":116678,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[2633,2634,1214,2635,2555,2558,158,9,24,12,63,122,124,123,2559,2556,1869],"class_list":{"0":"post-116677","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-queens","8":"tag-actors","9":"tag-actresses","10":"tag-celebrities","11":"tag-directors","12":"tag-films","13":"tag-hollywood","14":"tag-movies","15":"tag-new-york","16":"tag-new-york-city","17":"tag-news","18":"tag-nyc","19":"tag-queens","20":"tag-queens-headlines","21":"tag-queens-news","22":"tag-stars","23":"tag-television","24":"tag-tv"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116677","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=116677"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116677\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/116678"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}