Before They Get Stale: Aziz Ansari, Russell Brand, and Alan Abel

Aziz Ansari would love to make a Christmas R&B album with R. Kelly. That makes two of us. [My Old Kentucky Home]

This year, celebrate Christmas like its 1979. [Betamaxmas]

This article answers the question, what's so funny about believing in a magic man in the sky? [USA Today]

British comedian Alan Carr apologizes for calling the woman who kidnapped her own daughter a "gay icon." [BBC]

Russell Brand wins "best live stand-up" award. [Top News]

Even though he's clearly wrong for his dislike of single camera sitcoms, Bob Newhart gets a free pass for the brilliant dream sequence at the end of Newhart. [Access Atlanta]

Aaron Karo worked Wall Street before moving into comedy. I bet he's really regretting it now that the economy is booming. [Punchline Magazine]

Jack Black and John C. Reilly talk about Prop 8: The Musical, as well as Prop 8, the proposition. [Videogum]

Time Magazine's Top 10 TV moments puts The Colbert Report for it's hilarious, respectful, and oddly touching reaction to the writer's strike. [TIME]

Alan Abel, the master of media pranks, talks about spending his life enacting elaborate pranks. [The Star]