Comedy Central Insider Blog

Watch Will Ferrell reading a tweet live, from the show A Night of 140 Tweets. [Funny or Die]

Nick Thune is in Kool Keith's new music video about dick towels. [Punchline]

Peter Serafinowicz directed a music video and it is equal parts hilarious and brilliant. No surprises here. [Peter Serafinowicz]

Paul F. Tompkins has some reservations about throwing Precious into the DVD player, "…even the little bit I know about it, when would I be in the mood to sit down with a bowl of popcorn and throw on Precious?" [California Chronicle]

Aziz Ansari has a new tour planned. Hurrah! [Aziz is Bored]

Hank Azaria has just been cast in the Smurfs movie as the voice of Gargamel. As always, I blame the French for this. [Entertainment Weekly]

New York comedian Tom Sibely got some nice press for his blog Subway Douchery. It's a good blog. Check it out! [NY Post, NBC New York]

If you live in New York and are looking to mix your seasonal alcoholism with comedy, hit up Comix's St. Patrick's Day themed show with Patrice O'Neal. [Comix]

Amy Poehler and Will Arnett are expecting another baby. [PopEater]

Meanwhile, Rob McElhenney and Kaitlin Olson from It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia are also expecting a baby. I can only assume it's not the same baby. [People]

Wow, Aziz Ansari is really making it hard for me to continue pretending I don't know who Justin Bieber is. Now, I am not usually in favor of war, but some wars are necessary. For example, without World War II, we wouldn't have the internet (probably). And without the Raaaaaaaandy/Justin Bieber war, we wouldn't have the following internet video.

Behind Justin Bieber's cherubic features lies a disfigured hell-spawn waiting to eat the souls of the innocent. (Okay, at this point I'm just hoping a bunch of teenage girls find this post and leave me mean comments.)

[via Aziz is Bored]

Bob Odenkirk has been cast in Rob Riggle's CBS pilot Team Spitz. Very good casting, casting director. Bonus: Odenkirk is working on an FX pilot. Someone give the president of television a raise! [AST]

Maria Bamford makes up a story on the spot, "Teddy Roosevelt’s Rough Riders were sitting around in their graves, ‘cause they’re all dead now, and they were kind of  … feeling kind of spooky…" [Creative Loafing]

The Norm Show and The Larry Sanders Show are both coming out on DVD! We did it! [Norm Show, Larry Sanders Show]

The ballad of Tracy Morgan's shirtlessness is basically the The Rime of the Ancient Mariner of our times. [NY Mag]

The chefs from Animal, a restaurant in LA, invited Aziz Ansari as well as a few other celebrity friends, to go on a late night foodie tour. [VBS]

There's a right way and a wrong way to comment on YouTube, and if you can't tell the difference, you are probably a gay reatard u shud die in a fiure. Here's a tutorial. [Dr. Coolsex]

Apparently a bunch of New York comics are playing the game Assassins. I guess the NY comedy community and my old college dorm room had a lot more in common than rampant alcoholism. [Comic's Comic]

Kate Micucci and Riki Lindhome, aka Garfunkel and Oates, are very happy with their gay boyfriends, Jon Daly and Josh Fadem. [Garfunkel and Oates]

Jason Jones has will star in a pilot for ABC called How to Be a Better American that "centers on a father (Jones) who embarks on a journey to be a better person and drags his family along kicking and screaming." [Punchline]

Conan O'Brien has a Twitter. #laughter #joy [Videogum]

Nick Thune's Thick Noon record release party is next Thursday at the Hollywood Improv with Aziz Ansari, Nick Kroll and many others. [Nick Thune]

Tracy Morgan wants to get you IMPREGN8ED. [Jimmy Kimmel Live]

Canadian MP Ujjal Dosanjh writes about his appearance on The Colbert Report, "As Colbert shows us, political correctness must be thrown aside and a few laughs had before progress can be made." [Vancouver Sun]

Joe Mande set the world record for having the most people yell “You’ll never set a world record!” at him at once. [So Much Fun It Hurts]

Tom Shillue is hosting a new monthly storytelling series called TELL: Worlds Collide at Comix starting March 4. [Facebook]

Ron White "broke a tooth in an alcohol-related swimming-pool incident. I was just swimmin' around drunk, ran into the side and got a broken tooth and a busted lip." [Recordnet]

The news that Lewis Black is planning a comedy cruise is pretty surprising to me, but then again, every new day is a surprise wrapped by God's loving bony fingers. [Lewis Black Comedy Cruise]

Juggalo News somehow more professional than any other muthafuckin' neden hole networks. [Atom]

Zach Galifianakis interviews author John Wray. Or is it John Wray that is interviewing comic Zach Galifianakis? The snake is eating its own tail! (I don't know what that metaphor means either). [Picador]

Alison Brie, who stars in Community (as well as Mad Men. Very good resume, Alison Brie!) is interviewed in this interview. [AV Club]

The new Ed Hardy Boyz is so epic and, no offense, but it hopes to impregnant all of you and your big naturals. [Funny or Die]

Derek Waters and Jeremy Kronner talk about the making of Drunk History. [MakingOf]

RAAAAAAAANDY and Dave Siteck just dropped their first single from their upcoming mixtape. Aziz better start wearing a bullet proof vest, 'cause he's trying to start beefs with every coast ever. [Aziz is Bored]

Hey, there's a new Auto-Tune the News. Good job! [YouTube]

Asked about the Facebook campaign to get her an SNL hosting gig, Betty White told Diane Sawyer, "They just dig old ladies." [ABC News]

Conan O'Brien is going to do a series of live shows before returning to TV, just as soon as he's done kissing this dolphin. [my pop culture brain]

Aziz Ansari convinced his cousins to join Twitter. Tweetlarity ensues. [Aziz is Bored]

Morgan Murphy, Eugene Mirman and Hannibal Buress are among those profiled in this piece about up-and-coming comics from YRB Magazine's comedy issue which also features interviews with Stella and Artie Lange. [YRB]

William Shatner has been cast as the dad in the Shit My Dad Says sitcom, or as I'm hoping they'll now rename it, Shit My Shat Shays. [THR]

Ian Roberts promotes his and Matt Walsh's new Spike series Players by doing "1 Guy, 1 Cup." Grosslarity ensues. [the comic's comic]

Nick Thune on his future with Jay Leno, "We’ll see what happens, but they have told me they want me to go with them to The Tonight Show and to continue to do my pieces, but I think they’re going to have less of those pieces and have less correspondents. I think I’ll still have a place to go on TV, and to do my stuff for the time being." [Punchline]

Another day, another Woody Allen movie starring Owen Wilson and the first lady of France. [Risky Business]

Brett Gelman helps Topher Grace and Kate Bosworth understand the subtext of their cancer drama. NSFW cum-beardlarity ensues. [Funny or Die]

Where have all the Cosby sweater gone? [BuzzFeed]

The improv documentary Trust Us, This Is All Made Up is now streaming on Netflix. [aspecialthing]

[Image via TMZ]

Tina Fey talks about a future possible reprisal of her Sarah Palin impression on SNL, "It's inevitable that we'll try it, at least… We'll see if it makes it to air."[Philly]

What if Avatar had an all-baby cast? It probably would have made all the money instead of just almost all the money. [Funny or Die]

Jeff Garlin is trying to lose weight in order to be healthier. I, for one, raise my Taco Bell enchilada to salute his dieting efforts. [NY Times]

Eugene Levy has just been cast in a multi-camera pilot for CBS called Hitched. I'm surprised they didn't instead go with the title American Pie Presents Hitched. [THR]

RAAAAAAAANDY and DJ Old Youngin' have an update about the mixtape they are working on with Dave Sitek. They will put that shit out when they want! [Aziz is Bored]

Janeane Garofalo's set from Citizen Radio is up online because the internet is a nice little chap. [UCB Comedy]

Judah Friendlander's appearance on Sesame Street is pretty spectacular. [Punchline]

Ricky Gervais talks about his upcoming animated HBO show. [USA Today]

Danny McBride is going to star in the next Jody Hill directed film. It's called L.A.P.I., and it sounds awesome. [Variety]

If you guys needed proof that Sean Patton is great, here is proof that Sean Patton is great, "Fuck all the networking and politicking and elbow rubbing, Just get onstage. Let your skill as a comedian do your networking for you." [Comic's Comic]

HBO is developing a show about an entertainment blogger. NO, IT'S NOT ABOUT ME! EVERYONE STOP EMAILING ME ASKING ME IF IT'S ABOUT ME! [THR]

Aziz Ansari was on Fresh Air and my favorite part was when Terry Gross admitted she'd never heard of MTV's Next. Also, my favorite part was when Aziz gets her to say "tatties." [NPR]

Max Silvestri tries to figure out what the crap the Superbowl is. [Atom]

Sarah Silverman talks about the dueling Holocaust memorials in an upcoming episode of TSSP. [MTV]

Remember when I interviewed Julie Klausner? These guys also interviewed her and you should read it. [NY Magazine]

There have been rumors today that Howard Stern may be joining American Idol. This clearly won't happen. I promise to you guys, I will lick a New York City sidewalk if it comes true. [NY Post]

The promos for The Marriage Ref are making me very scared of marriage. [Comic's Comic]

Here are two pretty great Demetri Martin interviews where he talks about a special Lost guest star on the new season of Important Things and also other great things. [EW, Huffington Post]

Here is Sarah Silverman on Late Show talking about getting spanked and her mom's reaction to that information. BTW, are you guys super excited for Important Things and The Sarah Silverman Program premiering tonight at 10pm / 9c? Yes? Good! [Late Show]

There's a new promo for Louie, the new Louis C.K. show premiering soon on FX! I can't wait! [FX]

Christopher Guest is making these series of short films for the Census. Easily the funniest short film produced for the Census. [YouTube]

Here's Bill Murray on the Travel Channel eating at a nice restaurant and drinking nice wine like a gentleman. [So Much Fun It Hurts]

Mo'Nique is going to host the Shaquille O'Neal Presents: All Star Comedy Jam. [THR]

Doug Stanhope apparently doesn't like late night TV monologues at all! [Comic's Comic]

TSA airport security is getting a bit more invasive now that they are conducting dick searches. [Landline]

Aziz Ansari talks about putting himself in his characters, "There are some aspects of my personality in those characters—hopefully none of the really douchey parts." [Time Out]

The Griswolds are back, kind of, in a short film produced by a travel company of some sort or other. [Buzzfeed]

Peter Serafinowicz is being video interviewed on this video interview and he is a genius. [Boing Boing]

Aziz Ansari recently sat down with the A.V. Club for an interview that has more obscure Aziz info than you could shake a mic stand at. He discusses teaming up with Eric Wareheim and Jason Woliner to create a food club aptly named "The Food Club," of which they are literally the captains.

But we’re in this really nice restaurant, and the whole time, we were wearing these goofy captain hats. [Laughs.] People are there for their wedding proposals, and they look over and there’s three goofballs wearing hats.

Apart from his realized food obsession, Aziz sails us through all sorts of topics, from his internship with The Onion, to using Quentin Tarantino to get back at flaming internet trolls.

I talked to [Quentin Tarantino] for a bit about [a Randy movie]… People on the Internet were like, “a Randy movie would be terrible!” (…) But Quentin Tarantino was like, “Man, a Randy movie, I would love to see that!” So I just want to send a mass e-mail to all those Internet people who thought a Randy movie would be terrible: “You know who thinks it would be a great idea? Quentin Tarantino.”

In addition, we get clarification on whether or not we should expect a Human Giant return, info on his three upcoming movies, a project with TV on the Radio's David Sitek, and a pretty wacked-out theory for season six of Lost. Just go read the whole thing!

-Intern Michael Sutton