Bob Odenkirk stars in a new Adult Swim pilot about a production company that "churns out wedding videos, Internet ads, low-budget infomercials and even feature films for 'ancillary' markets." SOLD! [Deadline]

Would you like to hear former Ed costars Michael Ian Black and Tom Cavanagh talk about snacks? Yes, you would! [Mike and Tom Eat Snacks (opens in iTunes)]

Colin Quinn on being sober, "I started doing comedy because I was so tortured by not being able to drink and be in my lifestyle that I started comedy so that I could be around the bar scene and around the excitement." [The Fix via Splitsider]

The New York Times wishes Comedy Central a happy 20th birthday. Well, they didn't explicitly say "happy birthday!" but we can read between the lines. [NY Times]

Reggie Watts talks about his improvisational style coming from necessity, "Improvisation is a survival mechanism, really. I can’t memorize anything, even words." [Punchline]

Fred Willard talks about passing on starring in Airplane!, "Every time something about it comes on the TV, I say to my wife, geez, I probably should have done that. And she says, Fred, if you had done it, it might not have been that successful." [Vulture]

It's a slow news day, so we bring you the news that Eric Bana used to do stand-up. Here's his hell-show story, "There were about 400 people… half of them were rugby players… I look back on it with affection; I’m just happy to have kept my health." [Time Out]

Congratulations are in order for Sam Morril for winning The Laughing Skull Festival! [Punchline]

IFC has been airing Scott Aukerman's Comedy Death Ray interviews with comedians in between commercial breaks during their new classic comedy block. They've interviewed people like Sarah Silverman, Andy Dick, Janeane Garofalo and Bob Odenkirk. All great people! Last night, they aired the first segments from interviews conducted with Judd Apatow and Paul Feig, who created Freaks and Geeks. We're seeing more places for comedian interviews on TV. It's interesting to note because it hints that there's a demand for this type of content from a wider audience than just me and my TMNT action figures.

[via The Comic's Comic]

Everyone has a Bill Cosby impression, but only Jon Daly has a BillCosby Bukowski impression. If you think about it, Bill Cosby and Charles Bukowski are basically the same person, except not at all. [Funny or Die]

Patton Oswalt talks about the themes and topics in his material, "I don't sit down and make a list, like, I'm gonna cover this topic. I'm not really conscious of it. It's whatever is bothering me at the moment…" [Salon]

Mike Birbiglia will be sleeping in a Macy's display window in a promotion for Downy's clean sheet week. Here's a video explaining what is basically the unexplainable. [YouTube]

CBS picked up Vince Uncensored from Conan O'Brien's production company Conaco. [EW]

Back in the halcyon days known as the 90s, members of The State were filmed singing "The Boner Song" in their old MTV offices. [Comic's Comic]

Two of my favorite things are the New Yorker and essays about abs. Bob Odenkirk combined my two loves writing this essay about his abs. [The New Yorker]

Eugene Mirman literally co-hosted this episode of the Star Talk podcast with Neil DeGrasse Tyson. Also, I literally don't know how to use the word "literally." [Star Talk Radio]

Mike Birbiglia will spend a week sleeping in a bed set up in a Macy's display window. Some people are seriously hardcore about promoting their books about sleepwalking. [MSN]

Bob Odenkirk took the time to draft his own Four Loko warning, pro bono (because in my mind, he is actually a lawyer like in Breaking Bad). [Vice Magazine]

Marc Maron was on Conan last night and he got Conan O'Brien to agree to appear on the WTF podcast. Maron is setting the bar really high for podcast guests. Who's he going to get next? Groucho Marx? Jesus? [Team Coco]

Ricky Gervais appeared on Piers Morgan's show where he defended his performance at the Golden Globes. He makes some really great points, stating he believes he did nothing wrong. [CNN]

Greg Fitzsimmons went on Lopez Tonight and talked about race, ethnicity and why Barack Obama is magic. [Lopez Tonight]

BREAKING: Here's a brief and interesting history of fake news. Wait a second… that's not breaking at all. I'm terrible at my job. [Flavorwire]

Stephen Merchant talks about Karl Pilkington, "People always think that it's bullying. Bullying, I always think there's a victim… He leaves exactly the same man as he was when he walked in." [TV Squad]

Adam McKay says there will be a Step Brothers rap album from Will Ferrell and John C. Reilly. [The Wrap]

Here's a first look at 30 Minutes or Less starring Jesse Eisenberg, Aziz Ansari, Danny McBride and Nick Swardson, as well as Bad Teacher starring Cameron Diaz, Jason Segel and Justin Timberlake. [Collider]

Patton Oswalt writes about finding treasure amongst the trash in stand-up, science fiction and music in this excerpt from his new book Zombie Spaceship Wasteland. [AV Club]

Speaking of Patton, he also picked out his 100 favorite movie moments and made a list for you to read and enjoy. I think you should say thank you by buying his book. [Listal]

Looks like David Cross will be starring in Bob Odenkirk's next directorial feature, Annie Jenkins: A Not Very Romantic Comedy. I'm gonna see the shit out of that! [The Wrap]

Jason Lee's Adult Swim pilot rounds out its cast with Molly Sims, Faizon Love, Malcom David Kelly and Kevin Pollack. [TV Line]

Alec Baldwin says he is "very, very interested" in running for office. I vote him mayor of mom crushes. [Huffington Post]

Demetri Martin signed a deal with CBS to work on a new project. It's a "blind deal" so there's no word on what it could be, but whatever it is, sounds like it would be well-paired with The Big Bang Theory, right? What say you, geeks? [THR]

Mike Biribiglia describes writing his new book, "I would listen to my own CDs… and I would take something that was a joke… and it would kind of transport me back into a place and time in my life where those things happened…" [Boston Comedy]

Mike Birbiglia on his new projects, "I'm working on a new one-man show called My Girlfriend's Boyfriend… I'm prepping it with my director in Sydney, Australia in January, and then we'll bring it to New York…" [TIME Magazine]

Keith Alberstadt has a new album on Rooftop Comedy Records. Here's how he describes his comedy, "It’s a smartass with a mischievous grin attached to it, not bare-knuckled aggression." [Rooftop]

Vice Magazine's comedy issue includes interviews with Robert Smigel, Buck Henry and Chelsea Perretti, pieces by Brett Gelman and Bob Odenkirk, a visit to the set of Eastbound & Down and much more. It's pretty awesome. [Vice Magazine]

Will Ferrell and Adam McKay celebrated 20 years of IMDB by basically not answering a bunch of questions submitted by IMDB users. [Funny or Die]

Bob Odenkirk directed a Built to Spill music video, and it's not so much funny as pretty and bittersweet. NOT ALL OF LIFE IS ABOUT JOKES, OKAY?! [AST]

Dennis Miller has a new special set up at HBO called The Big Speech. I bet he's as happy as Bobby the Deuce was when he became the first monarch in the Casa de Stewart in 1317 Scotland, oookay, babe? [Deadline]

This new Channel 101 short from Abed Gheith has everything. Cool World-esque antics, Steve Agee as a gay street tough, and a Teen Wolf pun in the title. Guys, it's Toon Wolf! [Channel 101]

Jamie Foxx and Afion Crockett have a new sketch series set up at Fox. If the show ends up flopping, he can always blame it on the a-a-alcohol. That's a song, right? Music? [Hit Flix]

Will Forte explains why he quit SNL, "If you really want to do good work there, you really have to give it your all and that makes having a life outside work kinda tough." [JoBlo]

There's a popular Chinese proverb that goes, "Short people got nobody to love. They got little baby legs that stand so low, you got to pick em up just to say hello." Short films on the other hands, are universally beloved, watched by everyone, not just the weirdos who attend local film festivals. JK! I love short films, and I actually really like that Funny or Die is branching out by creating films with strong narrative arcs like Big Dog, their first long-form short. It's directed by Eric Appel and stars Charlie Sanders, Bob Odenkirk, Nelson Franklin, Rich Sommer and other cool people.

There's a deleted scene that got cut from the short film online. I've embedded it after the jump.

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In school I was an almost straight-A student (damn you, Driver's Ed!). In retrospect that's really lame. Straight-B students were much cooler because they were clearly smart, but weren't trying to impress anyone. The same logic applies to a lot of B-Movies. Sure, Operation: Endgame might be going straight-to-DVD, but it doesn't care, because it's having too much fun smoking under the bleachers with Rob Corddry, Zach Galifianakis, Bob Odenkirk, Jeffrey Tambor, Adam Scott and a few others friends.

[via Videogum]

This year's Just for Laughs festival has a great line-up, including some of our favorites like Aziz Ansari, Andy Kindler, Bob Odenkirk and much, much more. I guarantee there's a comedian on the line-up you love. [Just for Laughs]

Rob Corddry talks about the only line he didn't cross on Children's Hospital, "I just kind of balked at any sort of joke that would be at the expense of a child; that’s just not funny to me." [Rooftop Comedy]

Samantha Bee says she'd steer her kids away from any kind of future in politics, "Please be a drummer in a death metal band, don't go into politics." [Washington Examiner]

This should come as a surprise to exactly no one, but if you were wondering why Tom Cruise popped up at the MTV Movie Awards as Les Grossman, there's a movie in the works starring the foul-mouthed movie producer character. [E!]

Bernie Mac's friends and family reminisce as the two-year anniversary of his death nears, an occasion that will be marked by Mac's daughter Je'Niece throwing out the first pitch at a White Sox game June 10. [Chicago Tribune]

Writers for The Daily Show, The Colbert Report and Jimmy Kimmel Live! dispell the persistent rumor that satire in the age of Obama is somehow more difficult than it used to be. [Variety]