Wyatt Cenac on doing double duty, as a correspondent and a writer on The Daily Show, "It’s nice because I think doing both jobs, one informs the other, and you get to know the limits of each job, as far as what feasibly can and can’t be done." Wyatt Cenac: Comedy Person premieres tomorrow at 11/10c. [AV Club]

Louis CK talks about growing up and how that shaped his comedy, "That was my comedy upbringing in Boston. If you weren’t funny you got your ass kicked. It wasn’t just about getting laughs; it was about survival." [Playboy]

It's starting to look like Mindy Kaling may not return to The Office as a writer, but she will probably stay on as a cast member. [NY Mag]

Tony Hendra, a man who worked on Spy and National Lampoon magazine, and was in This Is Spinal Tap, started a parody newspaper which boasts some impressive contributors like Terry Jones and Mike Myers, as well as pieces by a bunch of New York comics. [Final Edition]

NBC has picked up Chelsea Handler's sitcom based on her book Are You There, Vodka? It's Me, Chelsea, as well as Free Agent starring Hank Azaria, Natasha Leggero, Al Madrigal, Joe Lo Truglio and Mo Mandel and four other sitcoms! [TV Guide]

Joe Lo Truglio, Ken Marino and David Wain reminisce about Wet Hot American Summer, "I certainly did not expect that it would live on over the years the way that it has." [AV Club]

Here are a series of on-set interviews with the cast and crew of the upcoming film 30 Minutes or Less. [Aziz Ansari and Dilshad Vadsaria, Danny McBride and Nick Swardson, Ruben Fleischer]

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Toph Eggers of The Believer has a customarily awesome, in-depth interview with director/writer/actor David Wain. Here's a taste of what that dude from The State had to say to that little kid from A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius.

BLVR: Looking through your work, I definitely feel as though there’s something about your personality or how you approach comedy that feels different than most of the people in your field or craft. You just so often see this dark underbelly to most comedians or comedic actors that subtly comes out in their performances, or even while they’re off camera. But with your stuff, it all just seems optimistic and happy and playful.

DW: Yeah, there seems to be. I think that is certainly characteristic of everyone in The State, which is my comedy family. And so there was a certain boisterousness that I was attracted to when I joined The State at NYU. I always responded to that notion of, if it looks like they’re having fun in an inclusive way, then the audience has fun. I think I was a little turned off in New York, in college, going to comedy clubs and seeing one depressed stand-up comedian after another who, especially the lesser ones, were more often than not just undergoing public therapy. Just listing off things that they’re upset about, problems in their lives. That’s not entertaining to me. However, I have great affection for all sorts of comedy—certainly a lot of it that’s sourced in darker places. But yes, it’s true, that’s not what I do, so far.

For more wisdom and insight from the mighty mouth of Wain, check out one of America's finest online periodicals, The Believer.

According to my memory, Thanksgiving is the holiday when we celebrate Christopher Columbus landing at Plymouth Rock, as depicted at the end of the movie Apocalypto [spoiler alert]. Then everyone ate Stove Top stuffing, drank a box of wine and tearfully blamed their career problems on their parents. These long held traditions are still observed today.

With that in mind, here's some Thanksgiving stand-up from Stella, Hari Kondabolu, David Alan Grier and Gregg Rogell to warm your tummies. They cover everything from drumstick fights to vegan turkeys.

Click past the jump for the rest of the clips. As our ancestors would say, "Have a happy holiday."

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Tina Fey talks about women in comedy, "I think in the small sampling of women I know, the act of doing comedy itself was the act of rebellion." She's receiving the Mark Twain Prize tonight! [Washington Post]

Greg Fitzsimmons will be performing at Carolines tonight in support of his new book, Dear Mrs. Fitzsimmons. [Carolines]

Tim Allen sold a new sitcom to ABC about "a guy whose manhood is under siege in a world of women." I've been waiting for a sitcom set in Themyscira (and the award for geekiest possible reference goes too…) [Vulture]

David Wain, Hard 'N Phirm and others are developing shows and comedy pilots for IFC. David's sounds to me a bit like an animated Muppet Show, but probably dirtier, I imagine. [THR]

John DiMaggio, voice of Futurama's Bender, tells TMZ to bite his shiny metal ass. [TMZ]

Gabe and Jenny argue over whether Precious farts or not. [Vimeo]

Tracy Morgan can't help being Tracy Morgan, "Whenever I do stand-up, my goal, my aim is to make the cute girl in the front row fart. I want her to laugh so hard it burns. When we would do our thing and it smelled like marijuana and fart." [Vulture]

Paul F. Tompkins talks about taking another step in his evolution as a comic, "And I thought, ‘ok, well maybe there’s a way I can tell some other stories that really are about me.’" [Punchline]

SNL's Tom Davis is dying of cancer, so tonight's Sketchfest show 39 Years of Short-Term Memory Loss may be one of his last appearances. Here's an interview with a pillar of sketch comedy writing. [Comic's Comic]

Samantha Bee talks about her new book I Know You Are, But What Am I? and being The Daily Show's senior correspondent, "Every segment is different; there's no possible way to get bored with the job." [NY Mag]

Here's a roundtable discussion between a bunch of the female leads in current sitcoms, featuring Jane Lynch, Wanda Sykes, Courtney Cox, Sofia Vergara, Patricia Heaton and Felicity Huffman. [THR]

Dominic Dierkes talks about Mystery Team and what lies ahead for him, "At this point, I've devoted almost 10 years of my life to comedy. I don't think there's ever going to be another thing that I want to do instead." [Commercial Appeal]

A Chappelle's Show super fan created a working Wrap It Up box. Thank you, nerd! [Neatorama]

The fourth season of David Wain's great web-series Wainy Days premiered today. [My Damn Channel]

At this year's Guys Choice Awards, Sir Ben Kingsley read selections from the nominees to Outstanding Literary Achievement and one of those books is Tracy Morgan's autobiography I Am The New Black. Watch it after the jump. [Spike]

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Will Forte sang the MacGruber theme song on last night's Fallon. [LNWJF]

Oh, did you think that was the only MacGruber themed link today? No, we have a bunch of Will Forte interviews. [The AV Club, New York Magazine, Film School Rejects (that one has Kristen Wiig too)]

And here's some video interviews at the MacGruber press junket. The Funny or Die one involves an interviewer who killed a prostitute. [Funny or Die, MakingOf 1, MakingOf 2]

This Drew Barrymore, Justin Long romantic comedy has Jason Sudeikis, Charlie Day and Jim Gaffigan in its cast. Hey, those guys are funny and junk. [MTV Movies]

David Wain spills some details about the inception of his and Ken Marino's upcoming collaboration (produced by Apatow, starring Paul Rudd) WanderLust. [David Wain]

Patton Oswalt and Molly Shannon voice characters in this new animated show from TBS called Neighbors From Hell. It's about demons. You love demons. [TBS]

Donald Glover talks about discovering stand-up, "I can say things I never said in public before. I just feel it made me mad that I had never done it before." [Comic's Comic]

Martin Starr talks about Party Down and orgies, "Speaking from experience, orgies are a lot of fun." [Movieline]

Remember the web show Children's Hospital with Rob Corddry and Rob Huebel and some other people not named Rob? Well, it's going to be a real no-foolin' TV show on Adult Swim soon, and EW has a trailer. You need 50cc's of watching it stat!

Greg Giraldo talks about judging Last Comic Standing, "It's not comfortable, in a way, to think I'm some sort of comedy authority. In some cases. With people who are brand-new, its OK. But with my peers, it's not always comfortable." [Comic's Comic]

Derrick Comedy returns. Not as a comedy group, but rather as a social networking development group. [College Humor]

Kenan Thompson is creating a character based on Clarence Williams III because Kenan Thompson woke up this morning and decided to be awesome. [Movieline]

Comix in New York has some great shows coming up. They've got Eugene Mirman and Andy Kindler, The Daily Show and Friends and Maria Bamford. Support one of the best clubs in the city! [Comix]

Judd Apatow is producing Wanderlust, a comedy written by David Wain, Paul Rudd and Ken Marino, starring Rudd and Jennifer Aniston and directed by Wain. Wet hot American awesome! [My Pop Culture Brain]

What if there was a series made entirely out of stock footage. Wouldn't that be something that actually exists online? Yes it would be. [Channel 101]

Here's a preview clip of the Tim and Eric spin-off Check It Out! with Dr. Steve Brule. Holy guacamole! [Adult Swim]

I think you should check out Reggie Watts's theater piece Transition because I think he is great. But you know, that's just me. I am just a man that is right all the time, but you don't have to listen to me. [On the Boards]

The Drunk History installment that aired on Funny or Die Presents and features Jen Kirkman narrating Will Ferrell and Don Cheadle through Lincoln and Frederick Douglas's historic relationship is now online. [Funny or Die]

FX picked up yet another comedy series Wilfred, based on an Australian series of the same name. They are really getting their comedy ducks in a row over there. [Deadline]

George Lucas is planning a Star Wars comedy series. Do you feel that? It's as if a million nerd voices just cried out and were suddenly silenced, but not really, because they are going to be blogging about this a lot. [NY Times]

David Gordon Green says the new season of Eastbound and Down is going to be longer and take place in other countries. [Playlist]

Here's a great interview with Iliza Schlesinger. [Comic's Comic]

The Rocketeer goes drunk rocketeering because you don't know the things he's seen while nazi-killin'. [Atom]

Pauly Shore has more substance inside his heart than in his entire film catalogue. [Funny or Die]

There's a rumor going around that David Wain may direct Alex Robinson's graphic novel Too Cool To Be Forgotten. [Cinema Blend]

A long lost Chris Rock Show sketch, unreleased because of it's excessive edginess (In my head, someone at HBO yelled, "These edges are too sharp, captain!"), finally sees the light of day. [Punchline]

30 Rock is going to end its season by parodying the recent late night mess because of course it definitely is. Sometimes the universe does not work in mysterious ways. [Movieline]

Here's that Big Lebowski porno parody no one knew they wanted but now can't live without. [TMZ]

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]

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