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Chris Rock will star in Will You be My Black Friend?, a film co-produced by Oprah's film company. The entire cast and crew will be payed in unwanted copies of A Million Little Pieces. [Reuters]

Chris Rock keeps at the top of his game by remaining cautiously pessimistic, "You're never going to accomplish anything unless you know how bad it could be…" [Chicago Tribune]

The Ed Hardy Boyz are hard at work solving the mystery of the missing sick belt buckle. [Funny or Die]

Russell Brand kissed Katy Perry, and he liked it. [Telegraph]

Here's a list of the ten ways Monty Python changed comedy. [MSNBC]

Jemaine Clement talks about how New Zealand is different from American, "The main difference is that there’s one comedy club in the whole country. And it’s not even in the town where I live." [Texas Travesty]

Eugene Mirman's new album God Is a Twelve-Year Old Boy with Asperger's is out today! Here's an interview with Mirman. [Village Voice]

Paul Scheer has some tips for the town hall protesters. First they get all that help from Fox News and now Paul Scheer? Lucky ducks! [Funny or Die]

Are you a huge Reno 911 fan? Well, now you can own a pair of Lieutenant Dangle's shorts. And it's for charity, so you can pretend like you are a good person while you're at it.  [MSNBC]

Steve Martin talks about the differences between performing music and performing stand-up comedy, "If I were performing comedy on this tour, I mean exclusively, I would be much more nervous than I am."  [Punchline]

The Simpsons is being honored by the Paley Center for Media. It is now official. The Simpsons has won every award ever. [Variety]

Tig Notaro talks about how she doesn't really have an on-stage personality, "I mean, you’re not going to meet me offstage and be like, ‘Oh, that was weird. Where did the Tig character go?’" [Punchline]

This Sunday night at 9pm / 8c, MTV will broadcast the 2009 Video Music Awards. And while there's no way to know who will walk away with the coveted Best Female Gaga prize, one thing we can count on is some laughs from returning host Russell Brand. Here he is talking about hosting last year's show.

The amazing Todd Barry has some upcoming South Carolina shows on August 14 and 15 at the Theater 99. He's also performing at Comix in New York on September 1o-12. Use the discount code TODDB to get seven dollars off the Comix ticket price. [Todd Barry]

The new promo for It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia proves the show will never stop tackling the edgy taboo subjects of our time. [Buzzfeed]

Speaking of It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, there's a direct to DVD Christmas special coming out soon. [TV Squad

Garfunkel and Oates, aka Kate Micucci and Riki Lindhome, take a turn for the douche. [The Daily What]

Ben Stiller just joined Facebook and Twitter, so he made a vlog introducing himself to the internet. He clearly doesn't understands vlogs, becuase he doesn't lip-sync to a techno song, or call Fifty Cent gay even once during the entire thing. [YouTube]

Jarvis Cocker from Pulp is writing the songs Russell Brand will be perfoming in Get Him to the Greek. Everyone is waiting to see if Jarvis Cocker can write songs intended to be sung by a fictional hedonistic character with alcohol and drug problems. [Reuters]

Doug Stanhope says, "You try to break yourself out of your comfort zone, because comfort is deadly for a comedian. There’s a reason why jokes start with 'Don’t you hate it when…?' and not 'Do you know what’s really great?'" [Creative Loafing]

Joan Rivers is hosting a new show called How'd You Get So Rich. I would relate to this show a lot more if it was called How'd You Get So Poor. Not at all an awful joke I just made! Also, reminder: The Roast of Joan Rivers premieres Sunday, August 9 at 10pm / 9c. [TV Land]

Sometimes sitcom actors get replaced. Like when Janet Hubert-Whitten was replaced by Daphne Maxwel Reid in The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air (Ed Note: Gonzalo Cordova has just been replaced by a random Wikipedia factoid generator). A while back, I posted two videos of Kristen Schaal and Eugene Mirman hanging out. This time, Russell Brand has just stepped in for Eugene Mirman in the role of Funny Guy Hanging Out with Kristen Schaal. Click the image, and let's pretend we are friends with them. 

Bob Odenkirk and David Cross talk about why they decided not to follow through on David's Situation, their filmed pilot for HBO, as well as possible future TV projects. [Comic's Comic]

FX is making another comedy series called The League. It stars some of our favorites here, including Paul Scheer, Nick Kroll and Jon LaJoie. [THR]

George Carlin's final book Last Words will be released in November. [LA Times]

Michael and Michael talk about Michael and Michael Have Issues, Stella and, of course, dildos. [AV Club]

Russell Brand will host the MTV Video Music Awards for the second year in a row. I wonder what spontaneous and controversial moments the producers are staging at this year's show. [MTV]

Of course there's going to a Saved By The Bell porno. It's only a matter of time before they make a Clarissa Explains It All porno. [Pop Crunch]

Kathy Griffin is set to host Primetime Creative Arts Emmy's. If you're wondering what the Creative Emmy's are, it's an award show from an alternate universe where creativity is acknowledged and rewarded. [Variety]

Collider has some pictures from Mike Judge's upcoming film Extract starring Jason Bateman. [Collider]

Back when Ben Stiller was born, his dad was like, "Maybe one day, when I am old and Seinfeld is over, my son will be honored, at an award show made for teenagers, by being given a tub of golden, inedible popcorn." [The Futon Critic]

John Oliver claims his British accent allows him to behave with "outright rudeness." Lack of a British accent has never really stopped us Americans from outright rudeness. [Deseret News]

The Economist just discovered that The Onion is great. If they're anything like me around the time I discovered The Onion, they are about to discover masturbation soon too. [Press Democrat]

Stephen Colbert landed safely after flying with the famous Thunderbirds. Sadly, the Thunderbirds in question are not marionettes as I had hoped. [No Fact Zone]

Rob Riggle talks to NPR about being promoted to lieutenant colonel. Congratulations, Rob Riggle! [NPR]

Scott Aukerman is the head writer for the MTV Movie Awards. Hiring actual funny people to write award shows? No one's tried it before, but it just might work. [A Special Thing]

Steve Coogan is planning a film for his television character Alan Partridge. [/film]

Cameron Frye's house from Ferris Bueller's Day Off is for sale. The house is a little old, but if you set it up on cinder blocks and put it in reverse, it'll be good as new. [Daily Herald]

Jorma Taccone talks about being cast in Land of the Lost as Chaka, "If anyone recognizes me, I will be so embarrassed — that means that I’m the ugliest dude on the planet." [Movie Line]

Click after the jump to watch Russell Brand give us a sneak peak of his new movie, Get Him to the Greek. P. Diddy is in the film, but his role sadly doesn't involve him Tweeting while having tantric sex for 36 hours.

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You already know that Dane Cook's new CD/DVD ISolated INcident is available today, but going to the comedy DVD store and only getting one comedy DVD is like going to McDonald's and only eating one Double Quarter Pounder with Cheese. It's for pantywaists! Lucky for you, you can also pick up Russell Brand Live in New York City and Jo Koy: Don't Make Him Angry on DVD today. Here are some clips.

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Judd Apatow's inspiring thought for Funny People was, "…a movie like Tuesdays With Morrie, but the main character learns nothing." It sounds similar to my upcoming movie, The Five People You Don't Meet in Heaven Because It Doesn't Exist. [NYT]

Christina Finnegan poses in his underwear for Punchline. It's like an American Apparel ad campaign, except the photographers probably didn't roofie Finnegan after the shoot. [Punchline]

Sarah Silverman's favorite words are "circumlocution" and "poop." I only know what one of those words means, but I gather circumlocution is circumcision via electrocution. [Guardian]

NBC will make more Weekend Update prime time episodes like the ones that aired in the midst of an excruciatingly long political season. Campaigning for the next election should start in 3…2…1… Vote Palin/Bachmann 2012! [NYT]

Judd Apatow loved Diddy in his cameo in Russell Brand's upcoming Get Him to the Greek, stating, "A celebrity using Twitter who is actually good at something. Remarkable!" [MTV Blog]

Parenthood is once again being turned into a show. The first time, Joss Whedon helmed the project which was canceled in it's initial season. This marked the last time one of Whedon's shows was treated unfairly by a network. [MSN]

New York comedian, and now writer for Michael and Michael Have Issues, Kumail Nanjiani performed on Jimmy Kimmel and he was really funny. [Comic's Comic]

Dave Hill talks to Rachel Dratch in an elevator, chatting up as they're going down. Yes, I made a lame joke paraphrasing Aerosmith. If you have a problem with that, leave it in the suggestion box (points to trash can icon on desktop). [Dave Hill's Blog]

Michael Weingarter posts a pretty spot-on impersonation of Dave Chappelle reviewing Wolverine X-Men: Origins. I already made a Wolverine joke today, so just imagine I wrote it here instead. [Huffington Post]

Russell Brand is going to be in the remake of 1991's Drop Dead Fred, a film that gave me nightmares as a child. Enjoy not sleeping for the next five years, children of today. [THR]

The Cosby Show porno parody has a trailer. I'm really impressed with Thomas Ward's Cosby impression, but his performance isn't the only thing he nails, ifyaknowwhatimean. [Bits & Pieces]

Here's how the meeting convincing Ice-T to sign on to this film went: "I'll only do this talking mule movie if you can convince me of it's artistic integrity." "Do you like money?" "Sold." [Movieline]

The Ghostbusters video game trailer made me shoot ectoplasm all over my pants. [Game Trailers]

Saturday Night Live hasn't been as good since Hillary Swank, Ben Kingsley, and Dame Judi Dench retired their Night at the Roxbury characters. [Comic's Comic]

In an Apatow world, the schlubbiest men would marry the most beautiful women, but not before improvising several ten minute conversations that don't move the plot forward in any way, shape, or form. [College Humor]

Eugene Mirman gives tips for opening bands. Thank God I read this before my band Gonzil Hockey opened for U2 this summer. [AV Club]

As most college students either wrap up or begin a wild spring break, no doubt an R-rated week filled with drug and alcohol use, some nudity and adult situations, most comedians will sit in their New York apartments watching daytime television, obsessing over minute observations and minor annoyances.

It's true that most comics are socially handicapped nerds. But at least ten of them are not. At least ten comedians (probably just ten comedians, no more, no less) are or were wild-eyed, debauched party animals, consuming any drink or substance placed in front of them. These comedians were like that text-book staple poem "We real cool. We skip school. We jazz June. We die soon. We write dick jokes." This list is about those ten.

10. Russell Brand

For years now, Russell Brand has been England's bad boy. He's caused controversy wherever he's gone, pushing the boundaries of taste, dismissing the concept of "too soon." In his autobiography, My Booky Wook, Brand regales the reader with illicit tales of drug and alcohol abuse. After battling his addictions, which included heroin as well as booze, Brand has lived clean since 2002. But his sex habits have not died down. He is famous for his ability to woo almost any woman into sex (shagging, rogering, etc.).

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