Monday, April 16, 2007

Slow News Day: Reno-ers Down Under, Ferrell or Die, Chasing Chevy, Wet Hot Karaoke

ITEM: In a new interview with Moviehole, Tom Lennon only-half-jokingly explains his vision for a Reno 911!: Miami sequel, which would send the team to Australia to pull a horny koala off Steven Seagal’s face, among other things. He also reveals that he and Ben Garant are now writing the Mike Myers vehicle How to Survive a Robot Uprising, and are in the early stages of development on a Night at the Museum sequel too, but who gives a shit?

ITEM: With a million views so far, you’ve probably already seen Adam McKay and Will Ferrell’s exclusive Internet short The Landlord, but just in case, here it is in all its youthful, foul-mouthed glory. So far, no word on where the hell this thing came from and how start-up video site Funny or Die managed to get a lock on it.

ITEM: Chevy Chase attempts to clear up every rumor he’s ever been attached to in a new Q&A with Time. Among the more interesting revelations: His long-term absence, peppered with phoned-in supporting roles, may be coming to a close now that his daughters have grown up, he only left SNL for a girl, and he claims the damaging gossip about his backstage gay-bashing is 100% fabricated, and that he has the testimony from Will Ferrell to prove it. A far less interesting revelation: he thinks Vegas Vacation was “just OK.”

ITEM: This weekend at a Michael Showalter-hosted magazine premiere party, Paul Rudd and David Wain belted out a no-holds-barred Boston karaoke classic to live accompaniment by champion weirdsters Of Montreal. Fortunately (or maybe not), someone captured it via shitty cell phone camera, and now here it be:

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