We don't know how something as original, subversive, and hysterical as The Human Giant can be so successful, but apparently it is, because MTV is letting the group take over their network (and its sequel channel) for 24 hours this weekend starting Friday at noon. This sounds as crazy on MTV's part as parents leaving their six-year-old twins in charge of the house for the weekend, but you the viewer get to reap the rewards. Aziz Ansari assures that they have free reign to do whatever they want to do for 24 hours, including airing any show they want and inviting any guest they want, so of course they've invited a superteam of comic heroes like Bob Odenkirk, Will Arnett, Michael Cera, Zach Galifianakis, Michael Showalter, Jon Benjamin, Bill Hader, Fred Armisen, Jon Glaser, Eugene Mirman, Andy Blitz, and Rob Riggle, many of whom have already appeared on the sketch show. There will also be musical guests and, presumably, some Human Giant episodes or something. The Crazy Police will be on call in case, you know, things get too crazy.
Join them live at your television set for the full extravaganza if you can, because there's not a whole lot of 24-hour torrents out there.
and is now apparently hosting an Adult Swim-style animation showcase called Uncle Joe’s Cartoon Playhouse for some obscure Canadian station called Bite TV (you can watch a promo 
featuring new commentary from Flaherty.
actor who’s had no problem racking lots of dramatic roles since playing Sam and Linday’s pleasant, rosy, and frequently embarrassing mother, from multiple Law & Order appearances to a starring role in last year’s controversial Death of a President. She does however appear in the low-budget teen comedy Gretchen, also starring Stephen Root, which made the festival rounds recently and will hopefully land on DVD soon.
uber-geek on Freaks paved the way for Hagan to play a recurring, D&D-loving uber-geek on Buffy the Vampire Slayer's final season, until she was eaten by a mega-vamp. Since then, she landed a juicy role on a (probably angst-filled) episode of Grey’s Anatomy, and now she’ll be appearing in a small supporting role with Amy Poehler, Parker Posey, and Rachel Dratch in the middle-aged dance party Spring Breakdown, which is set for release early next year.
before he treated our boys to his smoking acoustic Alice Cooper covers, as the naked half of the LA live staple Naked Trucker and T-Bones, which has now of course blossomed into an over-advertised, cameo-plastered cable variety show. He’ll also team up with Zach Galifianakis in a new concert film by Jon Brion, another mainstay of Hollywood’s live music (and sometimes comedy) scene. No word yet on whether his minor cult classic Comedy Central series Higgins Boys and Gruber will ever see the light of day on DVD.
Ned’s Declassified School Survival Guide (Declassified to its true fans), but recently left for a role in the amusing but quickly cancelled Ted Danson group-therapy sitcom Help Me Help You. Meanwhile, his good buddies Paul Feig and Judd Apatow have been keeping him more than busy with quick and easy film roles in 40-Year-Old Virgin, Unaccompanied Minors, and the upcoming Drillbit Taylor, and he’ll also appear with Will Ferrell, Woody Harrelson, Will Arnett, Rob Corddry, Andy Richter, Andy Daly, and a ton of other hilarious people in next year’s anticipated Semi-Pro.
major (and friggin’ hysterical) role in The Royal Tenenbaums, this king-of-the-geeks seems to have willfully withdrawn from acting to focus instead on writing 
trouble keeping hella busy maintaining a hella bizarre resume, from providing all manner of voices for Spongebob to nabbing supporting roles in grating Hollywood shitfests Larry the Cable Guy: Health Inspector and Zoom. He also joined Steve Bannos on the short-lived Help Me Help You. But more importantly (to him, anyway), he’s been pushing himself as a live comedian with his own…special brand of…musical…er, comedy… which you can watch at his 
continued to follow his famous father’s footsteps, directing Orange County and The TV Set, the latter of which opened in limited theaters today, and whose lead character is openly based on Judd Apatow. The film follows the trials and tribulations of working with network heads on a labor-of-love TV show, which is based heavily on real-life experiences behind the scenes of Freaks, and also possibly from Kasdan’s failed Alan Cumming pilot based on his fantastic debut film, The Zero Effect. Now Kasdan is filming his next movie, the absolutely delicious sounding musical bio-pic spoof Walk Hard, co-written and produced by Apatow.
the biggest name in contemporary comedy. Maybe you’ve heard of him. After following up Freaks with the similarly themed, similarly beloved, and similarly cancelled Undeclared, Apatow tried to get two other series off the ground, Life on Parole and Sick in the Head (working with Freaks creator Paul Feig on the latter), before giving up on TV altogether and instead making The 40-Year-Old Virgin, which made about a trillion dollars and is frequently called the best comedy of the century so far. Meanwhile, he continued exerting the producing muscle he exerted on Freaks, the Larry Sanders Show, and the Ben Stiller Show into film, producing all of the Adam McKay/Will Ferrell vehicles and fleshing out his Apatow Productions company into a machine gun of comic quality. He has now set up no less than seven upcoming projects, including all the ones we’ve already mentioned in other sections of this feature, plus the Adam Sandler vehicle You Don’t Mess with the Zohan, which Apatow wrote with Sandler and Robert Smigel. His next project as writer/director, Knocked Up, comes out this summer, and will surely blow you away.
the end of the series, with the indie melodrama I Am David, as well as many episodes of Arrested Development and the American Office. Last Christmas saw the release of his critically panned family holiday flick Unaccompanied Minors, filled with several friendly faces to F&G fans and comedy fans in general. Next he’ll direct Stargirl, based on a teen-friendly novel about a popular high school boy and the quirky underdog girl who loves him. If that’s not familiar territory, what is?
quickly cancelled culinary comedy series Kitchen Confidential, John is getting back on the horse with The Call, a recently announced pilot about a group of paramedics who “save other people’s lives while screwing up each other’s.” Meanwhile, 5-25-77, the long-delayed autobiographical story of a bunch of nerds seeing Star Wars for the first time, is finally due to be released “as close to 5-25-07 as possible,” according to Patrick Read Johnson, the writer and director portrayed by Daley in the film. Daley will also appear in an episode of Michael Cera’s web series Clark and Michael, premiering on CBS Innertube later this year.
has sent her over to the other side, becoming a regular on ER and starring in a new chapter of the long-running Lonesome Dove series. But comedy fans surely recognized her in the premiere episode of the fantastic new sketch show Human Giant. Oh, and she also shows up on Robot Chicken from time to time, probably getting dry-clay-humped by Scooby Doo.
TV cameos, from Undeclared to Entourage to Family Guy to Veronica Mars, and occasionally dips his toes into the film scene as well, whether it’s being the creepy pool kid in Club Dread or providing geeky tech explanations in the less-than-well-received horror flop Pulse, a film for which he was the only actor who bothered to show up for the commentary track, a fact he’s more than ready to be self-effacing about. Levine also stars with Seth Macfarlane and Alexis Bledel in the short film Life is Short, hitting festivals around the country starting this month, and has supporting appearances in two upcoming features, the Amanda Bynes tweener laffer Sydney White, and the gay-themed dramedy Anderson’s Cross.
work in all manner of TV and movies, almost exclusively playing characters with numbers after their names. But this summer, he’ll join Segel and Rogen in Knocked Up, playing a nappily bearded roommate which leads to the funniest beard jokes you’ll ever hear in cinemas. Then he’ll join Tom Arnold in the questionably titled Good Dick, and then it’s back to numbers playing Dude #5 in Seth Rogen’s Superbad. Superbad’s Michael Cera has also thrown Starr a guest spot on his new web series Clark and Michael, which also features John Daley.
subversive to topline Apatow’s original vision for Undeclared, Segel is now making a good living out of starring in the blandly enjoyable traditional CBS sitcom How I Met Your Mother, with the bonus privilege of getting to pretend to fuck Buffy babe Alyson Hannigan. He also has an occasional recurring character on CSI, so take that, FOX. Segel is also one of the already legendary Roommates in Apatow’s upcoming masterpiece Knocked Up, and he’ll work with Apatow yet again when he stars in his own script for Forgetting Sarah Marshall, playing a jilted ex-lover who tries to escape his depression through a Hawaiian vacation, only to discover his ex visiting the same island with her new boyfriend. Apatow will produce with first-time director Nicholas Stoller, a Strangers with Candy writer who also worked with the pair on Undeclared. And the girlfriend’s played by Lake Bell, whose Veronica Mars featured Samm Levine! Small world!
for sharing porn with clueless geeks, Franco is keeping more than busy with a multitude of overblown melodrama projects in the works. However, he still shows his proud comedy roots here and there, writing, directing, and starring in the wholly bizarre-looking direct-to-video chimp flick The Ape, and also recently sighted at Sundance in the Bruce Lee send-up Finishing the Game, starring alongside MC Hammer (multiple exclamation points and question marks). He recently finished filming Camille, a darkly comic adventure about a thief and his deadly sham marriage, also starring Sienna Miller and David Carradine. And now, most exciting of all, he’s filming The Pineapple Express, his return to both producer Judd Apatow and co-star Seth Rogen, in a stoner action buddy comedy written by Rogen and his writing partner Evan Goldberg, and directed by indie hero David Gordon Green.
got the biggest laughs on the series went on to getting the biggest laughs of Undeclared as well, and even picked up writing a few of the show’s best episodes. That talent got him a gig on Da Ali G Show, and then Apatow cast him as one of the leads in the gargantuan-mega-hit 40-Year-Old Virgin, where he was so funny that studio heads quickly cast him as the only mildly amusing character in You, Me, and Dupree, and now he’s on his way to becoming an A-list headliner with his critically lauded performance in Knocked Up. Apatow is also turning his writing career with high school chum Evan Goldberg into a second career, producing their scripts for the autobiographical Superbad, John Hughes’ kid-comedy Drillbit Taylor with Owen Wilson, and The Pineapple Express, which will star Rogen and Franco. That’s three Rogen scripts within a year of each other. He’ll also have smaller acting roles in Fanboys and the family fantasy The Spiderwick Chronicles, as well as lending his voice to Horton Hears a Who along with Jim Carrey, Steve Carell, and Superbad star Jonah Hill. That’s almost as busy as Green Goblin Jr. up there!
Dawson’s Creek has made Busy a constant mainstay of various television, lending voices, like many of these guys, to Seth Macfarlane’s various animated projects, and headlining the girly UPN sitcom Love, Inc., which wasn’t nearly as bad as it should have been due to the involvement of several Upright Citizens Brigade favorites. Now that it’s been cancelled, she’s joined Cardellini at ER. Strangely enough, Philipps actually developed the story line for Blades of Glory, currently the #1 movie in the country. Yes, it was Kim Kelly who thought of two dudes skating together. These freaks pop up everywhere.
