Interview Roundup

The last few news days have been too slow even for our Slow News Day department. The Coen Bros. and George Clooney have announced new dark comedies with little in the way of plot or cast, Les Claypool's Electric Apricot, Vince Vaughn's Wild West Comedy Show, and a few other long-wrapped features were picked up for distribution, the Simpsons are getting their own damn ride, and that's been about it. All the comedy mainstays must be out promoting their current projects instead of making new ones, so why not check out this bevy of recent interviews?



The AV Club talks to Edgar Wright, Simon Pegg, and Nick Frost, keepers of last weekend's biggest per-screen box office numbers, about 138 different cop movies and how to act like a monkey.

Michael Showalter has an awkward phone call with Human Giant.

CHUD talks to Paul Rudd and Ken Marino about those pesky State DVDs and imaginary comedy battles.

The AV Club talks to Master Shake, Frylock, Meatwad, and Carl about peanut butter, mimes, and condoms.

People asks Adam McKay how to get your daughter to curse like a sailor, and then has a brief e-mail dialogue with the Landlord herself.

Gothamist talks to Jon Benjamin about his new Super Deluxe cartoon, his formative years, and "fuck powder."

Sketchfest Fever!

If you're in the San Francisco area, and have a cushy job that allows you to afford the exorbidant ticket prices, you'll definitely want to check out the 2007 SF Sketchfest, kicking off this Thursday and going through the end of January.

The festival features performances, sketch games, workshops, interviews, and more, with appearances by Stella, Rob Corddry, Todd Barry and Jon Benjamin, Eugene Mirman, A.D. Miles, David Cross, Maria Bamford, Doug Benson, Paul F. Tompkins, Todd Barry, Hard n' Phirm, Todd Glass, Michael J. Nelson, Bill Corbett, Kevin Murphy, Paul Reubens, Matt Besser, Ian Roberts, Matt Walsh, Sean Conroy, Bob Odenkirk, and Bruce McCulloch, plus a tribute to Mitch Hedberg. In other words, "Damn!"

For the full schedule, look here.

If you attend the Sketchfest, please drop the Comedyblog an e-mail with your write-up and we'll run it as a special eye-witness bulletin. And yeah, we can put a link to your dumb MySpace profile if you want.