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:

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.