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:

Slow News Day: Apatow Appoints M.C. D.A., Ferrell Orders HBO, Starship Lands Friedlander, Birdman Takes a Bow

ITEM: David Krumholtz, a nice-guy character actor frequently utilized by Ed Burns and Judd Apatow, is following Jason Segel's plan and writing himself his own movie for generous Judd's Apatow Productions. Attorneys at Raw follows two lawyers who decide to become rappers. Here's hoping Judd keeps a close watch on that dumb-ass plot. Meanwhile, Krumholtz has been cast in the other, more foolproof musical Apatow comedy Walk Hard.

ITEM: Will Ferrell and Adam McKay's previously announced pilot, P.E., has been picked up for series by HBO, and simultaneously stripped down to untitled status. The show follows a former athlete lowered to coaching high school gym. Ferrell is expected to make frequent guest appearances, but the show is otherwise officially uncast.

ITEM: Judah Friedlander, best known for nerding it up in American Splendor and 30 Rock, has joined the cast of the still dubious Starship Dave, joining Eddie Murphy, Elizabeth Banks, and Ed Helms in the sci-fi comedy written by MST3K's Bill Corbett and directed by the man who brought you Norbit (and refuses to take it back).

ITEM: The third and final season of Harvey Birdman, Attorney at Law will hit DVD shelves on July 24, featuring deleted scenes and a digital comic book. We're not sure what a digital comic book is, either. If you're keeping score, this show's cancellation brings Adult Swim's surviving original lineup down to one.

Arnett and Fischer Answer Casting Call

Will Arnett and Jenna Fischer have signed on for supporting roles in two hotly antipated comedies, Semi-Pro and Walk Hard. Arnett will play a sports announcer for Will Ferrell's ill-fated basketball team, while Fischer will play a June Carter type to John C. Reilly's pseudo-Cash in Judd Apatow and Jake and Kasdan's musical biopic spoof. Both films are set for release in 2008.

Arnett has been keeping mad busy since the unfortunate Arrested Development termination, with The Brothers Solomon, Hot Rod, Blades of Glory, and Spring Breakdown all in post-production for release this year. He's also attached to star in Dax Shepard's epic hot-tub-salesmen tale Get 'Em Wet, and as the titular role in Ali G Show writer James Bobin's Jeff the Demon. Last April, it was also announced that he had sold a pitch to DreamWorks for The Ambassador, in which he would star as the son of the Vice President, who makes an ass of himself overseas as an American representative. That one's to be written by Michael Schur, currently writing for the American Office.

Which brings us brack to Office star Fischer, who's currently in the midst of that show's third season, as well as starring in another Reilly vehicle, Quebec, as Seann William Scott's character's wife. She also has small roles in, um, The Brothers Solomon and Blades of Glory. Small world.

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A Trailer in Glorious HD

IGN has posted the first trailer for Blades of Glory, starring Will Ferrell and Jon Heder as two solo figure skaters who are banned from the game after fighting, but return to competition through a loophole that allows them to perform as a couple, pitting them against champion skating couple Will Arnett and Amy Poehler. So...go watch that.

No, you're not losing it, that was indeed William "Mr. Feeny" Daniels as the figure skating commissioner, and Craig T. "Coach Fox" Nelson as the skating coach.

Also, Ain't it Cool News has posted a positive but enormously vague review of an early screening of the movie, which hits theaters March 30.