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Salute Your Shorts: Dan Harmon's Channel 101 Shows

Salute Your Shorts is a weekly column that looks at short films, music videos, commercials or any other short form visual media that generally gets ignored.For any longtime fans of Dan Harmon’s work, Community is a surprise. Not the fact that it’s good, no, that’s something that we could all be pretty sure of. It’s that the show, a relatively conventional sitcom, could come from the avant-garde co-founder of Channel 101, whose prior claim to fame involves shows such as Computerman and Laser Fart. He’s long been a superstar for a relatively niche group of Los Angeles filmmakers and comedians,...  read more

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Andy Samberg, The Roots, MGMT Coming to Yo Gabba Gabba!

Andy Samberg will be one of several big names to join orange-clad DJ Lance Rock (Lance Robertson) and his mob of colorful creature friends in Gabba Land this fall....  read more

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Michael Cera, Jack Black and Danny McBride Walk Into a Bar

All right, not exactly, but Drunk History is funnier than that joke probably would've been anyway. In this video series created in 2007 and 2008, various funny folks combined forces to present "history as it's never been told before: Drunk." It goes a little something like this:...  read more

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Kung Fu Panda Franchise Heading to a TV Near You

With a sequel in the works and due out in 2011, DreamWorks is hoping to extend the life of the Kung Fu Panda franchise a little bit longer. With the success of the Madagascar's Penguins TV show, The Penguins of Madagascar, Nickelodeon has jumped on the boat once again and has ordered 26 episodes of the simply-named, Kung Fu Panda: The Series....  read more

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Amanda Peet Joins Gulliver's Travels

According to The Hollywood Reporter, Amanda Peet is reuniting with Saving Silverman co-star Jack Black and joining the cast of Gulliver's Travels....  read more

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Van Sant Considering Jack Black, Woody Harrelson for Acid

For the role of writer Ken Kesey in the upcoming film adaptation of The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, director Gus Van Sant had one person in mind. Unfortunately, that person was the late, Academy Award-winning actor Heath Ledger. ...  read more

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Paste's Double Life Playlist: The Actor/Musician

Jenny Lewis has recently released her Summer tour schedule, and we're amped about it. Many indie-music enthusiasts know her as the charming chanteuse of Rilo Kiley; however, any child of late '80s television knew the face well before the voice. Before jamming, Lewis appeared in Jell-O commercials. Before Rabbit Fur Coat, she pushed Girl Scout cookies in Troop Beverly Hills. And before romancing Jonathan Rice, she was on Fred Savage's radar in the 1989 film, The Wizard. All of this reminiscing got us thinking about some of our favorite actor-musicians, so we've created a playlist with a few faces you've...  read more

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The Lonely Island: Incredibad

The surprise for anyone listening to The Lonely Island's...  read more

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Emily Blunt and Jason Segel on board for Gulliver's Travels

According to Variety, Emily Blunt and Jason Segel will join Jack Black in Lilliput for Rob Letterman's Gulliver's Travels. Black will play Lemuel Gulliver, a travel writer who ends up in the island of Lilliput, an island populated by tiny people, after being sent on assignment to the Bermuda Triangle....  read more

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Judd Apatow's The Year One first-look unveiled

The Year One has been on our radar awhile now; we announced the cast in Dec. 2007. Filming began the next year and now we finally have a sneak peek (courtesy of /Film via Entertainment Weekly) of the Judd Apatow produced flick....  read more

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