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Salute Your Shorts: Clark and Michael

When Michael Cera co-created Clark and Michael in 2006, he was yet to blow up via the stardom that would come from Superbad and Juno...  read more

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Has the Arrested Development Movie Finally Quit Playing Games With Our Hearts?

It’s been a gut-churning, always-changing, ridiculously-updating rollercoaster of a ride to an Arrested Development movie since we first reported on the possibility back in those cold, lonely days of 2007. In 2008, the plans were deemed “officially in the works” and Jason Bateman reassured the masses that those plans were progressing....  read more

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Weird Al, Dave Eggers, Conan O'Brien, Many More Performing at SF Sketchfest

If laughter is the best medicine, then the three-week long, star-studded San Francisco Sketch Comedy Festival can surely cure anything. The SF Sketchfest has packed its ninth year’s lineup full of comedic heavyweights....  read more

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60th Anniversary Peanuts Look-A-Like Contest Ending Today

To celebrate Peanuts’ 60th Anniversary of colorful comic strips and, not to mention, a couple memorable holiday cartoon specials, the daughter of creator Charles Schulz is hosting an online character look-a-like contest that will make winners out of those with the most striking resemblance to the Peanuts cast....  read more

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Script in the Works for Arrested Development Movie

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Since the show's nigh-criminal cancellation in 2006 (unfortunately, the Supreme Court refused to even hear our case), speculation on a possible film version of Arrested Development has been running for nearly as long as the series was on television. There's been some reassuring words from series creator Mitch Hurwitz and various cast members, but with each bit of good news came word of an actor holdout or production snafu....  read more

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Charlyne Yi: Geek Love

In recent years, there’s been no shortage of well-soundtracked "alternative" romantic comedies, and most have hinged on a very particular archetype: the unassuming nerd girl...  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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Will Youth In Revolt be the Movie Where Michael Cera Finally Sheds His Man-Boy Cocoon?

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There's a stage in the metamorphosis of the butterfly called the "pupa" where the caterpillar nestles inside a hardened shell as it begins its transformation. Usually, the pupa stage lasts no longer than a month. Every now and then, though, we see curious cases of organisms bucking evolutionary trends. Take Michael Cera, who's been trapped in a man-boy cocoon of his own devising in the six years since he emerged as the endearingly awkward George Michael on Arrested Development....  read more

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Paper Heart

In Paper Heart, comedienne Charlyne Yi takes it upon herself to...  read more

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Michael Cera, Tyler Perry, Other Unlikely Folks Invited to Join Academy of Motion Picture Arts

Michael Cera, Seth Rogen, James Franco, Paul Rudd and writer-director Tyler Perry are some of the more unlikely of the 134 people invited to join the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences this year, according to a list released by the Academy. ...  read more

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