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Further dedicating themselves to comedy, IFC has initiated an “Adopt-A-Comic” program where they will show their appreciation to some of their favorite comics by having them be “part of their family” for a year. What that exactly means/will they end up getting a show on IFC has yet to be seen, but we’re certainly thrilled at their first choice with Chris Gethard.

We’re sure they’ll have more photos of Chris like the one above for 364 more days to come

It’s been awhile since we’ve seen some stellar music videos filled with comedian cameos, but, luckily, Tom Scharpling has one where Laura Linney plays a robotic Aimee Mann under the advisement of John Hodgman for Aimee Mann’s Charmer and The Sklar Brothers directed The Sheepdogs’ The Way It Is with Jon Dore and Rory Scovel yelling at a little league baseball team that’s playing a bunch of drunken 30 year olds.

Apparently, surrogate androids and ridiculously unfair baseball games are a great way to start the week.

Previously premiering on Epix, which you might not have, Lewis Black’s In God We Rust is coming to Comedy Central on Sept. 7th at MIDNIGHT. After it airs, it will be on sale on DVD and CD from Comedy Central on 9/11 or Patriot Day, whether you think that’s appropriate or not. 

Not that it will play during the special, but we can hear AC/DC’s Back in Black already.

College Humor is doing a benefit of sorts by putting on several videos at their site with the likes of Ed Helms, Nick Offerman, Joss Whedon, Reggie Watts, Aubrey Plaza, Chris Pratt, Adam Scott, Tony Hale, Weird Al Yankovic, Paul Scheer, Nick Kroll, Garfunkel & Oates and many more in order to fight malaria.

The Malarious campaign gets all of those names above to do some crazy funny stuff that you can see for a donation of $1 or more in order to get combat the disease that you probably thought was gone since the 90’s.

After successfully touring the festival circuit, we just caught wind of this delightful buddy-road-indie-band comedy The Brooklyn Brothers Beat the Best, whose trailer gave us a good hard laugh in a landscape of comedy trailers devoid of that. A film by Ryan O’Nan (writes, directs, and does all the original songs), who also stars along with Michael Weston and Arielle Kebbel, The Brooklyn Brothers looks like it will be a welcome addition to the small table of comedy band duos.

In theaters Sept. 21st.

The very funny DC Pierson has another novel to follow up The Boy Who Couldn’t Sleep and Never Had To called, Crap Kingdom coming out in March of next year. The comedic fantasy adventure book is available for pre-order, which, if you choose to do, DC will put your name in a rap song that he will record soon. 

For $17.99, that all sounds like a steal.

If you want to think of it this way, Rob Delaney’s Live at the Bowery Ballroom will be a significant test of the “Louis CK model” of self-producing and distributing a stand-up special. Rob Delaney has a huge online following with little of that derived from his TV appearances including interviews when he was trying to sue Kim Kardashian for her divorce and reading tweets on The Daily Habit. Also, you’ll get to hear the Twitter King (as crowned by National Lampoon) to speak beyond 140 characters outside of catching him live around the country, or, most recently, in England. 

Live at the Bowery Ballroom will be available for $5, Sept. 4th at RobDelaney.com.

An audition tape for the film adaptation of the bestselling novel 50 Shades of Grey was leaked. Apparently, he had no idea what the book was about. Also, it was Paul Scheer and the video was leaked to College Humor.

If you ask us, Paul should have the role of Christian Grey on lock. 

Have your heart strings pulled with exclusive art, screen caps, .gifs, as well as clips from their award winning feature length and animated short films every minute of every day with the Tumblr blog that Disney Pixar just started a few months ago. Though you may already know this (they have plenty of followers), we feel it our duty to tell you.

In a roundabout way, is getting emotional, then laughing heartily at work NSFW?

You might have heard that IFC just adopted Chris Gethard as part of their annual Adopt-a-Comic program. Here’s a video of Day 1/A Great Display of Why Chris Gethard Needed To Be Adopted.

Back for Season 2, Comedy Central’s hit sketch show Key & Peele is doing their round of tapings of the live portions of their show again at Nate Holden Theater. Aug. 29th, 30th, Sept. 4th, 5th, and 6th. It’s free as long as you RSVP.

Realize, you could see Luther, Obama’s anger translator, live, for free.

ON THE HORIZON
Karen Kilgariff’s Elysium @ Fake Gallery Fri. Aug. 24th 9PM $10 
The Fogelnest Files @ UCB Theatre Thurs. Aug. 30th 9:30PM $5 

COMEDY CRAWL
The Midnight Show with Pete Holmes Taping @ Warner Bros. Studios 2PM FREE w/RSVP 
Gersh Showcase @ Hollywood Improv 8PM $14/2 item min. 
The Josh & Josh Show @ Bar Lubitsch 8:30PM FREE 
Sarah Silverman & Friends @ Largo at the Coronet Theatre 9PM $25 
The Comedy Palace @ The Palace Restaurant 9:30PM FREE 
Entertainment Hollywood Live! @ UCB Theatre 9:30PM $5 
Hello Giggles Presents @ Hollywood Laugh Factory 10PM $10-$25/2 drink min.
Mike Truesdale’s Variety Verite @ Groundlings 10PM $10 

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Last night, John Oliver stopped by Late Night with Jimmy Fallon and gave his thoughts on the upcoming election. One of those thoughts was calling for Obama to call America out for its first half performance.

Previously just available on the iPad, Funny or Die’s digital magazine, The Occasional, can now be viewed on the iPhone in order to get more people their FoD fix. When and whether people with Motorola Razrs will ever get to enjoy The Occasional has yet to come.

So far, so good as there’s been more news of the upcoming reviving of Arrested Development over the last week. It’s going to happen everyone. It’s going to happen. We’re going to see George Michael Bluth grow up.

Arrested Development will premiere in Spring 2013.

There might be 13 episodes instead of the originally announced order of 10.