Seattle native, Dartanion London discusses how uncool it is to get into peak physical condition by use of Wii Fit.

The new Steven Soderbergh film starring Matt Damon The Informant doesn’t hit theaters until Oct. 9, but the first trailer just hit the Web. And if you didn’t know anything about the cast before today, you’ll be happily surprised to know there’s a handful of great stand-up comedians co-starring alongside Damon including Tom Papa, Joel McHale, Paul F. Tompkins, Patton Oswalt, Andrew Daly, Rick Overton, Bob Zany, Bil Dwyer and Jimmy Brogan.

The Patriot-Ledger in Quincy, MA describes the plot thusly:

Based on Kurt Eichenwald’s 2000 book, “The Informant” is the tale of Mark Whitacre (played by Matt Damon), an Ivy League Ph.D. who was a rising star at Archer Daniels Midland (ADM) in the early 1990s. The bipolar hero wound up blowing the whistle on the company’s price fixing tactics and became the highest-ranked executive to ever turn whistleblower in US history. Whitacre secretly gathered hundreds of hours of video and audio tapes over several years to present to the FBI which became one of the largest price fixing cases in history. 

We have to say, the movie looks highly entertaining and quite funny. We’ll be there — good or bad — if only to support some of our favorite comics.

When I was in Aspen a few weeks ago covering the Aspen Rooftop Comedy Festival I got to interview a bunch of great comics. So we’ll be rolling out those interviews from time to time. Here’s the first, this one with Ted Alexandro, wherein we talk about pirates, Ted’s dark mind and the presumed raping styles of Kobe Bryant and Patrick Ewing. Enjoy.

A few days ago, we told you about a book out in September called Twitter Wit, wherein many great comics have some of their funniest tweets included. Today, in more Twitter-related comedy news, comes the official launch of comedytweet.com. It’s a simple premise. It’s a place you can go and find the latest tweets from nearly 200 comedians— whether you follow them or not on your own Twitter account.

“Through Twitter some of the world’s funniest comedians have gathered in a unique forum and it’s tremendously entertaining,” says Pete Housley, president and CEO of ComedyTweet.com. “There are funny jokes, event calendars and some deep personal insights - and if you want to know what kind of coffee Penn Jillette drinks you’re in luck — all in 140 characters.”

According to ComedyTweet, their roster of comedians, on average, tweet 1,000 times a day total and post 30 photos. You can follow ComedyTweet at @comedytweet and Punchline Magazine at @punchlinemag.

Larry the Cable Guy, he of the beer-swilling, NASCAR-loving country folk crowd, will celebrate the independence of our nation with Tailgate Party, his new stand-up special. A first of its kind digital download, the show will be featured exclusively online, courtesy of Basecamp Productions.

Kicking off on the 4th, the dowload will be available at http://live.larrythecableguy.com for only $10.

If you haven’t spent some time checking out Dan Cummins, please do yourself a favor and do so. Later this year, Comedy Central will air his hour-long special. For now, check out this tasty nugget of comedy.

As if the folks at Funny or Die needed to do anything more to ensure that their site was one of the most popular and most influential comedy sites in the history of everything, they’ve just announced a brand-spanking new contest, wherein you can win a chance to produce a video with the site’s team of pro funnies. It’s totally true.

To bring you this contest, Funny Or Die has teamed up with HBO’s ComedyFetish.com, the network’s subsite that houses an exhaustive library of clips from their original comedy series— and it’s all packaged in a porn site-esque layout and organized in comedy categories like “verbal penetration,” “throbbing wit” and “premature evaluations.” Fun, right?

All the information you’ll need to enter the contest is right here. And in the meantime, check out Seth Morris’ explanation of the contest below. Good luck. And tell Funny Or Die that Punchline Magazine sent you.

Comedian Daniel Kinno likes his Macbook, he just finds the Apple store a bit pretentious. Check it out.

Eugene Mirman and Kristen Schaal bowed for about a minute and a half in appropriate mock theatricality as they took the stage together for a rare co-headlining show at Boston’s Wilbur Theatre on June 27.

The Flight of the Conchords co-stars didn’t fill the 1,200 seat venue, but the crowd that was gathered there stayed energetically giddy for two hours in which Mirman and Schaal performed together and apart and then together again, like a Billy Joel/Elton John show with fewer ballads and far more irony.

Schaal was up first, with a forty minute set that showcased her ability to slip from surreal to sweet to sexy/creepy (at least when she was crawling along the edge of the stage) with hilarious results. I was curious to see what she’d do in a solo live show, especially after seeing her kill in the Comedy Tent at this year’s Bonnaroo Arts and Music Festival. But that short set was with her sometimes-partner Kurt Braunohler, in an act that played like a bizarre take on the classic comedy duo model. (At one point, Schaal galloped across the stage as Braunohler sung “Kristen Schaal is a horse” over and over again until his voice took on lunatic shrillness and she was near collapse.)

At the Wilbur, Schaal was sans Braunohler but had a great act to do solo. She paid tribute to Michael Jackson, Farah Fawcett, and Ed McMahon with a toast, drinking Pepsi, Slim Fast and mayonnaise in their honor. With Mirman’s help, she acted out a pilot she said she’d recently written called “My Wife, the Vacuum.” Then, there was a bit where she slow-danced with a man in a tuxedo wearing a horse’s head. It was confusing.

Mirman (who grew up outside of Boston) followed Schaal by showing a few videos that you’d have to live in New England to find funny, and, as the whole crowd was from New England, this was a good decision. A lot of what I enjoy in Mirman’s act, whenever I’ve seen him, is the way he turns the notion of “found” comedy completely on its head, manufacturing letters of complaint to airlines or (in the case of Saturday’s show) local police departments, and loading them with so many ridiculous non-sequiturs that the whole thing seems to revel in and mock its own silliness all at once.

When Schaal reemerged at the end of Mirman’s set, she shared what might have been the strangest moment of the night. Apparently, during the course of the show, the performers learned that the feed from their wireless mics was somehow being transmitted over the PA system of the show in the theater next door, a production of The Color Purple. It might have ruined the play, but it’s hard to think of The Color Purple ever being that funny again.

Check out a video of Mirman and Schaal backstage after the show.

Masha Tivyan can not only pull off a solid set at Comix in NY, but also an excellent looking green frilly shirt.