Last night on America’s Got Talent, Jimmy Fallon made a special appearance to help promote his Emmys hosting gig going down Sunday at 8 pm EST on NBC.

Now, for you haters out there thinking, “What’s Fallon doing on a talent show? He hasn’t got any talent.” Well, we’d like to say to you attitudy Judies (to quote comedian Pete Lee), it turns out the man can do 10 second imitations of a dozen comedians. That’s talent. Right? Maybe?

You decide. Check out the video below, wherein Fallon takes some time to become Jerry Seinfeld, Bill Cosby, Chris Rock, Robin Williams, Norm Macdonald, Gilbert Gottfried, Pee-Wee Herman (not sure how he fits in here), Jeff Foxworthy, Eddie Murphy, Larry the Cable Guy, Steven Wright and Adam Sandler.

Enjoy! Or not. We don’t want to tell you how to live your life.

It seems comedian Bob Saget, who has seen an incredible resurgence in popularity in the last five years – due to his stand-up touring, his narration duties on How I Met Your Mother and, of course, Comedy Central’s roast in honor of him – has another project in the works. If you’ve been paying attention to his Twitter feed, you’ll already know this. If not, however, the brass at A&E just made it official.

A&E announced that Saget, who’s sitcom Surviving Suburbia was canceled last year after one season, is set to host Strange Days with Bob Saget, wherein the Full House alum “immerses himself in strange cultures, practices and occupations,” according to the Hollywood Reporter.

Sounds to me like a mix between Discovery’s long-running Dirty Jobs and the Travel Channel’s Bizarre Foods with Andrew Zimmern. That may not be a bad thing, since I enjoy both of those shows immensely. Saget will be joining fellow comedian Larry the Cable Guy in the reality show world this year; the Blue Collar comic is hosting a show on the History Channel called Only in America, which sounds like an American-only version of what Saget’s doing. Confused yet?

A few days ago we announced a pair of giveaways– one for Larry the Cable Guy’s newest DVD Tailgate Party, and the other for Anjelah Johnson’s debut CD/DVD That’s How We Do It!. Below are the winners of each. Thanks to everyone who entered. To the winners, we hope you enjoy your prizes (you’ll get them in a few days)!

Tailgate Party winners:

Jeff Mergen
Cable, WI

Margaret Crawford
Somerset, NJ

Mandy Sizemore
West Lafayette, IN

Kelly Allen
Dixon, IL

Victoria MacDonald
Amston, CT

Jeff Legg
Allen Park, Michigan

Tina
Pickerington, OH

Tina M Kropf
Phoenix, AZ

Jodie Rubin
Bodega Bay, California

Brett Watson
Los Angeles, CA

Runners up: (Will not get Tailgate Party, but will receive another Larry prize)

Tony Hernbloom
Lincoln, NE

Kimberly Losaw
Sharon Springs, NY

Steve Thomas
Woodbury, CT

That’s How We Do It! winners

Gina Cantu
Houston, TX

Katie Bess
Napa, CA

Alfonso Valera
Crofton, MD

Brenda Diaz
Los Angeles, CA

Cristina Vasquez
San Jose, CA

Chris Rowland
Clifton, NJ

Herschel Tom
Boulder, CO

Christabelle Qlacar
Tustin, CA

We’re happy to announce that we’re giving away 10 copies of Larry the Cable Guy’s latest release, his Tailgate Party DVD. The concert was filmed at Nebraska’s famous Memorial Stadium in front of 53,000 people. And now, our friends, you can own the experience for free.

Simply e-mail us at punchlinemagazine@gmail.com with the subject line Larry. In your message, please leave your full mailing address and full name. You’ll have to be ok with us naming you and your town on this here blog. The first 10 people to submit an email will snag themselves a copy of Tailgate Party. That’s it. Good luck!

America’s favorite stand-up com-hicks, Jeff Foxworthy, Bill Engvall and Larry the Cable Guy (hilarious guys and bright businessmen laughing all the way to the ATM) will reunite to reminisce about 10 years of their comedy phenomenon, the Blue Collar Tour, on two TV specials airing back-to- back March 13 on CMT.

The fun begins at 8 p.m. with True Blue: Ten Years of Blue Collar Comedy, a behind-the-scenes chronicle of the tour, including its origin, personalities, setbacks and success.

Only the fourth member of the team, Ron White, will be missing when Foxworthy, Engvall, and Larry the Cable Guy join host Jaime Pressly (My Name is Earl) and a live audience on Blue Collar Comedy: Ten Years of Funny. The three comedians will recollect, introduce and joke about film clips from the tours, and re-create their signature improvisational finale.

Dan Whitney, aka Larry the Cable Guy, will be filming episodes for a new History Channel show during his current five-month national tour. Tentatively titled, The United States of Larry, the show will find the hugely successful blue collar comedian criss-crossing the nation interviewing folks with interesting jobs, hobbies and ways of life.

Larry revealed that participating in a Civil War reenactment and learning how moonshine is made are just two of the activities he’ll be partaking in.

Filming will begin in March and take a total of 39 days. “Did you ever think you’d see me on the History Channel?” Larry laughs.

The holiday spirit has found its way to “Larry the Cable Guy’s” heart. Larry the Cable Guy, whose real name is Dan Whitney, has made quite the charitable donation to Madonna Rehabilitation Hospital in Lincoln, Nebraska. He has pledged $1.2 million dollars to construct a 14-bed children’s unit at the hospital that will be devoted to helping children overcome injury and illness.

Larry the Cable Guy, a native of Pawnee City, Neb., has made the pledge through his Git-R-Done Foundation which seeks to “provide assistance to individuals, families and organizations that have experienced hardships beyond their control.” In the past, the Git-R-Done Foundation has made contributions to both the National Guard and the FFA: the Future Farmers of America.

For information on how you can contribute to the Git-R-Done Foundation, why don’t you check out gitrdonefoundation.org? And hey, check out a few quotes below from Larry in this bizarrely edited video from a local news station in North Carolina.

If you like your holiday cheer laced with redneck humor from one of the country’s most popular comedians, you might want to mosey on over to CMT on Friday, hunker down with a bottle of moonshine and check out Larry the Cable Guy’s Hula-Palooza Christmas Luau. Starting at 9 pm and lasting 90 minutes, Larry will regale you with the finest in boob and toilet humor. But he won’t do it alone. Look out for stand-up sets from friends Jon Reep and Reno Collier as well as appearances by Caroline Rhea, Saturday Night Live’s Kenan Thompson and more.

If you miss the televised version of Hula-Palooza, the DVD will hit stores Nov. 23 with fancy extras. For now, check out all the replay info on CMT’s version and a special trailer from the show below.

And while you’re at it, check out the interview we did with Larry a few months ago. It’s right here.

Eddie Izzard says there's nothing wrong with performing stand-up comedy in arenas.

In a new interview on WalesOnline, Eddie Izzard, in addition to asking us in the States to please believe that he’s a transvestite – despite his many manly roles in Hollywood the last few years – defends his decision to perform stand-up comedy in large arenas, as opposed to more intimate venues. Many comedy purists believe that stand-up comedy should always be presented in a room with no more than 300 to 350 seats, with excellent sight lines all around and where you can see the beads of sweat form on the comics brows.

Others, however, feel that there’s nothing wrong with “rock ‘n roll” comedy, wherein a comedian has a big enough audience to fill arenas, where, there’s a good chance a large percentage of the crowd will be watching most of the show on big screens flanking a giant stage, not unlike what you might see at a Dane Cook or Larry the Cable Guy show.

Izzard defends arena comedy thusly:

Six years ago, I did the first arena tour of the UK and that was a little scary because I didn’t know what I would be dealing with. People will say it’s not intimate, but … if people don’t want to watch it there, then don’t watch it there. But I definitely think it’s a good thing. It makes it more of an event. And why should rock and roll get all the arena shows? If you think of the first ever arena gig, when The Beatles did Shea Stadium in 1965, it was a crap gig. Great band, great event but a crap gig because you couldn’t hear anything.

People have had to learn how to play stadium gigs in music. And comedy has to go through the same thing, we just have to work out how to play arenas. No-one bats an eyelid when bands play arenas and if it’s a good thing for bands it’s a good thing for comedy.

So what do you think? Can stand-up comedy be performed effectively at an arena? Have you ever been to an arena comedy show? Did it suck? Was it awesome? Please share all of your experiences in the comments section.

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.