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Count the Comedy Stars in Matt Walsh’s Improv Stoner Comedy High Road

Upright Citizens Brigade co-founder Matt Walsh ( Outsourced ) called on a dozen of his fellow comedians to act in his directorial debut High Road , an improvised film about a weed dealer (James F. Pumphrey) torn between his “career,” his musical aspirations, and his pregnant girlfriend (Abby Elliott). Hit the trailer after the jump and see how many of your favorite comedy players, including veterans of The State, Saturday Night Live , and Walsh’s short-lived series Players show up in the lo-fi indie comedy. (Well hello , Horatio Sanz!)

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Count the Comedy Stars in Matt Walsh’s Improv Stoner Comedy High Road

Count the Comedy Stars in Matt Walsh’s Improv Stoner Comedy High Road

Upright Citizens Brigade co-founder Matt Walsh ( Outsourced ) called on a dozen of his fellow comedians to act in his directorial debut High Road , an improvised film about a weed dealer (James F. Pumphrey) torn between his “career,” his musical aspirations, and his pregnant girlfriend (Abby Elliott). Hit the trailer after the jump and see how many of your favorite comedy players, including veterans of The State, Saturday Night Live , and Walsh’s short-lived series Players show up in the lo-fi indie comedy. (Well hello , Horatio Sanz!)

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Community Casts Hilary Duff for Mean Girls Spoof

That Community is planning on doing a Mean Girls spoof shouldn’t surprise you, but who the series is bringing aboard to play the Queen Bee just might. Hilary Duff will join the cast of the NBC comedy during November sweeps as a member of a clique that torments our favorite study group. That’s great and all, but really: No room for Lizzy Caplan? [ EW ]

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A Party Down Movie?

The Veronica Mars feature may have never gotten off the ground but Lizzy Caplan is hoping that she and the Party Down crew can continue their catering careers for the big screen (even if that means that they’ll literally have to cater their own movie). “We want it so bad,” she told Hitfix last week about the latest Rob Thomas series to be killed before its time . “We could do it for no money, no time. We would do it for free. I just don’t know if we’re legally allowed to do it.” Chris Albrecht, do you have a problem with that? [ Hitfix ]

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Spider-Man Is THISCLOSE To Picking Its New Peter Parker

According to Movieline sister site Deadline, Sony executives are reportedly closing in on picking their new Spider-Man , and on Friday viewed the screen-tests of the lucky final few. Can you feel the excitement? Once selected, the newly-crowned wall-crawler will begin production before year’s end on the film, scheduled for July 2, 2012. Director Marc Webb is working off a script from James Vanderbilt — whose script previous Spider-Man director Sam Raimi reportedly did not like but Sony thought was A-OK for them. The new Spidey will be filmed in glorious (read: we can charge you suckers an extra 7 bucks) 3D. So, which actors made it through to the swimsuit competition that is the screen test?

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Say Hello To THESE! Judy Greer Joins New CBS Comedy

Fresh from setting the comedy world on fire in Marmaduke , Judy Greer has been cast in CBS’ s new comedy Mad Love which follows four friends as they look for love in New York City. Greer joins the cast which includes Sarah Chalke, Tyler Labine, and Jason Biggs. For those keeping track at home, Greer replaces Lizzy Caplan who was a replacement herself for Ashley Austin Morris. Add to the fact that Labine was brought in as a replacement for Dan Fogler and Chalke replaced Minka Kelly, and this makes Mad Love only the 87th most volatile show on television. [ Deadline ]

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5 Reasons Why Tonight’s Season Finale of Party Down Should Be Its Last

The admirable selflessness of Lizzy Caplan aside, the second season finale of Party Down — airing tonight on Starz, but already available via Netflix Instant Watch — could very well be its last episode. Even if Starz’s were to pick up Party Down for a third season, how would the show work when Adam Scott — the ostensible lead — can only appear in three of the likely 10 episodes because of his new job on Parks and Recreation ? That’s like having Dexter appear on his eponymous show 30 percent of the time. So, yes: This could be the last episode ever. And guess what? That’s probably a good thing. To get you revved up for the season finale, here are five reasons why this should be the end of Party Down .

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Is There Hope for Party Down?

It turns out that Lizzy Caplan wasn’t kidding when she said she’d be loyal to Party Down until the bitter end. CBS is reportedly close to giving the comedy Mad Love a 13-episode pick-up for midseason, without Caplan on board. Caplan was in the original pilot but wouldn’t accept any overtures of commitment from CBS because of Party Down , and now it looks like her role is being recast with — fingers crossed — Judy Greer as the frontrunner. A television landscape with Party Down still airing and Judy Greer on a network show? Yes please. [ Deadline ]

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Hollywood Ink: Are You Ready For the Second Coming of John Schneider?