This is a new red-band clip from The Goods: Live Hard, Sell Hard, featuring Jeremy Piven, Gina Gershon, Will Ferrell, and a backpack full of dildos and lube.  Also, Will Ferrell is dressed like Abe Lincoln.  Though for some reason he’s sporting a mutton-chop-sideburns combo, which, although sweet, differs from Lincoln’s well-publicized preference for an Amish-style chin strap.

I’m not sure how feel about The Goods, which opens this Friday.  It looks like your standard Will Ferrell-Adam McKay comedy, which is less a movie than a collection of ad-libs and improvised sketches.  It’s a movie I’ve probably already seen a few times, and I wish they’d take the time to re-write and shoot scenes after they chance upon something funny during improv, but then, I can’t fully argue with Abe Lincoln and dildos raining from the sky.  It’s a dilemma as old as time.

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In 2006, Half-Baked co-writer and frequent Chappelle collaborator (as well as director of The Goods) Neal Brennan directed Tracy Morgan, Chris Kattan and others in Totally Awesome, a spoof of 80s teen comedies which played once on VH-1 before going direct to DVD.  I’ve never seen it and it probably sucks, but this collection of Tracy Morgan outtakes and ad libs made me laugh so hard I had a miscarriage.

“So watchoo think, there’s some kinda yellow brick road?  And I’m the wizard?  There’s requirements to bein’ black!  There’s requirements!  You ever throw a chihuahua off the roof in the projects?  You ever got a female pregnant when you was like… seven?  Have you ever fist fought your pediatrician? Do you got a family-sized portrait of Jim Kelly on the wall?  Do anybody in your house sleep in a medicated bed?”

And it just goes on like that for nine minutes.  I’m 80% sure Tracy Morgan is clinically insane, but his insanity is somehow perfectly comedic.  Around the corner near my old apartment near Harlem, there was a black barber shop with an old picture with all these different hairstyles on it, and I swear to God one of the hair models was Tracy Morgan.  When he posed for it, I guarantee he didn’t know how funny it’d be once he got famous.  He probably wasn’t even thinking about it, and yet now it’s hilarious.  He’s a savant like that.

After the jump I’ve got a new R-rated clip from The Goods: Live Hard, Sell Hard – the Don Ready Story, the Will Ferrell/Adam McKay-produced comedy that feels like a rejected idea from the Anchorman/Talladega Nights brainstorming sessions (which it probably was).  It stars Jeremy Piven as a God among used car salesmen alongside Ken Jeong, Ving Rhames, David Koechner, Ed Helms and a ton of other comic actors in bit roles.  If The Hangover was the exception to the studio rule that you can’t make big money on an R-rated comedy with no proven box-office stars, The Goods will prove it.  It’s not terribly unfunny, it just feels… stale.  And I’m eating Bugle Snacks right now so I think I know a little something about stale.

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