This is the first trailer for The Other Guys, starring Will Ferrell and Marky M. Wahlberg as the black sheep rivals of supercops The Rock and Samuel L. Jackson (they’re cooler because they’re black guys, which is realistic).  It’s directed by Adam McKay, and though some of the lines land with a big, fat thud (“Somebody call nine one holy sh*t,” Uh, okay.), the comedy super cast also includes Michael Keaton, Steve Coogan, Rob Riggle, and Eva Mendes.  I’m guessing it’ll be like two hours of Funny or Die sketches roughly stitched together like Stepbrothers, and I’m okay with that.  Hey, did I just use the word “super” twice in the same post?  Maybe I shouldn’t have typed this with my pixie wand.

I hope Michael Keaton goes back to doing more comedies, that fargin icehole.

The New York Times recently announced the engagement of Jessie Fuller and Peyton “Buck” Rogers, who met on the set of the Will Ferrell comedy The Other Guys.   As you can see, Will Ferrell got to photobomb their wedding announcement photo.

Mr. Rodgers said he had noticed that Ms. Fuller did not look like “a hardened production assistant” and approached her out of curiosity. Ms. Fuller, who had been leaning on a brownstone at the end of a 15-hour day in frigid weather, thought Mr. Rodgers was about to admonish her for slouching on the job.

“He asked me if I had been a production assistant before,” Ms. Fuller said. “I immediately thought he was very handsome, that he had beautiful eyes. But still, I thought he was coming to yell at me because I was sitting and production assistants are not supposed to sit.”

That night, after filming had finished, Mr. Rodgers found Ms. Fuller again. During a brief conversation, she told him that her dream was to write and produce chick flicks. That dream included working with her favorite writer and director, Nancy Meyers, who was in New York shooting the film “It’s Complicated.”  In an instant, Mr. Rodgers called a friend on Ms. Meyers’s set, and arranged for Ms. Fuller to begin working there.

And then they got drunk and rubbed their sweaty genitals together and the rest is history.  Wanna hear another romantic production assistant story?  One time I was a production assistant on an infomercial about golf.  The crew had to shoot down on the golf course and every once in a while come back to the grip truck to fetch equipment.  My job was to stand next to the grip truck for the duration of the three-day shoot to make sure no one stole anything so they didn’t have to waste time locking and unlocking.  My friends call me the human padlock.

(Wayans reps the west-side shockers while MC Backsweat thumbs his approval)

Hollywood Reporter recently broke the casting news on Will Ferrell/Adam McKay’s The Other Guys, and tucked into a story about the acquisition of Ferrell, Eva Mendes, Mark Wahlberg, and Michael Keaton [HELL YES] was the news that they’d also cast Damon Wayans Jr.  (*RECORD SCRATCH*) I’ll grant you that Damon was easily the funniest Wayans brother, but damn, first nephews, now kids?  And it seems like the further down you go on the Wayans family tree the less funny it gets.  Marlon is to the Wayans clan what the retarded Michael Keaton clone was in Multiplicity.  Luckily, the movie does sound kind of sweet aside from that:

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