Vanity Fair is back doing what they do best: taking pictures of famous people in funny costumes.  This feature is called Comedy’s New Legends and includes Paul Rudd (that’s him on the right), Seth Rogen (left), Jonah Hill, Jason Segel, Danny McBride, Will Arnette, Amy Poehler, Leslie Mann, Jason Bateman, Anna Faris, Bill Hader, and Russell Brand.  I know Russell Brand is big in England and all, but he’s gonna have to do something really funny really soon to make me not want to punch him in the kidneys until he washes his goddamned hair.  Anyway, check out some of the pictures below and see the rest over at Vanity Fair, where you can also read the part where they justify these with words.  If you ask me, they should’ve just taken a picture of someone lighting a fart. Is that ever not funny?

After ruining the Golden Globes and indirectly bankrupting the knock-off gown and dog sweater industries, the writer’s strike has now doomed the Vanity Fair Oscar party.

"After much consideration, and in support of the writers and everyone else affected by this strike, we have decided that this is not the appropriate year to hold our annual Oscar party," said a statement posted on VanityFair.com.

The annual post-Oscar soiree often lures more luminaries than the ceremony itself. The night’s big winners and nominees typically turn out, along with A-listers including Oprah Winfrey, Madonna, Cher, Sean Penn, Joni Mitchell and Al Gore. [AP]

Okay, timeout (hee hee, I feel just like Zack Morris!).  First of all, that’s weirdest collection of people I’ve ever seen.  I never expected to see those names together in a single sentence.  Secondly, I was not aware that Joni Mitchell had made the A-list.  Apparently my mom writes AP entertainment articles now.