In a video filled with so much comedic gold—Wurster doing some fills on the dental patient’s arms and head, Laura selling her crafts, Jim’s full-frontal eagerness to re-join the band)—my favorite two things are the quick shots of Mac’s new band members: the needles hipster trumpet player and the girl keyboardist waving her hands overhead like an idiot. This video is right up there with the band’s classic “Watery Hands” video of old. It’s a killer song and the presentation perfectly captures the humor and spirit of a much-beloved band reuniting. I actually got some chills when the version 1.0 members stormed the stage and took over the instruments and started rocking out. Kudos to director Scott Jacobson (@straintest) and the stars @jonwurster and @superchunkband. Nice Ted Travelstead (@trumpetcake) cameo too!

Oh yeah, another highlight, Wurster strangling the drummer looked very natural. New CD drops tomorrow! More Superchunk

Update: Via the Director… “Also worth noting that the guys who play Mac’s crappy band in the video are actually a really GREAT band called @TheLoveLanguage.”

Photo: Todd spills beer. Awaits the wrath of Russ.

Topics: Keeping Twitter Fun & Informative, Tweeting Comedians, Bad College Beer, iPad Flipboard Review, Todd Defends Foursquare and Gowalla, Russ Defends DJ Music, Jeff Reviews Scott Pilgrim, Arcade Fire Hype, Comedy Central Roasts, Viggo Mortensen, Frank Zappa, Poop Book, Thin Magazines and Cool Yeasayer Video and The Worst Song in The World (Hi, Train!)

Preview: “C’mon Todd, the band X! John Doe, Exene Cervenka, Billy Zoom??” “As far as I know you are making this band up.”

Playlist: Javelin, Bottomless Pit and The Young Veins

Play Now: http://www.usedwigs.com/pod/podcast78.mp3

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Video: Watch Todd spill a beer and Russ clean it up! (24:39)

Solar Powered Laziness: Is gardening really this difficult?

Download of Laughs: The first episode of Dave Hill’s Podcasting Incident with special guest Tig Notaro is now up. Enjoy the low-key love vibe.

This Totally Sucks: “Sucks” Songs by Jon Wurster Sucks from The Best Show (oddly enough, doesn’t suck).

Free MP3: Speaking of Wurster, New Superchunk! “Digging for Something” (via @mergerecords)

Another Free MP3! New Screaming Females! “I Don’t Mind It” (via @brooklynvegan)

New Fabulous Feature: Quality Tweet of The Day! Twitter is a contest and every day I pick the winner.

Put Me Inside You (so I can kill you): Footlong Cheeseburger at Carl’s Jr.

New Galifianakis Flick! “It’s Kind of a Funny Story” —  looks good, think “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest” with a hot young chick instead of a  cranky old nurse. Here’s the trailer:

Sponsor Me: I’m trying to raise some funds for Back on My Feet, a great nonprofit that promotes self-sufficiency for the homeless. I’m doing so by running a long race called the 20in24. Please give $5! More>

Design Input: “Missing Cat” poster was cute (it’s fun to create pretend email conversations), but I like this better: “Please design a logo for me. With pie charts. For free.”

Career Path: When a former A-list actress accepts her first Lifetime movie role, do you think she fully grasps there’s absolutely no turning back?

Dignity: Hawking spaz sneakers and dubious exercise contraptions on TV? Joe Montana, what exactly did you do with all your football money?

Multiple Mustache Must-See: Journey “Separate Ways” Shot-for-Shot Remake by Teens. Very enjoyable.

World War III Will Begin. In Space! And more things that will definitely happen: 40 Things You Need to Know About the Next 40 Years (via metafilter)

Life Wasting: Punkin Chunkin is show about guys spending lots of time & money building machines to toss pumpkins. Science has never been more ashamed.

Colonoscopy: It’s Time to Check Your Colons

Health Update: The food I’ve shoved into my mouth today falls between the categories of “Toddler’s Birthday Party” and “Parking Lot Carnival.”

Breaking News: Massive Brown Out Hits Men’s Room. Authorities questioning burritos.

Nostalgia: Not counting the guys in Saxon, I’m pretty sure I’m the only one on earth who watched this video 3x in a row today.

Least Enticing Headline of The Day: “Northern Exposure premiered 20 years ago this week”

Contest! Dorian Graycation? Flambécation? Amwaycation? Give us your best “Staycation” name & win a prize!

Keep in Touch:

Use Twitter as a convenient vessel for humoring yourself during the day, a little joke feed if you will. In seconds you can set up a Twitter account and follow some of your favorite comedians. Successful comedians work at night and have all afternoon to waste. When they’re not bothering their agents about roles they didn’t get, they tweet. A lot.

Twitter has become the number one (non-Asian-porn) diversion for these nocturnal beings. Many work out new bits in their tweets, some shoot the shit with fellow comics and some use it only to promote gigs (@attell), useful but not as fun for us. Follow a lot at first then pare down based on who entertains you the most. You can even heckle them. But remember, you’re not funny.

Aside: Celebrity Twitterers are boring, yes even Shaq and that guy from that show. Stay away. Until a tweet like this appears, “Demi and I on my Harley, cruising down the PCH… wow, that oncoming truck sure is getting clo.” Don’t follow them.

Back to the funny: I only follow about 10 comedians, and that’s more than enough for my recommended daily allowance of guffaws. Here are my three favorites:

Dave Hill – @mrdavehill

Life is very unfair to Dave Hill, but he somehow manages to keep his wits about him and documents the pain and misery he must endure being extremely stylish, fit, charming and probably the world’s greatest guitarist. Here are some recent tweets from Dave’s trip home to the parents for the holidays.

Driving back to NYC with my brother, my niece, and my nephew. They won’t let me control the radio. The bullshit never ends!!!

I’m trying to flood the kitchen so my parents will have no choice but to take me out to dinner. Desperate times call for desperate measures!

My dad is playing dramatic, minor key piano music to underscore his disappointment that I still haven’t shoveled the driveway. Not working.

Todd Barry – @toddbarry

Mega-star Todd Barry uses Twitter for two reasons: to remind the world he is very famous and deserves celebrity treatment (very true), and more importantly, to keep other comedians in check with the soul-crushing force of his vicious and venomous Retweets (RT).

“Text’d”? Congrats on abbreviating a word and keeping it the same length. RT @steveagee wow @toddbarry just text’d me…

To: @WholeFoods. Accidentally bought your 365 brand body lotion. Meant to buy conditioner. Please pick up+replace. I’m a MAJOR celebrity.

There’s a new place called ShutTheFuckUp’s. Try it! RT @jwoliner Anyone recommend good Vietnamese sandwiches near silverlake/los feliz?

Jon Wurster – @jonwurster

A newbie to the Twitosphere, this Superchunk drummer and WFMU Best Show guest, makes me LWP (laugh-while-pooping) on a daily basis. He may be a little out there for some, especially the nasty Twitter war he waged against the Pope’s nephew, Craig, but give Philly Boy Roy a chance, I think he’s the funniest guy on the planet.

Now I have TOO many followers. It’s upsetting because I know I’ll probably end up asking them to kill for me. Or at the very least burgle.

I need ten more followers and I will beat Craig Ratzinger. My thoughts go out to his uncle who got tackled by a chick the other night.

Just got my Xmas present from my rich uncle Steve. It’s a gift certificate to Burger King. For $15,000.00.

If you found this information helpful, please follow me: @usedwigs (and unfollow once I start complaining about those stupid Roloff twins). Feel free to tell me your favorite comedians on Twitter too, comment below.

• New Facebook Terms You Should Know!
• Much Better Names for Coffee Shops with Free Wi-Fi
• Very Creepy Pillows

Topics: Best TV Spin-offs, Football Talk (not really), Disappointing Gifts, Planet of The Apes, uStream Video, Canned Beer, Classic Albums with a Great 1-2-3 Punch, Twitter Celebrity World News!, Todd vs. Conservative Blogger, Aziz Ansari, Beatles Rock Band and The Worst Smell Ever!

Playlist: Sky Larkin, Cursive, Colin MacIntyre and All Smiles.

Preview: “Shaq? Like Shaquille O’Neal, is that who you’re talkin’ about?” “I don’t think that guy has a monopoly on the word Shaq…”

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Mad Props: The venerable Mad magazine gives us: The First 100 Minutes of the Obama Presidency [via laughingsquid]

It’s Electric! Our pals at Geekadelphia are throwing a shindig honoring America’s greatest geek Ben Franklin. Yup, that long-haired, fat bastard invented a ton of stuff (or so they say) and he’s arisen from the dead and looking for some fun in Philly. Bonus: You know that guy who plays Ben at all the big events? Yeah, well he’s not invited (he’s a real cockblock). Details:

Ben Franklin’s B’Day @ National Mechanics – January 17th, 2009: Drink Specials @ 9PM

National Mechanics
22 South 3rd Street, Philadelphia, PA‎
(215) 701-4883
www.nationalmechanics.com

Christ Almighty, More Ring Tones: When I want the latest in music news, I always hit up the Wall Street Jour… wha? Anyway, good read: How the Music Industry Can Get Digital Satisfaction.

Conan Go Bye Bye: Our Favorite freckled giant is leaving NYC for L.A. soon (boo!), get tickets now to his last shows:

After 16 seasons on the air, the curtain is coming down on Late Night with Conan O’Brien as Conan prepares to head out to L.A. to take over The Tonight Show. Would you like to be a member of one of Conan’s last studio audiences in New York? Here’s your chance!

For an opportunity to obtain FREE tickets, please e-mail your Name, Address, Phone Number, & E-mail Address to: conangobyebye@nbc.com

Old News: Actor Eric Christian Olsen is 31 and looks it, but that didn’t stop him from playing a high school jock in the upcoming awful movie “Fired Up!” Let’s add him to the list: Old School! Too Old to Play Teens

Ale Yay!: Philly Beer Week Just added 20 more events to the calendar – Standard Tap, Good Dog, Grey Lodge, P.O.P.E, 12 Steps Down & TJ’s Everyday. Brewers include: Dock Street Brewing Company, Dogfish Head Brewery, Flying Fish Brewing Company, Troegs Brewing Company, Victory Brewing Company, Yards Brewing Company and many more of your favorite beer slingers. March 6-15th. Stay informed: join mailing list or Twitter.

Jon Wurster = a relentless volcanic eruption of comedy and music!

Language, Please! Kathy Griffin started it, and hopefully Tina Fey has ended it. Let’s put “Suck it!” on that high shelf where we completely forget about things, it’ll fit in nicely with “Bitch!” and some other never-funnies that can be heard regularly in Manayunk bars and also as a greeting on the Preston & Steve morning zoo.

Comic vs Audience, Now with 100% More Sound: I just spent a delightful half hour listening to local comedian Chip Chantry chat with host Dave Walk. You can too! Totally free. Listen up: Podcast.

More Props: Music maven @largeheartedboy reminded the twitterverse that Propagandhi finished their latest in November and should be available soon. We’ll keep ya posted. That is rockin’ good news. In honor, let’s fire up some some ferocity… a nice Bush send-off.

Download MP3: Die Jugend Marschiert