I've said it before, and I'll say it again, because that way I don't have to think too hard about reintroducing this bit: One of the best things about working on the
Showcase blog is getting to shoot the breeze with the Sideshow Dwellers
who write for it. It so happens that Reggie the Vampire sits right next
to us here at Showcase HQ, so we thought it fitting to have a little
MSN chat with him about the week gone by, including the announcement that Pure Pwnage is coming to Showcase next year, as well as the upcoming network premiere of Wet Hot American Summer airing on Sunday, August 9th at 1am ET/PT.

Gary and Dennis: Hey Reggie. Are you cold?
Reggie the Vampire: Only in my heart. Why?
I was wondering if you wanted to come sit by the fire. For the next instalment in our wildly successful... FIRESIDE CHAT series.
If there are two words that can warm my frigid, vampiric heart, they are WILDLY and SUCCESSFUL. I'm in.
Big week at Showcase. We announced the debut of Pure Pwnage. Those commenters were intense.
People clearly feel very strongly about getting pwned.
Well, I think that people have been following the show for so long, and maybe they feel like they have a sense of pwnership over it.
I suppose they would. Though this doesn't help my chances of getting my pilot picked up: PURE PAWNAGE. It's a show about chess. And it sucks.
Maybe we can develop it web-only style. A showcase.ca exclusive. And then we can both get fired, because nobody will watch it.
You're assuming I'm actually employed here. So when is Pwnage premiering?
2010 sometime. Or, '10. Whichever looks better. I'll ask marketing.
I prefer: "Deuce zip ten-spot" - that's how all the kids are saying it.
So anyway, Wet Hot American Summer is airing on Showcase this Sunday... at 1am ET. Everything about that movie rules.
Wet Hot is mind-blowing. Few comedies have come out since that come anywhere close.
I think it was the first anti-comedy comedy that I was privy to, you know what I mean?
Not sure that I do? Unless you misspelled "Auntie-Comedy". In which case, crystal clear.
That stuff is kind of commonplace now -- Sarah Silverman's really popular, Brian Posehn, what have you -- but when WHAS came out, I think it was actually kind of groundbreaking. Like the part when Coop (Michael Showalter) says to Katie (Marguerite Moreau), "I want you inside me." That's a non-joke, totally absurd, makes no sense, and yet it totally works. And then parts of it are kind of post-comedy, too. Like, comedy about comedy.
Ahhh.
It's basically a send-up of summer camp comedies, but one level deeper.
Yeah, I'm with you. The dude who wants to fondle his sweaters. Totally crazy.
Yes, Christopher Meloni. Star of Mystery TV's LAW & ORDER.
And mega-stud of the century... Drumroll please..... Can you guess?
Daniel Stern?
I wish. I'm talking about Bradley Super-Duper-Cooper!
Hoooo yeah. You're a fan?
Large-core. Did you see him on the Zach Galifianakis chat show Between Two Ferns? Super funny.
Yeah real funny. My favourite character in WHAS is Neil, as played by Joe Lo Truglio. I could watch that guy make faces in the camera for two hours. He was also in Role Models -- which, like WHAS, was directed by David Wain. Whose YouTube series "Wainy Days" is also crazy funny.
Agreed - they're all from the old crew on The State. A fine comedic pedigree.
And Stella! Don't forget Stella.
I was a hardcore Stella fan. Until their show came out and sucked.
Yeah, VERY high hopes for that series.I paid a bundle for that Stella shorts DVD. I think it was actually $60. This was pre-YouTube.
I've seen that DVD - super amazing. They had a new skit up not too long ago actually:
I know they've got that new show happening. Or at least, Michael Showalter and Michael Ian Black do. "Michael & Michael Have Issues". Haven't seen it.
I haven't either. I find MIB to be the least funny of them all, so I have my reservations about that one.
I liked MIB's Pets.com commercials. Those were hot. And I mean "hot" how Jay-Z means it when he says "hot".
I usually mean "hot" the way Satan means it. As in "hell-fires"
Well, you are a vampire.
"That's hot."
- Paris Hilton to Daniel Stern.
So cute when she says that.
She's a mega-MILF.
She's a GILF.
She's a FUCKINGIDIOTILF.