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OK, so the Letterman stuff happened like a million years ago last week but get ready for a fresh round of jokes this week as Stephen Colbert, Jon Stewart, and Craig Ferguson finally have their chance to rise and take the bait. Will Ferguson actually take some potshots at his boss?

David Cross has made audiences laugh their asses of on stage with his brilliant and vicious style of stand-up, on television in his incredibly funny work on "Arrested Development" as never nude analrapist Tobias Funke and as one-half of the team that gave us the hilarious HBO sketch comedy show "Mr. Show with Bob and David," on CD with is Grammy nominated Shut Up You Fucking Baby! and on the big screen. Now, David brings his brand of humor to the written form with his first book, I Drink for a Reason.

              

As you may have heard, the 29th annual Sunset Junction Street Festival is this weekend. "I've only attended the last three years, and never knew the festival back in [its] free days," says Brad Roberts from Radio Free Silver Lake. "So, frankly, the cost isn't as much of an issue for me as it is for others. The days of expecting a bankrupt state and federal government to provide something as ephemeral as a music festival, are, unfortunately, relics of the past. I have thoroughly enjoyed myself at the last three, all of which introduced me to many of the local bands who are regular favorites of mine. The cultural mix is a Los Angeles specialty and in spite of occasionally resembling a frying pan, everyone seems to really enjoy themselves, the variety of food available is impressive and the atmosphere remains laid back and So Cal."

"Arrested Development" fans may have reason for rejoicing: several of the key players in the creation of the series are working on a new project for FOX. Yep, Will Arnett (Gob hisseff!), and "Arrested Development" creator/executive producer Mitch Hurwitz and co-executive producer Jim Vallely have script-approval for a single-camera comedy starring Arnett. No name or release date yet - but we can't wait to see Arnett playing a boorish ass from Beverly Hills.

The Los Angeles Women’s Theatre Festival opens tonight at Highways Performance Space in Santa Monica with its Champagne Gala and Awards Ceremony at 7 pm. The festival will also present the Integrity, Eternity, Rainbow and Maverick Awards to five distinguished women for their contributions to theatre and the performing arts by Honorary Co-Chair Hattie Winston (of the TV series Becker and Pasadena Playhouse Artistic Director Sheldon Epps. Entertainment for the evening will include two excerpted theatre pieces: Angela Dean-Baham in “The Unsung Diva” that explores the life of 19th Century opera singer Matilda Sissieretta Jones, known as “The Black Patti” (a comparison to the celebrated Sicilian soprano Adelina Patti. That piece will be followed up by Rose Weaver in “The Incomparable Ethel Waters: A Night of Stormy Weather.” Waters was the first African American Broadway star as well as the first Black actress to star in a television series. “A celebrated singer, she was a favorite of composer Harold Arlen, who wrote the song “Stormy Weather” explicitly for her.” Champagne gala tickets are $60.

For most people reading this, Jeffrey Tambor has always been a part of your consciousness. My first exposure was way back in the day when I -- then a huge fan of Three's Company -- religiously tuned into The Ropers for every episode of its short run. Tambor went from frequent guest-star to (for me) cultural icon when he originated one of TV's greatest roles -- that of "Hey Now" Hank Kingsley on The Larry Sanders Show. That he would later go on to originate yet another iconic role(s) -- George Sr./Oscar in Arrested Development -- is almost a miracle.

So can fans really make a difference? Word has it that enough fans got through to NBC for them to keep the high school football-romance-drama "Friday Night Lights" on the air through a partnership with DirecTV. This gives one hope that a group of people can make a difference but then disappointment that truly great shows like "Arrested Development" couldn't make the cut. Speaking of which, Will Arnett is on Jimmy Kimmel tonight - Arnett mentioned on Conan a couple weeks ago that perhaps there is an "Arrested Development" movie in the works, wouldn't that be something?

The first thing you blurt out when you walk into Jose Bernstein's is "it's a fuckin' hole in the wall" because it is a fuckin' hole in the wall". But that's never been a problem for UCLA students because what we lack most are money and holes. But Bernstein's is clean, hygienic and delicious so we do it anyway.

It seems that if you want to pick up on hot men, you apparently need to check out the WGA strikes -- those men in red t-shirts are sizzling. Radar has the exclusive scoop:

The scheme, according to a striking Fox scribe, goes something like this: "The first step in the 'picket pickup' is picking who you want to picket behind. You don't even have to worry about looking like a stalker, because you're supposed to stand close to people and follow them around. The flirting is easy, since you have a built-in pickup line: 'What did you used to do?' You angle your sign in a way that lets your target know you're interested, and then smile a lot. They get the hint. Soon it's time to go to lunch, and from that point the sky's the limit!" [Radar]

Jessica Morgan and Heather Cocks.

...so we rebuilt our city as a living, breathing, self-sustaining, self-protecting environment. Studying architecture, it's essential to take numerous refreshing breaks throughout our day in studio. A couple times a week we'll find ourselves spending breaks gathered around a laptop watching a movie, an episode of arrested development, or a video like this by Imaginary Forces- A presentation on the future of our city, in the year 2106. If you've never heard of L.A. based...

Let's start over, shall we? Disney is investing $1.1 billion into California (Mis)adventure, the ghost town of an amusement park next to Disneyland. The Rose Queen for the Pasadena Rose Parade was announced this morning and her name is Dusty. We just love that name for a girl. Staring now, there is no excuse for anyone of any age to ever go "I don't get blogging." The world's oldest blogger celebrated her birthday this...

Ahhh, the memories of one of the best TV shows ever to be canceled -- Arrested Development. Not that we need more OC on TV, but we want more of this Orange County dysfunctionality! Anyway, this clip cuts off early, the last line is "I stopped to raise our little girl."...

Arrested Development - "Mr. Wendal" Arrested Development @ Santa Monica Pier (free) The Bloody Hollies, Restaurant, Muso @ Spaceland The Redwalls, Bang Lime @ The Roxy Sierra Swan, Carina Round @ Largo The Most Powerful Hand, The Young Sixties @ Mr. T's Bowl Potential Pillows, Grid, Safe Haven, Brutal Force, Last Hours @ The Whisky Emily Wells, Queen V, Fishtank Ensemble, Dawn Landes, The Maldives @ The Hotel Cafe Summers End, Rosemary's Billygoat, Dead...

Man, didn't you just love "Freaks and Geeks"? Weren't you pissed when it got cancelled, almost as pissed as you were when they cancelled "Arrested Development"? Or, if you discovered it post-axe, weren't you pissed there was only one season to savor on DVD? But then The Forty-Year-Old Virgin came out and was really funny and did really well at the box office, and you were still pissed about "Freaks and Geeks", but at...

I could write a movie review of Knocked Up -- and maybe I still will -- but it will just be a long list of hilarious moments (there's the part where he does this one thing... and then she says this other thing...) in a movie overflowing with hilarity. Trust me on this: you will walk out of the movie floating on fluffly pink cloud of funny-ness, and I don't want to spoil a second...

Set your Tivo's. One of the mid-season pickups that we have been hearing great buzz over premiers tomorrow night and stars Andy Richter, the one-time sidekick of Conan O'Brien, in his very own sitcom called "Andy Barker P.I." Replacing "30 Rock" in the 9:30 time slot on NBC, this show does have to battle March Madness, but hello, that's what Tivo is for!

If anyone complains about new music today they're not buying the right cds. Arizona's The Format came out with one of the best new discs of any year and is in LAist's Top 5 of 2006, which is quite a feat since there were so many great ones that came out this year. Fun, happy, hopeful, easy to get into, "Dog Problems" was there for us as we fell asleep, there for us as...

The Prime Time Emmy Award nominations were announced today and yes, LAist was left out again this year. We keep waiting for the opportunity to use that old yet tried and true saying "its just a pleasure to be nominated" but we never seem to get the chance.

Hey, have you heard? Andy Mitch Hurwitz says he's leaving the job of Show Runner for Arrested Development behind. If you haven't heard, apparently this is the only blog you read as we've seen more notices about this non-story on more blogs today than maybe anything else. AD was cancelled months ago, the 4 part series finale gave a fitting end to the show and, really, we're sorry to tell you, that no matter how much you loved it, it would appear that only bloggers were watching.

More SAG Awards liveblogging. Watch out, Dakota is coming.

As many LAist readers probably know, this Monday is the season premiere of . The show is also up for many Emmy Awards this Sunday.

LAist made the mistake of tuning in to Fox's Kelsey Grammer presents: The Sketch Show (they might want to trim that title...or the whole show) last night, and we will forever be longing to have those wasted 30 minutes returned to our lives.

We're probably going to be spending most of our weekend in doors as this wacky weather has finally gotten the better of us and we're nursing a scratchy throat and a head cold but that doesn't mean you have to.

The Golden Globes are over, Industry-types are off to Park City for Sundance and the Oscar nomination/winner odds-making begins in earnest. Now is the time for out-of-town journalists to do their legwork about town in order to find new ways to describe the luxuriousness of Wolfgang Puck's Oscar Ball menu or give readers a verbal blueprint of this year's location for the Vanity Fair party.

Has politics become the new religion?