If you're a fan of the Saturday Night Live Digital Shorts created by the Lonely Island boys, then you're doubtless a fan of "Laser Cats."  The perennially but joyously terrible ongoing saga of two warriors played by Andy Samberg and Bill Hader in an apocalyptic future of cats as laser weapons came back this last weekend with the seventh installment, and this one has a very consistent theme: the blockbusters of Steven Spielberg.

Jorma Taccone made his feature directorial debut two years ago, and it looks as though he may finally have found a follow-up to MacGruber.  The man who brought us the delightfully unhinged, throat-ripping audacity of Will Forte's one-man cinematic army is attached to helm the action-comedy The Great Unknown, a comic book adaptation that just found a home at New Line Cinema.

Now that I've seen, with my own two reasonably reliable eyes, an Adam Sandler character taking a rip from a bong held by Vanilla Ice, the sight seems strangely inevitable, like it's the culmination of two decades of strange cameos in Sandler movies.  You too can see this sight and many others in the new red band trailer for That's My Boy, which was formerly titled I Hate You, Dad. 

The story, in a nutshell, follows Sandler's character as he attempts to get in the good graces of his son, played by SNL and The Lonely Island's Andy Samberg, on the eve of his progeny's wedding.  Why?  Because the father's estranged son is a wildly successful hedge-fund manager and the deadbeat dad owes the IRS almost $50,000 to avoid a prison sentence.

The FX animated series Archer, created by Adam Reed, revolves around ISIS, a private espionage company populated exclusively by venal, self-centered sociopaths and degenerates.  On any other series, the character of Cyril Figgis would be the butt of every joke, nothing more than a sweater-vest-wearing do-gooder.  Even in the comedy's first season, the unadventurous accountant and comptroller showed himself to be in their league as a betrayal-prone sex addict with serious Freudian issues.  With the series in its third season, Cryil, voiced by Chris Parnell, has been promoted to Field Agent, allowing Parnell to play whole new levels of awkwardness. 

Even if you don't know Parnell by name, it's almost guaranteed that he has made you laugh repeatedly over the years. A veteran of the improv institution The Groundlings, Parnell was a castmember on Saturday Night Live from 1998 to 2006, where he threw down regular recurring characters and notable impressions.  At the show, he became inextricably associated with the emergence of the viral video thanks to "Lazy Sunday," the insanely-popular SNL Digital Short starring Parnell and Andy Samberg.  In addition to Archer and Saturday Night Live, Parnell's extensive television credits include series such as Suburgatory, Big Lake, Curb Your Enthusiasm, and 30 Rock, on which he appears as the beloved Dr. Leo Spaceman.  On the cinematic side, he has appeared in films such as Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy, Hot Rod, and Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story. 

As Cyril on Archer, though, Parnell is now an indispensable part of television's most delightfully deranged series.  IAR and a number of other outlets were lucky enough to participate in an interview with Chris Parnell, who discussed his relationship to the character, SNL, table reads, Funny or Die, screenwriting, and what's coming up on Archer.

A recurring feature on Saturday Night Live's Weekend Update newsdesk under head writer Seth Meyers is "Get In the Cage." The occasional bit pairs a fictionalized Nicolas Cage, played by SNL regular Andy Samberg, with recognizable stars to discuss Cage's acting style and his ambition to appear in every movie ever made.  Having appeared with the likes of Bradley Cooper, Jude Law, and Jake Gyllenhaal, Samberg's Cage has finally met his perfect match: Nicolas Cage.

Valentine's Day and New Year's Eve.  For two consecutive years, director Garry Marshall and screenwriter Katherine Fugate served up holiday-themed ensembles unreasonably packed with bankable movie stars and romantic comedy cliches.  Had New Year's Eve been a bigger hit, you can only imagine that we have spent the next several years besieged by these novelty offerings until the holidays were finally exhausted.  That could still happen, actually.  But even if it does, we'll always have MLK Day, a parody trailer for a fictitious romantic comedy that expertly eviscerates the cloying, manipulative style of those films.

Steve Buscemi hosted Saturday Night Live this weekend, and he made an appearance in a Dark Knight-style Digital Short from the Lonely Island.  The two-minute video is done in the style of Christopher Nolan's take on the Caped Crusader – complete with very Hans Zimmer and James Newton Howard-sounding music – has Buscemi sporting a mustache as Commissioner Gordon and Andy Samberg in an ill-fitting Batman costume.  Unlike so many parodies of the cinematic Batman, this one does not focus on Christian Bale's chain-smoking-demon-with-a-really-bad-cough Batman voice, but instead on Bruce Wayne's love of pulling that ninja trick where he dramatically appears as if from nowhere then just disappears once his crime fighting point has been made.

The last time we saw Jim Carrey and Jeff Daniels as Lloyd Christmas and Harry Dunne, they were missing an opportunity to be the oilboys for a bevy of Hawaiian Tropic swimsuit models after the Aspen misadventure that constituted most of Dumb & Dumber.  That was seventeen years ago, and the almost two decades since Dumb & Dumber have been surprisingly kind to the movie. 

Directing duo Peter Farrelly and Bobby Farrelly have only ever exceeded the film commercially once, with 1998's There's Something About Mary.  Now that they're finishing up on their dream physical comedy project, the siblings are looking to bring Carrey and Daniels back for the first real sequel to the eminently quotable 1994 sensation, which would hopefully include the fate of I Got Worms, Harry and Lloyd's would-be pet store.

Last week, actress Jaime King mentioned to IAR that she recently shot some fun Star Wars-related business that would tie into the tomorrow's Blu-ray release of Star Wars: The Complete Saga.  While it was a bit of a mystery at the time, we now know that she was referring to a very funny video coinciding not just with the Blu-ray, but more importantly, with Lucasfilm's launch of Use the Force For Good, a campaign that uses Star Wars to raise funds for the charity Stand Up to Cancer.

The campaign kicks off with plenty of purely-for-charity auctions, a partnership with Major League Baseball, and a short but very fun video promoting the Stand Up to Cancer and Use the Force for Good.  The video features a group of recognizable Star Wars fan reenacting bits from the original trilogy, including most of your favorite moments from The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi.  Amongst the participants are Jaime King, Emma Stone, Andy Samberg, Ed Helms, Ken Jeong, Aziz Ansari, Bill Hader, Zach Galifianakis, and erstwhile Mace Windu Samuel L. Jackson.

If you’ve never heard of director Will Gluck, then learn his name now because he is one filmmaker that you will be hearing from for a very long time. Gluck first made a name for himself as a feature film director last year with his sophomore outing Easy A starring Emma Stone, which went on to become both a critical and box office success. His recent release Friends with Benefits, has received positive reviews and earned almost $20 million in its debut last weekend despite opening opposite Captain America: The First Avenger on the second weekend of Potter-mania. All things considered, Gluck is well on his way to becoming one of the most interesting and unexpected mainstream directors working in the industry today.

Will Gluck began his career on TV writing for such short-lived but popular shows as Grosse Pointe, and Andy Richter Controls the Universe, as well as creating series like Luis, and The Loop. He made the jump to the big screen by helming the collegiate comedy Fired Up in 2009 before producing and directing Easy A, and eventually Friends with Benefits. His newest outing, the “will they or won’t they” comedy Friends with Benefits starring Justin Timberlake (The Social Network), and Mila Kunis (Black Swan), hit theaters on July 22nd and features the two sexy stars as platonic friends who engage in the age old experiment to see if acquaintances of the opposite sex can sleep together with out letting their emotions get in the way of their friendship.