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IFC To Bring "The IT Crowd" Stateside This September

Channel 4/teh Interwebs hit The IT Crowd, starring Remote Island comedy crush Richard Ayoade, will joining the IFC Channel's lineup starting September 29. We're not actually the biggest fans of the show, which is basically Spaced crossed with the American Office crossed with one hell of an obnoxious laugh track, but it's worth checking out for the cast alone, which besides Ayoade is littered with tons of funny people from The Mighty Boosh, The Day Today, Garth Marenghi, and a few other better, weirder shows. (And if you're a fan of Father Ted, it's from the same guy.)

Click through for one of our favorite clips from the show, featuring Day Today/Jam mastermind Chris Morris in a crisply megalomaniacal role.

"Mighty Boosh" And "Garth Marenghi" Star Richard Ayoade Directs New Vampire Weekend Video

Richard Ayoade, the tall, skinny, big haired, boom-voiced Nigerian-Norwegian halfie comedy genius who's contributed to The Mighty Boosh, Garth Marenghi's Darkplace, and AD/BC: A Rock Opera over on the BBC -- and who was slated to reprise his role in the ill fated American version of The IT Crowd -- has directed a video for Vampire Weekend, that well-hyped but honestly pretty good band who people say sound like Paul Simon in the 80's but really everyone knows that they mostly sound like a fun version of the early Police but no one wants to admit it because Sting is so fucking lame.

Hmm... longest sentence ever on this blog? Yeah... at some point we just starting rolling with it. SCORE!

Anyway, that's not the video up top. Actually, the MTV embed for the video -- which is to their charming ditty "Oxford Comma" -- isn't working, so if you wanna watch that, go to the The Sound of Young America, which is where we got it in the first place. We're "meh" on the clip. If we wanted half-baked Wes Anderson leftovers, we'd subject ourselves to The Darjeeling Limited again, thanks very much. But it gives us an excuse to link to some music on the blog, which is a nice change of pace, and to namecheck Mr. Ayoade, who -- no fooling -- we love in just about everything we see him in.

Click through for a full episode of Ayoade's show Man to Man with Dean Learner, a sequel of sorts to Garth Marenghi's Darkplace.

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Bryan Christian has worked as a writer for Epicurious, GenArt and ID magazine; a web producer for WWD and Condé Nast; and a cameraman for his friends. He's married with roommate and lives in Clinton Hill, Brooklyn.

Lindy Parker has worked as a ghostwriter, editor, dance instructor and a purveyor of dreams, one beer at a time. She loves Charles Dickens and Gabriel Garcia Marquez and also, straight-to-video releases with Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen. It's possible she reads more teen fiction than she should. She hails from Los Angeles, her hometown and soul mate, but she lives in Brooklyn, the fling she'll never forget.

Olivia Purnell left Ohio for sunny Los Angeles; then found that she couldn’t ignore New York City’s call, and brought herself to Brooklyn where she has worked with GenArt, BlackBook, the School of American Ballet, and finished an M.A. in Creative Writing from N.Y.U. She loves one-liners with sting and hates the stench of the subway in the summer. That said, she can’t get enough of either.

Jake Kalish is a freelance journalist and humorist whose work has appeared in Details, Maxim, Stuff, New York Press, Spin, Blender, Men's Fitness, Poets and Writers, and Playboy, among other publications. He is also the author of Santa vs. Satan: The Official Compendium of Imaginary Fights.

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Ben Kallen is an entertainment, health and humor writer who's been lectured to by Sidney Poitier, argued with by Lea Thompson and smiled at by Jennifer Connelly. He's the coauthor of The No S Diet and author of The Year in Weird, along with hundreds of magazine articles. He lives near the beach in Los Angeles, just like the gang from Three's Company.

Nicole Ankowski has lived in Ohio, Oakland, and on the high plains of South Dakota, but is now proud to call Brooklyn home. She wrote for alternative weekly papers in the first two states, and tried to learn Lakota in the last. (The vowels can be tricky.) She just earned her MFA in Creative Writing and has been published in Beeswax literary journal. She is unable to resist good writing or bad TV.

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