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Anna Faris and Amy Poehler recreate the classics

Vanity Fair's photographers have given us yet another aesthetically pleasing spread this month with Laughing Matter: Comedy's New Legends, featuring some of the industry's most popular fresh faces. While the portfolio includes most of the expected men of comedy (Jonah Hill, Paul Rudd, Seth Rogen and Jason Segel hilariously recreate the Tom Ford/Scarlett Johansson/Keira Knightley Vanity Fair cover and Russell Brand impersonates Charlie Chaplin), the ladies included are hardly gratuitous.

Amy Poehler, who left Saturday Night Live last October after eight seasons, appears alongside her husband, Will Arnett as "The Accomplices." While I definitely appreciate Arnett's humor (especially as Arrested Development's Gob), it's Poehler who really stands out in this photo. And not just because she's in color while he's black and white. Or because she has a plunging neckline.

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While I'm certainly a big fan of Tina Fey, it's good to see Poehler starting to get the attention she deserves as well. Here's hoping her new NBC show, Parks and Recreation, is equally as successful as 30 Rock. Fey and Poehler on two separate shows: It's not competition, it's spoiling us!

Anna Faris and Leslie Mann are paired up with Jason Bateman and Bill Hader to recreate The Honeymooners, minus the balding and beer bellies. Farris' recent role as a former Playmate in The House Bunny solidified her role in comedy, which will outlast the potency of her ditzy one-liners in Scary Movie and its sequels. The three films she has coming out this year should help convince you of that, too.

Meanwhile, Mann (Knocked Up, The 40-Year-Old Virgin) is set to star in this year's highly anticipated comedy Funny People, written and directed by her husband, Judd Apatow.

What do you think of these "new legends"? Is Vanity Fair spot on?

GreenBean2's picture

Leslie Mann

Looks stunning! Then again they all do.
Anonymous's picture

if VF sez so...

I'll bite.  :)  There's nothing I love more than their photographic articles.  

That's my story and I'm sticking to it!

nikki's picture

i like it :)

i like it when they do fun photo shoots intead of the really fancy sexy ones. i like the funny ones better. i think vanity fair did a good job. :)
ClassicChic's picture

Wow...

LOL, I love all those men in the re-creation photo especially Jonah Hill. Superbad is such a funny movie. I remember Leslie Mann from George of the Jungle LOL. It used to be one of my fave movies! She's been around for a while so it's about time she's getting some recognition.  

Jamie's picture

Amy Poehler looks gorgeous

Amy Poehler looks gorgeous and classy. Uh, I love her.

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alex's picture

love it

love that vanity fair has a sense of humor - and in a world of print crap, the magazine consistently has insightful articles and great photos. cant wait to read this article - oh, and call me crazy, but Anna, Amy and Leslie look far better than either Kiera or Scarlett. Taking yourself too seriously can be seriously unattractive. counting down the days until Parks & Recreation (looking forward to Rashida Jones, too!)!

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Hollywood Marie's picture

Interesting...

So the women should be naked and objectified, but the men wear unitards?  "But wait," you say, "no one wants to see the men naked!"  That's exactly my point.  I'm so glad the men can be fat and ugly, but the women shouldn't have a hair out of place or a non-airbrushed curve.  And even if VF's excuse is that those women are "serious" actors and the men are "comedians," why, then, are the funny women in plunging necklines with stick-straight blond hair fulfilling the media's beauty myth?  I really hate mainstream media.
ColetteLala's picture

Check Gawker

Gawker wrote a blog about this very subject yesterday. I commented that they needed to get the Guerilla Girls on the case. LOL
Hollywood Marie's picture

Can't find it!

Thanks for the heads up, but I can't find the blog on the site.  Do you have a link you could share, please?
harajuku lover's picture

sweet!

I cant freakin' wait for Parks & Recreation! Gotta see some Poehler!

The photo with the guys are kinda haunting...lol.

lovegoddess's picture

HOT!!!

I love Amy Poehler!!!! That is one hawt pic!!!
katemc39's picture

Arnett

Are we sure he's an Accomplice?  He's looking very Han Solo. 

Cool pics.  Thanks for sharing!