Anyway, in the new movie, Gentleman Broncos, Clement plays pretentious science-fiction author Ronald Chevalier, award-winning scribe of Cyborg Harpies, Brain Cream and Brutus & Balzaak. Unfortunately, he's tapped out of ideas, and has to resort to stealing a story idea, titled Yeast Lords, from a kid he meets at writer's camp. Chevalier already has his own phony Website, complete with a video demonstrating relaxation techniques, plus some of that computer-voice that made me laugh my ass off in the Conchords song "The Distant Future" -- a miniature sci-fi epic unto itself. Even without an official site or a trailer or a release date (it's a 2009 film), I'm pretty psyched, although the fact that I have "The Distant Future" playing on a loop on my iPod may have something to do with it.

And Clement isn't the only funny guy in the film -- Sam Rockwell plays the hero of Yeast Lords in both the geeky teen's draft and Chevalier's, and Jennifer Coolidge plays the boy's mom. I should probably mention that the teenager is played by Michael Angarano, who starred in Sky High, especially since I get the impression that he's the main character in the film. I haven't seen him in much, but I'm sure he'll be pretty funny himself, even if we're just laughing at him for his intense love of sci-fi and fantasy. Something tells me this movie will be somewhere between School for Scoundrels and the beginning and end of Galaxy Quest. But I'm keeping my expectations low -- we don't want another Nacho Libre on our hands.