Nope, that joke still isn't old. But lest you think that I am actually calling Brad Pitt and Simon Pegg total jerks (they're not -- Pitt speaks up for causes around the world, and Pegg gladly shakes hands with nerds), what I actually mean is that they are both involved in bastard-related casting news. Pitt has definitely signed on to play Lt. Aldo Raines, the Tennessee-born hillbilly leader of the Nazi-killing WWII Army unit known as the Inglorious Bastards, the subject (and title) of writer/director Quentin Tarantino's next film. Tarantino flew to France specifically to recruit the actor, and the news that he has accepted has made me stab several pictures of Nazis in excitement. (I currently do not have access to real Nazis.)

Tags: B.J. Novak, Brad Pitt, David Krumholtz, Eli Roth, Hostel, Hot Fuzz, Inglorious Bastards, Nastassja Kinski, Numbers, Quentin Tarantino, Shaun of the Dead, Simon Pegg, Spaced, The Office, WWII