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    • Actors have day jobs, but with an eye on a paycheck, a fun day's work, or an Outstanding Guest Actor Emmy, they moonlight in TV guest roles, too. Here are a few performers (and one non-performer) who will soon provide their Guest Services.

      Not Roger Sterling (Jeff Kravitz/FilmMagic.com)Actor: John Slattery
      Day Job: Roger Sterling on AMC's "Mad Men"
      Guest-Starring On: "The Simpsons"
      Role: Unknown!
      Pros: Slattery is a great comic actor (as we were recently reminded when he guested on "30 Rock" last year).
      Cons: We don't get to see his face?! That's the moneymaker!

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    • Grant Shaud From ‘Murphy Brown’ is Suddenly Everywhere

      Miles is back!Suddenly Everywhere: Grant Shaud.

      You Might Know Him From: The popular '80s and '90s workplace sitcom "Murphy Brown," where from 1988 - 1996 he played Murphy Brown's (Candice Bergen's) young boss, Miles Silverberg.

      First Location Of His Recent Campaign To Be Suddenly Everywhere: Two weeks ago, he played studio executive Eddie Faye, who oversaw the writer's room in the "Halloween/Ellie" episode of "Louie."

      Latest Location Of His Recent Campaign To Be Suddenly Everywhere: Sunday night, Shaud appeared on TV's other critically-acclaimed summer comedy, "Curb Your Enthusiasm," where he played Larry's friend Henry Horn, who accuses Larry of taking advantage of his racist father in a game of Scrabble. (Long story.)

      Where We Propose He Could Next Be Suddenly Everywhere: If Shaud wants to continue his streak of guest appearances on shows popular with comedy nerds, he could head over to "Bored to Death," the domain of another of Sunday's "Curb" guest-stars, Jonathan Ames, or join yet another of

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    • How to Make Better Fake News Bloopers Than This One

      This video of a reporter getting his pants pulled down "on air"  is going around as a "news blooper" today, even though it's definitely fake and possibly viral marketing for beyondcoal.org. It's managed to fool a lot of people, so props to whoever made it. Here it is, and then some tips on how to do it better next time:

      Fake News Blooper Tips:

      Tip 1: Make it short: real news bloopers are uploaded by viewers who get straight to the point and only show the part relevant to the blooper.

      Tip 2: Make it more banal, and therefore believable: the pink shorts the reporter is wearing should have been regular old Gap boxers.

      Tip 3: For the love of god, don't set your fake news blooper in New York or any other large city, where everyone knows the local news stations. Set it in the middle of nowhere so it would take work to look it up.

      Tip 4: Don't make fake news bloopers. They're lame. If this does turn out to be viral marketing for the Sierra Club or beyondcoal.org, for example, people are just

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    • It's the first preview of the one-hour premiere of "How I Met Your Mother":

      What we know: there will be a wedding. It will feature the odd color choice of orange and white. Barney and Robin will participate in what appears to be one of those synchronized-dance viral wedding videos (soooo "The Office" 2010, but with this show, maybe there will be a twist) It will be one hour long, and it will happen on what is shaping up to be one of TV's biggest nights of the year, September 19th, when the Charlie Sheen Roast, the "Two and a Half Men" premiere, and the premiere of "Dancing With the Stars" will all compete for viewers. Michael Ausiello got some hints about one of this season's (very Friends-esque) plot points: Jason Segel says Barney will be trying to get a peek at pregnant Lily's expanding chest. Do with that what you will!

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    • Fox's unstoppable animated comedy "The Simpsons" is about to return for its 23rd season (which, yes, means that there are college seniors who were born AFTER the show premiered), featuring a guest-voice appearance by Kiefer Sutherland. Who seems to be playing a very Jack Bauer-esque character EVEN THOUGH he's already voiced Jack Bauer for a past "Simpsons" episode, in 2007. Then again, he'd already played an army colonel on the show in 2006, so I guess we don't have to be so strict about continuity. Here's the first promo:

      [Via Give Me My Remote]

      Previously on The Set:

      Street Artist Banksy Creates Dark Opening For 'The Simpsons'

      Neil Gaiman to Guest-Star on 'The Simpsons'

      Michael Cera Will Guest-Star on 'The Simpsons'

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    • It's rare for a talk show to book two unrelated guests whose sensibilities fit together like puzzle pieces, but that's what happened last night on "Late Night with Jimmy Fallon." Both Will Forte and Amy Sedaris seamlessly incorporated physical comedy into their interviews...but only one made Fallon literally fall out of his chair.

      First up was Forte, who told the tale of a drunken bachelor party that ended with him waking up beside a stranger's pool, in a very awkward situation.

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