The Bad Boys of SNL (with King of Queens replacing Chris Farley as the fat one) are having so much fun wearing shirts on a water slide! I bet that’s similar to the sort of fun I’d have watching Grown Ups ! Conclusion: I should probably go to the theater on June 25. ‘Grown Ups’ Poster [IMPA]

Guess what! There’s this now: an animated comedy about hick culture with absolutely none of the dignity of King of the Hill . The Hollywood Reporter explains the doomsday scenario: TBS is partnering with David Spade to develop an animated version of his film “Joe Dirt.” The pilot script deal calls for the comic actor, Sony Pictures Television and Happy Madison Prods. to collaborate on a series following a “mullet-sporting, muscle-car-loving loser with a heart of gold.” “David Spade is a hugely popular comic talent who has created a funny, yet lovable, character in ‘Joe Dirt,’” said Michael Wright, executive vp of programming for TBS. “We look forward to seeing how he and his fellow writers and producers take this character in new directions as TBS continues exploring the world of primetime animation.” Well, I see David Spade has been using his time between seasons of the somehow-on-the-air CBS sitcom Rules of Engagement wisely. Can’t just sit around resting on the laurels of Dickie Roberts forever, living solely on those Just Shoot Me residual checks. Have to always be thinking: “How could I stretch a tired joke about a mullet just a liiiiiitle further?” Making an animated Joe Dirt is a great, terrible answer to that question.

After watching this trailer for the new Adam Sandler , Chris Rock , Rob Schneider and David Spade movie Grown Ups , I am strangely getting pretty psyched to see Old Dogs : Wow. I feel like I’m missing something here. Is this a pitch perfect mockery of everything bad about Hollywood comedies? I know every one one of these actors has been in a terrible movie or two before, but there’s no way they’d join forces and make movie with a hacky title like Grown Ups , right? Between the Disney narration to that shot of “the guys” laughing and drinking wine in a cemetary to Kevin James hitting that tree, someone at some point HAD to have said something along the lines of, “We’ll show those jerks on the internet how you make a fake cheesy movie trailer!” These guys are professional comedians. They don’t actually expect us to believe this movie would be a good way to spend two hours and $13… right? To Chris Rock’s credit, he looks pretty embarrassed to be involved at all. Also, I’m guessing they passed on these titles: Adults Older People Middle Aged Family Men Growin’ Old Mature Human Beings The Untitled Adam Sandler Project He’s Contractually Obligated To Make But Not Contractually Obligated To Put An Ounce Of Original Thought In To Via Dan: When Will Dude From Grandma’s Boy Show Up

The trailer for the childhood-friends-reunite-as-adults film Grown-Ups is here. Watching it, I have to think this will probably be a new generation’s The Big Chill . Except no it won’t, because The Big Chill was college friends, and it never included gags where Jeff Goldblum swings into a tree and comically rolls down a hill. Maybe it’s a new generation’s Now and Then , without any of the flashback scenes? Or maybe it’s just The Bad Boys of SNL Reunite as Dads, and Also King of Queens Is Here Instead of Chris Farley (RIP) :

This can’t go well: Kevin James, Chris Rock, Adam Sandler, Rob Schneider and David Spade are in negotiations to star in an untitled comedy for Columbia Pictures. Frequent Sandler collaborator Dennis Dugan (”You Don’t Mess With the Zohan”) will helm, with the studio gearing up for a summer start date. Sandler’s Sony-based Happy Madison shingle, which recently teamed with James and the studio on the box office hit “Paul Blart: Mall Cop,” is producing. Sandler penned the screenplay with “Dickie Roberts: Former Child Star” scribe Fred Wolf. High-concept story is a comedy about five best friends from high school who reunite 30 years later on a Fourth of July weekend. So what they’re getting at is that this is a movie about SNL, but instead of calling it “a popular, weekly sketch comedy program” they’re calling it “high school”, and instead of Chris Farley it’s Kevin James. I can’t quite figure out what the reuniting on “Fourth of July weekend” part represents. Maybe a declaration of independence from genuine laughter? Columbia pic gets Sandler and friends [Variety]

One Hollywood hookup that will never happen: Nicollette Sheridan and Ryan Seacrest . On Friday’s Ellen DeGeneres Show , she asks the single Desperate Housewives star if she’d ever go on a date with the American Idol host. “That’s gross,” she says. “I’ve met him.” See photos of the week’s worst American Idol contestants. When DeGeneres says that Seacrest is a “great guy,” Sheridan snaps, “I did his radio show, and he was very rude about me the next day. So I don’t like him. “It was nasty … and untrue,” she says of Seacrest’s remarks. “Yeah, I don’t like him. You should have a word with him.” See photos of Hollywood’s oddest couples of all time. Sheridan also sets the record straight on David Spade , whom she was spotted kissing at her 45th birthday party last year. “We’re friends,” she says. “We’re not dating.” When asked if they’re friends with benefits, Sheridan plays coy. “Oh … do you see us together?” she asks. DeGeneres says yes, and Sheridan playfully replies, “Really?”

Somehow, David Spade is a ladies man. Well, he is a ‘rumored’ ladies man since he is always ‘rumored’ to be dating all kinds of Hollywood actresses. Well I guess that’s better than being linked to prostitutes, blow-up dolls, or animals. Yesterday we spotted funny man David Spade throwing it up while out to dinner with a mystery girl at the Mi Casa Restaurant in Cabo San Lucas. It just goes to show you, money CAN buy you love.