Comedy Porn at Vanity Fair

Is Vanity Fair running out of cover concepts? The magazine is giving their sultry Tom Ford/Keira Knightley/Scarlett Johansson cover a comedy makeover, replacing Ford with Paul Rudd, and the ladies with Jonah Hill and ex-Freaks and Geeks Seth Rogen and Jason Segel. (Rogen will also be gracing the cover of Playboy in the near future.) Check out video of the shoot, and more photos from inside the issue (which includes Amy Poehler, but not Tina Fey—who is #1 on this list). The mag declares their subjects are "Comedy’s New Legends," but who are they missing?

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By Jen Carlson in Arts and Events on March 2, 2009 4:45 PM

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Guest

"Is Vanity Fair running out of cover concepts?"

Is this really something a journalist asks knowing VF's history of re-imagining their own covers?

Rocknrope

It would have been much funnier without the skinsuits.

NannyState

Only with Tom Ford still in the picture...

EricRoberts

total agreement

Gregoire

Certainly you're not saying you want to see any of those men naked, do you?

babyfishmouth

I think I speak for a lot of women when I say we'd like to see Paul Rudd naked. The rest, not so much. But it would still be funnier if they were naked. It looks stupid with the bodysuits.

Schwartzie

A hell of a lot funnier!

Furthermore, VF took a good bit of flack because of the sexist undertones in the original photo and having these fellows naked would have made for a good tongue-in-cheek mea culpa.