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'Daily Show' Writer Involved in 'Unspeakable Evil'

Well, there has been another bidding war in Hollywood, and another studio gets to emerge victorious. The Hollywood Reporter announced that Warner Bros. have purchased the film rights to Josh Lieb's young adult novel, I Am a Genius of Unspeakable Evil and I Want to Be Your Class President (and while I'm normally not a huge fan of overly long titles, this one is pretty cute).

The story centers on a chubby and awkward 13-year-old boy with the reputation of being the dumbest student in the seventh grade. What his classmates don't know is that, in fact, the boy is actually an evil genius with one of the largest fortunes on the planet. He's even got an underground lair underneath his suburban split-level. In an attempt to please his do-gooder dad, he comes up with the idea of running for class president.


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And So it Begins: The YouTube Copyright Smackdown

Ah, YouTube we hardly knew ye. The video upload site grew rapidly into a site big and bad enough to make Google sit up and take notice to the tune of a $1.65 billion buyout last month, largely because YouTube kind of overlooked the whole issue of who actually owned the stuff people were uploading to their site. Hence, users would upload the funniest bits from shows like The Daily Show, The Colbert Report -- the kind of stuff people actually want to watch -- in addition to the plethora of videos like that fascinating footage of ripping off a nasty fungal-infected toenail, or a banana spider munching a grub (okay, that one was actually kinda cool). Now that Google and its deep pockets are in the game, though, the rules are changing.

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Corddry is The Donor

After watching one of his fake news anchors jump ship and board an express train to super-stardom, Jon Stewart is making sure no one else loses their virginity without a little involvement on the part of The Daily Show host.

Paramount Pictures has picked up The Donor, with intentions to develop it as a starring vehicle for Daily Show correspondent Rob Corddry. The deal came based off a comedy pitch by Stewart, Ben Karlin and Corddry, with Jason Mantzoukas, Brian Huskey and Corddry set to pen the script. Currently, the premise is being kept under wraps though, based on the title, I imagine it will revolve around some sort of donor. Oh, and it will probably be funny. Pic will mark the first feature film project for Stewart's Busboy Productions (The Daily Show, The Colbert Report); he'll be producing alongside Karlin.

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