Vanity Fair Magazine: Comedy’s New Legends

By: Jeff Olson

March 2, 2009

Source: Vanity Fair

Vanity Fair magazine has released a new issue with a comedic theme. The issue titled, ‘Laughing Matter: Comedy’s New Legends’ feature today’s newest breed of comedians. The photos star Paul Rudd, Jonah Hill, Jason Segel, Russel Brand, Leslie Mann, Bill Hader, Jason Bateman, Anna Faris and Seth Rogen in a variety of spoof photos that will make you laugh. Our good friend Alex at Firstshowing.net posted these photos today, and we thought they were so entertaining, that we would bring them to you on our end. The photos were shot by various photographers; and having the opportunity to have all these comedic talents in a photo shoot is simply hilarious. Continue reading to check out these great photos from Vanity Fair.

The first set of photos is a spoof of a Tom Ford photo shoot that was previously done for Vanity Fair. Can you tell which is the original and which is the spoof?

The following photos are a few more of the very creative shots that were published for Vanity Fair:

The Vanity Fair Cover

Paul Rudd

Danny McBride

Russel Brand

Jonah Hill

Seth Rogen

Jason Segel

Bill Hader, Anna Faris, Jason Bateman, and Leslie Mann

I thought this photo spread was great. I want to go pick up this edition of Vanity Fair, just to have this issue which has some incredible photographs that are funny and clever. These talented men and women are truly comedy’s new legends. Starring in films such as Knocked Up, Forgetting Sarah Marshall, Superbad, Pineapple Express, and the upcoming I Love You, Man and Funny People. These films have been some of the best comedies to be released in recent years, and those that have yet to come out look very promising with their trailers that are all over the net.

So what do you think of Vanity Fair’s photo spread? Are these individuals comedy’s newest legends? I think their body of works stands as the best comedy currently hitting theaters. What do you think?