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And trust us it took every bit of energy and restraint to not use a cloying phrase like “infinitely cute” or “infinitely great” or “infinitely (adverb of your choice).”

But joking aside, the flick which stars King Awkward, Michael Cera and gothickly cute Kat Denning, as a pair of teens who inadvertently get caught up in a wild first date over one night in NYC. Nothing special about the premise, but the chemistry looks like it’s there and these movies sometimes have a certain appeal. Yes, the whole teenagers find everlasting love over one-night was played out back when Linklater did it with Ethan Hawke and Julie Delpy (okay so they weren’t teenagers), but still.

This has a poor man’s Cameron Crowe feel to it. Is that a bad thing?

Nick and Nora’s Infinite Playlist hits theaters in October.

It’s always nice to have the Funny or Die guys back to work. In their first clip of 2008, Michael Cera is being interviewed by comedian Zack Galifianakis on the fake interview show, Between Two Ferns.

The thing is, the clip is so funny and you feel pretty awful for Michael Cera. He gets abused so much in this type of things, you almost would like to see him turn the tables. Anyway, the interview is excruciatingly painful, but then Galifianakis begins to molest the Superbad star and once you’re done chortling you think, hey? Is molestation really supposed to be this funny? I don’t think it is, but I laughed anyway and that probably says all you need to know about me.

This past weekend, the cast of Saturday Night Live performed the show from the bowels of the Upright Citizens Brigade in Chelsea. Michael Cera hosted the evening and Yo La Tengo was the musical guest. Though the audience only numbered around 200, it featured among others such as Will Arnett, John Krasinski, Samm Levine, Julian Casablancas and Norah Jones. Tickets were rumored to be going for about $300 a pop on Craigslist ($20 face), but there is no price you could put on seeing something like this.

(photo via NY Times)

Michael Cera’s monologue consisted of him reading past host’s monologues in his deadpan, awkward delivery, such as Donald Trump’s (”Who’s bigger than me!”), Paris Hilton (”That’s so hot”) and Snoop Dogg (”I see the word schnizzle”). By all acounts it was a great night of comedy and music, with former cast members returning to pitch in and the change of venue allowed the sketches to be a bit more risque, it helps that this was not broadcast.

With the extra sketches, some of which may eventually reach the small screen, the live “SNL” felt much like an amped-up TV “SNL.” Though not everything hit, and there was some scattered yawning in the audience, the final scene, with Will Forte as an unexpectedly forthright gold lamé-clad street performer, killed. It dated from his time in the Groundlings the Los Angeles. comedy troupe. Though he had performed it for his “SNL” audition, it was way too dirty for television — a theme of the evening. Even the weeks-old “Weekend Update” jokes were racy.

Proceeds from the tickets were to go to SNL’s production staff, most of whom had had been recently laid off; some were in the audience. But the performance was less about money than community. (A sold-out live version of “30 Rock,” the Tina Fey comedy, is scheduled for 8 p.m. Monday at the theater.)

Sounds like it was a great night of comedy. Read more about it from folks who were there on the A Special Thing Message Board.

One final note, an audience member did note that Amy Poehler was filming this for a potential documentary about the writer’s strike, which means hopefully we’ll get some YouTubage of this event sometime soon.

But you should.  We’ve held off on posting about the internet television show Clark and Michael, mostly because we thought of it as our little secret.  Now that one of its stars, Michael Cera, has appeared on Letterman I guess the cat’s out of the bag.

Clark and Michael is sponsored by CBS and it might be the funniest show on television, if it were on television.  Instead you can watch all of the 11-minute episodes on the website.  The show follows the adventures of Clark Duke and Michael Cera as they navigate the tricky waters of Hollywood.  What’s great is seeing Cera, who does awkward comedy like no other.

He was sublime as George Michael on FOX’s Arrested Development and in his internet television show he brings the same adorable awkwardness.  There’s nothing quite like watching him pretend to be an oenophile and know nothing about wine.  When he pretends to be more sophisticated than he actually is, there’s hardly anything more funny.  Check that show out and check out Cera’s performance on The Letterman show two nights ago.

It’s almost refreshing to see an actor go on a variety show and profess that no one knows who he is, which is partly true.  We’re just hoping that changes with the release of Superbad in August.