Them dudes from the Reno 911 TV show sure are ultimate bastions of comedy, if you ask me. A lot of folks, when faced with a pornographic spoof of their own work, would snidely turn their noses upwards and maybe utter a "well, I never" or something of the sort towards the smut. Even barring that, there's few mainstream personalities that I've seen openly embracing the sexed-up version of themselves, much less in a public forum. But that's why I like the Reno 911 crew so much. Them dudes went so far as to actually hold a public screening of the movie, boasting their x-rated lookalikes' exploits with the greatest candor!

According to a press release (because I couldn't possibly get a first-hand report from an event happening all the way out in California - plane tickets ain't all that cheap, at least by my standards), the Reno cast - the, uh, mainstream one - contacted New Sensations immediately upon finding out that their show had been remade in a slightly dirtier image. "We need like 10 copies of that right away; for research purposes,” said Tom Lennon, easily the funniest member of the cast, referring to his plans to masturbate a lot to Jack Lawrence's homage to Lennon's own performances.

The cast went so far as to call the spoof "the highest honor", which is...well, I'm sure it's flattering for the folks at New Sensations. Personally, I can't really see a porno parody being the highest honor I could receive. Especially considering that there's, what, a couple billion of them out there at the moment. I'd consider it pretty neat, that's for sure. But, the highest honor? Nah. I reserve that accolade for stuff like Nobel prizes and shit like that. Not that the cast of Reno 911 isn't entirely unworthy of a Nobel prize, should it ever come to that.

As we mentioned, the mainstream cast held this event last week, and during the course of the evening, they screened an edited version of the film (you know, to keep from getting arrested and such), and roasted the film in the process, which was pretty avant-garde of them, if you ask me. It begs the philosophical question of what happens when a spoof gets spoofed? Does this double whammy of parodism (is that a word?) actually cancel out all comedy and in turn become a deadly serious avant-garde statement? For, really, who roasts the roasters? And when you gaze into the spoof, does the spoof gaze back?

Apparently, yes. But I'm getting carried away.

Scott Taylor, New Sensations’ president says, “When we first started making adult parodies, the idea of showing them to the original creators and cast was the farthest thing from our minds. The roast illustrates how integrated our movies at New Sensations have become with popular culture. The level of admiration the cast of ‘Reno 911’ had for our version was really amazing to hear.”

It sure was. Just look at what Ben Garant, Reno 911 actor and sometimes director had to say on his (snicker) myspace page upon hearing about the movie: "Wow. I have never been so proud. This is like winning an Oscar. An Oscar you can rub one out to.”

And, as anybody who saw that shit-ass awful movie they made would know, the guy's probably not ever going to win a real Oscar, so this is pretty damn righteous.

Anyway, here's a hilarious little tidbit of two of Reno's funnier dudes having their way with the XXX spoof:

And here's a blurry cell phone pic from the event itself!

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RENO 911: A XXX PARODY

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