Now then, let’s summarize a few of the recent tweets that may be of a News Askew-type interest to you:

• “Did (nearly) full-cast read-thru of the script today. Funny, funny stuff. Lucky to be joined by two way-talented DICKS.” (referring to the new cast signings of Brody & Scott).
• Kevin linked up a Comic-Con piece from last year regarding the panel he sat on with Apatow, Miller, & Snyder.
• On Friday morning, Kev promoted an appearance on radio program “Scott & Todd” in NYC that we hadn’t known about. If anyone sees the podcast goes up or has audio, let us know.

To follow Kevin on twitter, it’s simple, just hit twitter.com/ThatKevinSmith. You’ll enjoy his regularly changing background images there as well. You can also follow News Askew on twitter, where we post a tweet and direct link to each new story on the site as it goes live.

Help us sell out Carnegie Hall by spreading the word. If you’ve got a website, post up a link to us. If you’re on Twitter, tweet up a link or a promo. Do what you can to let folks know, especially here in the northeast, that the best show in town, the best place to be, will be Carnegie Hall, June 17th. You won’t be wrong.

Kevin Smith comes to Carnegie Hall, for an uncensored night of laughs & surprises. Do NOT miss it. Tickets are available, but we’re hoping for a sell-out, especially as the date draws closer and folks firm up their plans. Buy now for the best seats.

First up, check out a video clip featuring Kevin’s advice to Andy Samberg on hosting this weekend’s MTV movie awards. Kevin gives his thoughts on Samberg, a few tips, and discusses his own past appearances on the show.

Next up, Kevin proclaims he may perform a one night only bodily function with the mic on the night of the Carnegie Hall show in this video clip. Here’s a snippet from the text:

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…In that sense, Smith pointed out that his Carnegie audience might feel similarly out of place. “Part of the reason they enjoy going is the aspect of, ‘We’re not supposed to be here,'” he said. “There’s a naughty element going in. If I’m not the guy farting into the mic, someone in the audience will do it.”

It’s the audience, Smith explained, not the setting, which ultimately decides the content and character of the evening. “The beauty of what happens at these shows is it changes from venue to venue,” he said. “It’s all about that particular audience. Granted there are a bunch of questions I’ve been asked a zillion times, so of course I’ve got a long story answer prepared for it, not by virtue that I’ve rehearsed it but by virtue that I’ve told it a zillion times.”

At a recent performance in Vancouver, Smith invited a man on stage so he could fulfill a lifelong wish to strip naked in front of thousands of people. “I don’t know if we could get away with that at Carnegie,” Smith mused. “I could see security–boom!–tackle the naked guy.”

Once again, do NOT miss this show — Tickets can be purchased online direct from the venue. If you’re reading this article, and can get to NYC for a summer visit, plan it around this event.

“It’s been roughly two years since Mr. Kevin (“the Clerks. guy”) Smith and his other hetero life-mate (and producing partner), Mr. Scott Mosier, launched their own podcast series, entitled SModcast. Since then they’ve posted seventy-six pieces of what I can only describe as some of the most absurd, silly, raunchy, and down-right brilliantly funny audio bliss ever! And since that time I’ve been a devout listener, always waiting patiently each week for their next new posting — sometimes even having to wait up until a month or so for a new one to show up (I dare not complain, Smith’s a busy man).

For those of you unfamiliar with SModcast, the premise is as follows. Each week Kevin Smith and Scott Mosier find time amongst themselves to sit down and, well, shoot the shit for lack of a better term. In the beginning each show lasted roughly fifty-two minutes, plus or minus, with only a few notable exceptions. Once the series began to reach double digits, however, the show began to change up. SModcast was created partially as an attempt by Smith for he and Mosier to get together each week and catch up on things, but as the show progressed it became apparent that such a notion wasn’t always feasible. And so with it’s thirteenth episode, “SFodcast (or SWodcast),” SModcast found itself with an absent Scott Mosier and special guest, sitting in, Walt Flanagan (“Fanboy,” to the fanboys), one of Smith’s best friends from his youth. And while there is not, and probably never will be, a SModcast without Smith himself, we found that from time to time there will be one without Mosier, at which time we will be treated to a special guest…”

Read the whole article over at Lockergnome.

“…These filmmakers such as Kevin Smith, Quentin Tarantino and M. Night Shyamalan proved that you didn’t need computers or big bangs to be able to reach the audience. These filmmakers brought a real renaissance to independent film and set up a nice dichotomy in the decade between the decadence of special effects-driven event movies and personal talkies of smaller films.”