• Straight from Panasonic, View Askew’s now offering the 30 second and the rarely-seen 60 SECOND VERSION of Kevin’s Panasonic DVD recorder commercial, for your viewing pleasure. Simply surf over and enjoy. All in Quicktime format. Later this week, we’ll see the debut of a hilarious 3 minute “Behind The Scenes” segment. Exclusively from View Askew!

• Ming’s done it again, for those of you who are TV-challenged (or at least, VCR or Tivo-challenged) and missed Kevin’s latest hilarious edition of Roadside Attractions on Leno last Friday night. The View Askew Roadside Attractions Archive now has the latest installment, New Jersey: Part One, available in both Windows Media and Quicktime .MOV formats. As you recall, the Jersey segment proved so plentiful that it had to be split into two parts, so check back soon for details on the airdate for Part 2, where Kevin visits the Stash.
  So, check this one out, either for the first time, or again, and enjoy. It never really does get old watching Kev walk out and shake Jay’s hand — And this time he even gets a fun little burn in on Jay, too. More great fun this time around, including a giant clown, twin lighthouses, circus freaks, and more. Kevin’s in top form yet again, these things just get funnier all the time. Don’t miss it. Even if you’re still on one of those scary slow dialup connections.

• We’ve captured an MP3 clip of Kevin’s Howard Stern appearance today…He was there to plug the new “Evening With…” DVD but, naturally, Howard decided to yet again get off topic a lot and bust on Kev about his flicks. Still, any promotion is GOOD promotion, that’s what we always say, and with Stern, you never know what you’re gonna get until you get on the air. The Mark’s Friggin website also had a fully summary of the appearance up:

Check out the full MP3 clip right HERE!

• Kevin’s fun appearance on The Tonight Show from Tuesday night is now available online, thanks to viewaskew.com. Both Windows Media and Quicktime versions are available. Watch Kevin walk out in his cool new P. Diddy jersey, and chat about his fateful “Joan & Kelly” appearance along with the classic Dogma protest story. Watch Jay plug the Black Cat/Spidey book, not once but TWICE! The entire clip runs just a little over 5 minutes or so, and is definitely a must-see. A nice preview of a couple stories like those you’ll hear on the Interview DVD in the Fall, though we’re sure those will be, how should we say, even more colorful? Kevin returns to the Tonight Show next month with a new edition of Roadside Attractions.

• This one takes the cake as one of the best web parodies for View Askew, let alone parodies in general, we’ve ever seen! What would happen if the Quick Stop and RST were run by the likes of Captain America and Daredevil? The hilarity ensures as this duo and a ton of your other favorite superheros appear in this flash animated tribute to Clerks the film and Clerks the cartoon. You’re gonna love this one! It’s well worth your download time. Check out the flick right now over at the Power House site!

• Ming speedily got these clips online so you could check them out ASAP! Surf over to the View Askew website HERE for a nice Quicktime, RealVideo, or streaming RealVideo copy of the appearance. See Kevin as he visits some of the strangest places in the west (including that huge dinosaur from “Pee Wee’s Big Adventure”). We’ll have some local copies up at the site later as well if you have trouble viewing these due to heavy web traffic.

• Here ya go, folks! With much thanks to Will for his encoding expertise, we’re proud to present last night’s edition of Roadside Attractions with Kevin Smith from The Tonight Show! In this first edition, Kevin visits some famous sites in the New York area. He also does a brief walk out appearance with Jay Leno himself to introduce and wrap up the short. Pick your flavor below, keep in mind the 128k versions are of course better quality but will take a bit longer to download:

We’ll keep you posted on when the next edition will air. From the sound of things, it won’t be long, as Leno usually likes to air his new feature segments fairly close to one another.

• Kevin’s been working hard these last few days on benefit shows. He did two benefit shows in Red Bank at the Count Basie theater, introducing the acts (including Springsteen) which were received incredibly well. That concert aired locally in these areas on Comcast cable. It was interesting to see the Count Basie on television, as this is the possible venue for the next Vulgarthon this winter. Certainly looks like it could hold a great deal of fans.

The short that you’re about to watch here debuted in Red Bank but was shown worldwide on VH-1 during last night’s “Concert for New York City”. This is the exact version from the air, though we might have an even better copy available for you soon, perhaps without the bleeps.

Congratulations to Kevin and the cast of the new short, and we’re sure everyone has appreciated all of Kevin’s time and effort over the past three nights for his work on the befits.

You can click the graphics above to save a local ASF copy to your hard drive, which you’ll need the latest Microsoft Windows Media Player to watch. Or, you can check out these new RealVideo versions below. Enjoy the film!

• A few words on server problems, the trailer, and stuff. First of all, if you haven’t noticed, News Askew has been VERY slow for the past day and a half. This is all due to the incredibly high demand for The Trailer. The problem is that we’re all sharing server space, and all of the trailer locations that were listed yesterday were basically taxing the same server and bandwidth. We’re working on new mirrors, though, that’s the good news, which should be MUCH faster and we highly recommend that you use if you want to download a copy of the the trailer. If you have a server that you can mirror the trailer on, LET US KNOW.

Assuming most of you are like the rest of us, and want the biggest and best version of the thing, we’ve got the largest and highest quality QuickTime version mirrored at the following locations:

Thanks to Bill for the new mirror up there. If you want to see the trailer, AND to lessen the burden on the News Askew server, we URGE you to surf over to these alternate sites to get the trailer. Due to the Dark Horizons mention yesterday as well as the post at AICN, not to mention our regular daily traffic and all the fans from the WWWBoard, things are REALLY busy. We apologize for any e-mails that bounced back to you, and also for the slow speeds in talkbacks, the forums, and otherwise.

Just a few words about the internet trailer – This is by no means a representation of what the official teaser and trailer for the film will be. Kevin and Scott (and maybe others) put this gem together with the die-hard fan in mind. That’s why you’re seeing all the in-jokes, references to past films, and the like. While this stuff certainly will be a highlight of the flick for many of us, the film itself is not designed ONLY for fans. The internet trailer, however, was. Hope that sheds a bit of light on why the trailer plays like it does. It’s what Kevin figured all of you would want to see the most. It’s a great piece of work.

We’ll be back with a full, regular update soon (as soon as we can get enough bandwidth to post some!). Thanks for your patience. This incredibly high demand bodes VERY well for the film.

PART THREE
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• We realize that the last one didn’t work, but we personally tested this one and we’re happy to report that it’s working just fine. So, finally, like a year after the appearance it seems, here’s the final part in Quicktime format. As always, get the latest Quicktime to make sure it works. This part features the most popular gags, including the Eisner jab. Again, we apologize for taking so long to get videos to ya, if we ever get a decent piece of capture equipment or can figure out why Chris’s stopped working properly, we’ll get better at this.