If you love comedy and metal, you are in luck.

T-shirt company Shirts and Destroy are now offering comedian/rock band "mashup" shirts, which have the face of popular comedians and their names in the recognizable bands. There's a Louis CK/Dead Kennedys mashup (my favorite of the bunch, pictured at right), a Sam Kinison/Samhain mashup and a shirt with Larry David's face and name written in the Motorhead font.

A couple of years ago, Mondo was offering t-shirts with filmmakers names in rock band fonts (like Scorsese written to look like Scorpions, as worn by Seth Rogen in Funny People), but these are some of the first comedian t-shirts I've ever seen. I know that some have existed for the really big comics -- guys like Dane Cook and even, once upon a time, Pauly Shore -- but this may be your only chance to wear a shirt with  Louis CK's face on it. You don't want to waste such an opportunity.

If you're interested, you can buy the shirts here.

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Note: This is a review of the album being released January 31. John Mulaney's 'New in Town' stand-up special premieres this Saturday, January 28, on Comedy Central.

Sure, it's only three weeks into 2012, but let's go ahead call New in Town, the second album from comic and Saturday Night Live writer/producer John Mulaney, the best stand-up album of the year so far. A brilliant mix of personal storytelling and sharp, ultra-specific observational humor, the album covers everything from "cold case" murders to mariachi bands on the New York subway to Mulaney's own resemblance to an Asian woman. It builds on his terrific first album, The Top Part, further cementing Mulaney's status as a guy who takes note of the world in very unique ways: he's amazed at what he sees in the world around him, but his delivery suggests a willingness to accept those things, out there as they may be. It's such a funny combination.

(Read the full John Mulaney: New in Town review)

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Comedian and 30 Rock star Tracy Morgan is in the hospital following a collapse at the Sundance Film Festival on Sunday.

Morgan was accepting the Spotlight Initiative award at the Creative Coalition Spotlight Awards dinner when he reportedly began behaving erratically, yelling and falling down. After collapsing, he was rushed to the Park City Medical Center in Park City, Utah, where the Sundance festival is held every year. Though Morgan has had struggles with alcohol in the past, no drugs or alcohol were found in his system when he was taken to the hospital; the episode has since been attributed to "exhaustion and altitude."

Morgan is a diabetic and even underwent a kidney transplant in 2010, so it's possible that either of those health issues contributed to what happened at Sundance. Whatever the reason, he seems to be doing ok now, tweeting out that he would be back at work on 30 Rock today. That's good news. More than anything, it sounds like it gave everyone a good scare.

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If you follow comedian T.J. Miller on Twitter, you know that he was pretty apoplectic last week when Dane Cook made a surprise appearance at The Laugh Factory in L.A. last week and reportedly did at least 45 minutes of indulgent, misogynistic, hateful comedy that didn't go over too well with the other comics in attendance.

Miller spent much of the night Jan. 19 tweeting about Cook's set -- and his career in general -- and didn't have too many positive things to say. The good people at A.V. Club went ahead and compiled all of Miller's tweets into one long diatribe, so I won't repeat the whole thing here. Among the more choice quotes are "You've been doing standup for so many years and you still believe it's okay to bomb and talk about your issues?" and "Here's an idea, Dane: have some f**king respect for the audience that gave you the chance to be what you dreamed of being, and don't be mad at them because you f**ked it all up from hubris and thirst for fame."

Other comedians like Jenna Marbles, Ali Waller and Daniel Kinno (who was bumped from his appearance so that Cook could perform) also chimed in with roughly the same opinion of Cook's set. Everything about the new "material" Cook was trying out sounds like the worst -- sexist and hateful and ugly and miserable -- but I wasn't there. I'm only reading his "jokes" second hand (though I do love one of the quotes reported by Miller: when a girl was seen using her cell phone, Cook responded "Dane Cook is onstage. Have some f**king respect.")

Cook responded to the criticism in an interview with Laughspin magazine, stating:

"I'm back in the stand up octagon after a year off. I'm deeply inspired by various artists I admire. Certainly my friend and one of the great ones Patrice O'Neal passing away has fortified my belief that we, as comedians, all need to share and explore our souls up there -- and sometimes our perspective on the whimsical minutia -- in order to grow as artists and people."

So, to sum up: what? It's fine that he name drops the late Patrice O'Neal. Maybe they really were friends. Maybe it gives him some instant credibility. Maybe it makes it harder to attack him because his friend just died. I can't get past "our perspective on the whimsical minutia." Does this sound like a funny person at all? I know it's hard to talk about comedy and still be, you know, comedic, but that quote sounds like it came from a comedy robot. Or an SNL character.

Cook followed up that comic by saying that comics can't be critics (which, or course, is patently untrue and flies in the face of what makes, you know, comedy) and then made a joke about taking both Miller and the entire staff of The A.V. Club to a spa in Ojai, because he is very rich. Which is true. So I guess he can say whatever he wants.

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