Aren’t we all just a bit fatigued with the whole viral video thing at this point? Where once I was eager to hunt down every shred of nonsense pertaining to a franchise I loved, now I’m all “Go! Go and find it. If it’s good, I’ll..I’ll be there.”

Here’s one of Denis Leary as Captain Stacy talking to Daily Bugle TV.

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Denis Leary is swinging onto the set of the new Spider-Man movie. Puns, ahoy! Leary will be playing George Stacy, father of the inestimably superior Parker love interest, Gwen. Well, until she all gets her neck broken and shit. It’s casting that I wouldn’t have seen coming, but to be truthful, I wasn’t even contemplating Gwen’s family or the necessity of casting them.

I’m cool with it, as long as it doesn’t result in Lenny Clarke getting cast as anything but a corpse in the flick. Leary’s friend seems to be his sidekick, and seems to find his way into things the former is cast in. The problem? He is the anti-funny, eliminating funny within a thirty foot radius of anything he does.

Thoughts on the casting?