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Gobble up this news: FOX will air sampling of "Bob's Burgers" on Thanksgiving evening

FOX has announced it will roll out an extended sneak preview of its upcoming animated series, Bob's Burgers, on Thanksgiving night during its two-hour broadcast of The Simpsons Movie.

It's another early sign of support for Bob's Burgers, which is good news for comedy fans, since the series is voiced by comedians: Jon Benjamin, John Roberts, Kristen Schaal, Eugene Mirman and Dan Mintz. The series officially debuts in January 2011. Last month, the network ordered six additional scripts for the series.

Here's a clip of the cast and creators discussing the show during Comic-Con in San Diego. Roll it!

 

The cast of FOX's "Bob's Burgers" at Comic-Con '10

There are lots of panels going on in San Diego this weekend as part of Comic-Con International 2010. Here is a group photo taken from one such panel, for FOX's upcoming midseason animated series, Bob's Burgers. I feature it here because all of the main characters are voiced by actual comedians. Happy happy joy joy. The show debuts in January 2011.

Clockwise from top left: Eugene Mirman, John Roberts, Dan Mintz, Kristen Schaal and down at 6 o'clock, thumb-sucker H. Jon Benjamin.

Related: Bob's Burgers on Facebook.

FOX orders animated series "Bob's Burgers" with all-comedian voice cast?

 FOX has ordered 13 episodes of the animated half-hour sitcom, Bob's Burgers, but with a long lead-time in production meaning the series may not air until early 2011, according to Variety and other trades. But what about that cast??? The show, which centers around a family-run burger joint and is co-created and executive-produced by Loren Bouchard (Dr. Katz) and Jim Dauterive (King of the Hill), featured a voice cast in the pilot presentation of H. Jon Benjamin, Kristen Schaal, John Roberts, Eugene Mirman and Dan Mintz. The trades, however, said that 20th Century Fox was still working out contract details with the cast -- Bouchard told The Hollywood Reporter he hoped to have them all on board. Wish them all luck and congrats!

John Roberts and Drea de Matteo wish you a very Jersey Fourth of July

John Roberts has earned millions of views for his "Jackie" videos on YouTube. Drea de Matteo played an infamous Jersey girlfriend on The Sopranos and is the new cast addition to ABC's Desperate Housewives. Here they are, together, in New Jersey, looking to get tan for the troops. For your Fourth of July. How patriotic!

Related: John Roberts will perform live at Comix in NYC on July 9, with a special guest TBA. Last show, his special guest was Margaret Cho, who also had appeared in one of his videos. Just saying.