Portlandia is back for its fifth season which means more Jeff Goldblum!!!! And a laundry list of other celebrity cameos, based on a new trailer released today.

Portlandia's Disappointing Gay sketch is awfully reminiscent of Tyler Coates and Mikala Bierma's Disappointing Gay Best Friend web series from a few years back. Blatant plagiarism or remarkable coincidence? IFC hasn't returned our request for a comment.

"Did Chuck have AIDS?" someone off camera asks Rufus as he's storming out of frame. The setup is a candid interview, maybe for a reality show, maybe for a Maury-like talk show, and Rufus, a pastor, is refusing to answer questions about the man his wife caught him cheating with chapters and chapters ago in R. Kelly's Trapped in the Closet saga.

"Trapped in the Closet is an alien," said R. Kelly last night. "I'm glad to be one of the astronauts to take this trip to a place unknown."

Remember how "Trapped in the Closet" ended five years ago? Me neither. I barely remember what happened at all, but whatever, it's back — on Nov. 23, IFC will broadcast a bunch of new chapters. R. Kelly has released the first of the new batch, Chapter 23, in advance. I know that the series quickly unraveled into goofiness, revealing itself as intentional camp instead of the more engaging ambiguous strain of the sensibility. It went from "Is it or isn't it?" to, "Oh...it is" way too fast.

Sometimes Portlandia delivers biting social satire of about how lame it is to be cool and sometimes it serves up something a little more absurd. On tonight's episode, Fred and Carrie discover that the key to music stardom is including a cat in their band, which leads to them being taken hostage by guest star Kristin Wiig.

The first sketch of IFC's Portlandia was about how Portland, Oregon is stuck in the 1990's. Now that the series is right in the middle of its second season, Fred Armisen and Carrie Brownstein are revising that thesis: Portland is actually stuck in the 1890's, what with the microbrews, the beards, and the general aesthetic of lumberjack chic. Portlandia does a great job of critiquing the posturing that is meant to pass as cool and this sketch really nails it. It also includes one of the series' great lines when Carrie realizes what's happening in Portland and declares, "it's like if President McKinley was never assassinated."

Are you planning on heading down to Austin for SXSW Interactive this year? From how to jack your strat to what to wear thisthis video from IFC's Alex Blagg is a must watch.

Portlandia concluded its freshman season this weekend with a little help from some famous friends Heather Graham, Kyle MacLachlan, Nick Kroll. We met a few new characters and watched Fred and Carrie start a national baseball team: The Portland Thinkers.

Following his cold open, host Joel McHale took the stage at tonight's Independent Spirit Awards and delivered a genuinely funny, relevant and varied monologue. Oh, yeah... there were also sex jokes. Lots of them! Cunnilingus has never been so in.

Tonight brings us the airing of the Joel McHale-hosted 2011 Independent Spirit Awards, or... the poor man's Oscars? McHale opened the show with a parody that poked fun at many of the nominated films. There were star cameos, too!

Joel just heard that all it takes to be called an "independent film" is to not be financed by a major Hollywood studio. So, here's one of the many films by Joel that now count towards a possible Spirit Award.

Starting today, IFC will air Comedy Death Ray every Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday night at 10pm. Host Scott Aukerman will interview celebrities and comedians of note—such as Sarah Silverman and Andy Dick. Previews of their interviews, inside.

Saturday Night Live's Fred Armisen and Sleater-Kinney's Carrie Brownstein's Portlandia arrives on IFC in January. The sketch show—which was written and stars Armisen and Brownstien—looks to be a wacky, offbeat comedy about the Pacific Northwest.

The Onion is getting a TV show! It's coming to IFC, and judging by this teaser trailer, will be similar to the side-splitting news clips found online. Catch a sneak peek here.

In honor of the IFC's upcoming Halloween TV mini-series, DEAD SET, Jersey Shore's Angelina is set up on a blind date... with a zombie. Open sores and all, we say Zombie-dude's definitely an upgrade compared to the typical guido specimen.

With some 48 odd hours to go til IFC's premiere of The Increasingly Poor Decisions of Todd Margaret, our hopes are high.

The KitH miniseries Death Comes to Town has everything you'd expect from a primetime soap: death, sex, high tension, and trannies. If As The World Turns had taken a few tips from Scott Thompson they might not have been canceled.

Old-school journo Pete Hamill and Bill Kristol got together for a little argument, filmed by IFC's new Gideon Yago-hosted thing The IFC Media Project. As Bill Kristol is a sad joke and Pete Hamill is a legend, it was not really a fair fight. The topic, thankfully, allowed Bill to shill for his miserable lost war instead of having to defend Sarah Palin again. Hamill still schooled him. Kristol doesn't really think Americans need to see the "blood" and "coffins" that war creates, that way we can all feel much better about ourselves.

Since "Young American Bodies" has the same theme as every other "serious" web show, I figured this series about several young people's romance and sex lives would be trash, only this time with some naked shots. But it turns out the show on IFC.com (which first ran on Nerve.com) is good honest filmmaking. Like most mumblecore the dialog may seem pedestrian, but that's part of the refreshing realism: no one's overacting, none of the characters are hotshot rockstars or heiresses, nothing is "aspirational" or "viral," and I find myself actually wanting to watch the whole story. Below is the second episode, which begins with a dangling dick and ends in a smirk-worthy sad-sack moment.