As part of his pitch to J.J. Abrams for a role in the new Star Wars films, Bill Hader showed Conan O'Brien his best imitations of two lesser known characters. You've never seen a better impression of dying tauntaun. And Hader's Jabba the Hutt isn't bad either.

We all know Peter Mayhew, even if we don't realize it: He played Chewbacca, the lovable Wookiee in the original Star Wars trilogy. And judging from his Twitter feed in the past week, he's more of a fanboy than we realized: He badly wanted to form a sexy rebel alliance with Princess Leia.

The fictional city of Mos Espa from Star Wars: Episode 1, located in the real Tunisian Desert, is slowly being devoured by a sand dune.

Last week, TSA agents in Denver detained actor Peter Mayhew, who played Chewbacca in the Star Wars movies, as they reportedly attempted to confiscate his light saber-shaped cane, which the 7-foot, 2-inch actor requires to walk.

The childlike joy of America's Free Comic Book Day became a violent drama of assault and police firing taser guns when two costumed characters were attacked by a 300-pound drunken monster outside a comics shop in Portland, Maine, on Saturday.

One of the two Parks and Recreation episodes airing tomorrow features a cameo by the inimitable Patton Oswalt who demonstrates at length what makes him so inimitable.

The White House crushed the dreams of thousands of Star Wars fans yesterday when they officially rejected a petition to start building a Death Star by 2016. The petition wasn't quite as successful as the idiotic one to deport Piers Morgan, but it did garner over 34,000 signatures, 9,000 more than necessary to receive…

As we all know, Stephen Colbert loves his Super PAC and so he was a little miffed when President Obama came out against them in the State of the Union address. But, then Obama decided to take money from one, making him the Darth Maul to Colbert's Emperor Palpatine. The Star Wars jokes never get old apparently.

While I can't speak to the quality of 3D conversion, I can recount The Hollywood Reporter's weekend box office update. They might be freaking out about the "overperformance" of The Vow and Safe House, but I'm more interested in the re-release of arguably the most hated installment of the Star Wars franchise. You…

There is nothing worse than a Toys GRRRRR Us during Christmas, am I right? The only thing worse is when there is some lunatic in the store trying to slash people to bits with a light saber. We're lucky someone didn't get Darth Mauled. HA! Nerd jokes. I kill myself.

You know that woman from Oregon who got naked and crawled inside a dead horse to both "feel one" with the animal and also pose for puke-inducing highly artistic photographs? The Seattle Weekly tracked her down and discovered that her project—which prompted a police investigation—was inspired by none other than Han…

In 2008, Kanye West loved Comedy Central's Crank Yankers so much that it inspired him to film the pilot for a hip-hop puppet variety show called Alligator Boots, but the episode never made it to air. After watching this recently discovered behind-the-scenes footage—which includes Stormtrooper Kanye acting on his …

While Simon Pegg and Nick Frost can certainly take on zombies, murderers, and aliens, George Lucas is an entirely different story. Watch as they try to recreate Star Wars—but immediately dissolve into bickering over Frost's R2D2 beeps.

Haven't not had enough Charlie Sheen-isms and parodies? Bring it, you say? Here's another one for you then. Boom! Here's Charlie Sheen as Darth Vader, winning. Need we say more?

It's nice to know that Parks and Recreation's April Ludgate is equally less-enthused when in space. Here's the first episode of CollegeHumor's Forcefield Troopers.

Remember at the end of Return of the Jedi, when a mistaken Han Solo said, "You love him" to Princess Leia about her brother, Luke Skywalker? Here's how it would have gone down had Quentin Tarantino directed the film. Incest!

These people may look like they're on the surface of Darth Vader's planet destroying laser, but they're really just workers completing the roof of Singapore's new avant-garde ArtScience Museum. Another photo is on the right. [Photos: Getty]

The Superbowl is three days away, but that doesn't mean we can't talk about it yet! Or, more specifically, talk about commercials that will air during the game, like this awesome Star Wars-themed spot for Volkswagen that's already buzzing online.

It's time for the ever-popular "restaurant wars" episode—this time featuring all-star combatants! These are the best kind of "star wars"—the ones with no Jar Jar Binks! Why not join us as we live blog them in the comments?

Remeber the end of Return of the Jedi? Were you just as pissed about all of the annoying celebrations on Endor as I was? If so, then this alternate ending video—with a more destructive tone—will make you happy.