Below is the trailer for Season 3 of “Bored to Death,” HBO’s flawed but charming noir-detective comedy. I’ve listed my complaints about Jason Schwartzman and the angle the show takes for his writer-turned-amateur-private-dick before, but that can’t stop Zach Galifianakis and Ted Danson from making the show enjoyable, especially for an unabashed Brooklyn-phile such as myself.

The trailer has little (perhaps nothing) to offer of the coming season, but it does have Schwartzman & Danson & Galifianakis screwing around on Coney Island set to a Beastie Boys soundtrack. That’s about as good of a plug for a Brooklyn-based show that you’re going to get. The highlights of me going to Coney Island aren’t nearly as exciting — it would be an hour of me sitting on the Q train, and then a time-lapse of me getting fatter as I went to Nathan’s three times in four hours. Whatever, those cheese fries are worth it.

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Ever since That Guy With The Beard left “CSI” two years ago, the show has struggled to reclaim its groove — and its audience. Laurence Fishburne’s two-year stint as Dr. Raymond Langston ended this spring after CBS chose not to renew his contract, opting instead to find a new star for its flagship forensic procedural. That star: Ted Danson.

Danson will play the CSI supervisor for the grave shift after heading the crime lab in Portland. He comes to the team as they are still grappling with the professional and personal fallout from last season’s take-down of serial killer, Nate Haskell [not to mention Justin Bieber -- Ed.]…

The casting of Danson caps off an exhaustive search by CBS to find another star worthy enough to help return some luster to the aging CSI franchise. EW learned that offers went out to actors like Tony Shaloub, Robin Williams and John Lithgow before the studio landed on Danson, who’s been enjoying a career resurgence thanks to a critically-acclaimed run on Damages. He received three Emmy nominations for playing Arthur Frobisher. Danson will remain a series regular on Bored to Death. [EW]

Even though I unfairly used the blackface picture from a hundred years ago, I really do enjoy Danson — particularly on “Bored to Death” — and think he’ll be great in the role. Although, to be honest, the show could have filled its missing beard quotient by hiring Robin Williams, who would grow one overnight to play a serious role.

Embedded below is the first trailer for the second season of HBO’s “Bored to Death,” the “noir comedy” that I don’t quite like but can’t stop watching. Jason Schwartzman stars as the young novelist-turned-amateur detective, while Ted Danson and Zach Galifianakis play his magazine editor and best friend, respectively. In case you’re new to Warming Glow, here’s a quick recap of what I like about the show:

• Ted Danson.
• Zach Galifianakis.
• Excellent guest stars.
• Filmed in Brooklyn.
• Frequent nods to the brilliance of Raymond Chandler.

And a list of what sucks:

• Jason Schwartzman’s midget stature and stupid flat-ironed hair.

In its attempt to succeed in the realm between Chandler’s hardbitten noir and The Pink Panther‘s humor, the show ultimately fails at both. And it’s all because I can’t believe that Schwartzman, playing a Woody Allen nebbish in a trench coat, is a character who would ever have the balls to seek out anything resembling danger. This show could be awesome if it killed off Schwartzman’s character and replaced him with someone like Nathan Fillion’s Castle. Maybe if we can get rid of TV and film characters who are writers and total pussies, we can get rid of actual writers who are total pussies. And then Slate will go out of business. Everyone wins.

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I didn’t stick around to watch last night’s special episode of “Jimmy Kimmel Live” after the Oscars, but I’ll give him credit for the video below: he must have called in every favor he could to assemble the cast for his “Handsome Men’s Club” sketch. It features Josh Hartnett and Gilles Marini (pictured), Matthew McConaughey, Ted Danson, Robe Lowe, Sting, John Krasinski, Taye Diggs, and several others I won’t reveal because the surprise is part of the fun. At over nine minutes, it runs a lot longer than I ordinarily like, but it’s worth it to stick around until the end. Or at least until the 6:30 mark, when Lenny Kravitz calls Kimmel a punk-ass bitch.

Noticeably absent from the Handsome Men’s Club: me. But that’s okay. One day bloggers will be cool enough to garner some widespread sex appeal, and then all these naked photos I’ve taken of myself will finally pay off. I gotta tell ya, changing the tint in Photoshop is so much easier than spray tanner.

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Here’s a “Cheers”-era Ted Danson reading a bunch of cheesy lines that men say to women in order to get laid.  And he has a whole a book of them!  Man, I want that book.  I need that book.  Girls just aren’t responding to me when I tell them they have great hips for breeding.  They just walk away, and I yell “great hips for breeding CATTLE!” and moo at them.  Then I lick my finger and make a SSSSS sound to let them know that they got burned.  Then I’m like, “High-five?  Anyone?  Whatever, this library sucks anyway.”

[Everything is Terrible]