Olivia Munn 2012

Hey look, it’s Olivia Munn, in MAXIM, half naked. What a shock.

Don’t get me wrong, Olivia Munn is hot. Scorchingly so and if she decides to go full nude sometime in the next year it will be a glorious day for fanboys across the world. Think the universal celebration at the end of RETURN OF THE JEDI only with less Ewoks and more Kleenex.

Thing is, Munn’s clock is ticking and I’m not talking about her maternal one. I’m talking about her pop culture clock. I’m not sure if you know this or not, but Munn recently left her main gig over at ATTACK OF THE SHOW. That was a daily gig that basically kept her front of the fanboys every single day for the last few years and it worked. Made her semi-famous and made her uber-popular.

I say “semi-famous” because Munn really isn’t known to folk outside of the geek/nerd community. Her few acting gigs since popping up on SHOW have been so-so (one scene cameos in IRON MAN 2, DATE NIGHT and THE SLAMMIN’ SALMON do not a film career make) and her side gig over at THE DAILY SHOW WITH JON STEWART hasn’t been very well received. In other words, with SHOW out of the picture, the pop culture clock (AKA “Your fifteen minutes of fame”) has kicked in. HARD.

And don’t throw her upcoming NBC sitcom PERFECT COUPLES at me as a sign that her career is just getting started. COUPLES looks like a reject FRIENDS clone that somehow managed to escape the 90s. And this MAXIM spread? Hot as it is, this is nothing more than a desperate attempt to wring up interest in a generic show starring a gal who probably just committed career suicide by ditching the only thing she was good at for something that will probably last half a season at best.

While any news about Olivia Munn is to make any fanboy like me extremely happy, today we get a double dose of Olivia Munn heavy on the Munn. We are treated to see Olivia in the upcoming Playboy (sadly, non nude but hey I’ll take it.) In addition, it was announced Olivia will be in the next Iron Man film. This is a double plus in my book and honestly, I don’t expect her to outshine Robert Downey Jr. but having been a fan of Olivia when she does her parodies of super heroines, she is top on that list. She has great comic timing but I’m not sure how she will fare in this serious comic book film adaptation. We shall see. In the meantime, enjoy this clip from G4tv with special guest Iron Man himself.