bones: joshua malina to guest-star!

First of all, for those who don’t know, Joshua Malina : Aaron Sorkin :: Greg Grunberg : JJ Abrams.  If you didn’t get that expert analogy, it’s okay.  That probably means you’re not a big ol’ nerd, or at least not about dork writers and the people they continuously hire.

Mr. Malina, an avid Tweeter and the guy who’s been a series regular on the two of Sorkin’s three series that didn’t suck, is guest-starring on Bones soon, in what I assume is (spoiler alert!) the role of Phillip, a man who flirts with and is a possible love interest for Brennan.

If that’s true, sign me up.  I can actually get behind a romance between him and Bones–knowing, of course, that she’s not, you know, going to end up with him.

Here’s a clip from Sports Night, where he delivers a delicious Sorkin monologue.  (His poker skills are real, too; Joshua Malina created and produced Bravo’s Celebrity Poker Showdown series.)

And here’s another from The West Wing, where he played Will Bailey, the guy who replaced Rob Lowe.  Not easy shoes to fill, but for the short few episodes that his tenure overlapped with Sorkin’s, he did it very well.

Also, his Sports Night character once dated a porn star, so he’ll fit right in with the rest of the Bones cast.