Comedian Lizz Winstead is looking for you if you've been on the receiving end of a worthless gift.

"Gift Intervention," her new Lifetime Web show, will be hunting for talent from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Mall of America for the next two weekends.

Winstead, who flew back to her home state Tuesday, said: "We're trying to get people to come to the mall with these gifts and the stories behind them. Some people have gotten gifts that they still, to this day, cannot figure out what they are."Now, I'm a gift interventionist. I kind of like it. I'm not a trained professional. But they never are; there is no training involved in giving advice."

Winstead also will be casting for another show; this one will be searching for 40-plus guys who've always wanted to be in a rock band.

"It's kind of a reality show, social experience," she said. "We want to get a guitar player from one city, a singer from another, and drummer [etc.] and bring them to New York and have them become a band. This is for "Fuse, a newish music network that is owned by the people who own Cablevision. We started our search with ads on Craigslist, and you know there are a lot 40-plus guys who are wanting the dream."

The band tryouts will be from 5 to 10 p.m. Wednesday in Java Jack's basement in Minneapolis.

"I've got to support my peeps. You know, no one is better to Minnesota than me," she said. "That's a huge, huge statement on my part, isn't it?"

Hyperbole is the gift of comedians.

Say thank you, Jon

Whenever "Daily Show" anchor Jon Stewart's sees Lizz Winstead, he should kiss her feet.

Nobody has been better for his career and bank account than Winstead has. "He does not kiss my feet, but he's certainly incredibly sweet," she said.

As well Stewart should be, because Winstead is a co-creator of Comedy Central's Emmy-winning "Daily Show."

She left the show after some inflammatory remarks by a previous anchor, who also happened to be a Minnesotan.

"People always say, How do you feel now that you're not on the show and it's so successful? I always equate it to, you know, if I were to get pregnant and had to give my baby up for adoption and then Jon Stewart walked in, I would be like, 'Here you go. I know you're going to raise this baby just fine. I can go off into the sunset and do other things I think are fun.'"

Late but no beeline

Jerry Seinfeld was nice enough Tuesday when he treated me to a celebrity walk-by outside Chambers.

He just wasn't walking fast enough, considering he was late.

Seinfeld was here promoting his "Bee Movie" with an event at Edina's Southdale theaters.