Tom Hanks will appear on 30 Rock, winners of the Comedy Awards, ABC Family has two season premieres tonight and sorry folks—there's a Presidential address so many of your shows are off this evening.
The BBC show Bizarre ER finds a lad who knew that his tiny sequined hat made his Halloween costume but the bugger just wouldn't stay on! After a few failed attempts he realized super glue would do just the trick.
Three days after the internet shamed Ina Garten for rejecting a pediatric cancer patient's Make-A-Wish request to cook a meal with her, the Barefoot Contessa has agreed to fit a 6-year-old leukemia patient into her busy schedule. After twice rejecting Enzo Pereda's request, Ina is now pleading ignorance:
A beat boxer musician known as The Pete Box puts every other cover artist to shame by performing the famous Pixies song with only a guitar, beat box, his voice, and an RC-50 loop station.
Today's Freeze Frame came from the movie Pollack. Watch the original scene from the movie above!
Chevelle doesn't need coffee or energy drinks like a few of us to escape that groggy feeling after catching some z's. Here she is after a nap turning a complete one-eighty after hearing some Kid Cudi.
One of the all-time Top Five, or really Top One, Barack Obama conspiracy theories is back in the news! Did you know that Barack Obama's terrorist friend, former Weather Underground member Bill Ayers, secretly ghostwrote the president's memoir, Dreams From My Father? This story has been around for several years and still comically emerges from time to time, like right now. The wingnuts have caught Ayers "admitting" that he wrote Barack Obama's book, again, when he was clearly making fun of them for ever believing something so stupid.
The Early Show is in London obsessing over the royal wedding cake. In America, we ditch the fruitcake at Christmas, then spend 4 minutes discussing its importance to a country that's making fruitcake the most important cake in all the land.
If you have not been watching Bob's Burgers you should be. Last night's episode was my favorite by far and here are some clips that I believe were funny enough to share.
Over the weekend, the Today Show got the cast of Stand By Me back together with director Rob Reiner to relive the memories. Believe it or not, Jerry O'Connell still swears he was "healthy" as a kid, and not fat.
Last night there was a blink-and-you-missed-it easter egg in the opening credits of The Simpsons. Perhaps it's a celebration by the Simpsons crew after Futurama's renewal?
Joan Rivers and the Fashion Police had a field day with Katie Holmes' recent visit to New York. Between Suri's package of gummi penis candy and wearing certain clothes "because it hides the tracking device."
In your suspicious Monday media column: Katie Couric's future mulled, a racist theater review mocked, the WaPo's redesign criticized, the NYT paywall arrives, and Maer Roshan has a new hobby.
Yes, the Comedy Central's new awards show dedicated to all things funny was filmed over the weekend and we have to wait two more weeks to watch it. However, here's a clip of the good stuff: Tina Fey stating that she's "fucking crushing Helen Mirren at acting."
This morning Jimmy Fallon had Martha Stewart try his caramel fudge-covered potato chip cluster ice cream. Then Martha showed him how to make ice cream cake when he wasn't eating ingredients and trying to put them back in the cake.
Here's a trailer for Woody Allen's latest European romp, Midnight in Paris, a comedy about Owen Wilson staggering through the streets of the world's prettiest city while feeling jealous about his wife, Rachel McAdams. You see, his wife is, in typical Allenian (Allenic?) fashion, infatuated with a worldly intellectual, played by Michael Sheen (McAdams' real-life beau). What is one to do?
It's been almost a week since House Republicans, Senate Democrats and the White House last sat down to hammer out a budget agreement, and the schedule's still blank. Accusations of bad faith are now flying from both sides. Republicans are poised to reject a White House offer, TPM has learned, that would cut over $30 billion in current spending because of disagreements over whether the package should include cuts to mandatory spending programs. Democrats are pushing for such cuts, which include the big entitlement programs, though the specific cuts they're proposing remain unclear. In an ironic twist, Republicans oppose those cuts and want to limit the negotiations to non-defense discretionary spending, a smaller subset of the federal budget.
