As the Today Show hosts were bantering about Kathie Lee and Hoda's impending booze cruise ocean adventure, Al chimed in with a pirate joke that was nobody appreciated. Sounds of crickets would be less awkward than the silence that followed.

Someone in Sen. Chris Dodd's office must have been participating in a rich IM or Gchat conversation when the words "U love torturing me w this shit" got posted to the senator's Twitter. Retiring senators, sheesh! Where's the staff discipline?

On last night's Late Night, Jimmy Fallon challenged Amanda Peet to a boxing game on Microsoft's Kinect for XBox 360. Let's just say Amanda looked better playing in her satin boxing outfit than she actually played. Win by KO!

As you've likely noticed, America is completely obsessed with Kate and William's upcoming nuptials. Who better to ask for insight than Russell Brand, a subject of the British crown? Somehow, his stories of clattering genitals don't sound exactly truthful.

In your packed Thursday media column: Jeff Bewkes hides in plain sight, News Corp's looking to poach from the NYDN, the decline of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, AMI's bankrupt, and Vice comes to MTV.

On her Facebook page, Bristol Palin quasi-apologized for egging on sister Willow during a Facebook freakout about a "faggot." Then, Bristol took a page from her mother's playbook, complaining about "haters" who seek to "destroy" her magnificent televised dancing career.

These dudes got hammered. Actually, a fan liked the Mike Williams' one-handed catch against the Cardinals better from the live angle, so he just slowed it down. Then he discovered that football announcers sound drunk.

Last night, CNN's Anderson Cooper did a story about bonobo apes that can communicate. They ordered him to put on a bunny suit and, like a good reporter, he did. This treads the fine line between ridiculous and adorable.

[Jake Gyllenhaal and Anne Hathaway on two of the three sexy-pex new Entertainment Weekly covers they shot to promote their movie "Love and Other Drugs", which apparently features "unusually bold sex scenes." Yowza wowza! Images via EW]

Remember Steven Slater, the guy who announced his resignation from Jet Blue over the loudspeaker, then slid down the emergency exit? He is using his powder blue bike and proclivity for rap to "pimp" an app for in-flight texting.

A Stockholm court has issued a warrant for Wikileaks founder Julian Assange's arrest, just to ask him some questions about those mysterious rape charges. Assange's only recourse now is to... simply not go to Sweden, of course! That's easy enough.

The SoHo apartment where actor Heath Ledger passed away is on the market for $5M. It's a huge 4400sq.ft. loft with three bedrooms and a private balcony. So, if you can deal with a tragic ghost, it's a steal.

So say the critics anyway! Well, the critics who have joy and whimsy in their hearts and aren't soul-dead monsters whose chest cavities are full of nothing but discarded tin. Heh, sorry. Let's look at both sides of the debate!

In this giggly interview promoting Love and Other Drugs, Anne Hathaway and Jake Gyllenhaal are subjected to Meredith Vieira's rapid-fire questioning about their sex scenes. Turns out, they're old pros at faking sex with each other after filming Brokeback Mountain.

Gawker.TV Trivia, a daily question & answer game that tests your knowledge of television—past and present. Do you think you that you've got it? The answer to today's question, inside.

Translated from Spanish, this talking head says this cooking lid was inspired from the Bruce Willis film Unbreakable. A strange inspiration for a cooking lid, but lets put it to the test.

Despite being in handcuffs and leg irons in the back of an unmarked police car, Jose Rodriguez managed to steal the car—steering with his knees— and escape, for 14 hours. He's been recaptured, but his legend will live on.

"If you ran for president, could you beat Barack Obama?" asks Barbara Walters. Sarah Palin replies "I believe so." On today's View, Walters teased a part of her annual "Ten Most Interesting People" feature.

Mike Jay's High Society parallels the history of drugs to the history of imperialism (Chinese opium, British heroine, Austrian cocaine). As anyone who's studied abroad for the "cultural experience" will tell you: every society is a high society.