This Is What Happens When You Try to Do a 360 on a Swing

Matt Cherette · 10/06/10 04:10PM

In today's edition of, "What'd you think was going to happen?" we have this: two guys help a third do a 360 on a swing, and—while the first few rotations were successful—he ends up being a human torpedo.

TV News and the Best of the Rest on the Web

Whitney Jefferson · 10/06/10 04:00PM

Drea de Matteo will play Will Arnett's mother, Outsourced may have stretched the truth in their commercials, Mary Lynn Rajskub will play Modern Family's Mitchell's ex-girlfriend and Hoda Kotb's most fantastic face of the day.

Beware the Fury of a Furious Man

Hamilton Nolan · 10/06/10 03:45PM

The Way We Live Now: in a permanent state of barely-controlled fury. Foreclosure furor! Holiday whirlwind! The heart-stopping ups and downs of IMF projections! Recovery is a roller coaster, on an elevator, dropped from a balloon, that just popped.

We Are One Step Closer to a Robert Downey Jr. Wizard of Oz

Richard Lawson · 10/06/10 03:44PM

The new movie has a director, a good director, so maybe Downey'll finally sign on. Also today: Some TV casting both interesting and depressing, another internet thing gets made into a TV show, and the return of an old crush.

New Facebook Offers Cliques for Privacy

Ryan Tate · 10/06/10 03:36PM

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has taken some fierce criticism for compromising his users' privacy. Today he issued a clever response, taking the primordial tendency of humans to form groups and rolling it into his product as a feature.

Your Wednesday Night Lineup

Matt Cherette · 10/06/10 03:32PM

TONIGHT: A jam-packed schedule! We've got new episodes of Law & Order: Los Angeles, Undercovers, Better with You, The Defenders, The Whole Truth, Hell's Kitchen, The Middle, Law & Order: SVU, Criminal Minds, Modern Family, Cougar Town, and much more!

Real Time Interview with Nick Swardson

Chris Dignes · 10/06/10 02:50PM

Nick Swardson's Pretend Time debuts next Tuesday, October 12th at 10PM on Comedy Central. Gawker.TV set aside some time yesterday afternoon to ask him about car beds, cats in wheelchairs, lady parts and homosexuality.