First of all: two awesome TV ads. Governor Paterson looks so much more professional clean-shaven, right? We miss the mustache though. The first ad is all "I never asked to be governor and also I have too won some political victories" and the second one is mostly "look, you don't actually know anything about this man, so we will tell you that he was very smart and went to Columbia and stuff."

Sure, about 450 Time Warner magazine workers will soon be jobless, but times are also tough for company executives: They just can't sell their company-sponsored private jets, and must continue to possess the posh mini-airliners. Such a bummer.

Since he first stepped into the solo spotlight, Justin Timberlake has been Hollywood's prince in waiting, just one perfect role away from claiming his crown as the biggest star in the world forever. Now he has found that part.

If you think the banality of broadcast news is unbearable, good news: this narcoleptic news anchor agrees with you!

Yesterday Real Housewife of Atlanta Kim Zolciak sang her hit song "Tardy for the Party" live for the first time. It is the scariest thing to happen on television since Britney Spears crashed an burned at the VMAs. Worse even!

Add this to the data pile on the Ft. Hood shooter: We've learned that Nidal Hasan applied for and received a permit to carry a concealed handgun in Virginia in March 1996.

Happy Friday, everybody.

Rupert Murdoch's oldest son Lachlan and wife Sarah have landed a mansion in the inner suburbs of Sydney. Here are the sort of digs being an heir to the News Corp. family fortune buys you.

Remember Najibullah Zazi, the coffee cart vendor from Queens who was arrested in September for conspiring to bomb targets using homemade chemical weapons? As dangerous as he may have been with explosives in his possession, it turns out he wasn't much of a threat when it came to coffee and donuts. City inspection records indicate he only received six tickets between December 2004 and May 2008, "a tally that industry representatives say is impressively low." We knew there had to be a silver lining somewhere! [NYT]

Today marks the 40th anniversary of Sesame Street, a landmark in public television and children's educational programming. Through the years there have been a substantial number of celebrity cameos, many unlikely. Here are some of the best.

On last night's episode of 30 Rock Jenna and Tracy need to find a bunch of funny gays in a hurry. Their first stop? A line of guys waiting to watch Hugh Jackman's taping of Inside the Actor's Studio.

Staffers at Vogue did not celebrate Anna Wintour's 60th birthday earlier this week. According to Voguette Lauren Santo Domingo, Anna was in Washington getting "knighted" by President Obama. (She was actually appointed to the White House Committee on the Arts and Humanities along with 24 other media people, but why quibble?) Which is too bad since—shockingly—she says staff birthdays at Vogue are typically celebrated with "pizza parties and cupcake parties." [The Cut]

Larry Page is now the co-creator of something other than the most important internet site in the world: A tipster whispers the Google co-founder is the father of a baby boy, as of Thursday.

We really didn't want to like this. But these two geeky Brits from Leeds totally impressed us with their rhymes, editing skills, and DJ-ing. Think Flight of the Conchords meets your Algebra teacher.

On last night's Daily Show, Jon Stewart performed a bravura 8-and-a-half minute monologue in the style of Glenn Beck on the subject of Glenn Beck's appendicitis.

The Associated Press is reporting that, according to Ft. Hood's commander, witnesses to yesterday's massacre say Maj. Nidal Hasan was shouting "God is great" in Arabic as he was firing on his fellow soldiers.

Master video editor Gabriel Delahaye must have spent weeks putting this video together and I assure you, it was worth it.

[Katy Perry wears a questionable outfit to the roulette wheel at the MTV Europe Music Awards in Berlin last night. Image via Getty]

Si Newhouse (pictured, above) canceled Conde Nast's famous Christmas lunch for the second year in a row, and then—uh oh—then he hired a crisis management flack. Did Details dump toxic waste in Peru?

Slacker generation, sexual deviation, end of a MILF relation, and bed-bug infestation. The best from Community, Parks and Recreation, The Office and 30 Rock. Must-see TV Thursday? You be the judge. To the lulz!