On tonight's AC360, Anderson Cooper made Paris Hilton the subject of his "Ridiculist" segment, a recurring bit that serves as an outlet for Cooper's pent-up sass. The verbal smackdown consisted of Cooper mocking those who might be under the impression Paris has turned over a new leaf by playing clips from her new Oxygen reality show—clips that depicts her in the same dim green light in which we've always seen her. The highly amusing segment is above.

On tonight's AC360, Anderson Cooper interviewed Bill Maher about Saturday's deadly Arizona shooting. After Cooper asked him if right-wing politicians/pundits can be blamed for it, Maher came out swinging—and even directly compared Glenn Beck to shooter Jared Loughner.

For two weeks, Anderson Cooper is taking over Larry King's old CNN time slot. Tonight, during a chat with Joy Behar, Phyllis Diller, Kathy Griffin and Joan Rivers, Cooper admitted his love for Oprah Winfrey and OWN's programming. Watch inside.

Tonight, Dr. Sanjay Gupta hosted Anderson Cooper 360 in Cooper's stead. After Cooper sees the way Gupta began things, however, he may not ask him back. Inside, watch Gupta accidentally call Cooper a pedophile during a segue gone horribly awry.

56-year-old Clay Duke took his own life today during a shootout with authorities at a Florida school board meeting, mere seconds after he fired at—and missed, thankfully—several local officials. The dramatic showdown was caught on tape—watch it inside.

Anderson Cooper introduced a new segment on his show tonight called 'What's Next.' And because the Segway is somehow still the ultimate shorthand for 'the future' he introduced the segment twirling around on one of the mobile awkwardness generators.

As we stare at the ash-filled bowl on the coffee table and consider ourselves—hardly dressed, reeking of failure—we begin to see why some say dope is for dopes. And one of Anderson Cooper's blogging soldiers would agree!

"CNN is permanently shifting to taped programming for the second hour of "Anderson Cooper 360," scaling back an ambitious programming block created in 2005 to showcase the studio and field-reporting talents of Cooper, who it viewed as an emerging star." Uh oh! [Variety] UPDATE: Meouch, CNN is calling Variety all kinds of wrong on this one.