On tonight's 30 Rock, Liz Lemon came into the TGS writer's room with an announcement: she was absolutely *fine* following her breakup with Carol. So fine, in fact, that she'd adopted a cat—Emily Dickinson—and a fanny pack!

Lady Gaga visited The Tonight Show this evening for an eye-opening interview about everything from the Grammys to Valentine's Day. When Jay Leno brought up the "Born This Way"/"Express Yourself" controversy, Gaga set the record straight.

After Chris Brown fist-pumped his way around the Studio 8H stage on tonight's Saturday Night Live, an otherwise lagging Weekend Update segment was brought to life by Stefon, Bill Hader's hilariously lovable, perpetually partied out club kid and "City Correspondent."

Tonight's Russell Brand-hosted episode of Saturday Night Live has received quite a bit of buzz because it also features Chris Brown—yes, that Chris Brown—as the musical guest. Here's Brown's first performance—an auto-tuned, fist-pumping (Eek!), groin-thrusting, rump-shaking little ditty.

Chandler's new show premiered last night where Monica's old-new show should have been, and it blew it out of the water. Also today: lots of pilot casting news including TV roles for movie people, an interesting idea for The Office's future, and a scintillating blind item.

• Debra Messing just cannot stay away from the gays! This is what everyone will say about the new pilot she's going to star in, Smash. She'll play a lyricist working with a GAY MAN on a Broadway musical about Marilyn Monroe. This is an NBC sitcom pilot all about a musical! So who cares about the gay guy?? Debra Messing could be doing this show with a ten-pound stinkbug and I'd be excited about it. The Debra Messing part could itself be played by a ten-pound stinkbug and I wouldn't care. (I'd maybe even be more excited?) Let's forget the Grace 2.0 stuff and focus on the fact that Glee has made theater slightly cool for a hot minute and enjoy it. [Deadline]

Dana Carvey hosted tonight's Saturday Night Live. There was some old (Wayne's World, "Church Lady"), some new (Justin Bieber cameos), and a sh*tload of WTF, courtesy musical guest Linkin Park. Their second performance? Jaw-droppingly horrible—and just plain weird.

Yes indeedy, the blonde wisp-angel is performing at this year's Oscars. Also today: turns out The Walking Dead actually does need writers, Ben Affleck might be headed to Tehran, and MTV finally says no to Lauren Conrad.

On tonight's 30 Rock, a fake rumor that Liz was pregnant started circulating. (In reality, though, she was just covering for Avery, who needed to secure a promotion.) How'd everyone find out? Why, from Nightly News' Brian Williams, of course!

No, nothing in her personal life. In her professional life. It was a big decision! Also today: news about The Avengers, a Vampire Diaries catastrophe is saved, and Julia Roberts is really really jealous of someone.

During host Jesse Eisenberg's monologue on tonight's Saturday Night Live, the Social Network star was surprised on stage by Andy Samberg-as-Mark Zuckerberg. But that wasn't all—shortly thereafter, the *real* Mark Zuckerberg showed up... and it was incredibly awkward!

Now that Comcast is officially taking over NBC Universal today, the cable company has unveiled a horrible new logo for the famed broadcaster. The response hasn't been too kind. But we know you can come up with something better!

Here's a recently re-discovered oldie—and goodie!—to show how far technology has come in the last two decades. Watch this Today Show clip from 1994, featuring Katie Couric and Bryant Gumbel's complete confusion about what, exactly, the Internet is.

On tonight's 30 Rock, Jack had a brilliant idea: pre-record a celebrity-studded benefit for the victims of a natural disaster so that NBC would have a timely exclusive once the disaster actually happened. How'd it go down? Find out inside.

In your ice-encased Thursday media column: Sam Zell is done with you media types, Comcast wouldn't dream of touching NBC News, rabbis (in the pocket of George Soros, commie Jew) hate Glenn Beck, and The Daily is coming next week.

He's gonna do it. Maybe quickly, maybe slowly. Depends how he feels. But watch out, he's coming. Also today: lots of news about television, casting and pilots and stuff, as well as an update on that Will Smith Annie thing.

It's true. A famous priest who angered the church by following his natural urges will soon be a national TV star. Also today: news from Sundance, some good and some bad, plus James Franco's getting into the porn world.

Less than 90 minutes after Keith Olbermann announced on MSNBC that his show, Countdown, was over effective immediately, colleague Rachel Maddow spoke out—albeit briefly—on the issue during a live taping of Real Time with Bill Maher. Watch inside.

At the end of tonight's broadcast of Countdown, MSNBC powerhouse Keith Olbermann dropped a bomb on his viewers: "This is the last edition of Countdown," said the stone-faced anchor. Olbermann was reportedly fired by MSNBC today. His final words, inside.

In your blissful Friday media column: Jeff Zucker's last (really, this time) goodbye, Nick Summers leaves the NYO, the Boston Globe may finally have a buyer, and Newsmax is disturbingly strong.