Russian President Vladimir V. Putin has been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize.

Well, oh boy, everyone turn on your televisions, they've announced the Nobel Peace Prize. Silence, please. And the winner is: "The European Union." Man, the Nobel Peace Prize has really "jumped the snark."

Nine Nobel Peace Laureates are protesting a new reality show and it has nothing to do with Bravo's Real Housewives franchise.

Liberian peace activist Leyma Gbowee, Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, and Yemeni democracy activist Tawakkul Karman somehow beat animal rights advocate and Egyptian revolutionary Mark Zuckerberg in winning the Nobel Peace Prize. What could these women possibly have done to outshine the man who has perhaps done more to liberate private information than anyone else?

The Nobel Peace Prize will be awarded tomorrow, and people are taking seriously the possibility that Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg might win it. These people seem to be confusing the concepts of "world peace" and "procrastinating at work."

Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo's chair sits empty at the Nobel Peace Prize ceremony today in Norway. Committee secretary Geir Lundestad (left) said, "We regret that the laureate is not present. He is in isolation in a prison in northeastern China."

China's beef with the Nobel Committee over its selection of dissident Liu Xiaobo for this year's Peace Prize has turned comical, with the government creating its own "Confucius Peace Prize," which will go to Taiwan's former VP this week.

Chinese officials are fuming over Friday's Nobel Peace Prize Ceremony because they really don't like the winner, jailed dissident Liu Xiaobo. Police have arrested many of Liu's supporters, and today the Foreign Ministry called them anti-Chinese "clowns." How mature.

Burmese Nobel Peace Prize laureate Daw Aung San Suu Kyi—under house arrest for over seven years—was freed today, five days after the country's military junta held parliamentary elections. "We must unite!" she told supporters outside her home.

The wife of imprisoned Chinese Nobel Peace Laureate Liu Xiaobo says the prison has started serving him individually prepared meals, rather than the notoriously gross general population food. How nice of them! Now maybe they could just set him free?

A supporter of Nobel Prize winner Liu Xiaobo was arrested in Hong Kong after spraying a Chinese government official with champagne yesterday. Protesters ate salmon and drank champagne in solidarity with the Norway-based Nobel committee. Sounds like a good time!

Liu Xia, wife of jailed Chinese dissident and Nobel Peace Prize winner Liu Xiaobo, told her husband of his award, and he cried and said, "This is for the martyrs of Tiananmen Square." Shortly after leaving, Liu Xia was detained.

Prominent Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo, who is serving an 11-year prison sentence for "inciting the subversion of state power," was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize today for his work toward nonviolent political change in China. [NYT]

Oh, awkward. The country singer in a cowboy hat performed an impromptu rap with Will Smith after the Nobel Prize ceremony. And—wait a minute—did he just make slanty eyes during a verse about "yellow" people?

[Camera displays and cell phone screens glow as Barack and Michelle Obama greet the crowd from the Grand Hotel in Oslo, Norway, where President Obama accepted the Nobel Peace Prize today. Image via Getty]

Barack Obama knows that the Nobel Peace Prize is as often given as encouragement as it is for accomplishment. So he starts off humble, says he'll accept the award, and moves on to his international relations to-do list.

No, of course he won't. But Mickey Kaus thinks he should, and we agree. And ABC News' characterization of Obama's imminent Rose Garden speech is curiously neutral: "Obama will make a statement...reacting to the Nobel Peace Prize award. "

It only takes asking for something to win the Nobel Peace Prize, which this year goes to President Obama for his efforts to scale back to world's nuclear arsenal and sooth the Middle East. His Grammy's reportedly very jealous.

In a major upset, the Nobel Committee announced this morning that it's awarded this year's peace prize to President Obama for "his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples." [AP, Reuters, NYT]

Life is filled with so many difficult decisions. Take, for example, the question that the Oxygen network posed to a group of women as part of a recent survey: Would you rather win America's Next Top Model or the Nobel Peace Prize? Not surprisingly, 25 percent of respondents said they'd take the modeling industry's most coveted title over the one that celebrates people who, like, make the world a better place, which may have something to do with the fact that winning ANTM brings with it a possible fast food contract and an In Touch cover, while joining the ranks of Muhammad Yunus, Wangari Muta Maathai, and Shirin Ebadi doesn't sound all that sexy. When have any of them been featured on the cover of a magazine, huh? (Foreign Affairs doesn't count; it doesn't even have pictures on the cover!)