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Tonight, Jon Stewart did what he's best at: mocking something while convincingly arguing against it. Stewart's target? The Catholic Church, for—among other things—covering up a gay prostitution ring run by a Vatican Choir singer for the Pope's usher.
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Norm MacDonald has always had a unique sense of humor, and nowhere is this more apparent than in his stand-up routines. Inside, check out one of MacDonald's most classic sets.
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It's that time again—time to put a wrench in the smoothness of your day and get all befuddled as you watch tonight's new episode of LOST. Luckily, you'll be in good company. Inside, your open thread for discussion.
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If you weren't into #tvparty last night you missed out. Commenters, interns, and staffers were all mingling, chatting about last night's programming and just like that, #tvparty was back with a vengance. It was awesome. Highlights inside!
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Well, guys, it's here! Your American Idol Top 12 is set, and tonight—at 8:00 PM on FOX—they'll perform Rolling Stones songs live for your votes. More inside, plus your open thread and the best comments from last week.
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TONIGHT: the Top 12 perform on American Idol, Sawyer's got a sex scene in tonight's Lost, Flashforward is back and trying to recruit viewers, Justified premieres on FX, and "Barry and Robin Gibbs" appear on Late Night.
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We should have known it was only a matter of time before a music video was made about the Dicktowel. It doesn't feature the Always Sunny cast, but there are plenty of boobs, beachwear, and crustaceans to fill the void.
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Mike Tyson stars in a new show about pigeon-racing, True Blood gets a start date, the real deal on all the shakeups at Parks & Recreation, Millionaire Matchmaker gets renewed, and some insight into the mind of Creed Bratton.
As this truck careens down the highway, it appears to have an entire car stuck to its bumper. What's worse is that the truck driver doesn't even realize it! Video inside.
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Pride and Prejudice and Zombies has the heart wrenching narrative of a Jane Austen novel, but the gore of slaughtering zombies. So everybody wins! And the trailer promoting the book drives home the bloodlust of the Bennett sisters. Classic Austen!
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Anthony Bourdain has gone from hip middle-aged man who travels the world, to a crotchety old man who travels the world so gradually we almost didn't notice. But there he was last night, complaining, aching, and just being old.
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The first full-length trailer for HBO's Treme, David Simon's second TV show after The Wire, features John Goodman, takes place in post-Katrina New Orleans, focuses on jazz, and looks like a can't miss. We. Cannot. Wait.
On an otherwise average Australian day, this camerman decides to film some cranes working on a construction project. Things seem to be going as planned until one crane suddenly starts collapsing into another.
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In Sizing Up Sperm, thousands of men and women dress in white and run around town in an attempt to explain... insemination? The miracle of life? The miracle of junk?
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Last night's rock 'n roll challenge featured special guest stars: Berlin's Terri Nunn and the hardest of the hardcore, Henry Rollins. Also involved: Singing live, pleather ensembles and truly outrageous hair inspired by Jem and The Holograms.
Check out this awesomely gory claymation of the movie Evil Dead. From the buckets of blood to the melting faces, this is one remake worth your time.
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Like the greater Twittership at-large, celebrity tweets are mostly pointless. Facts easily learned from other sources bore readers and clog feeds. Obvious topics and endless LOLs are even more unnecessary if the personality that makes the poster celeb-worthy is absent.
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Though figure skating is most often described with tiresome combinations of adjectives like "delicate" and "graceful", Johnny Weir, always an iconoclast, is known to bring his own sexually-charged power into the rink.
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On The Early Show, Senator Dodd applauds Harry Smith's recent televised colonoscopy, but he likens the feeling of having ones anus checked to passing the finance reform bill. The only difference being a colonoscopy usually accomplishes something.
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Are we ready for 3D? As CG supervisor and avid moviegoer, I'm sad to say that I'm not convinced we are. Yet. And the worse is yet to come, as studios try to milk us all for these half-baked goods.
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This granny introduces a BBC program on punk with the most fitting disclaimer she can. Warning of the questionable content ahead, she launches into a shocking stream of swears that are actually pretty adorable coming from a sweet old lady.
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One set of twins tricks well-meaning passerby into going into their home for a first aid kit...where the second set of twins lie in wait to give them stank face for entering uninvited.
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This nice lady has unleashed her gift of hand-less clapping onto the internet. We think she needs to understand that hypnotic flab undulation and only hypnotic flab undulation is what's launched her to viral stardom — no weird party-tricks needed.
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Michael Moore emerged from a long hiatus to voice his outrage about health care on Tavis Smiley. What came out was the sad reality that one man cannot change the world—unless he's skinny.
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Who is designing toys these days? Pedophiles? People who want to crush the souls of children? Is this China's doing? Because if so, they are very sneaky in breaking the American spirit. Toys, in most forms, should not aggressively hump.
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What do exploding cakes, animals doing gymnastics and trampoline fails have in common? To be honest, absolutely nothing besides the fact that they're all funny.
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