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Looking over Jezebel’s listicle of 20 Feminist TV Characters (thanks Dana!), we’re starting to think that there’s something to the TV format that makes intelligent, empowered female characters more interesting and compelling than, say, their movie counterparts. After all, the list is pretty impressive, including Maude Findlay from Maude, Murphy Brown, 30 Rock’s Liz Lemon, [...]

This listicle might be a moot point what with that perpetual cameo show called 30 Rock, but Best Week Ever chronicles some historic (and obscure) moments in TV comedy crossover synergy with its listicle of The Top 10 Sitcom Cameos Made by Other Sitcom Characters. It’s the formula every rap artist still uses to get [...]

1. It has begun: Sarah Palin launches presidential campaign. Her mission statement claims that sheadmires America’s “fight for freedom,” except if it’s for, you know, gay people. At least she’s, uh, “tolerant.”
2. Why are PETA and Durex throwing their money away on commercials that are too risque to broadcast anywhere other than the internet? Of [...]

Airborne disease season is upon us, so put on your SARS mask and don’t lick any subway poles. I’m pretty sure they cured Bird Flu, but just in case, peruse these disorders and ailments you can’t catch from kissing or anywhere else:
Premature Aging (as seen in Jack): Robin Williams’s titular character was born with a [...]

Late Night with Jimmy Fallon is nigh, and the SNL vet will be reminding us of that nightly with his new vlog. It’s fair to say that Fallon isn’t the best-liked man in comedy (Googling “Jimmy Fallon is annoying” turns up over 27,500 results). Here’s the comedian at his most irritating:
5. Drafting The Roots [...]

Those perpetual frat boys over at COED Magazine unleashed a list of their 8 favorite Tracy Morgan moments yesterday, covering just about every venue in which the prolific comedian’s work has featured. The better of their two nods to 30 Rock (the other being the “Werewolf Bar Mitzvah”) is this strange online feature of Tracy [...]

Today marks the annual release of the Hollywood Reporter’s coveted (and for the top 25 or so, unchanging) list of the 100 Most Powerful Women in Entertainment. There are relatively few surprises, least of all with the head of the pack. For the third year in a row, the podium looks like this:

Oprah Winfrey (Chairman [...]

With election season over, Tina Fey has hung up her Sarah Palin impression. But the hysteria surrounding her spot-on SNL skits portraying the folksy would-be veep has earned the 38 year-old comedienne a whole new slew of fans. And those fans demand magazine profiles! Entertainment Weekly, Vanity Fair and The New Yorker [...]