I didn't even realize Suzanne Somers wrote poetry. So I learned something today.

Watch SNL's Kristen Wiig do a dramatic reading of "Touch Me," as part of the ongoing Celebrity Autobiography series.

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I propose we have a half-hour show every week where Christopher Walken does... anything. The guy is so hilariously bizarre that the show would be an immediate hit. Nobody else could have done the infamous SNL "cowbell" skit. And nobody can do Lady Gaga like Christopher Walken.

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We're still reeling from the news that Miley Cyrus has apparently quit Twitter. Perhaps, with years of intense psychoanalysis, shock therapy and healthy doses of benzodiazepenes, we'll overcome this national tragedy.

To help with the mourning process is Billy Dee Williams, whose velvety bass solemnly intones the sweet, sweet Tweets of our Miley.

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Let's review: Miley Cyrus drops Twitter because she wants to protect her privacy, and then explains her decision via '80s-style rap video posted on YouTube. Way to keep things quiet.

Catchy song, though.

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In case you missed it (welcome back from your cave), David Letterman last week detailed on his show an extortion plot (now revealed to have been allegedly hatched by a CBS producer) threatening to expose Letterman's sexual relationships with staffers over the years. Having made quite a few jokes about philanderers, Letterman now finds himself to be the butt of late-night talk show hosts.

But this video is remarkable because of the attorney for the CBS producer, who went on MSNBC to clear the air and instead... Well, I'm not quite sure what he accomplished. Watch for yourself and afterward, I'll post the entire, awkward, footage where Letterman revealed this plot.

Here's the show footage which, having watched it live, made for some long (it's 10 minutes-plus), awkward viewing:

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Is it me, or must Kanye West do something foolish at every Video Music Awards?

Kanye, if you can't say something nice about Taylor Swift... at least wait until after she's left the stage. Or at least until she's done thanking people.

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With the state of viral videos these days, who knows if this is real or not. If it's NOT real, Pizza Hut did a pretty good job of making it look real.

What we have is Jim Breuer getting harassed by a Pizza Hut employee who is stopping him from eating their commercial prop -- a piece of pizza.

It's pretty funny and I HOPE it's real.

Thanks to dedicated Watch This Now viewer LJ for sending this my way!

Got a video that's about to go viral? As long as it isn't old news, send it our way. I can be reached at bhaas@SunSentinel.com. I can't guarantee I'll use it, but I'm pretty lazy, so I probably will.

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Together, they try to figure out Twitter. Though you'd think that people would have figured it out by now, given that I believe this is roughly the 420th viral video about Twitter.

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I can sympathize with Patricia Heaton, because I'm really bad at math. But even I could multiply 5 times 1.50 in my head.

What really amazes me is that this was the $50,000 question on Millionaire. Aren't the questions supposed to become more difficult as the dollar amounts go up? Or are all bets off when it's a famous person playing for charity?

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You've got to feel for Dan Harris as he proceeds to insult Jamie-Lynn Sigler's real-life boyfriend, Jerry Ferrara, while discussing the pair's on-screen relationship on "Entourage."

Clearly he needs to read more People. Or TMZ. Or just Google Jamie-Lynn Sigler.

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You'd think that someone like Tony Danza, who starred in several network shows and had his own talk show, would know better than to run his mouth while he's got a microphone on.

He doesn't. And so we get a Tony Danza Fail.

Do you get the distinct impression that Danza is less than thrilled to be plugging whatever project he's doing with Disney that he's promoting on this local news cast?

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Chris Brown apologizes. Do you forgive him?

Thanks to former WTN blogger Kevin Cobb for sending this one along.

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I guess he's taking his trade to Cleveland pretty well?

I like how Shaq gets out of the car at two points to show he's going "over the edge." I felt you, Shaq.

But I'll be honest, the one thing I kept thinking throughout this clip is how Shaq is not wearing his seat belt. Does Click It Or Ticket mean nothing to you, man?

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His untimely death at 50 didn't take over cable news and the Internet like Michael Jackson's did Thursday, but that doesn't mean Billy Mays -- the celebrity pitchman who sold OxiClean, Orange Glo and countless other products -- doesn't deserve his own Watch This Now tribute.

Here are two of my favorites.

First, the Billy Mays blooper reel:

Second, Billy Mays at the McDonald's drive-thru as part of a morning show stunt. What a good sport.

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You may think Dixie Carter is all proper and sensible, given the character she played on "Designing Women." But it seems she has at least a touch of crazy going on -- either that or she did this yoga tape under duress.

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Bruno, for the uninitiated, is another of Sacha Baron Cohen's creations and the subject of what looks to be a hilarious up-and-coming movie. Instead of the idiot naif Borat, he plays a flamboyantly gay German television host.

Here, we get a taste of what's to come (Eminem REALLY gets a taste) when Bruno's MTV Music Awards entrance goes (scripted, of course) awry.

WARNING: This video gets a little cheeky. As in butt-cheeky. As in, Sacha Baron Cohen in a god-awful thong cheeky.

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Yikes.

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Lost's Michael Emerson -- Benjamin Linus, or Ben, to you -- went on Late Night With Jimmy Fallon, and Fallon talked him into performing a spooky rendition of the old nursery rhyme.

I think it's a little bit scary.

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Good for you, Lindsay! The ability to laugh at yourself is the first step to career rehabilitation.

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File under: Things that famous people can get away with, that I can't.

Way to bust out that old McDonald's jingle, though.

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Britney Spears kicked off her "Circus" tour Tuesday night in New Orleans, with a stop in Miami on Saturday. Here are a few sneak peek videos of what fans can expect.

Britney Spears tour extended trailer:

Opening video featuring Perez Hilton:

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Joaquin Phoenix was cool. Gladiator. Signs. The Village. Hotel Rwanda. Walk the Line.

And then he went and crapped himself up by declaring he was done with acting to focus on his "music career." Well folks, here are the results. His stage presence leaves something to be desired as he takes a dive from the stage.

After the jump, you can see Joaquin Phoenix "rap." Yes, it's as bad as you'd come to expect from Hollywood actors and their musical side projects. I'm looking at you, Bruce Willis, Keanu Reeves, Jennifer Love Hewitt, Russell Crowe, Kevin Bacon, etc.

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Before someone threw a shoe at George W. Bush, someone threw a bra at a Jonas Brother. According to the poster of this clip, the bra incident occurred back in August during the Jonas Brothers concert stop in Illinois.

The awkwardness starts at the :28 mark.

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In other news, Lil' Jon vows to remain crunk.

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Aw, thanks, Britney! Merry Christmas to you, too. Now watch your son, he looks like he's about to make a run at the tree, and that just won't end well.

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During Akon's performance Tuesday night on Jimmy Kimmel, he decided to do a little crowd surfing. Looks like there was a grabby hand in the audience.

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Check out this star-studded 3-minute musical about California's Prop 8 gay marriage ban starring Jack Black, Neil Patrick Harris, Margaret Cho, Andy Richter, Maya Rudolph, John C. Reilly, Allison Janney and many, many more.

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She's just being Miley, right? Has the Hannah Montana / Miley Cyrus Disney star lost it? Probably not.

In the video below, Miley is singing (I'm using the term loosely) her song "Fly on the Wall" into a comb microphone.

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Bill Cosby would like to talk to you about his alma mater, Temple, and their game against Ohio University. He just can't seem to get the words out.

Feel free to do your own impression here of Bill Cosby hawking Jell-o Pudding Pops. You know you want to.

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At the end of Katy "I Kissed A Girl" Perry's MTV Latin Music Video awards performance, she jumped into a cake. No big deal, until she tries to stand up.

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A gripping, gritty performance that drives home the message that steroids are really, really, really not good for you and they make you mad enough to hit your sister and destroy your room.

And can anyone tell me what happened to the kitten?

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So you've probably heard that David Blaine is hanging upside down in Central Park right now. He's doing this for 60 hours. Why he's doing this, I'm not sure, but CBS shot some video Monday and posted unedited footage on their Web site.

Here's something I didn't realize, courtesy of Entertainment Weekly's PopWatch blog: Apparently, David Blaine gets to take breaks. So it's not just 60 hours of hanging upside down. He gets right-side-up time.

Yes, I know the guy needs to eat and use the bathroom, and keep the blood from pooling in his cranium. But it seemed a far more impressive feat when I thought he was upside down for 60 consecutive hours.

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ABC is airing a special on this tonight, so you can watch even more of this later.

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There weren't many funny moments in last night's Emmy Awards broadcast, but this was one of the bits that worked:

Special note to the Academy: Kudos for ending the show on time, because 11 p.m. is my bedtime. But the five reality show hosts as Emmy hosts thing totally did not work, and Howie Mandel got on my last nerve.

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Actually, "sings" is generous. "Butchers" might be a better verb. Or "slaughters."

But he seems to be having fun and it's for kids (and their mentors, as the video points out at the beginning and end) so good job, Greg Oden of the Portland Trailblazers!

And thanks to Sarah, who corrected me that this was not Backstreet Boys, as I'd originally posted.

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Good news: Diddy's jet is back in the air. Apparently gas prices have come down enough that the rap mogul can fly again without having to share his air space with the unwashed masses aboard American Airlines.

To bring you all up to speed: A couple of weeks ago, Diddy posted a clip on YouTube where he ranted about how he had to fly coach because of gas prices. I would post said clip, but he drops a few too many F-bombs for a family newspaper Web site. Also he clearly takes a seat in first class, since I've never seen headrests that nice or taken that short a walk to get to my seat on an American flight. You'll have to settle for this story instead if you want more information.

What kills me is, he can't afford fuel for his jet, but he can afford gas for the half-dozen or so SUVs and the limo flanking the jet. I'm starting to think this was all a ... publicity stunt (please note sarcasm).

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Now you can see what it's like to be wealthy and have people give you stuff for free!

No actual celebrities were shown during the filming of this AMC News -- AMC News? Really? -- clip of the Toronto Film Festival Celebrity Gift Lounge. But now us common folk can watch just how awesome it is to be famous and have people give you things that you could afford to buy for yourself.

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A German TV show host who clearly enjoys Will Smith songs busts out his ukulele during an interview with aforementioned movie star/rapper, and they sing the theme song to "Men In Black."

Yeah, sure, he knows all the words to Will Smith's popular songs from his popular movies. But I bet he doesn't know the theme from "Wild Wild West."

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You can just hear the claws coming out. A FOX 5 News reporter for their Las Vegas affiliate explains an on-air misunderstanding between another FOX reporter and singer Solange Knowles.

The anchor actually says: "Quit gravy training off your sister and do your own career" -- OUCH!

Who do you think was the bigger diva -- the anchor or Solange Knowles?

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Dear John Mayer,

Shh! They won't have anything to write about in US Weekly or on TMZ if you don't talk to them!

Sincerely,

Kathy Bushouse

PS: It probably would be awfully expensive to put mirrors in every copy of US Weekly, even for you. Also it would make the magazine hard to fold. I'm just saying.

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While Shia LaBeouf comments in this video that he would like to be the fourth Jonas Brother, something tells me that won't be happening anytime soon.

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Wondering how Gary Coleman's acting could be any more wooden? Apparently all it takes is putting a bat in his hand and playing him off an umpire for a minor league baseball team.

Here is Coleman's "at-bat" for the Madison Mallards. Obligatory short joke follows:

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I was perusing ViralVideoChart.com when I happened upon this video with the headline, in all caps, IS THIS WHY NICK BROKE UP WITH MEANY MILEY CYRUS?

Now, I have no idea who Nick is, and have little interest in Miley Cyrus, given that I am nearly two decades older than her and most of her fans. But put something in all caps -- you've got my attention.

I watched parts of the video, which is Miley Cyrus and her friend Mandy doing a "parody" of two other Disney starlets, Demi Lovato and Selena Gomez.

I may not know much about the parties involved, but I do know parody when I see it. This isn't it. This seems more like mocking to me -- not to mention a bit mean -- but judge for yourselves:

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WTN-ers, there isn't much time -- get out your video cameras and start asking people who they're wearing!

The folks at People.com and YouTube are running a contest that runs until midnight on July 23 (that would be this Wednesday), and the winner gets to do some red carpet work for People.com.

I'm not sure which red carpet they're talking here. It's a "major Hollywood event this September," according to the contest page on YouTube.

People.com and YouTube contest organizers, could you be more vague? I'm thinking it's the Emmys but I'm not motivated enough to go hunt down the information.

In case you're interested, here's a video giving you everything you need to know for the contest (except which event you'll be covering). Good luck, and make sure to plug Watch This Now if you win:

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Typically, I would write a flip intro, then post the clip. But I know Kanye West has ripped into much more important publications than our little blog -- I'm thinking of you, Entertainment Weekly -- for what they've written about Kanye, and honestly I just don't think I want that kind of controversy on a holiday weekend.

Because I'm sure Kanye West is a regular Sun-Sentinel reader. (Please note sarcasm)

So you just enjoy this hilarious clip and keep your comments to yourself.

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I, for one, was relieved to discover this, even though I had not realized there was a controversy in the first place.

Apparently some rogue news outlets recently reported that Diddy had gone back to Puff Daddy. And Diddy turned to YouTube to kill the name-change rumors. I was blissfully unaware of this until the good people at VH1's "Best Week Ever" aired his video in Friday's episode.

Watch Diddy clear all this up for you in his own words:

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Even though entertainment journalists insist it's not true -- and really, who should know more about Angelina Jolie's pregnancy -- Brad Pitt says the much anticipated twins have not emerged yet.

But Entertainment Tonight is standing firm by its report earlier this week that Jolie had given birth to twin daughters in France, attributing the story to an unidentified person close to the actress who said they were in the delivery room. (Can you imagine how crowded that place was, what with the doctors, entertainment journalists, videographers and, oh yeah, the mother too?)

More importantly, Brad Pitt looks like he's got a classic on his hands: the new can't-miss Coen Brothers comedy, "Burn After Reading:"

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My dear Sean "Diddy" Combs is quite excited about Barack Obama as the presumptive Democratic nominee for president (presumptive because it's still not official). I imagine he wouldn't be so excited if he were a Hillary supporter, but I digress.

You have to love Diddy putting aside his Diddy-ness for a moment to give a sincere, from-the-heart account of why this is such a big moment for him and many Americans. But then of course he gets a little goofy. And then in the text at the end of the clip, someone -- I'm assuming one of Diddy's Bad Boy people -- mispelled "receive."

I before E except after C, Diddy. Except after C!

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Mr. T wants you to respect your mother, and he's going to talk-sing until you promise to treat her right, treat your mother right.

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The good folks at "The Soup" aired this clip over the weekend, of Reba McEntire performing with Brooks & Dunn at the recent Academy of Country Music Awards show.

Poor Reba looks a bit lost. I'm thinking maybe they could have used just a smidge more time in rehearsal.

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Today's lesson: Actors sniff jackets.

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OK, WTN readers, which is worse: Lindsay stealing a $12,000 fur coat from a college student, or a college student even owning a $12,000 fur coat? My car in college wasn't even worth $12,000.

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Here's a sneak peak of the "Ugly Betty" season finale on Thursday, staring Lindsay Lohan. Could this be Lohan's big change to turn her career around? Did she even have a career pre-rehab?

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Clips like this are why YouTube was invented.

After fellow WTN-er Kevin Cobb alerted me to the clip of Tony Romo singing at a Cubs game, I went onto YouTube to look it up. And like magic, under the "related clips" section, appeared these wonderful words:

Tony Romo & Mr. Belding sing Journey w/ METAL SKOOL.

Well, of course I had to watch. I grew up on Saved By The Bell, I like Journey well enough, and Tony Romo had a good year on my husband's fantasy football team. Skipping it would just be wrong.

As for Metal Skool, I wasn't familiar with their work. But that's why Wikipedia was invented. Metal Skool, says Wiki, is a glam metal parody band that now calls itself Steel Panther. They're now recording their own material. Too bad -- I like the idea of a glam metal parody band.

But back to Mr. Belding (who also goes by his real name, Dennis Haskins) and Tony Romo. The unlikely pairing teamed up a year ago to sing the Journey hit "Don't Stop Believin'," and of course it was all caught on tape.

There are a ton of videos of this performance on YouTube, but most of them are very long and profanity-laced. Today I bring to you the shorter, cleaner version:

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Dallas Cowboys QB Tony Romo tried to sing "Take Me Out to the Ballgame" during the 7th-inning stretch at Wrigley Field.

And by tries to sing, I'm being generous. Make sure all dogs and small children are out of the room while watching this video -- it may cause ear damage.

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Here's something I didn't know: Before he went to Fox News, Bill O'Reilly had a stint on "Inside Edition."

Apparently someone at "Inside Edition" dug through their video archives and unearthed this video of O'Reilly blowing up is. And the clip is, fittingly, blowing up on the Internet.

Warning: This contains some "adult language." So cover the kids' ears before you hit "play."

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I thought it would be nice to post a Jenna Bush video today, this being her wedding weekend and all, so I went on the ol' YouTube in search of the perfect Jenna Bush video that would serve as a tribute on her big day.

You'd be amazed just how many Jenna Bush-on-morning television clips there are on YouTube. She's been on a lot of talk shows. Plus, apparently, done a number of speaking engagements. Not as many embarrassing college-era clips as I might have expected.

But those videos are not what I'm bringing you today. What I have to offer is the second video on the list when I did a simple search for Jenna Bush (the first being the Jenna-on-Ellen clip we posted a few months ago -- you can find it here).

This video is no "Unicorn's Prophecy," but it's pretty weird. Someone decided to take clips of First Daughters Barbara and Jenna Bush and set them to Dolly Parton's "9 to 5."

Seriously.

What is this supposed to show, exactly? That the Bush twins work from 9 until 5? That they're sassy like Dolly Parton? Or is it that someone out there has a large number of Barbara and Jenna Bush pictures, plus a Dolly Parton CD, and decided it would be an awesome idea to put them both together?

Anyway, here is the end result. It's not funny ha-ha, but funny absurd, in a who-would-think-to-do-this sort of way. Enjoy.

PS: In one of the pictures, is it me or does Jenna look like she's hitchhiking?

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We're still reeling from the Gary Coleman divorce, so it's good to see the marriage of one 80s icon get back on track.

Vanilla Ice, aka Robert Van Winkle, doesn't exactly have the oeuvre of a Charlton Heston, so our tribute gallery may be a bit stretched.

To put it bluntly, he's one of the most famous one-hit wonders, so let's start with his one hit:

After the jump, more clips.

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And they're settling things on "Divorce Court!" Seriously.

I couldn't find any YouTube clips in advance of their Divorce Court appearance -- it airs Thursday -- but I did find the not-so-happy couple's interview with Entertainment Tonight. Since most of us probably will be at work Thursday, I will find clips from the show just as soon as possible and post them here.

After the jump: Gary Coleman in happier times.

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Here's a short video from the much talked about Annie Leibovitz and Miley Cyrus Vanity Fair photo shoot.

Vanity Fair posted the video below on their VF Daily blog to show that the photo shoot was a "relaxed family event in one of the most picturesque settings imaginable: the green hills of Calabasas, California."

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Apparently the mole Enrique Iglesias had severed ties with has its own talk show.

A mole hosting a talk show. Did I just type that? Check out the video and you'll be asking, "Did I just watch that?"

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James Franco of Spider-Man fame has a web series where he gives acting tips, along with his brother Dave.

In this installment, James gives tips on acting in front of a green screen, where anything can come at you -- dinosaurs, socks, bottles. You have to be ready.

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Lionel Richie goes on TV, inhales helium from a balloon, sings "Hello." Hilarity ensues.

Enjoy.

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He may be best known as a rapper, but these days, Coolio is a kitchen pimp.

For the last couple of months, he's had his own cooking spot on MyDamnChannel.com. While he might best be known for "Gansta's Paradise," the man clearly knows his way around a kitchen and could hold his own on any morning show cooking segment -- though he's a bit more... liberal with the language and innuendo than Rachael Ray or Martha Stewart.

Check out this clip, where he shows us how to barbeque shrimp and orders around some guys wearing crab and fish costumes.

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Watch This Now alerted you to the Miley Cyrus and Mandy Jiroux YouTube videos nearly a month ago in this blog post.

Today, we present you Miley and Mandy's version of the "4 Minutes" music video, originally starring Madonna, Justin Timberlake and Timbaland.

Check out both videos and tell us in the comments who had the better dance moves -- Miley or Madonna?

THE MILEY + MANDY VERSION:

THE MADONNA + JUSTIN + TIMBALAND VERSION:

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Here's a video of Robert Van Winkle appearing on an MTV show that counted down the 25 lamest music videos ever. (It's hosted by Janeane Garafalo, Chris Kattan, Dennis Leary, and a pre-graying Jon Stewart) After he accepts the award for his video being No. 9 on the list, he sits down to watch the video surrounded by the snarky comedians.

Then he takes a bat and smashes the award and pretty much everything else on the set while evidently freaking out the hosts. Pretty shocking.

Here's a blurb on the incident from a May issue of Entertainment Weekly in 1999.

Jon Stewart called it When Aging Comedians Attack. The event was the taping of the MTV special 25 Lame, which features Stewart, Janeane Garofalo, Denis Leary, and Chris Kattan counting down the 25 worst videos in history, as voted by more than 50,000 MTV viewers.

But the most dangerous participant in the special (airing May 8) turned out to be washed-up rapper Vanilla Ice. Since the top 10 offenders--including Don Johnson's "Heartbeat" (No. 1) and Eddie Murphy's "Whatzupwitu" (No. 3)--were forever banned from MTV, the comics destroyed the videos using a cigarette lighter, hammer, and blender.

But when the network asked Vanilla Ice to do the honors for his own "Ice Ice Baby" (No. 9), the Iceman, who showed up at the April 30 taping in a Dr. Evil T-shirt, took a baseball bat not only to the "Baby" videotape but also to the entire set, leaving cast and crew in shocked silence.

Stewart even suffered a cut on his hand from flying debris. "I could care less," Ice says of being included on the lame list, adding that going ballistic was a last-minute choice.

"I was genuinely afraid," says Garofalo. "I thought he was seriously going to get really angry on a channel that embraced him and then turned and mocked him." No--that'll be Jesse Camp's job.

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Teen pop star Miley Cyrus and her best friend Mandy have been uploading videos to their YouTube account. Here's an example of what they post:

Maybe your niece would enjoy it more. :)

Check out some of their other videos on the YouTube channel HERE.

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If you watch MTV on a semi-regular basis, the scenes re-enacted in this video are hilarious. Janet Jackson redid scenes from "My Super Sweet 16," "A Shot at Love," "Real World," "Rob and Big," and "Making the Band."

Over at MTV.com, you can also check out Janet's videos through the years, including her latest video for "Feedback." For the link, click here.

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Right about now, the pre-Oscar specials should be starting (if they haven't already). Every microphone-wielding celebri-journalist on the Oscar red carpet owes something to Joan Rivers. Her biting commentary made watching those Oscar preview shows interesting, even if her questions made the stars a bit uncomfortable.

But it looks like Rivers' schtick got to be too much for the celebrities and network execs. TV Guide Channel -- which took in Joan and daughter Melissa after E! gave them the boot --replaced the duo. The only place you'll find Joan and Melissa tonight is online at AOL's StyleList.com.

Here's their last televised Oscar night best- and worst-dressed round-up, from last year:

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This song from last year's Oscar broadcast was one of my favorites. Unfortunately, I can't embed the high-quality YouTube clip because the scrooges there have disabled the embed feature (way to drum up interest about the Oscars, Oscar people and YouTube!). So I'm posting the video I found on Google. That's how I stick it to the Man.

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Apparently Jerry O'Connell is making a hobby out of shooting parodies of viral videos.

Remember the Australian kid who had a party/riot at his parents' house while they were out of town? Jerry and wife Rebecca Romjin mark the end of the writer's strike with their take on that infamous video:

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Sadly, I did not find this before Super Tuesday. But I will post this on the Day After Super Tuesday, since there is still that election in November. Diddy says vote, Young America! So vote! Or die!

When he's not making videos encouraging young people to vote, Diddy is also on the lookout for "beautiful models" in Internetland for his show as part of Fashion Week:

An aside: It's heartening for me to see on the YouTube view count that thousands more people watched Diddy's plea for votes than did his plea for models. Young America clearly has their priorities in line.

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Something tells me that Jerry won't be invited to the Cruises to relive their finer moments from "Jerry Maguire." Funny stuff, though.

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Take note Clay Aiken, this is how you do an interview. Here is the behind the scenes of Zac Efron’s Details photo shoot.

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Dear Hannah,

I’m not what you would call a fan. I’m not really in your target demographic. Although, I do like the song “See You Again” from “Hannah Montana 2: Meet Miley Cyrus.” It’s pretty catchy and reminds me of Kelly Clarkson’s "Since U Been Gone.”

But let me get to the point. If you needed a backup dancer for your tour, you should have called me.

Let me refresh your memory. What is exactly going on in the video below at the 2:25 mark? From what I can tell, the male dancer in the green shirt covers you in a black sheet, slides a door and then a Hannah Montana body double comes out the other side and proceeds to dance on stage.

I understand the need for costume changes, but lets try to keep them subtle. The next time you’re in South Florida (Jan. 31 at the AmericanAirlines Arena) give me a call. I’ll be practicing my dance moves.

Yours truly,
Kevin

P.S. Know where I can get a pair of those white boots? I’m going to need a size 13.

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Who in their right mind books comedian Tracy Morgan for morning news shows?

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I don’t make New Year’s resolutions because I hate feeling bad when I eventually break them. But I wholeheartedly support Fergie’s vow to be less Fergielicious in 2008.

A Watch This Now shout-out to Kathryn, who I’m sure was on a break from educating our nation’s young people when she found this clip and sent it my way.

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A USC student is getting ready to interview John Cusack and gets him confused with that guy in the movie with the rose petals.

She’s thinking of Kevin Spacey in “American Beauty” – maybe she shouldn’t have skipped film class.

She’s not the first college student to fumble while on camera.

Anyone remember the "Boom goes the dynamite!" guy from Ball State?

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Fortunately, my son is too young for Yo! Gabba Gabba. Those dancing kids make me dizzy, and I'm afraid the boy would get ideas. Though I may have to start watching now because of Biz Markie and his “Biz’s Beat of the Day” segment.

I don’t know if he’s doing these anymore, but I sure hope so. Otherwise, how else will my boy learn to beatbox? From Blake Lewis?

If you’ve got some time on your hands, make sure to check out this Biz clip. Beastie Boys fans will recognize this from the Beasties’ greatest hits compilation a few years back:

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I am told by my colleague Harriet Brackey that the Jonas Brothers are all the rage with the tween girl set and that they’re on tour with Hannah Montana, who I hear is also all the rage with the tweens. And with concert ticket brokers, apparently.

Since I’m not about to go spend hundreds of dollars on a Hannah Montana ticket to catch the Jonases live, I tracked them down on YouTube and found this amid all the concert clips and official videos.

I hope this is a joke.

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I first saw this on The Soup about a month ago. I never tire of it. It’s replaced whacked-out Whitney Houston from Being Bobby Brown as my favorite repeat clip on the E! show.

You have to wonder why a handler didn't step in before she proclaimed, "Now I'm going to howl."

One of the people posting in the comments section on this YouTube clip said she’s created a group on Facebook dedicated to this clip.

Sounds like my kind of people.

If you’re a Facebook member and care to join, my “Watch This Now” colleague Andrew Tran found the group here.

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Former American Idol contestant Kellie Pickler appeared on Jeff Foxworthy’s TV quiz show, Are You Smarter Than A Fifth Grader? … and the rest is Internet history. Watch – and cringe – as she attempts to answer the question: Budapest is the capital of what European country?

Of course, Kellie Pickler, you are not alone. These contestants on Family Feud had to name a country besides the U.S. that they admired.

Lesson learned today: Europe is not a country.

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