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Jimmy Fallon Replacing Jay Leno For Sure

After all that speculation, it's totally true. Tonight will have a new host as of tomorrow. Well, as of next spring,. Jimmy Fallon steps in where Jay Leno departs.

Count All the Hilarious Ways Bernard Goldberg Contradicts Himself in Just One O'Reilly Factor Segment

Yesterday, rather than discuss the Supreme Court hearing that demonstrates just how out of touch conservatives are from the rest of America, the gang at Bill O'Reilly's Retirement-Home Fist-Shaking Hour took up the news that mattered most to their audience: the hurt feelings of denim enthusiast and ... More >>

The 18 Most Preposterously Quotable Lines From Riff Raff's New Mixtape

The Houston-via-Hollywood rapper Riff Raff dropped a new mixtape over the weekend! Titled Summer of Surf, the album includes collaborations with Internet darlings Kitty Pryde, Chief Keef and Lil Debbie; Riff Raff himself contributes quite a few bizarre boasts, not to mention a song titled "Versace P ... More >>

Roseanne Barr 2012: Comedienne Wants Green Party Presidential Nomination

​Roseanne Barr, with promises to fight the patriarchy and legalize pot, wants to be the next commander-in-chief of the U.S., and hopes to do so as the Green Party's candidate, even though she expects to lose. This isn't the first time that Barr has made clear her presidential plans. She told ... More >>

Rightbloggers Close Ranks Against Ron Paul, The Wrong Kind of Small-Government Conservative

Everyone else has been the GOP Presidential front-runner -- why not Ron Paul? He's one point behind the current Next President of the United States, Newt Gingrich, on the cusp of the Iowa caucuses, and has been on the Jay Leno Show. Naturally this has led to attacks on Paul -- but not so much by th ... More >>

SO BAD IT’S GOOD

Making lemonade from lemons

Human Penises Used to Have Spikes, Wait, Used to Have?

One of them has a spine-covered penis​Researchers have discovered the molecular workings that caused human penises to evolve and shed their prickly spines, which chimps and some other animals still have to this day. Scientific American describes how Stanford scientists went through the DNA seq ... More >>

Special Report: Jay Leno has always destroyed what he wants in the process of acquiring it

​ Each Thursday, your Crap Archivist brings you the finest in forgotten and bewildering crap culled from basements, thrift stores, estate sales and flea markets. I do this for one reason: Knowledge is power. If Roast Beef Could Fly and Leading With My Chin Date: 2004; 1996 Publisher: ... More >>

Was 2010 The Best Year For Music Ever? Throw Taylor Swift In A Well

Welcome to Sound of the City's year-in-review rock-critic roundtable, an amiable ongoing conversation between five prominent Voice critics: Rob Harvilla, Zach Baron, Sean Fennessey, Maura Johnston, and Rich Juzwiak. We'll be here all week! Pay Rich Juzwiak what you owe him, Jay Leno. Twitpic by Dav ... More >>

Rich Juzwiak, Ripped Off By A TV Show, Again

"I'm laughing, really I am," insists our friend/colleague Rich Juzwiak, guru of dance music/horror movies/America's Next Top Model, upon announcing that yet another prominent TV show (The Insider) has lifted, seemingly without credit, yet another of his quick-cut web-video delights (Mariah Carey pra ... More >>

Jay Leno Rips Off Taylor Swift Montage, Semi-Apologizes

Screenshot by Sir Itzkoff, just to give credit where credit's due​So friend-of-SOTC and general sweet Internet dude Rich Juzwiak recently co-engineered a fantastic montage of Taylor Swift feigning shock when she is given awards; hatched alongside his online cohort Kate Spencer, the clip attra ... More >>

Week in Review: All Kanye, All The Time

​In the week Kanye West finally let us in on My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy (for the small price of $3.99!, we informed you of the rapper's last-minute Bowery Ballroom show, interviewed an intern who typed his Captcha faster than we did, and ultimately gave you a song-by-song breakdown of h ... More >>

George W. Bush's "Mission Accomplished" Sign to Make the Presidential Library?

​In an otherwise softball-filled sit-down with Jay Leno, former President George W. Bush said he regretted speaking about the Iraq war in front of a banner that read "Mission Accomplished" (in addition to flying over the Hurricane Katrina damage and some "blunt" language). He probably says the ... More >>

Week In Review: We Also Accept Your Future Apology In Advance

Everybody just stop yelling, OK? Photo by Daniel Snyder.​In the week we talked about Odd Future, kidnapping and murder, and why we sometimes like the things that repel us, we also saw the group live--alongside every other music critic in the city. They struck a weird balance to the other big r ... More >>

Bruce's "Baker to the Stars" Bakery Migrating From Long Island to Manhattan

​The ex-Wai Café spot on Sixth Avenue and 17th Street will soon be inhabited by Bruce's, a Long Island bakery that bills itself as "Baker to the Stars." Jeremiah Moss noticed the storefront signage, which advises passersby that the "GRAND OPENING" will come "soon."

ELEVATE US NOW

The most improbable reunion, now coming to you nightly

Fringe (Festival) Benefits

A play or two from outer space, but some hit closer to home

Long Live Zsa Zsa Gabor

​So 93-year-old chatterbox Zsa Zsa Gabor refused another operation and went home -- and so did I, to look up my amazing 1993 Village Voice interview with the Hungarian legend, which appears in my stunning book La Dolce Musto. That day, Zsa Zsa mouthed off on everything, darling.

Week in Review: Taking Our Talents To South Beach

Sam Horine​In the week we put the worst band name in New York to a vote (Phil and the Osophers, you are no match for Freelance Whales), we watched as LeBron James put his own name in as the most hated in New York, while Kanye West stood proudly at his side. The last place West was seen before ... More >>

Naked tween essayists and other terrible ideas from mid-90s nudist magazines

Each Thursday, your Crap Archivist brings you the finest in forgotten and bewildering crap culled from basements, thrift stores, estate sales and flea markets. I do this for one reason: Knowledge is power. ​ Seven issues of The American Sunbathing Association Bulletin Date: 1992 - 1996 Disco ... More >>

A Very Long Conversation with Comedian Reggie Watts About Williamsburg, Touring with Conan, and Brian Eno Birthday Parties That Is Totally Worth the Read

Any attempt to describe what Reggie Watts does onstage will inevitably fail to convey the dizzying heights of absurdity the man regularly achieves, but here it goes. First, the Seattle-via-Montana transplant constructs backing tracks via carefully controlled beat-boxing and judicious use of loopin ... More >>

LONG LIVE COCO!

Off from NBC, but always in our hearts

Hey, Barack Obama Made a Notorious B.I.G. Joke at the White House Correspondents Dinner

Word is, the president's routine from this weekend's White House Correspondents Dinner--which killed, by the way--was put together in consultation with writers from the Daily Show. But anyone who knows anything about Barack Obama's musical tastes knows that he probably didn't need any help using B ... More >>

Just How Inane Was This Weekend in Washington D.C.? Unbelievably So!

Political Powerhouses Jessica Simpson and Jimmy Fallon​No one with any sense of perspective believes that Real America -- most of the nation, fly-over country, everywhere but the coastal cities, whatever you want to call it -- gives a quarter of a shit about the White House Correspondents Dinner. ... More >>

How to Follow the White House Press Correspondents Dinner on Twitter

Time editor Richard Stengel, Gayle King and MSNBC's Savannah Guthrie​Happy May Day! Or happy White House Press Correspondents Dinner Day, depending how famous you are, how closely you follow the high school side of politics or how much you wish you were famous. Or! How much you wish you were c ... More >>

David Zwirner's 'Primary Atmospheres' Is California Sweet

The beautiful haze of  West Coast minimalism makes Frank Gehry talk naughty

No, seriously? Jay Leno to host White House Correspondent's Dinner

​At first blush, it looks like a pretty damn edgy move for the White House Correspondents' Association to choose Jay Leno, the current supervillain of late night, to speak at their dinner this year. They even announced it on the day of Conan's last show. You forget, this is the White House C ... More >>

NBC Confirms Conan Out, Jay Leno Expected to Return

Well, that's that. According to the terms of the contract, Conan gets $44 million and has to lay low for eight months, and then can go back to TV, unless he's wised up by then and taken our career advice. In the meantime, America's Sweetheart, Jay Leno, will take over The Tonight Show (insert ran ... More >>

Jay Leno Takes Over Tonight Show: TMZ

TMZ stakes it, and the world reverberates: Jay Leno is moving to 11:35 on weeknights on NBC. That makes Leno, by the ancient rules of television, the host of the Tonight Show, which has heretofore been Conan O'Brien's job. As O'Brien has refused to change his time slot, barring a coup of angry Cocoh ... More >>

"I'm with COCO" Artist Mike Mitchell On Conan O'Brien, Becoming an Overnight Internet Sensation

Mike Mitchell, the twentysomething artist behind the viral "I'm with COCO" campaign in support of Conan O'Brien during NBC's late-night debacle, finished his now-ubiquitous poster on Monday night and woke up the next morning to find it was literally an overnight internet sensation. "I do a lot of ... More >>

Conan O'Brien Won't Move; Change of Career Imminent?

In an alternately funny and maudlin statement, Conan O'Brien announces he will not accept the pushed-back time slot into which NBC wants to shove him to accommodate the new 11 p.m. Jay Leno show. "I currently have no other offer and honestly have no idea what happens next," says O'Brien, but desp ... More >>

Help Me Explain The Jay Leno Situation

​So lantern-jawed funnyman Jay Leno's experiment in prime time is officially as dead as his Michael Jackson jokes, and the linked report attempts to provide some background on the wherefore of it all. It claims, "The network says Jay's show performed as it anticipated, but it presented issue ... More >>

Kim Kardashian, the Face (and Cleavage) of Carl's Jr.'s Salads, Deep-fries Oreos on Jay Leno

Just weeks after the Carl's Jr. spot starring Kim Kardashian making love to a salad was unveiled, the reality show star appeared with Guy Fieri on The Jay Leno Show for a segment featuring deep-fried Oreos and deep-fried pizza.

Jay Leno Scolds Kanye West, Plays The "What Would Your Dead Mom Think" Card; An Appalled Nation Flocks To Letterman En Masse

Now look here. It was a dick move by Kanye, no question -- the farcical situation and meaninglessness of the award itself notwithstanding, the look on Taylor Swift's face as he bratted out for the 15,000th time seemed to be legitimately heartbreaking. (Leno: "When did you know you were wrong?" Kan ... More >>

Right, 'Ye Performed, Too: Jay-Z, Rihanna, and Kanye Do "Run This Town" on Leno

This performance was to be a bit more of an event before Jay-z upstaged it with his own televised concert with these two on Friday night, and then Kanye really upstaged it with what you might call his own solo performance on Sunday, and then Jay Leno's show was revealed to be the exact same garbag ... More >>

News Roundup: Steven Tyler Isn't Dead, The Jay Leno Show, Them Crooked Vultures, Tenacious D Replace Beastie Boys at Outside Lands

​--Steven Tyler broke his shoulder and received some stitches in his head after falling off the stage during Aerosmith's show Wednesday in Sturgis, South Dakota (he's not dead, as some sites were reporting). Billie Perry, wife of guitarist Joe Perry, wrote on her Twitter: "[Tyler] hit his hea ... More >>

Quick Hits

Twitpic from GiGi_NYC. Welcome the new bus ad campaign for atheism! Though we think that, as a market for this product, New York is pretty well fished out. This weekend, the Pride Parade -- by which we of course mean the Immigrant's Pride Parade on Sixth Avenue between West 37th and 57th Streets ... More >>

TMZ: Hugh Grant Kicked Our Guy in the Nuts

TMZ claims Hugh Grant kicked their photographer in the balls last night outside the Waverly Inn. Did we say "claims"? We're just exhibiting our usual caution; TMZ has video. To be fair, it looks like it might have been a kick in the shins; it's hard to tell from the low-quality vid. Also, you might ... More >>

Expectedly, Obama Kills on Leno

"In Washington, it's a little like American Idol except everyone's Simon Cowell" is pretty good. So's the Special Olympics joke, which his opponents would probably praise as "politically incorrect" if it were being delivered by, say, Mel Gibson. So fuck those PC dorks. Obama explains his socialist ... More >>

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Daily Flog: Terror and prayers in Denver, dead fish at a NY nuke, rent becomes a nationwide hit

It's a Good One: Half-Real Tacos Near Pratt

English as a Second Language

From 'Memoirs of a Geisha' to Gwen Stefani's Harujuku Girls, Asians get lost in translation

Get Back!

The Gathering Storm Over Gay Rights

Don’t Dub It In

The Gnome of the Ring

Lap Dancing in Queens?

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