Take a good look at Susan Boyle on the stage of Britain's Got Talent. As an unemployed 47-year-old, she doesn't seem like much of a prospect for a new celebrity. But though the world may have turned us all to cynics, here is...

Billy Bob Thornton visited Q TV to promote his country-pop band The Boxmasters, but was less than happy with the host's mentioning of Thornton's movie career. First comes the silent treatment, then comes the insults to Canada.

Jessica Simpson was hired to represent Speedfit in 2005 in a promotional video... and showed up drunk. The result? A $10 million lawsuit, questions about horse marathons, and a voiceover where Simpson's own manager calls her...

Obama Girl played an important role in the 2008 Presidenetial Campaign by briding the gap between politics and popular culture... and she had the staying power and appeal of an "All Your Base" joke. Nothing against Obama Girl:

Seems like 2008 was the year that everyone was fu*king someone else and crowing about it. Oh wait, that's every day of every year since the dawn of human history. Even so, 2008 spotlighted one of the sultriest moments for any...

Tina Fey's brilliant portrayal of Sarah Palin on Saturday Night Live was almost eerie in its accuracy. Some reports indicate that Fey's weekly impersonations throughout Campagin '08 alerted voters to the fact Palin would...

The presidential election made stars not only of a mixed-race man from Illinois and an overmatched governor of Alaska, but commentators of the 24-hour news cycle like MSNBC's Keith Olbermann. Even though our new president is...

David Letterman doesn't respond well to people canceling appearances on his show, so when John McCain suspended his campaign and refused to appear on the show, Letterman ripped him a new one. Then Keith Olbermann comes on to...

Last year, Ricky Gervais was unable to claim his Emmy, so his Office successor Steve Carrell "accepted" it for him. This year Gervais took the stage and employed his usual tactful manner to take back his rightful prize. 

Okay, so its just a commercial, but the idea of the pinnacles of comedy and technology becoming close buddies warms the cockles of our brains. Jerry Seinfeld and Bill Gates may have approached different roads in life, but a...

91-year-old actor Ernest Borgnine shared his secret to aging gracefully with this Fox News anchor, but forgot the difference between a "real whisper" and a "stage whisper." Borgnine has always looked like he's 91 years old,...

John McCain, see what you've done? As if Paris Hilton wasn't busy enough, she's taken her appearance in McCain's recent attack ad on Barack Obama seriously and announced her apparent candidacy for President. Now, she's gone...

Beloved professor and best-selling author Randy Pausch passed away on Friday after a long battle with pancreatic cancer. Pausch delivered his famous Last Lecture: Really Acheiving Your Childhood Dreams on September 21st of...

The Miss Universe competition is a prestigious event in which beautiful and talented women gather from all over the... oh, wait, Miss USA just fell on her butt. Hey, way to be a metaphor for the perception of the United...

Britney is planning on shooting some footage to air during Madonna's upcoming tour. Our mind immediately flashed back to a time when Britney was pure (kinda), Madonna was less trashy (well, a little), and all was right in the...