She is GREAT! She combines talk show issues with fast-paced comedy and satire and has one of the few talk shows that does not get tiresome or predictable. We mentioned her in THIS POST.

What will editors and bloggers now do on a slow news day? Rosie O’Donnell is leaving “The View.” UPDATE: Her announcement is HERE. Some sites have confirmed it, it’ll be announced soon and the key question becomes: what will happen to “The View’s” ratings now that viewers know they might not watch a tongue lashing or an acrobatic foot-in-mouth manuever? And what show...

It’s THIS.

From the legendary Spike Jones:

(A file photo…) For those above 30 years of age the above headline means that “13-year-old school girl is new US text messaging champion”. Got it? While competitive text messaging may not have quite gained Olympic status, the hundreds of mostly teenagers who took part in the US championships in New York Saturday could think of little but the 25,000-dollar prize money, reports James Hossack...

What happens when real life TRULY imitates art? THIS:

Who cares what it means? This is funny:

We appear to have a Blue Angel down in SC. Beaufort Gazette: Blue Angel crashes; pilot killed; eyewitness reports home caught fire UPDATE: Reports indicate that it was Blue Angel No. 6 that crashed. The No. 6 plane is piloted by Lt. Cmdr. Kevin Davis of Pittsfield, Mass. Pensacola FL News-Journal: Blue Angels pilot believed killed in air show crash CNN has reported that the pilot of the No. 6 plane was killed...

Mike Lester, The Rome News-Tribune

An Indian sculpture The Gere-Shetty kiss led to demonstrations in some parts of India. Is kissing an Indian or an un-Indian act? Some researchers believe that kiss itself could very well be India’s contribution to the world!!! “The ruckus over a Gere peck on the Shilpa cheek, which is being bandied as an un-Indian act and a kiss, actually is neither. For one, a kiss is different from a peck and...

Last night there was good news for the producers of “American Idol” (who reportedly desperately wanted him off) and bad news for shock jock Howard Stern (who wanted him to stay on to complicate matters for the global TV megahit): the reign of the multi-haircut donning Sanjaya Malakar is finally over: Somewhere out there, “American Idol” producers, and judge Simon Cowell, are hoisting...

See — and listen — to what Mark Occhionero does in updating an old song at 2006’s Ukulele Noir. Quite impressive:

Classic vaudeville style comedy (this was broadcast in 1956 before my real TV watching-time). I study comedy and this is one of my favorite bits. Notice the superb timing, from beginning to end.

No, not exactly….

This time inspiring a classic bit on The Simpsons:

Mike Lester, The Rome News-Tribune

And now, with iconoclastic Don Imus’ career significantly downsized if not effectively totally over with news that CBS radio has fired him, the questions begin: Is this the end of an era — or the end of one? Will the furor over over-the-edge racial humor spread to over-the-edge political humor? On the face of it, the news about Don Imus — all the rage for years among Washington’s elite,...

Daryl Cagle, MSNBC.com

Brian Fairrington, Cagle Cartoons

Driving on the Media’s Mobius Strip: Imus, McGuirk: (Pete and Repeat Went Out in A Boat: Pete Fell Out, Who Was Left?) I PUT THE CULTURE ON THE COUCH If there’s highbrow writing and there’s lowbrow writing, then many of the big news media outlets in the USA must favor “unibrow writing…â€? no differentiation, no arches, no framing of the story, no lines leading from the edges...

RJ Matson, The New York Observer

Pat Bagley, Salt Lake Tribune

I’m the kid’s real father.

The furor over Don Imus’ widely condemned remarks that resulted in a national political firestorm and his suspension for two weeks from MSNBC and CBS radio is far from over. The soul-searching continues to go on with one critic in effect asking: “Is there something a bit sanctimonious with this picture?” In a Washington Post column titled “Slap! Bad Imus! Ok, Now Everybody Back to Your...

Don Imus, the politically incorrect curmudgeon who has enjoyed a long career on radio and been a ratings builder in the mornings on MSNBC has been suspended — from the radio and MSNBC: After a career of cranky insults, radio star Don Imus was fighting for his job Monday following one joke that by his own admission went “way too far.â€? CBS Radio and MSNBC both said they were suspending Imus’...