¡viva la graham!

just in case you can’t wait ’til sunday, you can watch the first episode of vh1’s charm school online starting today… minus the elimination at the end of the episode, of course. head over to vspot for the streaming video!

so what’s the verdict? thanks to mo’nique, this shit is bananas! not only does my favorite big girl bring it, the class-free flavor of love girls are also at their best. and by that i mean they’re mostly behaving badly, making the show that much better.

otherwise, it’s good to see my girl again, the hysterical, misunderstood becky buckwild. and as always the wided-eyed, bat-shit-crazy schatar (”hottie”) is in rare form. this is going to be good!

tina fey’s must-see sleeper is only getting better — and nbc is actually giving it a marketing push (check it out after the jump) and plenty of time to really catch on with audiences. the network recently renewed the show for a second season, and it looks like it’ll stay put in a plum spot after the office on thursday nights.

for those of you who have yet to discover 30 rock, now is the time. last week’s episode was one of the best yet, with will arnett guest starring as a gay exec jonesing for jack’s job… and a piece of kenneth the paige — whom, despite his sexual ambiguity, is straight. we think.

in other news, will & grace’s sean hayes has been cast to play kenneth’s cousin, which is perhaps the most brilliant casting since, well, alec baldwin as jack donaghy. stay tuned.

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first south park, now the daily show. everyone’s favorite fake news show did a satiric profile on ex-gays last night. correspondent jason jones spoke with two men: wayne and richard, two flamers who experienced different results with therapeutic attempts to get straight.

the entire clip is hysterical, but i especially like when jones presses richard regarding the possibility of a current same-sex attraction. “i’m a straight man, how am i going to convince you?” he asks… and then he belches loudly, stands up and stretches. wtf??

it gets even better, but i’ll let you see for yourself…

i don’t always get into south park, but sometimes it hits its target dead on. last wednesday’s episode, “cartman sucks,” involved little clueless butters being shipped off to a gay reform camp. the punchline was that butters had no idea what “bicurious” meant — he was blindfolded when his dad caught cartman trying to suck him off (long story!) — so he doesn’t really understand what’s going on around him.

the best part was that the episode was surprisingly pro-gay. yes, it went a bit over the edge by portraying these kids killing themselves because they feel so bad about possibly being gay. but at the very end of the episode, as one manic kid is about to jump off a bridge, butters helps to redeem this with a stirring speech:

“my name is butters, i’m eight years old, i’m blood type o, and i’m bicurious. and that’s ok, because if i’m somehow made from god, then i figure that god must be at least a little bicurious himself.”

after the jump, watch an amusing clip featuring a very flaming camp counselor…

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a few weeks ago i wrote about the sarah silverman program, but i failed to mention her gay neighbors, steve and brian. these are not your typical tv gays, thank you very much. these guys are overweight and scruffy and they like to have fart contests and play video games. this is not only long overdue — at least i think so — it is also absolutely hysterical.

in the first episode, “officer jay” (which you can actually purchase on itunes for a measly $2!), brian claims to be bisexual. steve protests and challenges him to name three parts of a woman’s vagina.

“labia, the filopian tube…” he stutters. “umm, the bumpy thing?”

“yeah, that’s what i thought,” steve replies. later on, he walks in on brian in the bathroom examining a lingerie catalogue. but that’s not the punchline! brian had pasted steve’s picture on top of every model’s head.

genius.

it’s wacky, wild, lewd and crude — and i loved every minute of it. the sarah silverman program debuted recently to predominantly positive reviews and great ratings, so it looks like comedy central might have a new hit on its hands.

in case you missed the first episode of the delightfully absurd program, the plots included a fart contest gone awry, a sassy loch ness monster and several references to vaginas. it’s rarely coherent, actually, but i was laughing out loud throughout. oh yeah, and just like in sarah’s raunchy comedy flick jesus is magic, she breaks into silly songs at the drop of a hat.

check out the show’s web site for a handful of clips… and tune in this thursday at 10:30 eastern / 9:30 central for a brand new episode.

am i the only one who loves rashida jones? she plays karen on the u.s. version of the office, and because she stands in the way of jim and pam’s eternal bliss, she’s no one’s favorite lady.

i love pam, don’t get me wrong. but rashida jones is adorable! she might not feel like playing pranks with jim (she’s too busy for that shit!), but she’s definitely a classy lady. i hope she sticks around on the show even after the inevitable end of her relationship with john krasinski’s character.

also, i found out yesterday that she’s the daughter of quincy jones and peggy lipton. how did i not know that before??

i never noticed how much amy poehler looks like little dakota fanning! she portrayed the pint-sized movie star on a very funny saturday night live skit last night. amy definitely had dakota’s mannerisms down pat for “the dakota fanning show,” but the best part of the sketch was when drew barrymore emerged as little miss sunshine’s abigail breslin.

when discussing future film roles, abigail said, “i play a doll that comes to life, and i’m about to do another movie with a talking hamster.”

dakota replied, “i get raped in my next movie.”

top that!

dick clark has been ringing in the new year with american audiences since 1972. after suffering a stroke in 2004, many thought the seemingly eternal teenager would relinquish his crown gracefully. unfortunately, that did not happen.

last night, just like last year, dick clark co-hosted the new year’s rockin’ eve special with ryan seacrest. things weren’t any better for dear old dick this time around - he struggled with his speech and faltered with his lines. it was very difficult to watch, and not just a little bit sad.

it makes you wonder why abc is keeping him on as the host - is it for ratings or money? surely it can’t be for the sake of tradition, because this isn’t the youthful dick clark we remember.

as much as i hate to say it, we should let dick stay home next year. i really don’t want to have ryan seacrest fill his shoes, but at the same time, i can’t face another year watching dick clark suffer.

this sketch, which opened last weekend’s christmas episode of saturday night live, is proof that the women on the show are much funnier that the guys.

check out “santa’s my boyfriend,” a holiday-inspired, ’60s girl group parody featuring maya rudolph, amy poehler and kristen wiig. i loved every minute of this!!