Tired of dealing with Charlie Sheen but not tired of having a cash cow TV show, CBS staged a sitcom coup d'etat this week, replacing Sheen with three new madmen...

Coming soon to Monday nights: Muammar Gaddafi, Hosni Mubarak and Kim Jong Il as...

Win an Oscar and fail to cash in with a sequel? Unheard of.

Moments after capturing this year's best picture award, the makers of The King's Speech announced plans for a follow-up aimed at a much younger demographic. Coming soon to a theater near you: The King's Tweet, starring Colin...

Libyan strongman Moammar Gadhafi tightened his grip on power today, saying he would step down only if protesters guessed the correct spelling of his name.

"Oh man, we're doomed," one rebel said. "Is it Moammar or Muamar? Kadafi or Qaddafi? Even Watson the IBM computer doesn't know."

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Egypt's former boy king, Tutankhamen, returned to Cairo today to seize power from President Mubarak.

"If Jerry Brown can resume being governor of California after a 30-year absence, I can reclaim my throne after 3,350 years," the pharaoh said.

In a...

They've tried almost everything: containment domes, golf balls, human hair, lulling the oil spill to sleep with Barry Manilow music.

Nothing has worked. As of this morning, the Gulf oil spill had spread to Florida and Texas -- and was trying to join...

Don't hit that delete button! Experts say it could trigger a worldwide e-pocalypse.

"Too many people mistakenly believe that emptying the trash icon on their computer gets rid of deleted e-mails and files," said an IBM spokesman. "In reality, the unwanted files go...

Acting decisively, L.A.'s City Council adopted a strongly worded resolution that wishes the city's budget deficit would "go away really soon, like in the next three months or so."

Alleged Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa drafted the statement after rejecting calls for Los Angeles...

Why stop with Arizona? L.A. Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa now wants economic sanctions against California too. If the Grand Canyon State deserves to be punished for its immigration law, he said, then California should be boycotted for Proposition 8, which banned gay marriage.

"Proposition 8...

Acting on a tip received after passage of Arizona's tough new immigration law, police have arrested Meteor Crater.

In a daring predawn raid, Sheriff Joe Arpaio and a team of officers swept into Northern Arizona and surrounded the landmark, which made no...

Bowing to pressure from both parties, President Obama has nominated the Most Interesting Man in the World to the U.S. Supreme Court.

"His blood smells like cologne, he lives vicariously through himself, and he's the only person to ever ace a Rorschach test," Obama...

Conan O'Brien's new talk show could be very different from its predecessor, according to newly released details of his TBS contract.

Apparently, cable network executives thought they were hiring another Conan -- the hero of 1982's cult classic Conan the Barbarian.

Memo to fans of ABC's Lost: You've been punked. Executive producer Damon Lindelof revealed the prank at a Season 6 press conference today.

"The smoke monster, the polar bear, Walt talking backwards ... We just made stuff up after getting stoned," he said. "We...

Steve Jobs shocked the world today by abandoning Apple's long-awaited iPad tablet in favor of the iCasket, a high-tech coffin that allows the dead to send text messages, download books and install apps. "This is a game-changer for the funeral industry and the afterlife,"...

Tired of ravaging Tokyo or climbing the Empire State Building in cold weather? Now there's Snuggie for Monsters, the blanket with sleeves that lets you terrorize humans while staying snuggly warm!

Made of ultrasoft fleece, the Snuggie is perfect for prowling cities on eerie,...

Sarah Palin in a bottle? You betcha!

Get ready to inhale Eau de Maverick, a designer fragrance based on the opening paragraph of Palin's new book, "Going Rogue," which reads: "I breathed in an autumn bouquet that combined everything small-town America with rugged...

Energized by his Nobel Peace Prize, President Obama scored his first diplomatic victory today -- a historic truce between the survivors of Flight 815 and their arch-nemesis, the Others, on ABC's Lost.

The accord was met with jubilation at Nobel headquarters in Norway.

"Critics...

Coming soon to supermarket shelves -- Jiffy Pop collector edition popcorn. Heat it up on the stove and the package inflates into an exact replica of Falcon Heene's infamous helium balloon. And when the foil is punctured, nothing is inside.

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Fugitive filmmaker Roman Polanski, who fled the U.S. after pleading guilty to felony assault on a movie audience with 1967's Fearless Vampire Killers, Or Pardon Me But Your Teeth Are in My Neck, was arrested in Switzerland over the weekend.

"It was such a terrible movie, we really had no...

At first, it was just a trickle. Shortly after singer Kanye West interrupted Taylor Swift's thank-you speech at the Video Music Awards, a handful of Internet jokesters had posted video and photo parodies.

By late Tuesday, however, e-mail inboxes, blogs and Facebook feeds were...

After months of hype from writers trying to cleverly incorporate song titles into their reviews ("You'll play eight days a week!"), the Beatles Rock Band game bit the dust today when a virtual Yoko Ono infiltrated the animation and broke up the group.

Game...