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HAHAHAHA. We're sorry, but one of our latest polls can now be closed. It's clear that Kim Kardashian is The Funniest Woman Alive.
During the taping of her interview on England's Alan Carr: Chatty Man (Kim is overseas to support fake boyfriend Kanye West on his tour), Kardashian was asked about her reputation for being famous just because... well, she's famous.
And we're still laughing over her response:

Alan Carr becomes the first white man to touch Kim Kardashian's rear end.
"It doesn't really bother me. I'm pretty realistic: I don't sing, I don't dance. I'm not that kind of celebrity. I don't think reality people get that much respect. I have to get people to like me for being me, not for a script that someone's written for me."
That joke doesn't even need a punchline. Instead, we'll just provide a link to the real reason Kim Kardashian is famous.


We're about to find out what happened before Carrie Bradshaw met Mr. Big or bought her first pair of Manolo Blahniks.
The Carrie Diaries will premiere this January on The CW. The series finds newcomer AnnaSophia Robb following in the very expensive footsteps of Sarah Jessica Parker, chronicling the life of Carrie in the 1980s, as a confused, insecure high school student in New York.
She's never even had sex when we first meet this Carrie! And she isn't living in the city, either! Watch the first extended preview now for The Carrie Diaries and then vote below:
The Carrie Diaries Promo
WILL YOU WATCH THE CARRIE DIARIES?


We love Zooey Deschanel.
Let's just put that out there right now. She's a terrific actress whose New Girl quotes amuse us endlessly, an underrated singer and a very cool person.
Her new iPhone ad, though, is ripe for parody. You've likely seen it 200 times at this point and wondered why you'd ask Siri any of that stuff.
Well, here's how Siri wishes she could respond ...
Zooey Deschanel iPhone Ad Parody
Follow the link for two other great iPhone ad parodies, one in which Siri gets racist and another in which she gets caught up in a marital spat:
Racist Siri
Siri Argument


For the past few months, everything has seemed beyond hunky dory for Justin Bieber and Selena Gomez.
They've been spotted holding hands, Rachel Barnes has said they are adorable, they kissed each other in front of 20,000 people at the Lakers game.
But then the following Tweet appeared on Bieber's account last night, sent out to over 21 million followers before quickly being deleted:

This is all the information we have at this time, but it's hard not to read something rather cryptic and Selena-related into those words, wouldn't you say?
Could Justin have been referring to Gomez when he told GQ this month that you simply can't trust anyone? We'll update this story as more news breaks.


President Barack Obama's ties to Rev. Jeremiah Wright, his controversial former pastor, may be the subject of a new ad campaign by a conservative political action committee intent on ousting him in this November's election.
A conservative super PAC is considering an advertising plan to "do what John McCain would not let us do" during the 2008 presidential campaign.
Obama's ties to Jeremiah Wright and his inflammatory rhetoric nearly derailed his bid for the presidency during the Democratic primary, but Obama cut ties with his one-time spiritual adviser, hung on against Hillary Clinton, then defeated McCain.

McCain, honorably, demanded the Wright-Obama angle not be used in any campaign ads during the election. This time around? All bets are off.
With campaign finance reform all but eliminated by the Supreme Court, super PACs can spend whatever they want to run whatever they want.
To that end, Chicago Cubs owner Joe Ricketts commissioned a $10 million plan, known as "The Defeat of Barack Hussein Obama: The Ricketts Plan to End His Spending for Good," to help ensure the President's defeat.
According to a copy of the plan obtained by the New York Times, the group is looking to expose ties between President Obama - who is referred to as a "metrosexual, black Abe Lincoln" - and Rev. Wright's "black liberation theology."
The 54-page proposal says, according to the Times:
"The world is about to see Jeremiah Wright and understand his influence on Barack Obama for the first time in a big, attention-arresting way."
The proposed assault includes television commercials and full-page newspaper ads featuring Wright, along with "aerial banners" in the sky.
Ricketts' plan also includes "preparations for how to respond to the charges of race-baiting," according to the paper and goes as far as to suggest the hiring of an "extremely literate conservative African-American" spokesman.
Jeremiah Wright Clips
It also refers to an apparent ad featuring Jeremiah Wright that was produced for McCain's 2008 campaign but never aired. "If the nation had seen that ad," Ricketts writes, "they'd never have elected Barack Obama."
On Thursday, presumptive Republican challenger Mitt Romney's campaign urged the super PAC to avoid pursuing a racially charged campaign.
While criticizing the Obama camp's reported rhetoric, of course.
"Unlike the Obama campaign, Gov. Romney is running a campaign based on jobs and the economy, and we encourage everyone else to do the same," Matt Rhoades, Mitt Romney's campaign manager, said in a statement to Yahoo News.
"President Obama's team said they would 'kill Romney,' and, just last week, David Axelrod referred to individuals opposing the president as 'contract killers.'"
"It's clear President Obama's team is running a campaign of character assassination. We repudiate those efforts and any on our side to do so."