January Jones: One of "SNL's" worst-ever hosts
The "Mad Men" star teamed with "SNL" writers to turn in one of the worst episodes in a while. "You could tell from the very first moments she lurched onstage wearing a forced smile and a deer-in-headlights look of mortification that never left and proceeded to make sweet love to the cue cards," says Nathan Rabin. "Everyone on SNL reads cue cards but Jones was especially egregious. She stared at those cue cards so intensely I’m surprised she didn’t burn a hole right through them. Though she excelled in a clever if fairly obvious taped faux-education film about how to throw the perfect incredibly repressed early-sixties Mad Men-style dinner party, Jones pretty much had two modes: stone-faced or giggly."
It's a bad night when Grace Kelly farting is one of the best skits
Darrell Hammond returns to play Lou Dobbs // Don Pardo sits with Jimmy Fallon
Was "SNL" wrong to replace Michaela Watkins for the Hoda Kotb "Today" sketch?

Katey Sagal compares her TV mom roles
As Peggy on "Married … with Children," she says, "the overriding thing was that the family stayed together. As much as they acted like they didn't like each other, you look at the big picture, and there was no divorce. That to me was a statement of love. Gemma (on 'Sons of Anarchy') seems the most complex. She loves these people, she doesn't want to see anything happen to her little world. She will protect that to no end."

Simon Cowell calls Sting "pompous" for slamming "The X Factor"

Of course, Cowell also invited Sting to come on the show as a mentor.

A "Seinfeld" reunion could prove hilarious, as "Curb" showed last night
The fake episode that the "Seinfeld" cast rehearsed for had a lot of potential as a real episode.

David Simon pleased "The Wire" is inspiring college courses
From Harvard to Duke to UC Berkeley, the HBO series has become a teachable tool for professors. As UC Berkeley film prof Linda Williams said of her course, "I was following the lead of David Simon … who has pointed to great novels and called his show a visual novel. I really believed it was the best thing I had seen and maybe not just on television. … I wanted to try to study it the way I would a smart film, with a smart class."

Fox kick-starts "Fringe" Observer Week to boost ratings
The Observers will be popping up all over the place — from the streets to split-second subliminal ads. Yesterday, The Observers made a cameo during the Packers game.

HBO "Cathouse" prostitute murdered
Brooke Phillips, who appeared on the Moonlite Bunny Ranch reality show under the name Hayden Brooks, was pregnant when she was found shot to death in an Oklahoma City house that had burned to the ground. She was 21.

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