The world loves Will Smith. Maybe not enough to forgive Men in Black 2, but the world still loves him. They love him so much that he’s been claimed to be one of the only black actor who can open a movie overseas. That’s a lot of love. But sometimes those overseas folk love him too much, like a Ukranian reporter who accidentally brushed his lips against those of the star and got a slap for his effort.

Yesterday, when I wrote up a post on the tons of evidence newly released in the Trayvon Martin case, I neglected to mention the THC in Martin’s system that his autopsy show. A number of commenters accused me of bias in skipping this fact. To them, I have two things to say; One, I’d love [...]

If Rush Limbaugh hadn’t already made up his mind about the Trayvon Martin case (which he probably has for a while now), the new evidence released in the last few days would have been enough for him to declare George Zimmerman innocent. Describing the new information and pictures, Limbaugh argued that the story “was falling apart” and had become “the Duke Lacrosse case all over again.”

As both the prosecution and defense prepares for the upcoming trial of George Zimmerman, we in the public are gradually getting more and more pieces in the puzzle of what happened the night Trayvon Martin was shot and killed. Two days ago, ABC released medical records of Zimmerman that seemed to support his claims that he was injured in a scuffle with Martin. This afternoon a wealth of new evidence has been released by Special Prosecutor Angela Corey’s office.

Hey, remember Rev. Jeremiah Wright? He’s back! In Pog form! Also in Attack Obama form! In addition to the Super PAC discussing his connection to “black, metrosexual Abe Lincoln“ (seriously, if no one’s pitching that as a show premise to Adult Swim right now, we’ve failed as a nation), there’s also the Edward Klein book that claims Obama’s team tried to bribe him. Apparently there’s a cardboard box of proof out there somewhere and now Glenn Beck is offering $150,000 for it.

Today on The Five, the gang was discussing super rich people (finally someone gives air time to that poor, under-represented group!) like Mark Zuckerberg and Robert Downey Jr., with Eric Bolling complaining about how software billionaires get to be cool but bankers can’t, a serious societal problem if there ever was one. At the end of the segment, he began explaining the interesting fact that “the new hipster” now likes money. Dana Perino was confused. Oddly enough though, she wasn’t just wondering what on earth he was talking about, but what on earth a “hipster” is.

Radar Online is reporting that Mary Kennedy, the former wife of Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., has been found dead. They quote a source saying that police are at the home of Robert’s home and that Mary may have committed suicide. As of yet, the report is unsubstantiated.

Yesterday, the ladies of The View got the extreme pleasure of interviewing a sitting president, Mr. Barack Obama. Today, they were still pretty excited about it with Elisabeth Hasselbeck describing what a huge opportunity it was and Sherri Shepherd discussing how wonderful it was introducing the leader of the free world to her son. However, there was something raining on their post-POTUS buzz and that was all the conservative stick in the muds grumbling that their show isn’t fair and balanced. The hosts disputed that fact, saying that there was a standing invitation for that other guy running for President.

Fifty Shades of Grey, the erotic Twilight fan fiction-cum-national phenomenon, is sexy. So sexy that it permanently made the term “mom porn” mean something entirely different than I thought it meant. So sexy that it gave SNL the chance to air the most televised masturbation since Fox News’ last Frank Luntz panel. What I’m saying is it’s sexy. But guess what? It’s about to get even sexier thanks to the soothing dulcet tones of Gilbert Gottfried’s voice.

We all know them; the commenters on Internet message boards who rush to write “First” at the bottom of every post or video, seemingly proud that they refresh their websites more often than other people. But who was the, uh, first “First.” That’s the question that Patton Oswalt answers in this hilarious video.

When the tragic story of the shooting death of Trayvon Martin consumed the nation over the past few months, a number of questions were raised about racism, vigilantism, and self defense laws. However, the most important question was always the first one; what exactly happened that fateful night? The shooter, George Zimmerman, has always claimed that he fired his gun in self defense, something many found hard to believe considering the young boy he killed was unarmed.

This morning, Mediaite’s own Tommy Christopher stopped by Current TV’s Full Court Press with Bill Press. Both he and Press were amused by the lukewarm endorsement Mitt Romney got from Pat Robertson, an endorsement that could basically be paraphrased as “Sure he’s not Jesus but what’re ya gonna do?” Christopher found it especially funny considering, as he argued, even if Jesus were running, he’d never make it through a Republican Primary.

Some people watch ABC’s venerable reality show The Bachelor for the romance. Some people watch it for the catty drama. And some people watch it because they know it’s a train wreck and yet they…just…can’t…look away. However, a Florida woman has all of those people beat because she claims that, when watching it, she saw an image of the Lord and Savior.

And, no, she’s not just an incredibly devoted Chris Harrison fan.

God bless whoever came up with this idea. You’ve got a reporter doing a story on a new motorcycle safety course. She’s clearly inexperienced but she did pass the course. So why not have her put on a leather jacket and ride up to the camera in an expensive, new Harley motorcycle while on live TV? What’s the worst that can happen?

Earlier on CNN, The Daily Show‘s Aasif Mandvi stopped by to discuss a not at all funny issue; the apparent “whitewashing” of Hollywood. Coming off a column he wrote on the subject for Salon, Mandvi talked about the disturbing trend in Hollywood films in which white actors and actresses are cast in ethnic roles.

It’s amazing how quickly momentous occasions can become nothing but polling topics in the world of politics. Heck, Osama bin Laden only got to be a corpse for a few magical minutes before he and the photos of him became a Thing to be Debated™. So, when a sitting President of the United States of America actually comes out and says the gay people should be married (an unquestionably positive thing if you’re not, y’know, reading this post from either a cave or time machine), it only makes sense that the cable news channels wasted no time in looking at it beyond the prism of American history, and purely through the prism of November 2012. And, nearly a week later, we’re still discussing it in fiery segments like this Fox News panel in which Obama was accused of throwing the entire black community “under the bus.”

This weekend, Will Ferrell made a triumphant return to the Saturday Night Live stage and brought with him his impression of former President George W. Bush which he made famous for years on the show (and even for a limited run on Broadway!). Today, on The Five, the gang talked about the sketch with everyone giving it and Ferrell high marks. However, most of them found reason to complain that SNL doesn’t seem to have nearly as much fun making fun of President Obama.

Has this ever happened to you? Someone tells you a story and you immediately respond, “Oh, man, that sounds like the worst romantic comedy ever. Who’s in it?” and then they say, “No, this isn’t a movie. This is something that’s really happening in New York politics.” and then you don’t say anything and then everyone gets quiet and sad? Well, that’s what just happened to us after hearing about the New York man who’s decided to campaign against his own wife of 32 years that he’s now separated from.

The production schedules on most animated series (South Park not included) are incredibly long. How long? Well, a week ago, Saturday Night Live did a sketch about Occupy Wall Street that already felt uncomfortably dated meanwhile, this week, Family Guy got around to doing a whole episode on the Tea Party. Remember those guys?

What’s it like to do a violent bank heist with NPR’s Terry Gross? Well, apparently it’s a lot like going on Fresh Air with NPR’s Terry Gross. That’s what Mike Birbiglia discovers in the new short film he made featuring the amazing title Fresh Air 2: 2Fresh 2Furious.

You know what’s not funny? Hate. You know what’s also not funny? People going on hate-filled rants. However, you know what is funny, people going on hate-filled rants that make so little sense that they sound like someone took the worst comments from a political message board, mixed all the words around, translated them to Japanese, and then translated them back. And that’s what happened at a council meeting in Lincoln, Nebraska and it resulted in one of the craziest videos you’ll see this week.

In the days following President Obama’s same-sex marriage announcement, many conservatives have accused the President of being purely politically motivated, going so far as to call him a “flip-flopper” or even a “liar.” And, you know what? Fair enough. Hell, even hard-line liberals would admit that they believed in Obama’s “evolution” claims about as much as hard-line conservatives believe in, y’know, actual evolution. However, things took a turn for the absurd this morning when I turned on the TV and saw Karl Rove accusing Obama of using the gay marriage issue for political gain.

Yes, that Karl Rove.

Somehow today, Mitt Romney has found himself in the most 2012 political scandal ever after The Washington Post published a report accusing him of being an anti-gay bully while going to his elite private high school. Heck, the only thing that could have made this story more perfect is if he had hassled gay kids while stealing poor women’s birth control. The GOP candidate responded by telling reporters he “did some dumb things” back then, he now apologizes, and, if it helps, he doesn’t believe he “thought the fellow was homosexual.” Now, ABC News is reporting that another classmate of Romney’s is accusing him of “lying.”

I consider myself a bit of an anglophile. I’m one of those annoying guys who can’t have a conversation about Veep without bringing up The Thick of It and still calls the Ricky Gervais version of The Office “The Real Office.” That being said, as much as I love British entertainment and culture, I know next to nothing about how their monarchy works. If you were to ask me what a royal does with their time, my first two answers would probably be “Run a service that James Bond is on” and “Have big ass weddings.” However, I know enough to know that the royal family never goes on TV to do the weather report. That’s why this video of Charles, Prince of Wales, is so much fun.

Well, talk about bad timing. Just hours after President Obama’s big announcement makes him look like a big hero to the gay community, the Washington Post publishes a lengthy report that makes Mitt Romney look like the villain in a crappy teen sex comedy. In it, they quote five of Romney’s classmates from the prestigious preparatory Cranbrook School who describe a cruel prank Romney allegedly engaged in back in 1965 in which he held down a crying student and cut his hair because the younger student looked different and was perceived to be gay.

Basically, the story is a couple notches away from revealing that Romney was a member of Cobra Kai.