Conan O’Brien is back in New York City for a spell, affording him the opportunity to officiate a wedding between his longtime costume designer, Scott Cronick, and David Gorshein at the Beacon Theatre.

Carl Paladino is not a fan of Joy Behar not being a fan of Carl Paladino. Last week, on The View, Behar joked that NY gubernatorial Tea Party candidate Paladino, who had a child out of wedlock (while he was wedlocked to his wife), could win the election “if all his illegitimate children vote.” Oof, Paladino and his people did not like that one.

Confirming what many believed was an inevitable outcome, Bravo will announce today the first season of Real Housewives of D.C. will debut August 5, and Michaele Salahi is part of the cast (and her husband Tareq Salahi is part of the show too).

What may surprise some, but not the cynics, is the Salahi’s White House crashing was filmed for an episode, and will be part of the show too.

When the decade began, the gay community was recovering from its unrequited love affair with the Clinton administration and worried about the culture war being waged by religious conservatives. By the end of the decade, the same people were dealing with their unrequited love affair with the Obama administration and, well, you know where this is going. Still, the decade was not without its highlights – we’ve still come a long, long way since 2000. So, on to the gayest moments of the Aughts!

Gawker is reporting that Levi Johnston has penned an article entitled “Me and Sarah Palin” for the forthcoming October issue of Vanity Fair. While it’s not difficult to guess what will be discussed in the piece, what other revelations should we expect from the book?

It wasn’t a “booty call” like when Anderson Cooper called in last week, but Rep. Barney Frank was a guest on Bravo’s Watch What Happens Live last night.

And while he talked about Sen. Ted Kennedy‘s passing, the majority of the time was spent dishing on The Real Houswives and similarly lighter fare.

Anderson Cooper called in to Bravo’s Watch What Happens Live last night (which we’ve written about before).

It was part of the regular segment “Midnight Booty Call” – in which host Andy Cohen throws out funny questions and talks about Bravo programming. Cooper is a well-known Real Housewives of Atlanta fan, so he had a lot to talk about.

It’s downright ballsy (tacky?) for a cable development exec to give himself a talk show on his own network, but Andy Cohen doesn’t mind one bit. His talk show, Watch What Happens, is just another ingredient in Bravo’s secret recipe — a line-up that’s equal parts despicable and magnetic (especially if you’re rich) — an advertiser’s dream come true.

During last night’s “Real Housewives of New Jersey” reunion special, it got real (well, more real than usual) when host Andy Cohen stepped in to express his personal opinion about one of the housewives’ husbands loose use of the term “gay” as an insult. “I’ll jump in, and I have no business jumping in, but I’m gay, and I thought it was offensive,” said Cohen. “I mean, I just want to say…I think it was offensive.” It may not be a coming out – but it’s noteworthy, considering the glass ceiling the exec/host is about to break.