Well, if it worked for Betty White… The folks over at Sesame Workshop have uploaded an interesting video over on the Sesame Street Tumblr. Amidst the clips from the classic show (typically ones featuring celebrity guests that might appeal to the older viewers who are more likely to have Tumblr accounts) is a new video purporting to be Cookie Monster’s homemade audition tape for Saturday Night Live complete with his own version of Weekend Update and an impression of Lady Gaga!

Never one to shy away from publicity and attention, Ann Coulter headlined gay conservative fundraiser, Homocon, this weekend and everyone is reacting as planned in Coulter’s perfectly choreographed appearance. Progressives and gays and lesbians are appalled, conservatives are titillated, and GOProud has gotten tons of ink.

Despite the Lady GaGa’s best efforts, an attempt to get “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” to a vote in the Senate has failed, with moderate Republican supporters of repeal joining with the rest of their party to continue a fillibuster on a defense funding bill. The 56-43 vote to end debate means both the attempt to end the policy barring gay and lesbian servicemembers and a larger defense funding bill may not receive a vote again until after the November elections.

It’s a strange time in a news story when Lady GaGa’s views on the future of Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell are more important and get more coverage than Bill Clinton’s and Colin Powell’s.

Earlier today, Lady Gaga posted a video on YouTube in which she asked her fans to tell their senators to vote in favor of repealing “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” on Tuesday. Gaga then called both of New York state’s senators—Kirsten Gillibrand and Chuck Schumer—as the camera continued to roll, intending to deliver her message directly to them.

In her latest black-and-white YouTube video, Lady Gaga sends a strong message to key Republican senators regarding “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell.” The pop singer singles out Senators John McCain, Mitch McConnell, Jim Inhofe, and Jeff Sessions, telling the men, “Do your job.”

At first, it seemed like just a coincidence. The day after Lady GaGa took discharged service members with her on the red carpet to the Video Music Awards and gave a shout-out to repeal of Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell during an acceptance speech, Sen. Harry Reid (D-Nev.) scheduled a Senate vote on the rule that bars openly gay servicemembers. But now Reid’s campaign is tweeting GaGa that they are listening to her concerns about DADT.

Rachel Maddow revealed a couple of interesting little tidbits having to do with DADT on her show last night. First, were you aware the reason Senate democrats delayed going ahead with a repeal of DADT was to give John McCain time to finish his hotly contested primary again J.D. Hayworth? Second: Hello Gaga!

Vanity Fair has released its 16th annual ranking of the 100 most influential people of the Information Age. Spoiler alert: They are all white men. Other than that the top five is full of the usual suspects, though further on the list gets more interesting.

During Lady Gaga‘s headlining set at Lollapalooza last weekend, she devoured a fake human heart, was attacked by a giant mechanical fish monster, and demanded that all the males in the frenzied crowd expose their genitalia – as a member of the audience, I can confirm that many of them, self excluded, obliged. If any of these stage antics are commonplace on her Monster Ball Tour, a certain octogenarian politician is about to be scandalized.

What makes Lady Gaga different than the city of Los Angeles? Well, unlike the City of Angels, the singer refuses to boycott Arizona over the controversial immigration law. A couple of nights ago, Gaga performed in Phoenix and told her screaming fans about how a “couple of really big rock and rollers” (any guesses who, folks?) called her up and asked her to cancel her show. To the delight of the “Little Monsters” in US Airways Arena, Gaga told them she would not cancel but would instead “protest actively.”

On his usual appearances alongside Megyn Kelly, John Stossel limits his libertarian leanings to debating feudalism, showing off his mustache, and taking rides on his government-funded go-cart. For better or worse, today’s conversation took a turn for the awkward, with Stossel as a passionate defender of bad Showtime pseudo-porn against big government overreach.

Forget that Black Panther voter intimidation nonsense, this is the real scandal! An Australian organization named uSocial has accused a number of public figures of gaming their Twitter accounts by inflating their numbers of followers. The list of people accused includes Lady Gaga, Britney Spears, Arnold Schwarzenegger, and even the most powerful man in the free world: Justin Bieber! Oh, and also President Obama.

Judy Garland is a “gay icon.” Her daughter Liza Minnelli also counts. Toss in Bette Midler and Madonna and Lady Gaga. You could probably even include Christiano Rinaldo and David Beckham as “gay icons,” of a sort. But it’s fair to say that a conservative member of Congress who is opposed to gay rights probably isn’t a “gay icon,” even if the gays find him attractive.

We braved the brief bouts of rain and 20,000 Lady Gaga fans to attend the biggest concert in this year’s NBC Today show series this morning.

Styleite has all the behind-the-scenes pictures and videos – we talked to Senior Producer Melissa Lonner about what set the Gaga concert apart from others.

Like any good pop diva, Lady Gaga is constantly reinventing herself. She was the commander-in-chief of an all-male naked army in her video for “Alejandro,” and soon after she appeared on the cover of the General McChrystal-ousting issue of Rolling Stone with heavy ammunition on her chest.

And now a new implication in the developing Wikileaks investigation is adding some credibility to her army shtick.

The Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation’s feud with the Today show over a wedding contest that excludes same-sex couples may be on the mend as Today’s executive producer Jim Bell will sit down today with GLAAD to hash out concerns overs the contest, according to a GLAAD blog post and confirmed by NBC, via Twitter

Lady Gaga might not be so popular with everybody on the Internet, but no one would know that by looking at her Facebook profile – Gossip Cop just broke the news that the pop culture juggernaut has become the first living person to reach (and rapidly exceed) 10 million fans on the social networking site.

After Larry King announced this evening that he would be stepping down from the 9 PM spot, it was pretty much a given that tonight was going to be special. To help him begin what will likely be an entire summer of goodbyes, King had Bill Maher on the show to help him explain his decision to step down.

The Internet is buzzing today with news that President Obama has called on General Stanley McChrystal to head to Washington and explain himself regarding an interview to Rolling Stone in which he harshly criticized how Obama has handled the War in Afghanistan. However, readers looking to take a peek at the story that started all the kerfuffle have to dig way past a photo of Lady Gaga and her locked-and-loaded brassiere to find it.

I disagree with a whole lot of what Bill O’Reilly says but sometimes he’s just awesome. Case in point, inviting Lady Gaga to come on the Factor and telling her she’s free to bring whiskey (he was referencing the story of Gaga downing the aforementioned liquor in the Yankees’ locker room this weekend). Sure the invitation was an attempt to get ratings and therefore a blatant publicity grab which is what he had just accused her of doing, but just imagining that interview makes me happy so I can’t hold it against him.

In one of the most anticipated interviews on Larry King Live since Snoop Dogg took Larry King to Roscoe’s Chicken and Waffles, it was finally Lady Gaga‘s turn to sit down, like so many hundreds of stars, with King tonight. Most of her points weren’t shocking– or, at least, not shocking in the context of Lady Gaga– but there were echoes of other prominent American women in the way she hinted at her love/hate relationship with the media.

Bill O’Reilly took on on the perils of the Internet and found common ground with recent comments made by President Obama. Paraphrasing Obama as saying “too much Internet is bad for your mental health,” O’Reilly quickly agreed, then launched into rather lengthy screed explaining the current state of Internet videos, presumably to an audience that has little to no understanding of the digital age.

Here’s a shaky, hand-held YouTube video shot from an upper balcony at Carnegie Hall that demonstrates perfectly why shaky, hand-held YouTube videos have a place in our media ecosystem: Lady Gaga, Elton John, Sting, Bruce Springsteen, Shirley Bassey, Debbie Harry and random dancing boys in speedos singing “Don’t Stop Believin’” at Thursday’s annual benefit for the Rainforest Fund. It will pick up your day – oh and also there’s Elton dancing with said bevy of backup hotties doing “Like A Virgin.” Outstanding.

The Afghanistan remake of Lady Gaga‘s “Telephone” video that went viral yesterday and sparked a million Don’t Ask Don’t Tell jokes was meant to be an inside joke among a few friends. This the latest from reputable mug shot website The Smoking Gun, which caught up with the video’s director, Aaron Melcher, who refused to answer questions other than making it clear no one involved in the video wants it to continue rolling in the news cycle.