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Exclusive First Look: Bruno Mars, Nicki Minaj, will.i.am Get Secretive on The Cleveland Show

• Oct 5, 2012 04:50 PM ET
• by Natalie Abrams

The Cleveland Show is about to get really secretive.

On the Fox animated comedy's Season 4 premiere (Sunday, Oct. 21 at 7:30/6:30c), fittingly titled "Menace II Secret Society," Cleveland discovers a secret hip-hop society headed by Kanye West. (Cleveland makes the discovery after confronting Kanye for not sharing credit for the megahit they created together, "Be-Cleve in Yourself.")

6 reasons Seth MacFarlane is a good pick to host the Oscars

Members of this "Hip Hop Illuminati" include Bruno Mars, will.i.am, American Idol judge Nicki Minaj and ?uestlove, all of whom lend their voices to the episode. You can see their animated characters in our exclusive first-look photo below: read more

The Roots Must Now Clear Late Night Music with NBC

• Dec 9, 2011 01:07 PM ET
• by Robyn Ross

Following an incident with GOP presidential candidate Michelle Bachman last month, Jimmy Fallon's house band The Roots will now have to clear their Late Night song choices with NBC, according to The Associated Press.

NBC Apologizes to Michele Bachmann for Fallon Intro Music

• Nov 24, 2011 10:37 AM ET
• by Natalie Abrams

Ask and you shall receive.

Michele Bachmann demands apology over "Lyin'" intro music on Jimmy Fallon

NBC has apologized to Michele Bachmann, who chastised the network on Wednesday for not speaking up sooner about her appearance on Late Night With Jimmy Fallon, during which... read more

Top Moments: Mother's Baby Bombshell, Late Night's Musical Burn

• Nov 23, 2011 08:00 PM ET
• by Joyce Eng and Kate Stanhope

Our top moments of the week:

12. The Sexy But We're Not So Sure Award: LMFAO calls upon a few celebrity guests (Bieber in yellow leopard pants!) to hop onstage during their show-closing performances of "Party Rock Anthem" and "Sexy and I Know It" during the 2011 American Music Awards. Unfortunately, one of those guests is David Hasselhoff, who takes the latter song a little too literally and proceeds to tear away his stripper pants to reveal briefs with a giant smiley face on the crotch. Bonus tacky points: They say "Don't judge me" on the butt. (Too late.)

11. Best Blindsiding: After... read more

Top Moments: Conan's Triumphant Reunion and a Pleasurable Horror Story

• Oct 6, 2011 10:49 PM ET
• by Joyce Eng and Kate Stanhope

Our top moments of the week:

12. Tastiest Defense: How do you know when your airline passenger is done? You stick a fork in him, naturally. Or at least, that's what Maggie does on Pan Am when a male first-class flyer (and first-class sleazebag) tries to feel her up and pull into the bathroom. It's about 50 years later, but we'd still stab someone with a fork if they pulled that crap with us.

11. The Edge of Sanity Award: Susan deals with her immense guilt over helping to hide Carlos' murder on Desperate Housewives the only way she knows how... read more