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A loser theoretical physicist, a loser songwriter, a loser middle manager, even a loser TV exec. Seems like Emmy has taken a shine to the socially awkward this year, at least when it comes to funny fellas, so which loser will go home a winner on Sunday?

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• Jim Parsons, The Big Bang Theory
• Jemaine Clement, Flight of the Conchords
• Tony Shalhoub, Monk
• Steve Carell, The Office
• Alec Baldwin, 30 Rock
• Charlie Sheen, Two and a Half Men

Our own Hollywood Party Girl Cristina Gibson predicts:

"Jemaine Clement. Sure, all the guys nominated are obviously funny, but only one has a hot Kiwi accent and can write and sing ridiculously funny and clever songs."

What do you say?

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Stereotypes are bad, so let's stick to the facts. American conservatives don't like: tofu, trees and actors not named Chuck Norris. They especially don't like: actors not named Chuck Norris who talk public policy like they're members of the public or something.

Knowing this, then, if you were an American conservative and you were on the wrong side of the electoral college, how would you energize your base? Get Sarah Palin to villify tofu-eating trees? Good idea. Program Alec Baldwin to run the the U.S. Senate? Better idea!

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It doesn't exactly have the makings of a Sarah Palin-David Letterman smackdown, but it'll have to do.

Former Democrat Senator Joe Lieberman rallied back—albeit in an extremely unimpassioned way—against Alec Baldwin over the weekend, responding to comments the 30 Rock star made in Playboy magazine in which he stated he had "no use" for the Independent politico and may consider challenging his Connecticut senate seat.

"You know, make my day," Lieberman said on CNN's State of the Union, more or less proving why line reads should be left in the hands of professionals.

Dirty Harry he's not. A skilled backpeddler, on the other hand…

"I must say that I respect Alec Baldwin as an actor and as a comedian, and if he wants to run, that's his right."

Your move, Baldwin.

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Would you listen to Jimmy Fallon play a third time?

Late Night With Jimmy Fallon offered up another round of his "Let Us Play With Your Look" segment last night. The first installment featured Will Ferrell reliving his Mugatu days, and last night had Alec Baldwin covering a poor girl in powder.

But the guests aren't the problem with this sketch.

Each time the bit begins, expectations rise. Fallon in an all-white spandex suit and a blond bob wig is funny! But then he starts singing, and singing, and singing. Farewell funny, hello migraine.

But maybe that's just us. What say you?

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Jimmy did something far more attractive during one of last week's shows. See it here!

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It's hard not to love Anne Hathaway…especially when she buys you pizza.

On Sunday, the Oscar nominee finished off her NYC stage debut in Twelfth Night at Central Park's Delacorte Theatre, produced by the New York Shakespeare Festival and the Public Theater.

Believe it or not, the performances were completely free on a first-come, first-served basis—which, in the city that never sleeps, means just that: People get in line for tickets late in the evening and wait literally all night.

So, at 3 a.m. Sunday morning, the sweetie-pie starlet brought the night owls a snack! Anne handed slices of pizza to the entire line.

If that's not awesome, we don't know what is.

Apparently, the late hour didn't affect her performance. Alec Baldwin caught the show and blogged that Hathaway "seems to do nearly everything right, whether it be on screen and now on the stage."

We couldn't agree more.

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Alec Baldwin wasn't simply "saddened" and "sorry" after his April 2007 voice-mail tirade against his daughter leaked onto the Internet—he was suicidal.

"[I was] very serious…I spoke to a lot of professionals, who helped me," the actor says in the upcoming issue of Playboy. "If I committed suicide, they [Kim Basinger's team] would have considered that a victory. Destroying me was their avowed goal."

The actor also explains why he chose to trust The View with his public show of remorse, and why he'll never set foot on the Today show's soundstage.

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Usually, celebrities go on talk shows to apologize, not apologize after they go on talk shows. Leave it to Alec Baldwin to break from the usual convention.

The 30 Rock star has issued a mea culpa to the people of the Philippines—and any other viewer—who took offense to an offhand joke he delivered during his appearance on the Late Show With David Letterman last Tuesday.

"I'd like to offer an apology and a clarification to remarks I made recently," he writes on the Huffington Post.

"While on the David Letterman program, I joked that I might need a 'mail-order bride' to achieve the goal of having more children in my life. I believe that most people understood that this was a joke and took it as such. (A dated reference, no doubt, and another sign of my advancing age.)

"However, I do apologize to anyone who took offense."

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Alec Baldwin can kiss that U.N. goodwill ambassadorship goodbye.

The cheeky 30 Rock star has become a public enemy No. 1 in the Philippines over a crack he made last week on the Late Show With David Letterman.

Letterman asked the star about his desires to expand his family, to which Kim Basinger's ex-husband quipped, "I'm thinking about getting a Filipino mail-order bride at this point...or a Russian one."

Philippine Sen. Ramon Ravilla wasn't laughing. The politico claims the "arrogant" remark was "insensitive and uncalled for" and insulted millions of his fellow citizens. The former action-movie star claims Baldwin's words have elicited an angry nationwide response, and that the actor better keep his distance.

"Let him try to come to the Philippines and he'll see mayhem," he said, implying that he'll administer a beat-down himself.

We're guessing the star won't be popping over for a visit when he travels to Vietnam with the New York Philharmonic Orchestra in October.

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