(Photo: Kevin Winter/Getty Images Entertainment/Getty Images) Several years ago I was lucky enough to be invited to the legendary Friars Club in New York City as a guest for its roast of ex-Star Trek star and current professional kitschy gay man George Takei. By now just about ...read more

Photo: Theo Wargo/Getty Images "Jennifer Lopez and Nicki Minaj also performed 'Booty' and 'Anaconda,' respectively, while Gene Simmons closed the show with KISS, making for a night that was all about giant asses." -- Sean O'Neal of the AV Club, on last night's Fashion Rocks ...read more

On Wednesday, a 20-year-old Canadian immigrant named Justin Bieber (pronounced Bee-ber) accepted a plea deal in Miami, Fla. originating from an illegal drag race in which he took part in January. Bieber agreed to plead to careless driving and resisting an officer without ...read more

Thankfully the world of celebrity isn't completely filled with self-absorbed narcissists. While they are in the minority, there are genuine people who work in the entertainment industry and don't take themselves too seriously. They don't make home sex videos, they don't get ...read more

Photo: Nathan Denette/The Canadian Press Turns out Bieber's evil sorcery is even more powerful than we thought. It's a hell of a clever escape plan, though. Grammar: It's the little things that make all the difference. ...read more

"It makes you wonder what direction CNN is going in. For 24 years there was nowhere else I wanted to be because of the 24-hour platform we had at CNN. I would hate for other programming to get in front of that." -- Former CNN producer Kim Segal Segal's been based out of ...read more

If there were any real standards in the news media, Andrea Mitchell and her MSNBC show 'Andrea Mitchell Reports' would be taken off the air immediately for interrupting a serious political interview with news regarding the arrest of a pop singer. But real standards in the ...read more

As you no doubt know by now because it's getting the kind of national coverage that was once traditionally reserved for political assassinations, Justin Bieber was busted last night in Miami Beach on DUI and street racing charges. If you're reading this, there's a pretty good ...read more

Despite Justin making any girl he talks to sign some kind of scary document detailing how they’ll lose their house/car/future children if they reveal any details of their encounter, some clever girl has been ever so naughty. Brazilian Tati Neves filmed Justin sleeping ...read more

I’m not sure if, when Twitter first became popular, anyone had any idea that celebrities would find it so bloody exciting. Who knew that they cared so much about their ‘fans’ that they would want to update them on every aspect of their life? (#boring) Or, put another way, who ...read more

Editors note: This is a new weekly column we'll be doing at The Daily Banter where Jessica Furst looks at the monumentally important lives of celebrities and why we should follow their every move.  In this weeks edition of 'Celebrities Are Important Because...'  we look at teeny ...read more