I thought Frank Oz was already Letterman's bandleader?

Well, he's no Cosby Ducks: http://www.youtube.com/watc…

It's safe to say that being played by Tom Cruise should kill off the character pretty solidly.

It was actually Napolean Solo's "sidekick", iIya Kuryakin, who became the fan-favorite character the girls went wild for.
 So expect him to be killed off in the first five minutes. TOM CRUISE DOES NOT TOLERATE THAT SORT OF THING.

WICKED retahded!

NOOOOOO! Who's going to tell Torosaurus' kids that Daddy isn't coming home anymore!?

"Jurassic Parks and Recreation"

Pterodons make every film better.
  Seriously, name a film. ANY film.
(lookin' in your direction, WHEN HARRY MET SALLY).

BLACK PORN RON SWANSON.

That Cyanide and Happiness strip shows how DIRECT Macgyver was; by contrast, STARGATE was just one big Freudian metaphor.

And Heston is pretty classy about it; he openly acknowledged Welles was turning the movie into his own thing and basically using him as a "straight man".
  Heston said that while he'd worked with guys he thought were  better actors or better directors, he considered Welles the only full-fledged GENIUS he'd ever worked…

Welles famously noted that all those people who claimed he needed to have restrictions placed on him to keep him from going "out of control" were the same ones who always called CITIZEN KANE his best film… you know, the one time he really got to do everything his way.
  I can easily see an alternate career for Welles…

An even BETTER example? Rod Serling's screenplay for the original PLANET OF THE APES. He essentially tells you RIGHT AT THE BEGINNING what the "twist" is going to be, and sets up a story where that twist is repeatedly reinforced until it's really the ONLY resolution that would make any sense at ALL. 
  And then he gets…

When he refers to a Mike Hammer who "didn't wear the hat" he's probably talking about Armand Assante in a film version of I, THE JURY that was made just a couple of years earlier. 
  Larry Cohen had scripted it with the idea of making Hammer (who really was borderline psycho in that book) into sort of a Travis…

Baldwin's and Hanks both have "Best of" DVDs.

I suspect they sent out requests to ALL the 5-timers, and it basically boiled down to "who could be in NY last night".
  Incidentally, who do we have to blow to get Goodman to host again? Hell, I'd settle for him getting on of those "best of " DVDS.

I haven't seen the Foxx episode.
 And I thought those two sketches killed; I wonder if I would have liked them if I knew they were holdovers. (Although I'm pretty sure I would have loved that porn-star thing, as I'm a sucker for lines like "NOW who's the horse?")

Timberlake has actually stated, for the record, that he'd apply to join the cast if he didn't already have a job.
 And Lorne has said he'd hire him if he was an unknown who just auditioned.

Actually, there's an old SNL sketch where Paul Simon plays a Paul Simon Impersonator, and rolls up his pantlegs to reveal he had his legs surgically shortened.

Short recently did a special for CBC entitled I, MARTIN SHORT, RETURN HOME in which he revisited his hometown for a bit of nostalgia and MASSIVE SPOILER ALERT it's really a caper! A scam! a heist!
  A burlesque performer friend of mine has worked with him, and now refers to him as "SIR Martin Short".