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The death of late-night talk-show television has been so slow, so painful, so very unfunny. Honestly it’s flabbergasting that David Letterman didn’t successfully sarcastify the genre into its grave twenty years ago—though god knows he has tried. But are we closer now to the sweet embrace of the pop-cultural crypt? 

Last month, Marc Jacobs succeeded Jean Paul Gautier as the creative director for Diet Coke, and the designer unveiled a trio of designs for the soda's thirtieth anniversary. And he also appeared shirtless in a Diet Coke commercial, which also included three gawking women fanning themselves in the presence of his hotness. I guess that women can think Marc Jacobs is sexy, but, I dunno, none of the women I hang around with get lady-boners for gay dudes. Anyway, Jacobs spoke to Vogue about how he's totally cool with flaunting his muscles for Diet Coke.

You can relax, Jessica Chastain is still a perfect human. Contrary to alleged reports from "insider sources" that she and Jennifer Lawrence—one of Hollywood's current most in-demand actresses–have some serious competitive beef with one another, it appears that is simply not the case.

When the news broke that Kim Kardashian is expecting Kanye West’s baby, I’m sure I’m not the only one who assumed that a birthing special would find its way on E! at some point. That is where we are as a society: it makes perfect sense that we’d have the opportunity to watch a human come out of Kim Kardashian. (Hell, a lot of us have seen a human go into Kim Kardashian.) But, thankfully, the mom-to-be has announced that the birth will be private, and she’s looking forward to not working for a while. Think about that as you click through the internet, desperate to leave your office and not work for a few hours before returning tomorrow morning! [Jezebel]

Instead of ending the year with a slew of Best Of lists, BlackBook asked our contributors to share the most important moments in art, music, film, television, and fashion that took place in 2012. Here, Joe Reid writes about Maya Rudolph's return to Studio 8H as host of Saturday Night Live.

If you're not a gay man, you may not know who Colby Keller is. To get you up to speed: he has sex with other men on camera. That's cool! No judgies! He's also got a popular blog (NSFW, obvs) and is pretty popular among all walks of gay dudes. I mean, he's hot, so it's certainly understandable! Usually guys like Colby Keller fall into a category I refer to as "Real World hot." Not like, the real world, but The Real World. The guys are on that show are insanely buff and only exist, at least in my eyes, on The Real World. (Or, you know, in gay porn.)

Nothing has made me feel more ancient than the news this morning that some kids on the internet are mad at Azealia Banks and Rihanna. What did they do? Well, they both performed in front of green screen-projections of sea imagery (in the video for "Atlantis" and on SNL, respectively). Apparently, there's a whole world of people who are into that sort of thing. Naturally, they live in their underwater cave fantasy worlds, but mostly on Tumblr, where 90% of terrible things exist under the guise that it is "art" (or porn, I guess). 

Want to get everyone on the Internet to stop talking about that dude who free-fell from space because of energy drinks for like five minutes? Share the news that your fantasy best friends Tina Fey and Amy Poehler are tag-team hosting the 2013 Golden Globes. 

Frank Ocean dropped in on Saturday Night Live as the musical guest on the show's season premiere, bringing along John Mayer, who played guitar on Channel Orange tracks "Thinking About You" and "Pyramids." True to SNL form, the performances were quiet and lackluster. One would think that show would figure out how not to make its performers sound terrible, no? Still, his SNL appearance was appropriately timed; not only will Ocean be headlining the Afghan Whigs-curated All Tomorrow's Parties festival in New York City on Friday night, but today he released the NSFW video for "Pyramids." Check it out!

We've been all abuzz about the new cast members on Saturday Night Live that we forgot all about poor Jason Sudeikis, who expressed his interest last month in leaving the show becuase, as we all know, Mitt Romney isn't funny enough to warrant sticking around. Well, we can all rest easy that we've indeed got a suitable Romney impersonator through the end of the election cycle (when he is sure to lose and then go back to wherever the super super super rich go when they've admitted defeat) because Sudeikis is back on board.