The uber twee Zooey Deschanel brought her brand of quirkiness to SNL last night with some funny sketches, including one that lampoons her ukelele playing, sing-songy persona.  Nicolas Cage stopped by Weekend Update and Jean Dujardin brought his tap dancing skills.

● M.I.A. won Madonna's Super Bowl half-time show when she punctuated her "Give Me All Your Lovin'" verse with a middle finger. She really "don't give a shit." [Rap-Up]

● "Girls spit in my face, people were so mean to me, I'd cry every day," says Zooey Deschanel of her rough high school days. She is just so "adorkable" now, though, you really can't imagine, can you? [USA Today]

Zooey Deschanel and Joseph Gordon-Levitt are the most adorable actors on the planet. And they can sing, too! And play little guitars! And they sang a litle duet for New Year's Eve, just for you!

Every spring, we’re bombarded by a slew of articles on how to “shape up for summer,” but these days, I’m more concerned with how to fatten up for a winter of snuggling and Hot Toddy-swilling. After all, the toned-and-tanned bod you cultivated all summer will become increasingly irrelevant with each snowflake sweater you don.

What a tough week for marriages! First there was the shocking Kardashian-Humphries break-up that blindsided all Americans who had put their faith in a pair of famous people who had seemingly started dating out of nowhere as if it were arranged entirely by publicists and reality TV producers. Now a coupling that was certainly made in indie-rock Loveland is now calling it quits: The New Girl star and She & Him chanteuse Zooey Deschanel and Death Cab for Cutie-frontman Ben Gibbard have broken up.

Kat Dennings has a sexy Christina Hendricks-esque pictorial in this month's GQ, along with an article about how weird she is. The star of Two Broke Girls was previously seen in Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist and has fashioned herself in the vein of Manic Pixie Dream Girls before her: odd, slightly off, and adorable in a awkward way. Looks like reigning Queen of all things cute yet slightly uncomfortable, Zooey Deschanel, who also sports bangs and has a new show out this season, has some competition.

Zooey Deschanel’s performance of the National Anthem before Game 4 of the World Series has sparked a little debate over at ESPN’s Grantland. Maybe “debate” isn’t the right word. “Drawn and quartering” seems more apt. Jay Caspian Kang and Natasha Vargas-Cooper really go after the princess of twee, with Vargas-Cooper saying, “I want to hear the sounds of a woman who has known loss and triumph, not the pubescent squeaks of a flinching sitcom star with cute bangs and a stupid blog.” Was it really all that bad? Take a look and listen for yourself.

The star of Fox's New Girl will sing "The Star-Spangled Banner" at Fox's World Series. Soon the channel will be all Zooey all the time.

● For his 29th birthday, Lil Wayne got a ukelele from his daughter Reginae, a gumball machine from his girl Dhea, and a cover of his own "How To Love" from "his little homie" Justin Bieber. Not a bad haul! [PopDust] ● Demi and Ashton are on the rocks. Rumor has it that Demi is sick of Ashton's cheating, and so the two have been living apart since July and are readying a $290 million divorce. How do we know it's serious? They've both stopped tweeting. [NYDN] ● "Just because you're an actor or you make films or whatever, doesn't mean you're not entitled to your own personal privacy," said Scarlett Johansson in response to the nude pictures of her floating around on the internet. "It just feels unjust. It feels wrong." [NYDN]