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Nicole Kidman’s Awkwardness ‘08 Tour Enters ‘Blame Letterman’ Phase

5:26AM Kyle Buchanan | Nicole Kidman’s cringe-inducing appearance on The Late Show with David Letterman last night is continuing to serve up some aftershocks, and during the star’s appearance on Regis and Kelly today, Regis treated Kidman as though she were promoting her late-night trainwreck, not Australia. More »

Regis Philbin Forgetting Names, In 28 Handsome Volumes

8:05AM Seth | We’re going to preface this by saying that we here at Defamer don’t just respect our elders, we downright adulate them. (That is, unless they’re in the car ahead of us, counting pennies at the Vons 15-items-or-less lane, or generally engaging us in a conversation that involves several extinct movie stars and cookie brands that we’ve never heard of.) The last thing we’d want is for you to think we were taking some sort of perverse pleasure in witnessing whatever it is Cloris Leachman’s body was doing on Dancing with the Stars last night. More »

Jon Hamm Disses ‘Crazy Showbiz Guy’ Regis Philbin

9:10AM Mark Graham | Aspiring celebrities about to make your first rounds on the talk show circuit, take note. Earlier this year, we cautioned you regarding the pitfalls of repeating the same anecdote word-for-word on multiple talk show appearances, using Jason Segal’s penis-bearing fable as our example. Tonight, we’d like to walk through the subtle art of how to recognise what kind of stories are good for dinner parties versus those that are suitable to be told to a national television audience, showcasing Mad Men star Jon Hamm’s disastrously disrespectful appearance on Jimmy Kimmel Live! on Friday night.