Afternoon Meme: Jonathan Groff's "Deathtrap," "Modern Family" Earns Top Marks, Proof Cats Are Evil, and "Firefly"'s Biggest Star

Taste testing a KFC Double Down, ogling Justin Bartha, Carol Burnett is a goddess, iPads around the world, and disco is back!

The Daily Mail alerts us to the fact that Glee hottie Jonathan Groff is heading to the West End to star in a new production of Deathtrap starting in August. American shores will be a little darker without you, Jonathan.

I didn’t realize that in addition to having hot pictures of Ryan Phillipe, who is one of my longest crushes, Men’s Health also spoke to him about his early gay role on One Life To Life. I’m not surprised that he caught some crap for it from other kids, but he is proud of the work.

Joe.My.God alerts us to the fact that disco legend Sylvester left his royalties to San Francisco AIDS charities, and now that his estate has repaid debts, the first $140k is going to do important work.

Who knew that the biggest star to come out of Joss Whedon’s Firefly wasn’t Nathan Fillion, but Zac Efron, who spent 30 seconds onscreen as a young version of Simon Tam (Sean Maher)? Anyone?

USA Today grades the networks based on the quality of their shows, and ABC takes top marks largely on the strength of Modern Family, while Fox scoots into second place based off of Glee. Dragging down the averages of all the networks are shows we regularly rant about around here, so I guess they have great taste.

In a sign that even the Fox News brass is starting to worry about their credibility, , when they found out Sean Hannity was doing his show live on location at a Tea Party rally and was double-dipping on the money, they made him leave the rally. Some shame is just too big to ignore, isn’t it?

Only a couple of days after it was publicized that teen advice radio host Dawson McCallister was routing questioning youth to Exodus International, pressure by NGLTF has convinced his syndicator Clear Channel to sever all ties with the hateful quacks.

I’m sorry, but if you’re going to force museum patrons to squeeze between two naked models to enter an exhibit, you don’t get to ban people for copping a feel. I looked at news footage of the models and most Americans are too fat to even fit between the models without committing a felony in six states.

Johnny Weir doesn’t see any hypocrisy at joining GLAAD Media Awards this weekend, and still doesn’t want to label himself – at least until his new book comes out in 2011. There went my last bit of admiration for his integrity. On the plus side, it moves him way up the scale in marketing prowess.

Burn Notice was renewed by USA for two more seasons. Maybe in that amount of time they’ll find a homosexual character in Miami Beach.

The Apple iPad is illegal in Israel, and will be confiscated by customs at the border because the wireless is too strong. Thank heavens the Prime Minister of Norway isn’t stranded in Israel because he’s running his entire government from the iPad.

The Hearty Boys from Food Network have invited Mike Huckabee to come meet their 4-1/2-year-old adopted son so Huckabee can be sure that his nose is cold.

A bunch of celebrity poker players I’ve never heard of are playing poker to raise money for the X Prize Foundation, which is probably how we’ll get back into space after we gut NASA. What gets me is the prizes they can win – a trip on Virgin Galactic, genome sequencing, or even a Tesla Roadster. I know how to play cards – I mean if we’re stretching the definition of “celebrity” to poker players, I’m claiming the title for bloggers.

Miley Cyrus’ boy-toy Liam Hemsworth has been offered the role in Northern Lights that Taylor Lautner’s abs walked away from. Here’s hoping from the casting consistency that there’s a lot of gratuitous nudity involved.

Let's start with advertising today, shall we? I had to have this McDonald's ad explained to me before I realized that this was really just a dressed up streetlamp.

Coffee for your walk of shame - I'm lovin' it!

copyranter points us to this condom ad straight out of not-so-straight movie set up. Why don't American condom comapnies get playful like this?

Has a condom ad ever influenced your purchasing decision?

If nerds are a separate gender (they may even be a different species) does that mean I'm bisexual?

If you need me, I'll be at Toys R Us arranging the toy dinosaurs until they kick me out. 

Just in case, who can cover bail money?

Some things don't require any arrangement, just an opportune moment.

Could soccer have something in common with professional wrestling? There now evidence to the effect.

Everyone is a Gleek.

France wants you to recycle your electronics - or at least carry a baggie.

As further evidence that kittens are evil, reader Squids alerts us to the fact that they're blocking all the good bits in the Houston Chronicle photo tribute to the gratuitous nudity of Spartacus. Is it possible that delays in filming are caused by playful kittens and all that dangleage on the set?

Never go naked around a cat.

If you see braces, you may have already licked this frog.

Continuing their hard-hitting journalism, CNN took to the streets to find out how people would react to a KFC Double Down. Since this was America and we're fat, we reacted well.

Grown Ups follows a bunch of actors I don't like as they meet up as adults. It manages a masturbation joke and a pee joke in a two minute trailer, and those aren't the most immature moment. But I did enjoy Kevin James smacking into the tree.

The cast of Lend Me A Tenor went on The Today Show to promote the play. I don't have any particular angle here, I just like looking at Justin Bartha.

Carol Burnett also dropped by The Today Show. This isn't her interview, but them stalking her as she left the set. I worship Carol much like I worship Betty White, and love that she's as funny off-the-cuff as she was on her show.

This American Express ad parody may be mildly NSFW, but it's almost indistinguishable from the real thing.

And while the Pac-Man Ghosts discuss television, does the Orange Ghost sound a little fey to you? Plus, I always knew Pac-Man had a drug problem!