Morning Meme: Jonathan Groff Loves That We Worry, Joel McHale's Sexiest Man Alive Video, and Should the Muppets Host the Oscars?

Jonathan Groff is such a polite young man. When asked about the screencaps of him going full frontal in the movie Twelve Thirty making the rounds, "I don't think about how it'll end up on the Internet. I just do my work and whatever happens, happens" Grinning, Groff added, "I love that you're so concerned about me. People, you know, people do what they do on the Internet. But I appreciate your concern."

The Penn State Board of Trustees didn't wait for college football legend Joe Paterno to retire at the end of the season and severed ties with both Paterno and university president Graham Spanier last night, effective immediately. Not a surprise since, shockingly, both appear to have failed to notify police of assistant coach Jerry Sandusky's alleged sexual assault of a child.

TV Guide takes advocacy groups like the Parents Television Council to task for their opposition to Glee's "The First Time" episode, and name multiple recent steamy scenes with teenagers on other shows that they never mentioned, since those were straight couples.

Speaking of epic takedowns, you really have to read Mark Morford's piece over at the San Francisco Chronicle detailing all the things homophobes would have to boycott if they really cared about opposing gay marriage.

For everyone calling Sebastian on Glee a two-episode plot device, Grant Gustin's contract is open-ended.

Anderson has been renewed for a second season. But he should watch out, because Jeff Probst's new talk show just cleared in all major markets, which probably ended Ricky Lake and Bethenny Frankel's hopes for shows.

It looks like Brian Grazer is going to step in and produce the Oscars now that Brett Ratner is gone. And Grazer may be one of the few people that can bring Eddie Murphy back on as a host, since he produced Tower Heist. But maybe a better idea is if the Muppets hosted the show! There's actually been a Facebook page for that since February. And they have been presenters on the telecast before. And ABC is airing the show, which is owned by Disney, which owns the Muppets. The idea has enough steam that even Nikki Finke's Deadline.com has had to acknowledge it.

In France, satirical paper Charlie Hebdo had their offices firebombed after depicting the prophet Mohammed on their cover in cartoon form as a guest editor. Not ones to back down, they produced another edition with a cartoon of their editor French kissing a follower of Mohammed and a title that said "Love Is Stronger Than Hate."

George Clooney loves a good fart joke. He has iFart on is phone, remote controlled whoopie cushions, and even fart shoes.

Stephen Amell is headed over to Private Practice to play a paramedic and a love interest for one of the main characters. According to his Twitter, to his knowledge, he's not playing a werewolf or a hooker this time, which is a shame, because that would make Private Practice watchable. Maybe.

I love Gavin Creel, but I do think he's giving the failure of Kim Kardashian's publicity marriage far too much weight.

The right wing is calling a 15-cent fee being added to live Christmas trees a new "tax on Christmas" by President Obama when it is in fact requested by the sellers themselves, similar to what was done to produce the Got Milk? ads for dairy farmers. I for one, don't mind forking over the $.15 when I go up to the farm to cut mine later this month.

I had no idea the level of perks that actors could get on top of their $20 million movie paychecks.

Bill Keane, creator of the comic strip Family Circus, which was based on his own family, has passed away at the age of 89. I can't top the eulogy given by Vulture, so I'll just quote part of it. "Keane is survived by his five children and thousands of dotted lines running in paths all through his yard and neighborhood."

Does Sue Sylvester need to win the election and go to Washington, never to return to McKinley High?

Taylor Lautner says that very rarely is anything he reads online about himself true.  He also says that the National Guard in Brazil had to intervene when he and Kristen Stewart were doing interviews in a hotel and security burst in saying "Remain calm, but about 2,000 girls just broke through the hotel lobby and they’re on their way up the stairs to get to this room.”

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