Say what you will about the upcoming Presidential Election, but if it’s an appearance on SNL, old Daily Show clips or last month’s Alfred E Smith Dinner, John McCain is our funniest Presidential candidate.

We’re going to buy some Pork Knives.

Amy Pohler is out, taking care of her baby Archie Arnett, and the election ends on Tuesday, meaning SNL will need to milk something else to stay culturally relevant. So who’s the big coup of a guest-star we’re hearing about?

Since we can’t report on the very real news that Barack Obama will be on the Daily Show tomorrow without seeming bias, we can report that after the election a week from today, Saturday Night Live will have to prove to their audience that the show can hold on to the ratings gained through Tina Fey as Sarah Palin.

What better bad decision to make then bringing Britney comeback drama into focus?

In grain of salt territory, Celebuzz (Cele Buzz? Celeb Uzz? Thank God we’re just typing and not talking to you) is reporting that “source” says Britney will be hosting Saturday Night Live on November 22nd as part of her newest comeback effort.

If it works, we can just start associating “comeback” with Britney Spears for the rest of our lives, because it’s, like, the fourth or fifth time the media world has tripped over itself to raise her up again.

We have a little-noticed category here at the Bad & Ugly titled “We Hate The Hills.” It’s not used all too much, only occasionally when Heidi Montag and Spencer Pratt decide to do their newest photo-op.

Thank you, David Letterman for letting us dust off this category. Because, while we occasionally watch Gossip Girl and keep it to ourselves, we DO NOT, WILL NOT, NEVER WANTED TO watch MTV’s The Hills, which basically sums up for us a) how low MTV has sunk in it’s programming, b) how young and stupid MTV’s core audience is these days and c) how we are making the MTV audience of tweens aspire to be catty bitches who don’t have real jobs.

Luckily, David Letterman had enough while interviewing The Hills star Lauren Conrad. He pulled one of his classicly-sly “I hate that I have to interview the likes of you” moves by asking LC if maybe she was “the problem” amongst her group of catty friends.

Check out LC having nothing left to do but sit there and take it below the cut…

Just in time for W., too!

Everyone’s favorite Wolf Huntin’ Soccer Mom with a Heart ‘a’ Gold dontcha know is going to guest on tomorrow’s episode of Saturday Night Live, which’ll be conveniently hosted by Josh Brolin. A campaign spokesman confirmed to the AP that Palin will appear, but would not reveal in what role or what sketch she would be in.

We imagine that Palin will take part in a Tina Fey sketch, or–considering Fey hadn’t yet heard if she was on this week–maybe will play Fey. The mind boggles.

Color us surprised. Apparently VH1’s weekly pop-culture gab fest is undergoing a rather drastic overhaul. Instead of the usual cast of characters–mainly NYC-based comedians who you can drunkenly run into throughout the West Village–there’s a bit of a shake-up today as Best Week Ever is now…Best Week Ever With Paul F. Tompkins! (We added the exclamation mark.)

OhNoTheyDidn’t has the PR Language:

The change is part of a larger revamping of the show, the channel’s longest-running weekly series if not its most popular. “Clearly, some of our reality shows get bigger numbers,” said Jim Ackerman, the senior vice president for development at VH1, referring to programs like “I Love New York.”

“But I think ‘Best Week Ever’ has helped find the voice of the channel in the last couple years.” Still, he added, “it was time to shake up the format a little bit,” especially since that love-to-hate-it take on celebrity minutiae has been widely copied. “With Paul, we get a bit of control and we get a more singular voice, and I think we might be more consistently funny.”

Though Mr. Ackerman said the change was not ratings-driven, Mr. Tompkins acknowledged that there was competition with “The Soup,” the E! network’s similar pop-culture wrap-up show, hosted by Joel McHale. It is shown at 10 p.m. on Fridays — “Best Week Ever” is on an hour later — but is repeated twice as often throughout the week. (Both are half-hour weekly series. According to Nielsen, in the last year “Best Week Ever” averaged 520,000 prime-time viewers; “The Soup,” 890,000.) Though some features of the old “Best Week Ever,” like “The Sizzler,” a quick gossip rundown, will remain, and some former panelists will return for scripted bits, the new show will be more written-through, and may even have a less mean-spirited take, more in line with Mr. Tompkins’s genial point of view.

They’re even going to incorporate a podium for Tompkins! While the ONTD headline is a bit touchy (”Best Week Ever to become a shitty and less mean-spirited ripoff of The Soup”) we are willing to watch anything with Tompkins, who gives us fond Mr Show memories.

No word on how this effects the blog, or which on-air talent is staying on with Tompkins.

[edit: whoops, we had an image from Ben Kharakh before that involved photoshop. Either way, go check out Ben’s site. He’s pretty nifty and spiffy.]

Surprising no one but those folks in Ohio that think Obama is “a[sic] Arab”, Senator John McCain confirms today that he will show back up on the Late Show with David Letterman via AP after previously snubbing him :

It will be McCain’s 13th visit to the CBS program but his first since he angered Letterman by canceling last month.

Letterman was unhappy when McCain sat for an interview with Katie Couric instead of him on Sept. 24.

At the time he said he first felt like a “patriot” to let McCain off his commitment to deal with the economy but “now I’m feeling like an ugly date.”

More importantly, this lead to some of Letterman’s best onscreen bile over a four day period, once again proving that Leno may have the Chin and the Cars, but only Letterman can force an angry, delusional old man back onto his show.
[image via NYT]