So far, it's been a jubilant final march for Late Night, and we can expect more fan-friendly shenanigans (Carrie Fisher and the Masturbating Bear running away together) tonight and the rest of the week.

Trimmed-down Seth Rogen finally lands Playboy cover. [Page Six]

God bless E! for filling the void that TMZ so negligently abdicated: explaining just how spectacular Rihanna's beating has been for album sales.

Watchmen screenwriter David Hayter was asked by Hollywood Outbreak for his thoughts on Fox's litigious adventures in the Land of the Forgotten Rights Claim.

Daughter getting Heath Ledger's Oscar — when she's 18. [THR]

Though Liev Schreiber has a perfectly acceptable set of pecs, partner Naomi Watts confessed to Ellen DeGeneres today that Schreiber would throw his rack away for the chance to possess man-boobs. For breast-feeding.

Last week we totally harshed on NBC's 30 Rock for writing McDonald's McFlurry into its script in such a sellout-y way. But it was all natural, no ad money, just for fun, allegedly!

· E! reports that Zac Efron and Vanessa Hudgens will be among the performers to help nurture this year's Oscar renaissance, hopefully teaming for a Best Picture reenactment of Slumdog Millionaire's romantic latrine-escape sequence.

The death of Mickey Rourke's chihuahua, Loki, continues to reverberate today, as the actor has finally announced his replacement Oscar date (and hinted that he may be pulling out of Iron Man 2).

Conchords hits season high. Eastbound and Down strikes out. [THR]

Despite seeing the threat coming, the Weinstein Company never bothered to dodge a new lawsuit from the surviving half of Sam & Dave — the allegedly uncredited sources for last year's bomb Soul Men.

We'd like to present the mad skillz of hip-hop supergroup Back of the Class:

Even when facing tragedy, the 30 Rock star brings the funny. That recent fire at his apartment? He put a statement out: The blaze started in his fish tank. Full of water.

Today on The View, Ebert usurper Ben Lyons took his place next to Elisabeth Hasselbeck in what could only have felt more like a Defamer-targeted Last Supper if Joaquin Phoenix had crashed it, rapping.

If you've not yet recovered from the news that 103.1 had bitten down on a cyanide tablet rather than convert to a corporate-mandated Indie-and-Some-Celine format, steel yourselves for further L.A. radio carnage: 97.1's dead.

In your gloomy Wednesday media column: More rumored Viacom layoffs today, Newsweek staffers are mad at the boss, Playboy might have to sell Playboy, and more!:

The tragic, pre-Oscar passing of Mickey Rourke's chihuahua, Loki, is clearly the most ill-timed thing to have happened since Barack Obama's grandmother died just before the election. Join us for a Loki retrospective.

Oh dear. Not even Dr. Spaceman can fix this. There's been a bad fire at the apartment of Tracy Morgan, who plays the otherworldly Tracy Jordan on 30 Rock.

In 12 days, a ready-as-he'll-ever-be Jimmy Fallon will take Conan O'Brien's slot, backed by Philadelphia hip-hop outfit The Roots. Drummer ?uestlove spoke to Rolling Stone about their miserly new bosses, NBC.

LA Boxing boss challenges Chris Brown to prizefight. [Facebook]