Anderson Cooper Giggles Over Gerard Depardieu

Anderson Cooper Giggles Over Gerard Depardieu

If you're a regular viewer of Anderson Cooper 360, then you know his RidicuList segment. It's the few moments in the show when Cooper takes off his hard-news anchor hat, and covers lighter stories in a playful and cheeky way. But on Wednesday's broadcast, Cooper got downright… giggly. Watch here:

Commenting on the news that French actor Gerard Depardieu urinated on the floor of a Cityjet flight from Paris to Dublin, Cooper looked into the teleprompter and tried to read his commentary, which was peppered with potty-related humor and puns. Distracted by some off-camera crew members who were laughing, Cooper tried valiantly to keep a straight face while reciting lines like, "He's probably used to being…Pampered." And "I'd go as far as to say he Depends on it." 

But eventually, the sort of potty humor that takes down fourth grade boys got to Cooper as well. "The line that eventually sent the anchor over the edge was when he stated that the flight's cleaning crew should be happy that the actor hadn't made an even bigger mess: "They should thank their lucky stars it wasn't Depar...Two." After delivering this pun, he just bowed his head and started to giggle uncontrollably. "Sorry, this has actually never happened to me," Cooper squeaked. "You always see this sort of thing on YouTube, and you never think it could happen to you.”

This is the same guy who waded through waist-deep water to deliver sobering reports from post-Katrina New Orleans? Who flew to Tokyo to cover the aftermath of the Japanese tsunami?

Yep. Apparently no matter how serious and professional you are, you can still be felled by a good potty joke.

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Justin Bieber Raps On Chris Brown Mixtape Track

'Shawty Mane!! I'm back!' Bieber tweets, using his MC name.
By Jocelyn Vena


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Justin Bieber issued a proud declaration from his Twitter page: "SHAWTY MANE!! I'M BACK!" Bieber, whose MC name is Shawty Mane, appears on Chris Brown's Boy in Detention mixtape rapping on the track "Ladies Love Me."

Brown dropped the mixtape just in time for the weekend on his website, and the Bieber track samples Brown's "Look at Me Now." It was produced by David Banner.

Breezy shows off his signature bad-boy swagger, rapping about all his riches. "My bad/ I'm sorry/ I'm double-parked/ Yeah, that's my Bugatti/ And that's my Ferrari/ Next to my Ducati," he raps. "Man, my house so big take the escalator to the elevator/ Take the elevator to the private and then I jet," goes another verse.

The pals swap verses with the funky beat from "Look at Me Now" behind them. Bieber shows off his own lover-boy swag with lyrics like, "Baby, I'm your doctor/ I could be your rocker/ Swaggin', I'm not braggin' but I swear that I could rock ya, baby/ I'm not crazy/ I got swag like Patrick Swayze."

Bieber and Brown were spotted in the studio last month, and many fans were wondering what they were up to. This release marks Brown's first-ever rap mixtape release. In addition to Bieber, it features appearances from Tyga, Dawn Richard, Wiz Khalifa, Swizz Beatz and Kevin McCall, to name a few. 9th Wonder, DJ Chuckie and No I.D. are a few of the producers who get credits on the mixtape.

This isn't Bieber's first foray into the world of rapping. He rapped on the Sean Kingston track "Won't Stop" and spit some rhymes as Shawty Mane in a Twitter video he posted last year.

It's also a big month for Brown, who's up for several Moonmen at the MTV Video Music Awards later this month. He's nominated for his frantic Chris Tilley-directed video for "Look at Me Now." Brown is also slated to perform at the show.

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New Led Zeppelin On The Way? Jason Bonham Hints At 'Jam' Sessions With Jimmy Page -- But Not Robert Plant

Drummer admits he doesn't know what will come of 'new material.'
By Chris Harris


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On Friday morning, mere hours before he was due to take the stage with classic rockers Foreigner at Detroit's GM Renaissance Center, drummer Jason Bonham — the son of late Led Zeppelin kitman John Bonham — told Jim Johnson and Lynne Woodison of local rock station 94.7 WCSX that he'd be an ex-member of Foreigner as of September 1. But that's not the only thing he said.

Much to the delight of Led Zeppelin fans everywhere, Bonham revealed that he's been meeting up with Led Zep guitarist Jimmy Page and bassist John Paul Jones in recent months and that they've been "trying to do some new material and writing."

It was the first time since Led Zeppelin announced they would re-form for a single performance (which happened late last year at London's O2 Arena, in honor of the late Ahmet Ertegün, who signed the band to Atlantic Records in 1969) that anyone connected to the band has confirmed publicly that new music could be on the horizon for the iconic rockers. While the bandmembers have stopped short of definitively ruling out such a reunion, singer Robert Plant insisted in the wake of last year's show that he intended to focus on promoting and touring behind his critically lauded album with bluegrass artist Alison Krauss, Raising Sand.

Not that Bonham knows what — if anything — will happen with the new material he's been working on with Page (who collaborated with pop singer Leona Lewis on an uneven version of Zep's "Whole Lotta Love" at the Olympic closing ceremonies in Beijing on Sunday night) and Jones. He said he just shows up and takes his seat behind the kit.

"I've been over [to England] a couple of times," Bonham said. "I've been working with Jimmy and John Paul and trying to do ... some new material and some writing. I don't know what it will be, but it will be something. At the moment, all I know is I have the great pleasure to go and jam with the two guys and start work on some material. When I get there, I never ask any questions. If I get a phone call to go and play, I enjoy every moment of it. Whatever it ends up as, to ever get a chance to jam with two people like that, it is a phenomenal thing for me. It's my life. It's what I've dreamed about doing."

He said it's still too early to tell what will become of these "jam" sessions, but admitted that the "possibility of doing something is in the cards. I really felt it was in the cards from the moment we walked offstage at the O2." Bonham also explained that, before there could be a Led Zep LP, "lots of politics [would need to] get ironed out," but added that recording with Zep is "something I've always wanted to do."

Bonham noticeably didn't mention frontman Plant's name during the discussion. A spokesperson for Page's management had no comment on the matter, and a spokesperson for Jones' management could not be reached by press time.

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Eva Longoria Gets Down to Housewives Business as Her Boyfriend Eduardo Hits the Studio

Eva Longoria and her boyfriend, Eduardo Cruz, were off taking care of individual business yesterday afternoon in LA. He logged a few hours at a studio while she was decked out in a blazer to join her Desperate Housewives costars, like Marcia Cross at a promo shoot for their last season. Eva and Eduardo are together again on the West Coast after a fun tour of Europe with his sister, Penelope, and her husband, Javier Bardem. They spent a day sightseeing in Spain's Costa Brava, and it was during that outing we had a first look at little Leo Bardem! Eva's back to work on the last episodes of her small-screen series and also recently taped an appearance for Mario Lopez's show H8R. One project Eva's trying to get off her hands is the Nevada branch of her restaurant, and she may have found a buyer for the Las Vegas outpost of Beso.

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