Assistant duo Marc and Amanda are one of the best reasons to be tuning into Ugly Betty these days. Last night, they killed with a bevy of great quips: "Okay, so I couldn’t find a male point of view, but I did find Marc," Amanda said, after failing to find someone with a Y chromosome to weight in on Betty’s boy woes. I giggled heartily at that one! And Marc served up one of the best lines of the evening after taking over the lease of Betty’s apartment: "I wanna change everything, and I mean everything. I’m talking Extreme Makeover: Homo Edition," he said, as he made plans to gayify the dump.
Want more sound bites from the pair? Just check out the video of my four favorite quips from Marc and Amanda below, then vote for your favorite in the poll that follows. Craving even more bites from the Ugly Betty crew? A round-up of all the best lines from last night is after the jump. Tell me which ones you loved or hated — or which ones I missed — in the comments!
The Recording Academy announced yesterday that British/Sri Lankan raptress M.I.A., whose ’08 anthem 
Tonight’s elimination had a surprise (and aggravating) twist. After a series of catastrophes in and out of the kitchen, Colleen and Lacey ended up on the chopping block and seemed all but certain to be packing up their knives and headed on their not-so-merry way. But wait! At the last minute, an injured Ji stepped forward and sacrificed herself! Gordon Ramsay, in a moment of genuine tenderness, accepted Ji’s resignation, allowed her to keep her jacket (awwww), and bid adieu by telling her "you, madame, yes? Have been phenomenal." I know the guy’s a certified ass, but am I the only one who was touched? The moment was somewhat marred, however, by the fact that this meantthat Lacey and Colleen will bearound for another week.
I’m told there’s an old Tinseltown blonde joke that goes something like this:
Let’s pretend that you’re going to the big New York Comic Con this weekend, held at New York City’s Jacob Javits Center (located in what I lovingly call the armpit of Manhattan). And let’s pretend that you’d like to see some stuff other than the rows of videogame companies, comics purveyors, and Jedi Knights — and you’re not, like I am, gonna be behind a table signing your comic books (the DC and Top Cow booths…tell ‘em I sent ya!) — what should you absolutely, positively, not miss? Well, here are the five things I’d say you oughta put on your radar:
We get a lot of strange reader mail here at EW — letters from rabid fans, prisoners, etc. — but one piece in particular made us stop in our tracks: A Oscar-themed poem by 16-year-old Sam Carruthers from McHenry, Ill. (see his poem below). In fact, we were so impressed with Sam’s rhyming skillz that we decided to launch our own Oscar poetry contest. So log onto ew.com/oscarpoetry to submit your awe-inspiring verse about slumdogs, Jokers, or Mickey Rourke’s pet chihuahuas. 
