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The big winner at Saturday's Creative Arts Emmys?

Sarah Palin. Tina Fey. The bespectacled funnylady's spot-on Saturday Night Live spoofin' of a certain veep wannabe earned her an Emmy for Outstanding Guest Actress, Comedy.

You betcha.

"This would not be possible without Mrs. Palin...[who is] an inspiration to working mothers everywhere," Fey sad as she picked up the prize. She also gave a shout-out to "my parents, who are lifelong Republican, for their patience."

"They thought the first four sketches were very funny and the last two, enough already," said Fey, who can collect more hardware at next weekend's Primetime Emmys.

Meanwhile, all that booty-shaking with Beyoncé and mother-loving with Susan Sarandon paid off for Justin Timberlake...

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We all knew it was coming—Kathy Griffin in a cheap Kate Gosselin wig and bikini (she's almost as bad as a Kardashian with all the bikini posing).

Ever since Kate became the saint of the Gosselin family, everyone's been so easy on her. So it is kinda nice to see the return of old Kate we knew and hated so much before Jon started taking our attention.

You remember her, right? The eye-rolling, fame-whoring, water-denying all-around put-out mom. Ah, those were the days.

And yes, there is a J.Goss cameo courtesy of George Takei. Enjoy!

Or don't enjoy because there are eight adorable kids mixed up in all this. It's up to you!

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Now let us turn our attention to E! talent. Kendra had her baby shower yesterday! Check out the gallery.

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• About those hermaphrodite rumors, Lady Gaga tells an Australian radio station Nova 106.9: "My beautiful vagina is very offended. I'm not offended; my vagina is offended. I'm not embarrassed—I sold 4 million records in 6 months; I'm not embarrassed about anything. I think more than anything, it's society's reaction to a strong woman. The idea that we equate strength with men and a penis is a symbol of male strength, you know, it's just what it is. But like I said, I'm not offended at all, but my vagina might be a little bit upset."

• So they're making a Jon & Kate porn. And here's Kathy Griffin, always one to do whatever she can to show off her bikini body, dressed up as Kate for a Jimmy Kimmel skit. Hmmm, what's worse?

• This is how Jessica Alba's daughter, Honor, dresses. Let's just say she's no Suri Cruise. 

• Kim Kardashian blogged: "I want a baby!!!!" She always knows exactly how to bring the attention back to her.

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Wow, why is Rumer Willis the one dressed like a 46-year-old at the Sorority Row premiere with her mom? Check it our in our Big Pic gallery.

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The haters can suck it. Well, them and, if history is any indication, Ryan Seacrest.

None other than Kathy Griffin herself has been lined up to host the 2009 Primetime Creative Arts Emmy Awards, a ceremony she's lovingly christened the "Schmemmys," this fall.

No stranger to the show, the My Life on the D-List star has not only taken home the award for Outstanding Reality Program for the past two years (take that, Cesar Millan), she's walked away with the night's biggest headlines, as well—first, for an acceptance speech in which she saw fit to tell Jesus in no uncertain terms to "suck it," and secondly for both cussing out her peers and opining on the merits of making love to her statue.

(If that's how she feels about her Emmys, what will she say about her Tater Top?)

"We're thrilled as Kathy's the first Emmy winner to host the Creative Arts show," ceremony producer Spike Jones Jr. said. "She stole the show the last two years, so now, we're giving her the opportunity to officially hijack it. We're all very, very excited. And just a little bit scared."

Pity the poor network in charge of manning the delay button on that ceremony. Oh, wait…while the ceremony takes place Sept. 12, the show will be edited down and aired as a two-hour special on E! later that month.

Guess this means the Palins are a Conan-favoring household.

David Letterman, under the watchful eyes of a suddenly and long-deserved surging home audience, offered up his best attempt at an apology last night after a self-proclaimed stupid human trick of his own failed to go down as well as he would have liked—or exactly as he intended—with the governor of Alaska.

Responding to derisive statements issued by Sarah and Todd Palin in response to Monday night's monologue and Top 10 List (the Top 10 Highlights of Sarah Palin's Trip to New York City), Letterman agreed last night that his jokes pertaining to one of the Palin daughters were "questionable," but didn't exactly take them back.

Instead, he clarified and then repeated them, to even more laughter than they earned the first time around.

"Keep in mind, I can't really defend these," he said in his more than eight-minute mea culpa to Palin, whom he deemed "an absolutely lovely woman."

"They're just jokes."

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Kathy Griffin may claim to live her Life on the D-List, but one book purveyor thinks she's worth much more than that.

The Emmy-winning comic just signed a deal with Ballantine, an imprint of Random House, to write her memoirs for an advance rumored to be worth more than $2 million.

"Yes, Ballentine did buy Kathy Griffin's book, but we do not confirm advances," the publisher tells E! News.

The New York Observer claims to have three sources close to the deal who say Griffin sold the tell-all at auction for the eye-popping sum.

This isn't the first time a funny lady scored a big book deal. Tina Fey signed one last year for a rumored $5 million-$6 million.

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Ellen DeGeneres, Kathy Griffin and Tyra Banks, yes. But don't forget Gus Van Sant, Woody Allen and Guy Ritchie, who all did the gay community quite a good turn last year, as well.

The directors' latest films—Milk, Vicky Cristina Barcelona and RocknRolla—are among the movies that will be vying for Outstanding Wide Release Film at the 20th Annual GLAAD Media Awards, handed out by the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation to honor film, television, music, theater, and print and digital media for "fair, accurate and inclusive representation" of the gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender population and the issues affecting their lives.

Peter Sollett's hipster-friendly Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist and Julian Jarrold's adaptation of Evelyn Waugh's Brideshead Revisited round out the nominees for top film in wide release.

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Keanu Reeves is going intergalactic again.

He of the comforting monotone has hitched his wagon to 20th Century Fox's big-screen adaptation of the acclaimed Japanese anime series Cowboy Bebop, which is set in 2071, 50 years after a massive lunar explosion decimated Earth's population and necessitated the colonization of the entire solar system.

Thanks to greater than usual logistical issues, an elite team of Old West-style bounty hunters, or cowboys, is needed to keep the peace.

Per the Hollywood Reporter, Reeves is attached to play Spike Siegel, a reformed criminal turned space cowboy and copilot of the Bebop, who, like a character from the actor's past, is well-versed in kung fu and other combat skills, but is toting around quite a few personal demons.

No word yet on who's in line to play Spike's copilot, Jet Black, a onetime Inter-Solar System cop with a mechanical arm, but so far we're liking the whole Firefly-Battlestar Galactica-Bill & Ted vibe.

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