Joel recaps the pop culture moments of the week including:
Ellen DeGeneres leaving American Idol; the return of Jersey Shore; President Barack Obama stops by The View to talk pop culture; more of Mel Gibon's taped phone messages to Oksana Grigorieva; James Franco's big finish on General Hospital; a visit from America's Got Talent judge Howie Mandel and contestant Hannibal Means; the dragulator on RuPaul's Drag U; "The Mel Gibson Rant-a-Day Calendar"; the sesaon finale of Holly's World.
Plus, the Kick-Ass Clip of the Week: The Bold and the Beautiful's Ridge tells his slutty wife, Brooke, that he's looking at the biggest "HO" in town.