The Daily Show's now-famous takedown of CNBC was peppered with embarrassing quotes by Fast Money host and comically inept market prognosticator Jim Cramer. Cramer thinks this is "absurd," and frankly his feelings are hurt.

Amid the weakest stock-market close in 12 years, Nouriel "Dr. Doom" Roubini decided to scare everyone further, by telling CNBC our depression will last three years, unless maybe we void all mortgages.

Google CEO Eric Schmidt, who spent much of last fall declaring the search engine unaffected by Wall Street's crisis, has admitted that the company is "not immune." But is he being honest about its plight?

What's Obama like when he's angry? "Stronger and more impulsive," according to ex-wrestler Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson, who guest-hosted Saturday Night Live last night. Click to see Barack Obama turn into "The Rock" Obama.

What is he, some small-town stockbroker? Seems so. At least he didn't repeat any of the nonsense he heard from the crowd of Internet hipsters he met with Friday.

Who's to blame for the economic mess? Not CNBC, says CNBC anchor Erin Burnett! "Everyone in this country knew there was a housing bubble," she told Bill Maher last night. Is she the new Santelli?

Why is Marissa Mayer, Google's athletically inept cupcake princess, going on such a publicity tour of late? She was in the Times Sunday. Last night, she hit Charlie Rose to make excuses for not innovating.

(This is from yesterday's Rachel Maddow Show, shortly after her MSNBC colleague finished pointing to his Cornell diploma to prove a crazy point.)

Hillary Clinton presented Russia with an "easy button" to celebrate our awesome new relationship but then everything went terribly wrong.

Everyone in Britain is enraged that a third runway is being built at London's busiest airport, Heathrow. This will kill all their precious red squirrels, or something! So a protester tossed a bit of custard at a politician.

Jon Stewart has at least four horsemen in his apocalypse: CNBC, the two other financial networks and Octo-Mom. And the Daily Show host isn't done talking about any of them.

Michael Jackson is giving a press conference right now about some tour dates, and the CNN cameras decided to follow his bus as it sped toward the event. Only their anchors didn't give a shit.

Were Democratic attacks on Rush Limbaugh coordinated with the White House? Watch Paul Begala hilariously duck and dodge and dance around Anderson Cooper's many futile questions about the matter.

If David Letterman's extended fracas with John McCain taught us anything, it's that would-be opinion leaders will pay for canceling on TV hosts. On tonight's Daily Show, Rick Santelli and his network paid dearly.

"That's business," said Balek when Valleywag reached him by phone.

Felicity Huffman was on Letterman last night when the subject of her husband, William H. Macy, replacing the sushi-poisoned Jeremy Piven in the play Speed-the-Plow play came up. Felicity wasn't exactly kind to the Piv.

Jimmy Fallon was mercifully blessed to have former Saturday Night Live/Weekend Update co-star Tina Fey on his second show.

That's not a "major" layoff, as one Valleywag tipster maintained this morning. As Eric Savitz points out in Tech Trader Daily, Apple would have to file through the WARN Act if it was going to conduct major cuts. But the WARN Act does not generally apply to layoffs of fewer than 500 employees.

All Contessa Brewer was trying to do was introduce a clip about a "gigantic gem." But her bitchy co-anchor Melissa Francis had to insult her, by implying she was conceited or something. Contessa was flummoxed.

What do you do when you're late to a trend? Mock yourself! Watch Jon Stewart's Daily Show writers, one of whom only started using the banal messaging service on Oscars night, try to catch up.