• SNL's Obamatron: Barack is awkward, even around fake Clintons.

• Bad cop: Rudy Giuliani advocates information-getting techniques like the kind he used as a NYC federal prosecutor: "If I didn't use intensive questioning, there would be a lot of mafia guys running around New York." In other words, "fetch me my waterboard!"

• Pencils down: Hollywood writers officially go on strike after last-ditch negotiations are broken off late Sunday evening. Upstart screenwriting baristas everywhere run spell check on "works in progress."

• Bird man: John Edwards accuses Hillary Clinton of "voting like a hawk in Washington, while talking like a dove in Iowa and New Hampshire." Still to come, flipping her the bird.

• Criminal transformation: Shia LaBeouf is arrested for misdemeanor trespassing after refusing to leave a Walgreens in Chicago.