Because Andy Samberg and the "Dick in a Box"/"Lazy Sunday" boys at Saturday Night Live sampled the band Aphex Twin without permission, this SNL Digital Short ode to Iran President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (friend to the homosexual) has been off and on YouTube faster than a juicy Daily Show clip. But now things seem to have settled down, and we can enjoy this sweet, tender, homoerotic love song the way it was meant to be enjoyed -- illegally on YouTube.

Over here at TDR, we are obligated to bring to you, our dear readers, the latest in viral videos. Sometimes, that can get a little tedious, as the Net often becomes the soapbox for manufactured scandals. Case in point, this video of Jerry Lewis coughing up the F word during a recent muscular-dystrophy telethon (we're referring here to the six-lettered version that ends with "t").

So, yeah, Jerry Lewis said the word "faggot" on television. He's also 81 years old, raises millions to help kids, has a famously dirty mouth, and cut himself short right after he said it. (And let's not forget that the French think he's positively Wellesian.) This is a major scandal? Apparently so. Here's what GLAAD president Neil Giuliano told TMZ: "We want to sit down with him, help him understand why these words are so hurtful, and give him an opportunity to raise public awareness about the destructive impact of these kinds of anti-gay slurs, even more so in attempted humor."

Will Jerry meet with Neil? Is a trip to rehab in order? Can he go to jail for this? Will he make an impassioned plea on Letterman, begging his fans for forgiveness? We get the feeling that the answers to all of these questions is an emphatic no. At least we hope so.

UPDATE: Jerry has since apologized. Also, the original video was pulled from Daily Motion. So here's CNN and their three-minute segment about this scandalous controversy. Lenny Bruce and Richard Pryor are have been spotted rolling in their respective graves.

In the 1990 film Longtime Companion, a group of friends gathered to watch a historical event -- the very first male gay kiss on daytime television. And this week, a mere seventeen years later, reality finally caught up to fiction. (By contrast, the time between Jaime Sommers' bionic ear and the first FDA-approved cochlear implant? Eight years.)

On Friday's episode of As the World Turns, after weeks of will-they-or-won't-they anticipation, teen dreams Luke and Noah sealed their attraction with daytime TV's first mano-a-mano kiss. Yowza.

Sure, All My Children broke the daytime gay-smooching barrier in 2003 when Bianca laid one on Lena, but lesbians are always ahead of the curve. L.A. Law had an all-girl kiss three years before Melrose Place famously cut away from poor gay Matt's one chance at on-screen action. Even Will & Grace, a show whose main cast was literally 50% homosexual characters, had two onscreen gay kisses in its entire eight season run. (Though one was with the delicious Taye Diggs, who by all rights should really count as at least three or four regular men.) So, yeah. It's still a big deal.

Next week: Luke says to Noah's (d'oh!) girlfriend, Maddie, "There's something you don't know about Noah." Yeah, no kidding, Luke. Now, soaps being soaps, he's probably just going to tell her Noah doesn't like her coffee, or something. But still.

Call me a dirty hippie, but I'm always touched to see people respond to a message of hate with a message of love. And that's just what George Takei, Star Trek's most famous gay alumni, does in this PSA directed towards NBA star Tim Hardaway, whose recent statements on the subject of homosexuality have caused a tremendous backlash from fans.

While the actor best known as Captain Sulu may not physically be the bigger man, he's able to look past Hardaway's ugly words and see the person behind them. Whether Takei's attempt to reach out to Hardaway will pay off remains to be seen. But hopefully, his offer of love and understanding will not fall on deaf ears.