Stephen Colbert and his late-night cohorts were back on the air Tuesday night, just in time for the Iowa caucuses.Going into yesterdays vote, Iowa voters had yet to settle on a favorite candidate, leaving the pundit class in a state of frenzied, semi-desperate speculation. But Colbert, for one, would not be cowed.

“I am still committed to making a definitive call on this race based on little or no evidence,” he defiantly announced on his show Tuesday night, taped a few hours before the caucus results began to trickle in.

Inspired by Paul the Octopus, who accurately predicted manyof the winners in the 2010 World Cup tournament before his death later that year (“Our thoughts and lemon wedges are with him,” Colbert joked), the host enlisted his very ownpsychic invertebrate, Megyn Shelly, “the Colbert Reports official prognosticating snail.”

Heres how it worked: Megyn was placed in a scale model of a Republican debate, where each candidate stood behind a podium carved from fresh cucumber.

So did Megan pick eventual winner, Mitt Romney?

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This years Golden Globe nominations were announced this morning, great news for anyone who loves things that are like the Oscars without actually being the Oscars. And as it happens, this years slate of nominations is awfully kind to the veterans of various early-90s Lollapalooza tours. Miki Berenyi of Lush, theres hope for you yet!

First up, theres Trent Reznor, who took home a Globe for scoring The Social Network last year. This year, he moves one step closer to Danny Elfman mainstay status, as he and his confederate Atticus Ross are nominated for their The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo score.

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“NCIS” actor David Fisher won’t go to jail after allegedly choking his neighbor — because he just struck a plea deal with prosecutors … in which the battery charge against him was totally dropped.

In exchange for dropping the choking charge, Fisher pled “no contest” to a much more minor disturbing the peace charge … and was sentenced to pay a $50 fine, which the judge wrote off.

TMZ broke the story … Fisher was arrested back in September after an argument with his neighbor turned violent — with Fisher allegedly trying to cut off the guy’s oxygen supply.

Fisher tells us, “I was set on by a bully who asked for trouble and lost his fight.

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Willow Smith sits pretty on top of a display before going for a little shopping spree with Boys Girls Club Families at Target in New York City on Thursday morning (December 8).

Just the day before, the 11-year-old musician hit up BET for the debut of her new music video, Fireball. Check it out below!

It’s gonna make them feel like they have control over their lives and can do what they want to do and be the person they want to be, Willow said to the Washington Post of her upcoming album.

Willow is also pictured at 2011 Holiday in the Hangar to benefit the Garden of Dreams Foundation at Delta Terminal 2 at John F. K

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(CNN) — According to Women’s Wear Daily, a certain “Saved by the Bell” alum is getting into the undergarment business.

Mario “A.C. Slater” Lopez, 38, has partnered with 2(x)ist to launch his own line of skivvies called RatedM.

Available at FreshPair.com, the boxer briefs and tighty-whities are described as being “for manful men and their very special guests.” The site advertises the undies with a photo of a shirtless Lopez modeling his wares.

The brand claims that “Extra” host Lopez has “transformed classic men’s underwear styles” with his collection. And what did it take to revolutionize the world of men’s underthings? Simple! Full Post…

Fans of FX’s “American Horror Story” may feign bravery, but we know you lie awake Wednesday nights and wonder what the unborn child of Vivien Harmon (Connie Britton) will look like. Will it have horns? A tail? Two heads? Motivated by the impending birth of this spawn, we dug into pop culture history — and the scary images etched on our brains — to recall cinema’s evil children.

— Jessica Yadegaran

‘Rosemary’s Baby’

Roman Polanski’s 1968 thriller became the model for future evil-spawn films. After moving to an apartment with a bad rap and becoming mysteriously pregnant, Mia Farrow begins to fear that everyone — her eerie neighbors, doctor and quiet and distant husband — have evil plans for her baby.

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