I’m going to be real with you guys for a minute. Outside of DVDs for my Virgin Diaries, I haven’t been watching a lot of TV lately. So maybe that explains why two of my clips this week never even aired on television, and the other two are from Jimmy Fallon. Look, I work with what I have, people. Regardless though, these clips are really funny, so enjoy!

Emmy Comedy Actress Roundtable

Okay, so this is kind of cheating since it technically wasn’t on TV, but this Hollywood Reporter roundtable, with current Emmy-nominated comedy actresses, is amazing. These women are obviously hilarious (except for Mary-Louise Parker, who just seems kind of scared), so there’s that. But more interesting to me are the tales of ageism in Hollywood. They all concur that TV is much more forgiving, but these women – who are all in their late 30s to late 40s – have a much harder time when they go out for film roles. Not only did Christina Applegate get passed over for a magazine cover because they don’t put women “over 35″ on, but both Sarah Silverman and Amy Poehler were asked to audition for the part of Jonah Hill’s mother. These ladies are all hot. We live in a crazy world, people.

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(Season 4, Episode 13 – “The Nightman Cometh”) – SEASON FINALE!

Frank rules! Danny DeVito is so brilliant in this role it’s hard to imagine the show working without him, though I know it did just fine its first season like that. Tonight, by simply changing the way he said “this boy’s soul” into “this boy’s hole,” he made funny hilarious. Ditto on him trying to argue why he should be the troll until it’s explained to him that … well … isn’t it obvious? His facial expressions are worth his weight in gold.

This was very much a Charlie-centric installment, with no B-storyline whatsoever. Out of nowhere, and probably because the original song became a bit of a viral success for the show, Charlie wrote a musical expansion of his “Nightman” song. I’m not really sure what he wrote or how because we were told there were no words, and I wasn’t really able to identify the object he was carrying that was supposedly the script at the beginning.

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“I could have had you in my life forever, if I wanted to.” Peggy tells Pete she’s not perfect on Mad Men

How awesome is Elisabeth Moss? When I’m watching Mad Men, I’m often distracted by the utter hotness of Jon Hamm as Don Draper, but damn, Peggy Olson is a great character. Along with her genteel ambition and mousy exterior, there’s a quiet desperation that runs under everything she says and does. It’s the yearning that I notice the most when I watch Moss play Peggy, but the scene in last Sunday’s season finale in which she finally tells Pete exactly what the result of their affair was, she reveals a strength that is pretty damn impressive.

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