Back in 2000, “South Park” creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone went to the Oscars wearing the same dresses that had previously been worn by Jennifer Lopez and Gwyneth Paltrow to the awards show. Last night on “Jimmy Kimmel Live,” they revealed how they worked up the nerve to do the stunt: they took acid.

Parker: “We thought of it the week before… We had tuxes as a backup because we thought we were gonna chicken out, and we did. And we were like, ‘Let’s not do that, let’s not do that.’ But then we were like, “Let’s take a little bit of acid.” So we did that and of course an hour later we were like, “WE GOTTA WEAR THE DRESSES.”

Stone: “It made that whole thing just make sense.”

There’s video below, and it’s funny to watch as Parker goes on to say that they were coming down as the ceremony was going on and how they hoped that they didn’t win.

Me? I don’t need drugs to wear a designer gown. Looking beautiful is its own high.

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As mentioned yesterday, last night Jimmy Kimmel dedicated his show to Frank Potenza, his uncle who passed away two weeks ago. Embedded below are videos of Kimmel’s monologue about Uncle Frank and the montage of some of his most memorable moments on the show. I may not be the biggest Kimmel fan, but he handles big moments really well. (I’m also not some unfeeling monster who isn’t affected by emotional speeches.)

Go ahead, give it a watch. Unless you have no respect for the deceased, you callous bastard!

[UPDATE: I removed the monologue video because it auto-played. But you should watch it here.]

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Frank Potenza, the former NYPD officer who became well-known to “Jimmy Kimmel Live” viewers as Uncle Frank, passed away this morning. The AP obituary doesn’t give a cause of death, but he was 77 so it could have been literally anything.

On “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” the uniformed Potenza was paired in comedy bits with Guillermo Rodriguez, a real-life parking lot security guard for the show… Potenza and his former wife, Conchetta “Chippy” Potenza, were sent by Kimmel on comic “adventures” such as working on a dairy farm and learning self-defense.

A native of Brooklyn, N.Y., and a Korean War veteran, Potenza served as a police officer for 20 years before working as a guard in Las Vegas and at St. Patrick’s Cathedral in Manhattan. Then [in 2003] Kimmel asked him to move to Los Angeles to work with him.

Bummer. I’m not a huge Kimmel fan but I’m familiar with Uncle Frank from seeing some of his bits. If it’s cool with everyone else, I’m going to mourn the loss of a Korean War vet and police officer of twenty years rather than a TV personality. I’m one of those weirdos who thinks that cops and soldiers are more worthy of respect than entertainers.

The other night, Charlie Sheen put an exclamation point on his surprise appearance on “Jimmy Kimmel Live” by planting a big kiss on Kimmel’s lips. Given Sheen’s history of both womanizing and woman tenderizing, it was hard for me to imagine any gay overtones from that kiss, but there were some other people who didn’t enjoy that man-on-man action thrust in their face. For example, a 47-year-old Georgia man named David O’Hara (inset) assaulted his girlfriend and pointed a gun at her because he objected to them thar homos kissin’.

“We were getting ready to get in bed and going through the TV stations. I saw that and said, ‘Oh look at that man, how he’s kissing that man. He’s kissing that man like he’s kissing a woman.’ And he just snapped. He said, ‘I don’t want to see that (expletive). I’m not a (expletive) gay man. It was shocking to me,” she said.

The fighting continued to escalate. A group of friends heard the screams and went to check on the couple. That’s when Quitman County Sheriff Steve Newton says O’Hara got a gun, putting it to the back of his girlfriend’s head and pointing it at 14-year-old Marcus Johnson.

“He swung it around in my face and pointed it at the back of her head and threatened to kill all of us,” Johnson said.

O’Hara took off running and was later tackled and arrested on the causeway leading from Georgia into Alabama. Deputies say he jumped the concrete median and tried to hide his gun in the grass. [WMBF]

“I’m not gay! Stop showing me men kissing! What do you think I am, gay? I’ll prove to you how straight I am by going to prison! GRRRRR, COMMUNAL SHOWERS!”

Charlie Sheen interrupted Mark Cuban’s appearance on “Jimmy Kimmel Live” last night, and the ol’ F-18 surprised me by not being quite as insane as during his epic run of WINNING that got him fired from “Two and a Half Men.” I mean, sure, he’s still Charlie Sheen, Hooker Aficionado and Banger of 7-Gram Rocks, but in this appearance he was clear and coherent — more charmingly unhinged than dangerously unhinged; more Robin Williams than Jim Jones.

You can see for yourself in the video below, though you should be warned that it’s not much more than Sheen accepting applause and handing out T-shirts with his now-famous quotes. I have to admit, the kitten with tiger’s blood is kinda cute, and it makes me think that this whole meltdown was just an elaborate ploy to sell T-shirts. Because that’s much more lucrative than $2 million an episode for acting in a sitcom.

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