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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Anderson Cooper may be a sexy intrepid reporter poised to become the gay white Oprah, but he’s not without quirks: he doesn’t drink hot beverages or eat green vegetables. In the video below, the Silver Fox tries both coffee and spinach for the first time and makes the expected “Yucky!” faces. And his audience actually claps for him, like he’s being so brave to eat spinach. “Good job, Andy! You’re so brave to eat a vegetable!” What a crock.

To balance out the utter pussitude of the video, I’ve also included a clip from last night’s “Jimmy Kimmel Live” in which Mark Wahlberg’s friend Nacho Libre eats two big balls of wasabi and chases them with three large cups of Tabasco sauce. It’s terrifying, yet undeniably badass. If “Entourage” had had a character like Nacho, the show would have sucked considerably less.

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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.

Louis C.K. is making the late-night talk show rounds to promote the second season of “Louie” on FX, and last night’s stop was “The Daily Show,” where he broke down why farts are funny. Ordinarily, explaining a joke saps it of humor, but Louis does a great job of defending the inherent humor of farts from the people who claim they’re too lowbrow. He doesn’t name names, but he’s clearly talking about people who write for Slate, read the New Yorker, discuss foreign cinema at parties, travel to Europe more than America’s National Parks, and/or have a diploma from Swarthmore. In Louis’s words: “You don’t have to be smart to laugh at farts, but you have to be stupid not to.”

Video below.

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