Angels. They’re funny things aren’t they? They live in heaven (which looks pretty boring) and have wings for no discernible reason. If you were God’s Army, surely you could fly without wings, right?

Either way, they fly around and totally exist and play harp really well. Although, we’ve taken our eye off the ball. We don’t document angels nearly as frequently as we once did. They’re all probably playing keytars or Moog synthesizers now.

That’s not to say there haven’t been angels on our radar. Away from religious paintings and cave etchings, we’ve had a few in pop-culture… alas, with varying degrees of success.

Because ‘spray is a massively religious group (seriously – we say ‘Jesus Christ!’ all the stinkin’ time), we had no difficulty in thinking of the finest angels to grace our presence.

Okay.

We did. Still. Here are the best and worst. You can disagree or agree all you like.

Anything for a response really.

Angel from X Men

Angel from X Men has the splendid real name of Warren Kenneth Worthington III. He’s one of the founding members of the mutant vigilantes. Of course, being an angel, he’s an arrogant, self-absorbed playboy who turns into a mawkish, introspective sort. He has wings though.

Date With An Angel

You know what would be great? Going on a date with an angel. Good thing someone made a film about just that starring Michael Knight (no really) who suffers from a massive brain tumour and ends up falling in love with an angel. Alas, he discovers her because she KOed herself on a satellite. Alas, Jim is betrothed to another who, with her knickers outside of her jeans, tries to shoot everyone with a shotgun. In this film, we also learn that angels like fries. Amazing.

Highway To Heaven

While this show was intended to showcase the kindly face and demeanour of Michael Landon, as he played a kindly angel, what it actually gave us was a dream in Double Denim, dry-ice and the hairy Victor French. Amazing Sunday afternoon TV fodder.

Pygar The Angel from Barbarella

Blind and muscular. Just how you ladies like ‘em. Sadly, he also lives in a nest. Oh well.

Nicolas Cage in City of Angels

It’s Nic Cage! Nic Cage as an angel! What’s not to like? He also gets off with Meg Ryan and gushes, “I would rather have had one breath of her hair, one kiss from her mouth, one touch of her hand, than eternity without it.” Who could resist Cagey’s long face muttering that? NO-ONE.

Randall & Hopkirk (Deceased)

An angel, of sorts, comes back to Earth in a sharp white mod-cut suit and helps to solve dastardly crimes. At last! A useful celestial creature!

It’s A Wonderful Life

Angel comes to the aid of suicidal man and guilt-trips him into staying alive for more of the world’s rich pageantry… such as filling forms in, doctor’s appointments and hoovering. Thanks a lot Clarence.

All Dogs Go To Heaven

Did you know that all dogs – even really evil ones that hump cushions and bite toddlers – go to heaven? That’s what we were told by the ’89 animation that, without once cracking up, tried to show us an angel dog voiced by Burt Reynolds. Yes really. Burt’s voice, via an angel dog, shows a young orphan girl all about love. No. Not like that.

Angels In The Outfield

Angels doing good deeds? Forget that! They just wanna play baseball for the Pittsburgh Pirates, on a season-long loan from heaven’s baseball team Heavenly Choir Nine (no, honest – they’re a team of deceased ballplayers). Alas, the team ultimately have to rely on their own skill and guile, which is fine, but angel sportsmen are way cooler.

Juan Pablo Angel

The only angel ever spotted in Birmingham.

Anyway, watch this video wouldya?

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It’s been a while since any female UK pop acts have been applauded so Lily Allen has been a bit quiet of late, busying herself as she is with her dreadful non-charitable charity-shop exorbitant clothes-rental business.

But fear not, Jessie J has done quite well at the increasingly perplexing MOBO awards so Lily has piped up once again in the most passive-aggressive manner possible in the hope of starting yet another publicity-garnering feud.

The great big doe-eyed Keith Allen looky-likey publicity hungry geezer-bird tweeted following the awards.

‘Now, I love Jessie J as much as the next person, but how is her music ‘of black origin’? Is it cause she says “man dem” in her tune?’

Not content with running a clothes shop of dubious existence where, if you can find it, you can get some second-hand tat to wear to an event where you’ll meet people actually named Tobias and then have to give it back, Lily is going back to her roots.

By which we mean she’s resumed her previous role as the petulant self-imagined queen bee of your middle school, once again conducting a supposedly-good-natured whispering campaign against any other girls in her year that may be getting as popular as she imagines she should be.

“I love Jessie as much as the next person” indeed. Lily knows that the next person is you and people like you, who are just a bit indifferent to Jessie J, albeit slightly alarmed by her resemblance to a cross between Bruce The Shark from Finding Nemo and a Duplo figure. And the fact that we’re pretty sure she’s never blinked in her life or will ever age. Ever.

With depressing predictability, we imagine twitter to be currently alight with Jessie J fans all pointing out that Lily’s appallingly whimsical musical output, featuring the absent-minded warbling of someone singing to themselves in the bath whilst they mentally prepare the week’s shopping list, was not exactly cutting-edge itself.

In the meantime, everyone gets their publicity and the MOBOs remain utterly gash.

Do you have a sexy face? Y’know, one of those faces that make people giddy rather than nauseous? Chances are, if you’re a hecklerspray regular, you’re revolting. Alas, you may have that in-built belief that youare beautiful, no matter what they say and words won’t bring you down.

Rik Waller once quoted that line at Josie D’Arby when she asked him why he’d decided to get corn rows.

But we digress. See, the reason we’re talking about sexy faces is because Ann Summers, the lingerie peddler, retailer of sex toys and realiser of mucky dreams have teamed up with those rascals at ITV2. Ann Summers are going to search for the sexiest face in the UK with some roadshows around the UK including Birmingham, London, Manchester and Essex.

Contestants will be filmed for a two minute advert which will be on ITV2 and premiered in the final episode of cult-favourite show The Only Way is Essex, this November.

The spot will showcase the finalists with the nicest faces who will then be voted for by you lot online and the winner gets to appear in a campaign for Ann Summers in 2012.

Isn’t that exciting? Your face! Everywhere! That said, if you’re an overweight bloke posing in grotty old stockings, you probably won’t win.

Sorry.

Overweight chaps can still buy their lingerie from Ann Summers if they want though. No-one is stopping you.

So, again, to enter, you need to visit www.sexyuncovered.com, or visit facebook.com/AnnSummersOfficial via the Sexy Search iPhone app.to be in with a chance of winning this coveted prize.

The roadshows will run from 22nd September until 2nd October, and will visit Manchester Trafford, Birmingham Bullring, Lakeside Essex, and Westfield Stratford City shopping centres.

Now start perfecting your pout and standing in front of people in your underpants.

Are you the kind of person who wants to ditch your normally boring mates and hang around with some celebrities instead? Of course you are. That’s all anyone really wants. Celebrities have helicopters and diamond socks while your awful mates have overdrafts and microwave meals.

If that’s the case then, you’ll be wanting to hang around with Snoop Dogg won’t you? You’ll be able to drop it like it’s hot, whatever it is.

And so, our new chums from Xbox and Ibiza Rocks are running a competition to make your dreams come true, and all you have to do is recall the best moments of summer. You have to keep reading this article as well though, you idle oaf.

Xbox and Ibiza Rocks have been running two competitions this summer.

The first gave you plebs the chance to be the Xbox “man on the ground” over summer, with three winners spending six weeks in Ibiza, with all that music and lack of sleep to enjoy. People like Plan B and Example were mooching around too, posing for various photographs and no doubt wearing three-quarter length shorts.

Celebrities love doing that don’t they? And you love hanging around with them because they make you feel special by association.

Anyway, having already given away three VIP trips to Ibiza, Xbox are closing the hot fun in the summertime with a chance to win a meet-and-greet gig experience with Snoop Dogg on his autumn tour in the UK (Echo Arena, Liverpool) including travel, accommodation and food/drink.

This competition involves creating an interactive map which shows fans’ ultimate summer memories, via the Xbox – Ibiza Memories fanpage: http://apps.facebook.com/xboxibizamemories/

Remember that time your mate broke his arm when flying into the sea from one of those inflatable sea-bananas being dragged along by a madman in a speed boat? Remember having fun with friends as that jelly fish tried to mate with that sunburned tourist? Remember your chum waking up inside a wasp’s nest? Mark them on the map! Winning stuff by remembering your summer holidays is good.

If you win, you receive:

• Travel to and from Liverpool (Up to a total value of £100)

• Overnight hotel accommodation in Liverpool

• Food and Drink allowance (up to £100)

• 2 x standing tickets to the show (10/10/11) (general admission)

• 2 x Individual photos with Snoop Dogg

• 2 x Autographed items

Competition closes 23^rd September.

Visit http://apps.facebook.com/xboxibizamemories/ for terms and conditions of the Ibiza Memories competition.

So there you go. You’re armed with the chance to hang around with Snoop Dizzle. All you have to do is enter the competition now!

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Like coffee shops and vintage clothing boutiques, UK festivals are cropping up all over the place. The modern day music lover is literally spoilt for choice in terms of who they want to see perform in a muddy field. While festivals such as Glastonbury, T in the Park and V offer a mixed bag of artists, more genre themed events have emerged that include rock at Download, indie at Reading & Leeds and electronic at Global Gathering.

Now in its tenth year, Global Gathering has always pushed the boundaries of innovation to make sure it tops the previous year with an ever expanding range of electronic genres are being for catered for.

Well known and underground artists from the world of dubstep, drum & bass and electro have been recruited to make sure that no-one attending is standing still for more than five seconds. If you missed out on tickets, fear not, we’ve got our grubby paws on a pair and we really want you to have them.

On Friday 29th July and Saturday 30th July, Global Gathering offers a selection of established artists, mixed up with new producers and musicians who’ve injected something new and exciting into electronic music. As a result, some notable headliners have been pulled in.

On Friday, legends of electronic music, Underworld take to the stage to perform tracks from their extensive back-catalogue that spans over twenty years. Elsewhere, Pendulum grace the main arena to make people jump up and down.

Saturday sees newcomers such as the ace Yasmin rub shoulders with DJ’s such as Carl Cox and Tinie Tempah.

So what do you have to do in order to join the thousands of ravers who’ll be dancing away at Long Marston Airfield in Stratford-Upon-Avon? Normally we’d ask an easy peasy question, but this time, we want you to get creative.

Fans of electronic music know that all sorts of sub-genres emerge all the time, so keeping in the spirit of genuine genre names such as witch house and chillwave, we want to know the following:

What would you call a brand new genre of music if a gun was pointed at your head?

We don’t care what it would sound like; just amuse us with your suggestions. The best name will win a pair of tickets to Global Gathering for absolutely nothing.

Enter by tweeting us over on @hecklerspray, scribbling on our Facebook wall or leaving us a comment on this here article. As per any competition, we have to let you know the following:

1) hecklerspray will provide you with a pair of tickets for Global Gathering. Transport and accommodation is up to you. We take no responsibility if you set up camp in a bog and drown. We will however, write an article mocking you.

2) Entries close on Wednesday 20th July at midnight. If we don’t forget, we’ll nag you for contact details the next day.

3) UK residents only, sorry it’s nothing personal. Except it is.

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Charlie Sheen is making it increasingly difficult for hecklerspray to write jokes. Now, you’d think that, the more he opens his mouth, the more opportunity we’d have to poke fun at him. Alas, the truth is, Sheen is now transcending jokes themselves. He’s beyond farce.

As such, we’re now more than willing to just let him take the floor.

Chandelier bully, tiger blooded, napalm brained, sallow faced master of all things ‘win’, Sheen is now getting so much air-time that it looks like he’s hovering. And now, he’s calling Hugh Hefner an amateur and using increasingly wild analogies for his life. When he dies in the next 12 months, we’re sure going to miss him.

Talking to ABC News, and presumably leaving them exhausted, he’s been crowing about how much he loves his life with his twin boys and two young girlfriends.

Sheen says:

“It’s perfect. It’s awesome. Every day is just filled with just wins. All we do is put wins in the record books.”

“We win so radically in our underwear before our first cup of coffee, it’s scary. People say it’s lonely at the top, but I sure like the view.”

Uh-oh. ‘Sure like the view’? He’s starting to repeat himself! COME ON CHUCK! YOU CAN DO BETTER THAN THAT!

Talking about his goddesses, who are the (presumably increasingly weary) graphic designer Natalie Kenly and porn star Rachel Oberlin, he adeed:

“They’re an international sensation. These are my girlfriends. These are the women that I love that have completed the three parts of my heart.”

A heart that runs on tiger blood remember. So will he be marrying them?

“I tried marriage. I’m 0 for 3 with the marriage thing. So, being a ballplayer – I believe in numbers. I’m not going 0 for 4. I’m not wearing a golden sombrero.”

But he does have gold teeth, which is just wonderful. So too his is view that Hugh Hefner is “an amateur”.

He rounded things off with this:

“I’m gonna say this. It’s a polygamy story. All my guy friends are gonna like throw tomatoes at me. It’s like an organic union of the hearts.”

Does it seem like Sheen is constantly running on the spot shouting random words to anyone who will listen to anyone else?

It’s exhausting just watching this man die on his feet.

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Thanks to your hideous face and your tremendous amount of chins, there’s a good chance you’ve spend many hours trying to make your Facebook profile pictures look half decent.

You continually try to fool people into thinking you’re actually good looking. Or funny. Or popular. hecklerspray knows your pain. Collectively, we look like the contents of a melted doll factory.

And so, in what is clearly an advertorial where you can win stuff, why not put all that time and effort into good use and get free stuff from Uncle Sony?

Sony are prepared to give away a load of their lovely NEX-5 cameras in exchange for your hideous face.

No, they don’t want you to cut it off and post it in a jiffy bag, but rather, upload your wonderfully crafted Facebook profile photo.

The Profile Hero competition allows you to upload your picture into one of 5 different categories, or all of them if you really think your picture is that special.

However, it isn’t as simple as that. You have to collect votes to win, with the highest-ranked picture in each category winning an NEX-5 camera (worth £549) each week.

The NEX-5 is designed for people who want something better than a standard compact digital camera but don’t want a gigantic SLR which will make them look like a hipster. It’s worth pointing out that the quality of snaps is pretty much up there with the latter.

If the thought of a free camera isn’t enough to get you going, the picture with the most votes at the end of the 4-week Profile Hero competition wins a luxury trip for 2 to Rome, plus an extra NEX-5 camera for the winner’s holiday pal, which is nice isn’t it?

The categories are pretty much what you’d expect, with chances for family pics, sporty pics, solo pics, travel pics and party pics. Presumably, anyone displaying a pouty, duck-face snap from a night out will be roundly mocked by all concerned. If not, they should.

The competition runs for 4 weeks, so you have plenty of time to crop and chop your profile pic collection into winning shape. Or make you look even vaguely human.

Click here to enter and win things!

Oh joy of bloody joys! We ran a competition which required you dolts to answer a question which had an answer that could easily be found via the miracle of internet search engines. However, nearly every single one of you got it wrong.

In fact, the only person who got the answer right, was David Beasley from West Sussex!

And so, ‘Big Boy’ Beasley wins a copy of ‘Get Him To The Greek: The Extended Party Edition’ on Blu-ray, as well as copies of ‘Funny People’, ‘Knocked Up’, ’40 Year Old Virgin’, ‘Forgetting Sarah Marshall’ and ‘Anchorman’.

That’s nice isn’t it? We’ll be getting in touch with Dirty Beasley very soon! Expect a box full of DVDs and quite possibly a dead-crow coming your way soon! And don’t forget to enter our other competition as well where you’re told just how to be funny!

Want a dose of the funnies for free? Do you? WELL DO YOU? If reading hecklerspray doesn’t do it for you (and to be honest, no-one could blame you for that) then why don’t you enter a competition where you can win stuff without having to pay for it?

As the headline tells you already, you can win a copy of Get Him To The Greek: The Extended Party Edition which stars the recently married Russell Brand showing off his weird gum-shield teeth off.

The DVD and Blu-ray comes out on November 1st and is an extended edition which means that you get a whole bunch of extras that you didn’t ask for and that were probably too filthy to be shown in cinemas… that’s because cinemas are massive wimps.

If you don’t know what the film is about, here’s the skinny.

Get Him To The Greek is the story of an intern at a record company has to drag an uncooperative rock star around Hollywood for a comeback concert.

Basically, this means we get to watch someone becoming increasingly jaded and frustrated when dealing with a pompous tit. hecklerspray sympathises completely.

Of course, this gives Russell Brand the chance to act like a goofy git and flounce around being faux-decadent, giving his long-suffering lackey the chance to let his face grow ever longer.

Here’s the trailer.

Watch it with your eyes and listen with those disgusting things on the side of your head.

And now, Universal Pictures have taken great pity on hecklerspray and allowed us the chance to give you a copy of ‘Get Him To The Greek’ as well as a copy of ‘Funny People’, ‘Knocked Up’, ’40 Year Old Virgin’, ‘Forgetting Sarah Marshall’ and ‘Anchorman’.

That’s a lot of Blu-ray discs.

To be in with a chance of winning just answer the following question…

What is the name of the outrageous rocker played by Russell Brand in Get Him To The Greek?

a. Bulbous Blow
b. Felanious Flow
c. Aldous Snow

If you want to win, contact us at david@hecklerspray.com and write GIVE ME A GREEK PLEASE! in the headline with your answer (which you can easily find by using any of the popular search engines). Or, if you don’t like sending emails, you can give us the answer on Twitter and Facebook (details below) with the hashtag of #greekcomp.

Okay?

If you don’t win, you can pre-order yourself a copy now at: http://bit.ly/coesjB. We have to put that in because we’re at the mercy of the people running the competition who have threatened us with extreme violence if we don’t play along.

ENTER. DO IT NOW.

We’ll pick a winner and change the name of a cat to ‘Socks’ over the next week or so.

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Well, just be glad you don’t come running to us for advice and guidance on the more trivial matters in life.

If you asked us the best way to meet a girl and maintain it in to a relationship, we may just say something inappropriate like “get her drunk first”. So it may be a good thing our decisions aren’t always right. Last night saw Elbow win the Mercury Music Prize for their fourth album The Seldom Seen Kid.

While we put £10 on Burial to win, he failed to turn up to the event to perform. This probably didn’t do him any favours but who knows and who cares. But fair play to him really, he wants to remain anonymous and not deal with being stalked by NME journalists. At least the award didn’t go to the Last Shadow Puppets who already have a winning connection to the Arctic Monkeys. Looking slightly pissed on stage, Elbow frontman Guy Garvey said “it was the best thing to have ever happened to us”. Aww, they are a cracking band who do deserve some fame. We even harped on about them needing a break in a recent gig review.

Now, that’s 2008 out of the way. Who will be up for the 2009 award? With upcoming releases from Kaiser Chiefs, Razorlight, Keane and Snow Patrol, it could be a bland indie-filled ceremony next year. Though we’ll see if our recordings of smashed cups, sawed logs and imitations of badgers will pick up a nomination. Against frontmen who make twigs look fat and poor moonfaced posh boys, we should do OK. Well, in our minds anyway.

After three long, long months, it’s the last Big Brother of the series tonight, and we can’t help being a little bit sad about it.

Not because Big Brother‘s finished, mind you. We’re sad because it means there’ll be a load more ex-Big Brother housemates flouncing around in public thinking that they’re megastars now. That just sort of makes us throw ourselves out of a window, really.

But enough of that. Big Brother final, woo! Who’s going to win, huh? Here are the Big Brother betting odds for the two favourites – Rachel and Mikey – with help from Paddy Power…

Rachel - If there was any justice in the world then Rachel would win Big Brother, simply for the fact that she’s not as utterly objectionable as any of the other remaining housemates. Sure, she’s not exactly solid gold entertainment – in fact, you could have put a picture of a poo in a cup into the Big Brother house in Rachel’s place and you’d have probably got better value for money – but there’s one question you need to ask yourself. Who would you rather see the Big Brother prize money given to – any of the hopeless grasping tits that are in the Big Brother house, or Rachel the lovely levelheaded schoolteacher lady? What? You think that Rachel should get the money? Are you kidding? Look – if none of the others win, they’ll be so desperate for money that they’ll all try and become TV presenters and singers and actors and it’ll be terrible and British culture will never properly recover from it. You idiots. Current Big Brother betting odds – 5/2

Mikey - Well colour us wrong -the British public really are a bunch of snivelling pity-hungry bell ends after all. Why else would Mikey be the favourite to win Big Brother tonight? His compassion? His staggering wit? His superhuman good-looks? If Mikey wins Big Brother it’ll be because he’s blind and nothing else. Of course, that’s assuming that Mikey is going to win Big Brother – he’s never been up for eviction, so his popularity is only based on what the other Big Brother housemates think of him. For all we know, all the Big Brother viewers might think that Mikey is a big sightless wanker. Who knows – we’ll find out later on. At least one thing’s for sure, though – if Mikey does win Big Brother, all those fireworks that usually accompany the winner will be wasted. Honestly, if Endemol was smart it’d keep the receipts and just get a load of people to pop a couple of hundred crisp packets instead. Mikey’s never going to know, is he? Current Big Brother betting odds -11/10

Next week: Something else that isn’t Big Brother. But don’t forget that you can still head right over to Paddy Power to see the full list of Big Brother betting odds and place one last bet.

At last night's Grammys the unthinkable happened – yeah, sure, Amy Winehouse won five awards, but that's not what we're talking about.

Amy Winehouse actually managed to sing in tune.

But, yes, Amy Winehouse won five Grammys last night – for Best Record, Best Song, Best Pop Vocal Album, Best Pop Vocal Performance and Best New Artist. And Amy's elation was clear for all the Grammy viewers to see. That's because, at current market value, she'll be able to trade the Grammys in for a big bag of crack on the streets.

The organisers of the Grammys know that they're in charge of a long, ultimately dull ceremony that only Wayfarer-wearing ponytailed middle-aged record executives can honestly admit to being interested in. But to their credit, for last night's show, they decided to give the show more appeal by making it personal. Almost uncomfortably so, in fact.  

Kanye West, for example, sung a song about his dead mother. And Amy Winehouse managed to take a song a song about her current rehab situation and pepper it with references to her jailed husband. The way it was going, we were genuinely surprised that Tina Turner didn't use her Grammys duet with Beyonce to debut a new song called I'm Glad That Old Fucker Died. 

Still, though, despite the weird tabloidy air of proceedings, last night's Grammys were really only about Amy Winehouse. Although she was nominated for six Grammys, Amy wasn't allowed a visa to attend the ceremony because of that pesky 'crack-smoking' video of hers. So as an alternative, Amy Winehouse got to perform by satellite instead. But even that was wracked with uncertainty.

For example, nobody knew if Amy Winehouse would have a full set of teeth in for the performance, or whether she'd offer out the entire Grammys viewing audience as she's so fond of doing during performances. Amy could have – as she's appeared to do in the past – pulled drugs out of her beehive and ram them up her nose while singing. Or she could have done what she's done uniformly for the last year and turned in a lazy vocal that sounds like the Cloverfield monster trying to do a Chewbacca impression during a karaoke version of Baby Love.

But no. What Amy Winehouse actually did was sing normally while looking vaguely healthy. We know, it was hard for us to take in, too, so here's a video for proof…

Other Grammy winners included Kanye West, Justin Timberlake, Foo Fighters and just about everyone else who seems to win Grammys every year anyway. But last night was Amy Winehouse's night, and her non-rubbish performance coupled with her five Grammys for Best Record, Best Song, Best Pop Vocal Album, Best Pop Vocal Performance and Best New Artist could very well open a new chapter in her life.

Perhaps all this adulation will mean that Amy Winehouse will clean up her act for good and never do anything newsworthy ever again. And if that's the case, we're going out of business. Nice knowing you all.

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You should never rip off one of Jay Leno's jokes – mainly because it's bound to be so unfunny that you'll lose your job, be dumped by your girlfriend and end up dying alone on the streets.

But also there's a chance that Jay Leno will sue you and win. And that's what's just happened. Jay Leno has just won a lawsuit against Judy Brown, who published compendiums containing jokes stolen from his routines.

And as a result Judy Brown will have to publish something less funny instead, like… nope, there isn't any less funny than one of Jay Leno's jokes. 

This writers' strike has been tough on a lot of people, but none have suffered quite as much as Jay Leno. For the strike means that Jay Leno has to host his big-rated nightly hour-long talkshow completely unscripted. And if anything that even so much as looks like a scripted moment occurs, Jay Leno gets called a bastard by the entire WGA.

Worse still, movie stars don't want to cross the picket lines to appear on Jay Leno's show, so he's been reduced to interviewing people like Jimmy Kimmel – which is basically the equivalent of shouting questions into an empty, vaguely ape-shaped, well.

But things aren't completely bleak for Jay Leno because he's just managed to sue the ass off a woman who stole some of his jokes for compendiums she put together. Reuters reports:

The publishers of such compendiums as "Jokes to Go," "Comedy Thesaurus" and "The Funny Pages" vowed to immediately stop printing and distributing the books in a settlement with Leno and fellow comedians who sued author Judy Brown. "In my books, I have published jokes of Jay Leno and the other comedians in this lawsuit without their permission," Brown said in a statement. "I sincerely apologize for doing so. I greatly admire the creativity, wit and energy of stand-up comedians, and I recognize that comedy is as much an art form as other types of creative expression."

Ethically it's a tricky one. On the one hand Judy Brown obviously put Jay Leno's jokes in her books because she's such a big fan of his, and it looks a little unfair when a multimillionaire TV star sues his fans.

But on the other hand, Judy Brown is a Jay Leno fan, so she's probably mad as a biscuit and deserves to be shut away in a lightless box for the rest of her life.

See? We told you it was a tricky one. 

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Jay Leno gets last laugh on joke books - Reuters