In order to seem edgy, nearly every new TV comedy infuses itself with a sense of zaniness. Watching Weeds and The Big C last night, we saw one show do wacky right, and one do it horrendously wrong.

Washington, DC PR man David Bass has a perfectly good explanation for why he was charged with a felony for disrupting a flight: He was all hopped up on Benadryl! He was awake traveling for five three days! He wanted wine!

In your shiny Monday media column: Spy magazine lives, David Carr survives, Dan Abrams hires, Dana Milbank thrives, and Fleur Cowles dies: