As was rumored about last month, Mike 'Huckabee quietly taped a pilot in New York for a weekend cable TV show that is set to debut on Fox News Channel sometime this fall,' reports a "Post staff writer." It will be taped in front of a live audience. [Update: Or maybe none of this happened.]

Oh good, then it will allow for more moments like this:

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Are we the only one to connect the dots between reports that Mike Huckabee is angling for his own show on Fox News and news that Brit Hume will leave his Special Report 6pm show after the November election?

Not content to merely appear on Fox News as a contributor, Mike Huckabee, who once fooled himself into thinking he might live in the White House one day, is said to be aiming for his own television show on Fox News. This should not be a surprise. The former Arkansas governor was long suspected of staying in the Republican primary race, despite the all-but-impossible chance of beating John McCain, not because he shared Hillary Clinton's line of thinking — Hey, McCain could be assassinated — but because remaining in the game meant the media would still have to report on him, thus boosting his profile to somewhere between crazy fool and respected Republican figurehead.

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Mike Huckabee cannot, deep down, think he will be elected president of these United States anytime soon, or even some day. Smartly, Mr. Huckabee will not let that fact keep him from profiting from the remote, infinitesimal possibility. He's just signed a one-year contributor deal with Fox News, which will give him another pulpit to preach from, while the cable network locks him up from appearing on competitors, who are all said to have courted him. As Howie Kurtz notes, "the deal keeps Huckabee in the spotlight as he contemplates a second run in 2012, a tactic perfected by Pat Buchanan, who hosted CNN's Crossfire between presidential campaigns." Buchanan, of course, lost both campaigns. And he's on MSNBC now.

Live from Monday morning, Saturday Night Live is popular again. The first post-strike episode had the show’s highest overnight rating in two years.

Mike Huckabee appeared on “Weekend Update” and poked fun at his impossible chance of becoming the Republican nominee.

Ha, what a kidder. Seriously though, fuck the homos.

Much of Mike Huckabee’s campaign is built around his good guy persona: He plays bass guitar, makes jokes about Jesus and lost a lot of weight. That, along with his appeal to homophobic swing state voters, is what’s keeping his campaign going despite all the evidence that John McCain will ultimately win the Republican nomination.

That’s not much to work with, and the Huckabee camp just got dealt what could be a fatal blow. Boston founder and author of “More Than a Feeling” Tom Scholz has asked Huckabee to stop performing the song:

While I'm flattered that you are fond of my song, I'm shocked that you would use it and the name Boston to promote yourself without my consent. Your campaign's use of 'More Than a Feeling,' coupled with the representation of one of your supporters as a member 'of Boston' clearly implies that the band Boston, and specifically one of its members, has endorsed your candidacy, neither of which is true.

Scholz isn't the only musician who doesn't want his songs used by GOP machine; John Mellencamp made the same request to John McCain, who played Chevy ad staple “Our Country” at rallies.

And ultimately, if Scholz has more than a feeling about anyone, it’s Barack Obama. And his wife is kind of fine, too.

Conan O'Brien has been "quarreling" with Stephen Colbert over who made Mike Huckabee's campaign. Conan claims he brought Huckabee insides Americans' homes. Colbert refutes the assertion; it was he who gets credit. And then there's Jon Stewart, who claims he made Conan O'Brien, so it's he who, ipso facto, should get the superlative.

Last night on Conan's show, they settled the matter. With a brawl, y'all!

(Confused? The on-air explanation after the jump. But the above video has the fight. So it's clear which one you're gonna watch.)

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Every week, there are so many eventful developments that we almost can’t keep track of them all. So for your convenience and ours, we’ve dispatched Intern Whitney to remind us what made the past week special.

• Obama and Huckabee won the Iowa primary in the election that has carried on for far too long already.

• We think Britney hit rock bottom. We can't imagine how much lower she can go.

• Late night returned with fanfare and controversy.

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When our Thomas Jefferson, George Washington and Benjamin Franklin founded this country, what they had in mind was a leader like Mike Huckabee. Here’s a guy with a history of obesity and slightly totalitarian ideas like quarantining HIV positive gays who reinvented himself as a lovable goof with a distaste for fast food and a good sense of humor.

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Um, so Mike Huckabee and Barack Obama won Iowa last night. But more importantly, Britney Spears had a real meltdown, not just a Life & Style speculated one.

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Non-SAG member and presidential hopeful Mike Huckabee appeared on The Tonight Show last night to promote himself. We don’t know about you, but when we think about the kind of person we want representing us to the rest of the world, we think about bass players.

After the jump, Huckabee sort of endorses Barack Obama.

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• Gays love their animals even more than the straights do, but probably less than the empty nesters do.

• Mike Huckabee is broke; schilling is giving speeches for money.

• Raz-B's brother, Ricky Romance, denies that he is a cartoon character, maintains that he was molested.

• Judge Hatchett won't be making any new shows, which will only affect you if you're unemployed.

• David Beckham: a little OCD.

• Retired cops are now responsible for stopping graffiti on the subway, which means doodles of penises and boobs are here to stay.

When family values faces off against common sense, family values usually doesn’t stand much of a chance. But when you’re a buffoonish politician who has tricked that state of Iowa with an ironic ad campaign, family values wins.

Mike Huckabee, the Republican hopeful who owes his campaign to losing a lot of weight and the endorsement of an aging movie star, told CBS News,

Apparently, she's going to have the child, and I think that is the right decision, a good decision, and I respect that and appreciate it.

We get that Huckabee is against abortion and everything, but you’d think Democrats and Republicans could unilaterially agree that having a baby at 16 is never a good decision.

• This Jackson Pollack painting maker website will makes us unseasonably happy.

• There was some Harper’s Index about how the number one complaint around the office was about the temperature being too low, and number two was about it being too high. Or maybe it was reverse. Either way, you can see what they did there. This is about an office that’s too cold. Our office is too hot. Goddamn you Harper's, you really speak to a social paradox of our time.

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• This classic SNL digital short prompted one of our college friends to say "[Natalie Portman] is the only Jewish girl I'd convert for."

• Gary Kasparov blames Vladamir Putin for forcing him out of Russia's presidential election, continues his one-man crusade to get gunned down by members of the KGB.

• Gawker is looking for a reporter with "an ability to write five short items a day." Easiest job ever?

• "I Hucked Up" is officially the second-best Post headline of the day. Although we would have preferred "Huck Accuses Mormons, Romney Of Deal With The Devil."

• GQ tries to cash in on the progressive artistic phenomenon known as "Flashy-Light Vagina."

• Baseball: Not exactly America's pastime anymore.

• That face transplant chick from France is looking hot. Well, compared with having no face.