Hey guys, take two guesses where Red Eye's Greg Gutfield stands on the Prop 8 issue. While talking about the existence of aliens (and 9/11?), Gutfield smarmily announced yesterday morning:

"Look, I don’t dispute that aliens exist, but there are more urgent matters to deal with, other than wrinkly creatures with a knack for anal probing. But enough about Barney Frank…I couldn’t resist."

Ha…ha? Because, you get it, Frank Barney is totes gay, and recently humiliated Fox pundit Bill O'Reilly. So that's a joke. Get it??

Who knew Greg Gutfeld was still collecting a paycheck? Perhaps he's not, and Fox News just has an hour to kill during the wee hours. But it's warming to know Bill O'Reilly isn't the only one on the network filling programming hours with attacks on their MSNBC competitors. But while Keith Olbermann remains Bill's favorite target, Gutfeld prefers himself another silver fox.

Fox News Red Eye enters Joe Scarborough's territory, calling female-to-male transgendered Thomas Beatie, who is pregnant, a "sideshow." Says host Greg Gutfeld: "Twenty years ago, this person would be traveling in a carnival. I'm sorry! People would be paying a dollar."

In sad, albeit not particularly surprising news, frequent Red Eye correspondent&mdash Rachel Marsden, (best known as Canada's answer to Ann Coulter) has announced that she will be parting ways from Greg Gutfield's semi-popular late night gabfest.

Below, is Marsden's blog entry announcing her departure, which in no way acknowledges reports that security "hastily escorted" her out of Fox News Channel's midtown headquarters earlier this week.

May 30/07: A note to inquiring Red Eye viewers: I will no longer be appearing on the show, as I have been told that it is heading in a "different direction" from its inception, and I am the "first casualty". As a political and news commentator, being a panelist on what had become a totally off-the-wall-and-into-orbit show was an interesting experience. It was also the first time that I was ever considered the "sane one" on any program, so I am grateful for that unique opportunity and wish the boys the very best of luck.

In other words, "they fired my ass." Which sounds much more direct, somehow! Note to Rachel: As a general rule, anyone who feels the need to brag about being "the sane one" on the show is probably slightly crazypants.

Oh, and also a sign that you're not the "sane" one? Doing something that warrants your being escorted out in the middle of the afternoon by two burly, non-smiling security guards.

Or having a criminal record for stalking people.

Well, the verdicts are in, and Fox's Red Eye is still….on the air! But how is host Greg Gutfeld dealing with all his "success?"

“I’ve got tits. I’ve got fucking tits….I’ve completely stopped exercising.

“I feel like I’m a lion tamer holding chain saws,” Mr. Gutfeld said. “Because I want to say something funny, but I’m too busy going, O.K., what do I do next?” The surreal feeling of the show blends into the type of commercials running at that insomniac hour—Vermont Teddy Bears, adjustable beds, giant tomatoes.

“It’s somewhat similar to somebody who’s lost his mind,” Mr. Gutfeld said. “Because I’m a complete maniac. You may disagree with me, but you can’t stop watching …. I don’t even think you have to like the show to get sucked in.”

Well, he's right about one thing: you don't have to like the show in order to watch. You just have to be awake, intoxicated and either high on drugs or utterly incapable of finding the remote.

On second thought, he's right about three things. They have "mansieres" for that, bro.

It's going to be a reunion of sorts on tonight's Red Eye, a show where Canadian conservative crazy Rachel Marsden gets to defend Don Imus for merely calling Rutgers' basketball team a "dirty diaper." Greg Gutfeld, we hear, is welcoming Us Weekly's online editor Noelle Hancock, as well as the tabloid's former public face Katrina Szish, who's likely appearing on behalf ABC News. Yes, the same ABC News where she conducted an interview with a Life & Style editor (knowing full well, ahead of time, that the competing tabloid's staffer was the guest) and proceeded to get fired from Us.

Sure, the show's website might be listing In Touch Weekly's Tia Williams as a guest, but we hear Tia is on the midnight train to Georgia. Or D.C. (Disclosure: Tia is the sister of Stereohyped editor Lauren Williams, and appeared, awesomely, in that Marsden segment.)

Which leaves Noelle and Katrina to yammer on as Greg cheerleads the sniping between two of Janice Min's veteran beauties. It's almost enough to consider tuning in for.

Update: Turns out, Tia was on last night's show. So much for having an insider at your own blog company who knows where her sister is.