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Chris Gethard was on Late Night last night promoting his book and far more importantly, talking about Diddy's magical TV-stopping powers. As a followup to Diddy's appearance, Gethard also officially invites UFC welterweight champ George St-Pierre to come on The Chris Gethard Show and fight him. And if he has to, he'll fight Mickey Ward, Mickey Rourke, and Mickey Mouse along the way. Any Mickey who's gonna step to. Part two below.

Time Out NY has a pretty great list of the year's best comedy moments, like Eric Drysdale's Viewmaster reels and Diddy's appearance at Chris Gethard's UCB show. It seems like a lot of the most fun shows/performances/creations of the year, at least in New York, were the tiny, offbeat, scrappy ones. Long live the small and quirky!

Thirteen months ago, I put a video on YouTube, completely on a whim. It was Christmas Eve, I was shirtless in a bed at my parents’ house, and in it I was sending a message to entertainment impresario Sean “Diddy” Combs.

I told him about how I wanted to believe that the world was a cool enough place that a guy like him and a guy like me could hang out. I asked him if he would be a guest on my talk show at the UCB Theater in New York. I asked my Twitter followers to help me convince him to do the show by putting up tweets [...]