Justin Timberlake has some jerk friends! (YouTube)

– How's this for a wedding present: Justin Timberlake's buddy, real estate agent Justin Huchel, filmed a bunch of homeless people wishing the best for the actor/singer and his new bride, Jessica Biel. See, it's funny because what could the homeless possibly offer Hollywood royalty except wishes? Not everyone thinks this joke is in good taste, but then they probably haven't seen Biel's wedding dress. (Video after the jump.)

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– Taylor Swift and Conor Kennedy broke up. It's probably for the best, though we hope it doesn't end up with her writing a song called "Camelot."

– If we were sending out good vibes to a celebrity right now, it would be Diddy, who was in a serious car crash yesterday in L.A. No one was hospitalized, but seriously ... this is why we all take the subway.

– Last night was GQ’s Gentleman's Ball. Starring Adam Levine, Ted Danson and Willie Geist, the three biggest gentlemen in the biz.

Though he's jumping from the policy-heavy Morning Joe to the lighter, lifestyle-oriented Today, we sense that Mr. Geist will have little trouble fitting in. As a regular guest on Watch What Happens Live, Bravo's late-night chat show, Mr. Geist interrogated Lil Kim over her rivalry with Nicki Minaj and slow-danced with a teenage crush from the cast of Saved By the Bell. Hope to see you after our second cup of coffee, Willie!

"Doing nothing else, just hanging out," quipped Joe Scarborough.

And then Chrystia Freeland of the Financial Times piped up with the obvious question: "Are you going to keep on calling him a political analyst if he gets to the Senate?"

"He's made no such announcement so we'll keep calling him that until that day," Mr. Geist replied.

"So presumptuous, so presumptuous," Mr. Scarborough scolded.

But with Mr. Ford increasingly acting like a candidate, Ms. Freeland's question became increasingly less presumptuous. And, at some point a few weeks ago, Mr. Ford and NBC agreed to suspend Mr. Ford's contract, according to Politico.

A spokesman for Mr. Ford, Tammy Sun, explained to The Observer in an email: "Harold Ford asked for the leave of absence from NBC as a paid analyst while he weighs a run for the U.S Senate. Consistent with that, he also asked for an unpaid leave of absence from Bank of America/Merrill Lynch while he travels the state, listens to voters and weighs an opportunity to serve them in the Senate."

As Michael Calderone notes, suspending Mr. Ford's contract might not solve all the thorny issues.

Although Ford isn't getting paid right now, there may still be questions about his relationship with the network if he's regularly booked on its broadcast and cable shows, or if it appears he's getting preferential treatment in relationship to senator (and possible primary opponent) Kirsten Gillibrand.

It was a sympathetic platform, while it lasted. 

"If you need help in Elmira, New York or the Upper West Side, I'm your man. I control Columbus and Broadway from 64th to 78th," Mr. Scarborough said at the end of that same segment. "I would knock on every door on the Upper West Side; they love me up there."

"The first couple of weeks I was on MSNBC, every night I would come home and she would meet me at the door and stare at me and say, 'Stop acting like a jackass on national TV!'" said Mr. Scarborough. "She said this back in 2003. I said, 'Well, that's what I'm getting paid for. They hired me for that reason.'"

"She said, 'You need to be more like Tim Russert,'" he continued. "My response was, 'Well, honey, they already have one of those.' She said, 'They need another.'"

Nearby, Mr. Scarborough's on-air partner, Mika Brzezinski, smiled. She was standing next to Donald Trump, who was wearing a pink tie. Mr. Trump slung his arm around Harold Evans and gazed around the room, which was packed with Morning Joe regulars.
 
Jack Welch, Mike Barnicle, Ray Kelly, Willie Geist, Leslie Stahl, Donnie Deutsch, Mark Halperin, Erin Burnett, Ana Marie Cox, Phil Griffin—they had all gathered at the media watering hole on 55th Street in Manhattan to fete the publication of Mr. Scarborough's new book, The Last Best Hope: Restoring Conservatism and America's Promise.

A few minutes earlier, Tina Brown of the Daily Beast—in hyperkinetic hostess mode—had introduced Mr. Scarborough. "This man is so incredible," she said of MSNBC's morning political talk show host. "He's the only person, other than my husband, who has seen me at that time of the morning."

She ceded the microphone to Mr. Scarborough, who gamely launched into his stump speech on what's ailing the Republican party.

"Conservatives always like to talk about Ronald Reagan," said Mr. Scarborough. "They remember Reagan's ideology but they forget his temperament."

Mr. Scarborough told a story involving Colin Powell, Ronald Reagan and the Oval Office. The punch line  involved Mr. Reagan ignoring Mr. Powell to gaze out the window at some squirrels, which were eating some acorns that he had recently sprinkled in the garden.

"Reagan temperamentally was incapable of hating," said Mr. Scarborough. "If people wanted to fight, scratch, claw and yell, he always rose above that. That's what the Republican Party needs to do. ... If Reagan were alive today, he wouldn't be calling Barack Obama a communist. He wouldn't be calling the next Supreme Court justice—what did he call her?"

Mr. Scarborough scanned the room in search of someone who could recall what Rush Limbaugh had called U.S. Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor.

"A racist?" said Mr. Scarborough. "A reverse racist. This is insane."

"When I hear Rush Limbaugh and others calling Colin Powell a 'liberal' I just have to laugh because there is nothing liberal about Colin Powell's approach towards foreign policy," he said. "So what is a conservative? A conservative conserves taxpayer dollars. A conservative doesn't engage in military adventurism. A conservative doesn't add seven trillion dollars to entitlement programs that are already going bankrupt. A conservative shows restraint."

"The Republican party either reforms or it dies," he added. "Hopefully, they will look at this book and take some cues and actually start acting conservative again."

Everyone clapped, and then promptly returned to vodka tonics and passed mini crab cakes.