My favorite new character on television...

...is not Juliet, the muffin-burning Other on Lost. Or Deelishis from Flavor of Love 2. Or even that whore Willow from Days. It's Little Gay -- or, Li'l Gay, as the case may be -- who appears every so often in the palm of Joel McHale's hand on The Soup. He made his glorious entrance into my TV viewing consciousness a few weeks ago, popping up to say, "Hello, big world!" Gayest thing ever.

This week he appeared following the Most Fantastic News I've Heard In All Of 2006, wearing his little "Choose Life" t-shirt and mimicking the choreography from the "Wake Me Up Before You Go Go" video.

I imagine his tiny closet, filled with wee workout gear and teensy mesh shirts. I would like to sip from his diminutive martini glasses, which can hold nary 1/20th of a cosmopolitan. I strive to be invited to his parties, where he spins "Turn The Beat Around" non-stop until the sun rises on his small and stylish, but adequately debauched, condo. I would devise a plan to carry him in my pocket into the theatre, thereby gaining his free admission to the revival of Annie Get Your Gun.

Thanks, Joel McHale, for bringing Li'l Gay into my life. Nay, into all of our lives.