9:00pm: Time for Night Stalker.

8:58pm: So Megan Mullally is really injured? Huh.

8:55pm: I dare the show to keep that magic marker eyebrow on Hayes all season. I double dare them.

8:54pm: They're trying to keep the camera on Megan Mullally as she pauses for Hayes and audience laughter. Even live, she has cleavage.

8:53pm: Ha! A Tom Delay joke! Oh, those quick thinking Hollywood liberals.

8:51pm: Messing and Hayes laughing their asses off after Hayes takes his eyepatch off. 

8:50pm: Messing hits Sean Hayes, causing him to laugh.

8:49pm: Um, how can I put this delicately? Has Eric McCormack had work done, or maybe Botox or something?

8:44pm: Why are they keeping the fact that Stan's alive from Karen anyway?

8:43pm: Debra Messing just broke up laughing at Sean Hayes. Like I said, fired.

8:43pm: Wow, this is a raunchy show for 8:30, eh?

8:42pm: "You never bring ice cream to a gay man's apartment. That's just hostile!"

8:42pm: This live blog is brought to you by Subway. Subway, Eat Fresh.

8:41pm: Subway plug! Subway plug! 

8:40pm: One of those rare ice cream sandwich/penis jokes you hear so much about but never thought you'd hear.

8:39pm: They even have Megan Mullally in a motorized cart in the hallway. You can't say they did this live ep the easy way. 

8:37pm: Eric and Alec in a live lip lock! Audience roars. Hopefully he didn't use live tounge.

8:36pm: Alec Baldwin's at the door. On TV, not my door. They're giving the gang some tricky lines tonight, especially for a live ep. These people are pros.

8:36pm: Jack acts insane now.  

8:35pm: Who's this new announcer guy NBC has on the ER ad?

8:35pm: Commercial. So right now I'm taping Alias so I can watch it later tonight and review it. I don't know why I just told you that, but like I said, we're in a commercial right now. 

8:34pm: Oop, Debra Messing just looked at the camera quickly when the theme song started. She's so fired.

8:33pm: Quite possibly the only live show in TV history to use the phrase "butt pirates."

8:31pm: "It's like the contract they make you sign when you marry Tom Cruise." Another funny line. 

8:31pm: "Trash bag full of his ashes." Funny line.

8:30pm: Starts out with a live shot of studio and audience. People really laughing!

8:30pm: Oh, wait, that's an actual show. Never mind.

8:28 pm: Well, it's live, and NBC has already made their first mistake, airing something about a spinoff of Friends called Joey or something?