We watched just about all of SNL the other night for the first time in what seems like a decade. Why? Chris Walken, of course.

The guy dominates. We defy you to name another actor with an equivalent volume of work who’s also managed to maintain such a consistently high level of untarnished awesomeness. Pretty much impossible, right? Walken is simply one of those guys that just makes everything better.

Here’s another fun game: Try to name a movie Walken hasn’t made better. Can’t? OK, now try to name a movie that wouldn’t have been better if Walken had been in it. Nothing? How about you even try to name a time you had a beer with your buddies that wouldn’t have been a thousand times more bad ass if Walken had attended.

See? Our point makes itself. But that’s not going to keep us from highlighting our favorite aspects of Walken’s extensive career. Get excited.

• He’s a one man show in pretty much the greatest music video ever made: the video for Fat Boy Slim’s Weapon of Choice. In fact, we’re pretty sure they stopped making music videos after this one.

Just when we thought our respect level for Dave Chappelle couldn’t get any higher, he goes and outdoes himself. As Page Six reports, over the weekend…

“…Chappelle broke the record he set in April by performing stand-up for six hours and 12 minutes on Sunday. ‘Dave was determined because he recently heard that Dane Cook was planning on trying to break his record,’ said Jamie Masada, owner of the Laugh Factory in Hollywood.”

It’s such a relief to hear Chappell fucking hates Dane Cook too. How bullshit must Dave have been when he heard that no talent douchebag was going to attempt to break his record?

This nugget of info is all we needed to nominate Chappelle to the StillAwesome HOF. The dude pretty much defined comedy when we were in school. We like to think of him as our generation’s very own Richard Pryor, or Eddie Murphy, only slightly more obscure, which is even better.

Sure, we would like to see more of Chappelle nowadays, but–if anything–all opting out of his TV gig and turning into a quasi-recluse did was cost Chappelle a lot of money. Because in the long run it will save him from Eddie Murphy-esque overexposure, which inevitably leads to getting busted for giving transvetite hookers “a ride home”.

Instead, Chappelle’s career will go down as a move straight out of the Costanza playbook: Always keep ‘em wanting more.

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Seeing that getting into a public fight with Fabio is pretty much the coolest thing any dude can ever do, George Clooney has just received a nomination to the StillAwesome Hall of Fame.

Page Six reports that Clooney was having dinner with his current lady friend when…

“…one of Fabio’s pals started taking pictures of her friends. According to numerous eyewitnesses, Clooney, assuming the woman was taking snaps of him, asked her to stop - prompting Fabio to explain that the shots were of his group, not Clooney, and to tell the superstar, ‘Stop being a diva.’

“Clooney started arguing back, and he and Fabio then got into a shoving match. ‘The waiters broke it up before it got out of hand,’ a witness told In Touch. Clooney then paid his check and left before finishing his meal. According to another In Touch witness, Ron Marotto, ‘George looked annoyed when Fabio went to his table. George stood up, dropped the F-bomb and then went to push him…George was drinking…He wasn’t drunk, but he certainly wasn’t stone sober, either’.“

Good lord, that is bad ass. Hands down our favorite part is that it appears Fabio was actually the one in the right. Clooney was probably just bullshit that a restaurant he frequents would let Fabio past the hostess stand. And that Fabio is a funny sounding douchebag.

Man, Fabio had it coming.

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Hugh Grant’s Cool & Tough Checklist of Accomplishments submitted for his nomination to the StillAwesome Hall of Fame:

1) Date and hump Elizabeth Hurley during her prime years and never marry her. CHECK.

2) Experiment with living dangerously by getting hummer from black American prostitute in the most conspicuous manner possible. CHECK.

3) Publicly state that you think acting is boring and miserable, that you do it for the money, and that you want to retire. Then keep doing it for the money. CHECK.

4) Steal Colin Montgomerie’s wife after you meet her at a pro am tournament where you were paired with Colin. Dump her after her divorce is finalized. CHECK.

5) Party and make out with a pack of college girls at their St. Andrews University apartment and have all pictures posted on Facebook (pictured below). CHECK.

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Jimmy Woods is known for playing scumbags in mediocre movies, dating chicks right out of high school, openly criticizing Hollywood liberals, blaming feminists for the woes of the world, publicly ridiculing his lying ex-wives, and boning half the chicks in the acting biz because he’s got the reputation of being LA’s version of Shannon Sharpe.

And just in case you had any doubt in your mind how bad ass the guy is, James Woods recently went on the “Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson” and told a story about how he almost had a threesome with O.J. and Nicole Simpson. It went something like this:

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How many old dudes can you name who have starred in several of your all time favorite movies and who have also been pulled over in Sweden for driving under the influence…from behind the wheel of a golf cart?

Just when we thought Bill Murray couldn’t be any cooler, he visits Sweden and gets pulled over for driving a golf cart while intoxicated. And then–in Sweden–he refuses the breathalyzer.

Two words: Awe Some.

We have a few points to make on this:

One, we didn’t even know you could get in trouble for driving a golf cart drunk. The two go hand in hand. It would be like handing a blind guy a citation for using a seeing eye dog. Seems unfair. What’s the worst that could happen? Someone gets their foot run over?

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We really have no idea how in the hell this went down without us being notified, but apparently, Joe Pesci recently got engaged to–brace yourselves–Angie Everhart. What. The. Fuck.

We were under the impression that Pesci had been suffering from a serious decline in awesomeness since the release of “Casino”, that he’s just been busy getting wrinkly and further resembling a pissed off Leprechaun. But obviously that isn’t the case.

Because it’s not like Angie Everhart has lost it or anything. She’s 37 and still highly bonable. When you consider Pesci is 64 and has been absent from public consciousness for over ten years, this engagement is staggering.

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It’s 2007–five years from his NBA retirement–and Charles Oakley still ranks #1, #1 on our list of dudes we would never ever fight ever. The guy is 100% concentrated badass. Don’t think for a second that Oakley still couldn’t hand an ass whooping to any of those whiny punks currently in the league if the opportunity presented itself.

This weekend we learned that Oaks is writing a biography. He states, “I’m not pulling any punches, true stories.” This is tremendous news. We already spend a ton of time reliving the common knowledge Oakley stories, we can’t even imagine what the guy has to offer in an autobiography.

For a recap of the common knowledge stories, the FanHouse column does a better job than we would of highlighting Oakley’s most renowned on/off the court feats of awesomeness:

“…he slapped an NBA player in the face who owed him money from a dice game; he punched another one because they liked the same woman; and rumor has it that he once beat the crap out of former teammate Vince Carter for, well…probably being Vince Carter.”

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Today we’re introducing a new segment, The StillAwesome Hall of Fame. Going forward we’ll be inducting honorees who have demonstrated particular achievement in the category of maintaining awesomeness. To receive this honor, the inductees must have–throughout their lifetimes–generated an almost unparalleled level of our respect.

The catalyst for this segment was a story Toast brought to Team C&T’s attention yesterday regarding Nick Nolte, one of our all-time favorites. Just a few days ago, Nolte–adding to a resume of particular achievement in the category of awesomeness–passed out for two hours in the terminal of a Hawaiian airport:

A witness told gossip website TMZ.com, “He was suddenly flat out on the floor. He drifted in and out for about two hours.

“He was dripping with sweat and his eyes were all bloodshot. He was very groggy, but friendly too, even though people started taking his picture. He wasn’t quite with it.”

We particularly admire Nick for his ability to be “very groggy, but friendly too…” That is so Nolte. You just can’t counterfeit that sort of dedication.

Damn, we love this guy. From running through three wives, to playing the same character in every movie, to his “I’ve got a few to go yet” line when responding to the accusation that he had fallen drunk in every gutter in town, Nick Nolte is kind of the guy we want to be when we grow up.

Congrats, Nick. You are our inaugural inductee. We really hope we get a chance to grab a beer with you before you die.