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Levi’s Johnston Watch: Manhood Challenges And Shoot Details

9:04AM Brian Moylan | It’s been quite a day for Levi Johnston. First Page Six speculated about the size of his wang, and now he is furious with NBC over a skit Conan and William Shatner did based on his fake Twitter account. More »
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Late-Night Ratings Love Finally Coming To David Letterman

5:21AM Natasha VC | Last week David Letterman posted his largest weekly victory over The Tonight Show since 2000. Last week’s Tonight Show posted its smallest audience since Letterman premiered in August 1993. Is Conan turning out to be a disappointment for NBC? More »
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William Shatner Mimes Masturbation, Flips Off Conan On Tonight Show

7:15PM the cajun boy | William Shatner, looking bloated, red-faced, sweating, and acting as though he was either high or drunk or both, was a guest for the ages on Conan’s Tonight Show tonight. God bless him. More »
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Jay Leno’s Final (But Not Really) Show: Highlights

8:15AM Foster Kamer | The last episode of The Tonight Show with Jay Leno aired last night on NBC. Leno’s returning to NBC, so it wasn’t that emotional or important, but not on this stage, which is why to some people – maybe – this was important. More »

WGA Still Weighing Their Jay Leno Scab-Flogging Options

2:00AM Seth | A number of notable talk show hosts made the controversial choice to cross picket lines and not grow out a strike beard during last year’s WGA strike, Jay Leno and Ellen DeGeneres among them. More »

David Duchovny And Jay Leno Sidestep the Sexy Elephant In The Room

5:45AM Kyle Buchanan | Though David Duchovny’s publicist surely slapped a “no sex addiction questions” proviso on his public appearances, it’s a hard subject to avoid when the show he’s promoting is about, y’know, having sex a lot. More »

Trust Us When We Tell You You Want To Watch Terry Bradshaw On Last Night’s ‘Leno’

7:54AM Seth | Remember that humiliating night when you had wayyyy too much to drink, and you started speaking in tongues, thinking every slurred, nonsensical sentiment was completely hilarious? Neither does Terry Bradshaw. More »

Add Jay Leno To Cher, Cockroaches On List Of Things That Will Survive Nuclear Attack

2:21AM Seth | We may never learn the true nature of the backroom dealings that led to Jay Leno winning NBC’s 10 p.m. slot, but as VF.com notes, he’s always shown a ferocious capacity for Darwinian late night survival. More »

Jay Leno to Wanda Sykes: ‘I Made You Gay’

3:01AM Kyle Buchanan | Nature, nurture, or Leno? That was the question last night when Jay Leno hosted the newly out (and pissed at Proposition 8) Wanda Sykes. More »

Conan On Leno: ‘Temperatures Rising Rapidly In My Personal Hell’

1:45AM Seth | All eyes were on Conan O’Brien last night in anticipation of what, if anything, he’d say about NBC’s surprise announcement that Jay Leno would upstage his long-planned ascension to The Tonight Show throne. (With a half-hour of local news between the two as the delicious, late night sandwich filling.) While he never said the words “Jay Leno can suck my pink, Irish ass” directly, he did point to the worrisome 20 degree temperature-increase in NYC that accompanied the news. The subtext was clear: Conan had been following our Pop Culture Doomsday coverage closely, and was warning his viewers to find their quickest route into orbit before the planet erupts into flames the second Leno delivers his first joke about Bill Clinton getting handsy with Michelle Obama at the Press Corps dinner in primetime. [Late Show] More »