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Conan was on Letterman last night for the first time in 13 years and they didn't waste anytime getting into Leno talk, as they assumed he was watching and would want them to cut to the chase. Conan has talked about the time he lost the Tonight Show before but Letterman is able to bring out a new angle on it, as he went through nearly the exact same situation. Since he's further removed from the situation, however, Letterman is able to take a sick pleasure in it all. Their relationship is fun, not exactly father and son – more like nephew and son-of-a-bitch uncle. Leno is the uncle [...]

There are a lot of really great stand-ups out there but nobody kills it on late night like Hannibal. If this were 30 years ago, Carson would ask him to sit on the couch every time. The man eats (with no napkin in his lap), sleeps, and drinks a "tight five." It's exciting to see what he'll do when he gets to spread out a bit more in his first hour special, Hannibal Buress: Animal Furnace, which debuts on Sunday, May 20th, on Comedy Central. Afterwards, let's watch Homeland in celebration.

It may be hard to believe now, but until the early '90s, the biggest influence on whether a stand-up comedian's career took off was left to one man: Johnny Carson. Not only would a shot on his version of The Tonight Show ensure that you could take a step up in the comedy world, but if he motioned you over to sit with him and Ed McMahon, you had the upper hand on any comedy club owner that ever tried to screw you over as you were coming up.

That's what happened to Drew Carey, whose career skyrocketed after his initial 1991 appearance on The Tonight Show, where he [...]

Speaking as someone who lives in a neighborhood in which a lot of people wear tight pants, it's nice to think of a town where it is such a novelty that it's worth singing about. Also nice is dat a$$, as the video above confirms. Below are clips from the interview portion, where Will and Jimmy very seriously discuss the tight pants song, SNL, and Zach Galifianakis's tragic love of Bill Cosby. Will and his butt are in New York prepping for what will surely be a fantastic SNL tomorrow.

The best friendable Casey Wilson followed Johnny Depp on Jimmy Kimmel Live! last night. Besides Depp, Wilson, and her impressively shiny legs, talked about interning for Susan Sarandon. Apparently, in addition to personal assistants, celebrities need interns to sign their headshots for them and use up all their office supplies. Maybe, the best part of the interview is the moment in the video below where Kimmel very confidently tells Wilson that Happy Endings will get picked up for another season. You better be right Jim-Kim, or it will be an unhappy ending for you.

Is Leno's mighty pillar starting to crumble? The perpetual king of late night ratings was just beaten for the very first time by Jimmy Kimmel, who "pulled ahead of NBC's Tonight with Jay Leno in the key adults 18-49 demo (906,000 to 869,000)." Of course, if you're using just the young people demographics it makes things easier, and Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert are generally on top in those numbers anyways. But still! Good for Kimmel, and Poor Leno.

Jimmy Kimmel was born in Brooklyn but chased his Hollywood dreams out west. Now he's planning to come home in triumph, late night show in tow, to tape a week's worth of shows at the Brooklyn Academy of Music in NYC from October 29th through November 2nd. It's actually right across the street from the Barclays Center, which will open as the new home of the rechristened Brooklyn Nets right around that same time. And really, no two celebrities better represent the coolest burough than Jimmy Kimmel and Jay-Z, right? They're like two sides of the same coin. Don't argue with me about this, OK? I've thought it through [...]

The Paley Center for Media, which has locations in both New York and LA, dedicates itself to the preservation of television and radio history. Inside their vast archives of more than 120,000 television shows, commercials, and radio programs, there are thousands of important and funny programs waiting to be rediscovered by comedy nerds like you and me. Each week, this column will highlight a new gem waiting for you at the Paley Library to quietly laugh at. (Seriously, it’s a library, so keep it down.)

For the 29 years that Johnny Carson hosted The Tonight Show on NBC there was no one else in late night. 2012 marks the [...]

Conan O'Brien is set to swing by New York's Ed Sullivan Theater next Thursday, May 17th to sit on Dr. David Letterman's couch to either discuss how they both were so royally screwed over by NBC and Jay Leno when they thought they were in line for the Tonight Show throne or very awkwardly avoid the subject. Obviously I'm hoping for the former, although Coco in particular hasn't really discussed the situation or any lingering animosity for quite a while. But if anyone can drag some bitterness out of him, it's Letterman.

Conan was last on The Late Show a whopping 13 years ago, when he was still [...]

Ben Falcone was on Conan last night, talking about how he found himself having sandwich sex with his wife, Melissa McCarthy, on the set of Bridesmaids. He described it as a covert operation, which ended with him having turkey meat on his nipples. Yep, that's totally how all covert operations end because turkey meat makes your nipples sleepy, because of the tryptophan, and there's just no better way to come down from a week of shooting people and wearing really realistic masks that look like other people's faces and having your letters blow up after reading them.

Craig Ferguson is in Scotland this week, hosting his show and doing Scottish things with celebrities that look out of place. The result is Craig sitting shoeless (don't get your hopes up, foot fetishists, only he is barefoot) with Rashida Jones on a particularly scenic beach. They talk about smelly flamingos and vacations and Scotland. One thing is clear, do not compare anything to sausage around Rash-Jo, or she'll get mighty pissed, like a hot flamingo.

Remember when you started college and you didn't really have friends yet so you just walked around looking for parties, hoping some cool dude (with an attitude) would see you and invite you into some idyllic rager, featuring a keg of beer, if not multiple kegs of beers? (Yes? Ok, great. Than keep on reading) Well, Adam Scott and Nick Offerman are just like you and I in that regard. The two of them had a very similar experience – no, not while they were in college – recently, as TV stars. I literally cannot fathom someone not wanting to drink beer with Nick Offerman. It's unthinkable. Try to [...]

Also, on Fallon last night, Will Ferrell debuted the first trailer for The Campaign. Not often do you get to watch a trailer with a laugh track. It does bring a nice sense of community when you laugh at the same things as some strangers and it also justifies the cheaper jokes (i.e. Apparently, people think kids saying "wiener" is HILARIOUS). With this and the fake campaign ads, what do you think so far about The Campaign's ad campaign? Do you think Zach Galifianakis is still funny, even if you can see his cheeks? Are you #TeamBrady or #TeamHuggins?

If you haven't heard, Reggie Watts is awesome at being filmed being Reggie Watts. There is something magical about that second before he's about to sing and the not knowing of where it's going to go. One of Reggie's favorite places to be awesome is on Conan and last night he was, playing one song, "Diametrical Oppositionalism", that encompassed the last 40 years of western music and mentions cats a lot. He was on promoting his new special, Reggie Watts: A Live in Central Park, which premieres this Friday night at 1:00AM on Comedy Central (check out a preview after the jump). We should all watch because summer [...]