Thursday August 27th Late Night Talk Show Recap

Letterman: Torture subjects had to listen to Regis singing Christmas tunes. Screaming girls for Ben Bernanke. Libyan dictator visiting turned into a sitcom opening theme. Regis falls asleep while Kelly is talking to him. Dave says he has now been banned from going to the island where Obama and Oprah will be. ESPN over analyzes Dave’s baseball swing, but think it was really good. Promo for Men and their Vegetables II. Top 10 signs you’re dealing with a Ben Bernanke imposter and the girls still scream or him. Rachael Ray talks about an injury. Andy Roddick talks about his girlfriend Brooklyn Decker and tennis. Then outside he serves tennis balls at 90-100 mph to Dave while Rachael Ray is the ball girl complete in the clothing for it. Mute Math performs.

Conan: Bits of Conan speaking spliced together to say after his wife argues with him he likes to drink absolute vodka as an ad for it. Conan’s mini-dose of joy has him bring out dogs dressed as cats. Conan talks to some young guy in the audience who wore a wool hat and sweater. Celebrity Survey. Mike Tyson talks about his documentary. Mentalist Keith Barry performs a trick with a book, for anyone who watched and since I posted this on a message board I’ll put how he did it right after this. Matisyahu performs.

How the mentalist did the trick:

There are two page 91s in the book, one where it belongs chronologically which was ripped out and one towards the back of the book. The book is made so that when the guy flips through the pages it will always stop at the page 91 towards the back of the book. Then when Conan looks through the book for page 91 he's a lot more likely to find the ripped out one where its supposed to be chronologically.

You can see the book is rigged to stop at page 91 because when he flips through the book quickly in the beginning to show the camera that the pages are different you can see the pages continuously flip until he gets to page 93 and then he lets them continuously flip some more. I probably saw page 93 because he allowed one more page to flip over and my eyes are too slow to see page 91 for the split second.