Wednesday October 28th Late Night Talk Show Recap

Daily Show: The public option is back on the table and some people in Congress sang a song to influence people. John Hodgman gives suggestions on how to reform Wall Street. A Palestinian leader and an Israeli author discuss Palestine.

Letterman: Philly mascot has swine flu mask over his beak. Clip of a guy driving a taxi recklessly. Northwest giving out sleep miles while your pilots sleep. More fun than reading the Palin memoir: decompressing improperly in a hyperbaric chamber. Dave again talks about trying to get Palin on the show. A fake Mayor Bloomberg is on the phone and he gets the team the Yankees are playing wrong. Top 10 questions on the Northwest Airlines pilot job application. Patrick Dempsey talks about driving race cars and his fragrance line, then Dave pulls the old fake clip gag on him. Baseball commissioner Bud Selig talks baseball. Sting performs.

Conan: A tennis player bounces all around the court in fast motion. Saw VI ad shows that the next form of torture will be dizziness. Smokey the Bear appears by a camp and the guy’s wife disappears then he says he ate his wife and will eat anyone who stars a forest fire. Audience Plugs included a Chinese music video with English subtitles promoting a guy’s daughter’s Halloween party, Conan doing the Arnold voice for a guy’s DJ company, a fake Ben and Jerrys carton for some woman’s old mattress, and cheerleaders cheering about some guy’s concert. Chris O’Donnell talks and shows a newly made video of him edited into an LL Cool J music video. Ski racer Lindsey Vonn talks about the expectations for her to become the Michael Phelps of the Winter Olympics and a bad crash she had. Uncle Kracker performs.

Fallon: A video where staffers who enter Jimmy’s office can only see the person who entered before them and then Jimmy tries to make a chart of who can see who. This was basically a bad SNL sketch, yet still better than the terrible sketches SNL has been churning out lately. Moustache fights had Jimmy, as some angry guy, and Higgins on commentary while Wilford Brimley’s and Geraldo Rivera’s moustaches fought. A detective Jamface ad took up the whole screen again when the end of the fight came. Edward Norton talks about training to run the NYC marathon, his charity program and his Obama documentary. Hulk Hogan talks about his book, almost killing himself and his return to wrestling. Weird Al Yankovic chats for a short bit then performs his Charles Nelson Reilly song with a huge green screen of the video behind him, this was great.

Ferguson: Craig says the lights going out in his studio yesterday was a news story on CNN. Former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright. Rodrigo y Gabriela perform.

Last Call: From a glass shop. Kate Flannery from The Office. Figure skater Johnny Weir. Comic Kevin Christy does standup.