Thursday January 21st Late Night Talk Show Recap

Daily Show: John Edwards admits his affair. Obama admits he hasn’t done well so far. Keith Olberman rants about why he hates the Massachusetts Republican winner. So Jon then does a rant about Keith in the style that he does his rants. Julie Andrews is the guest.

Letterman: Chuck Schumer’s head edited onto a naked male model. The Massachusetts winner walking on a beach naked with his wife. Footage from a movie with Leno slapping Mr. Miyagi is supposed to be him negotiating with an NBC executive. Getting to know Carson Daly has the announcer not really knowing much about him or his show. Jay Leno used one of his cars to force Jimmy Stewart off the road. Dave can’t stop staring at the naked picture of the Massachusetts winner that is hung up on a wall. Dave says he’s been told he has been doing too many jokes about Jay and not enough about Conan. So writer Joe Grossman comes out to read some jokes about Conan, but they are actually about Jay and one about Letterman being old. Top 10 surprising facts about Scott Brown. Harrison Ford takes up three segments. Blind Boys of Alabama with Lou Reed perform.

Conan: Conan talks about the deal being finalized and tomorrow night being their last show. Conan runs down a list of goofy things that are in his release contract. Classic clip is Andy rolling around outside in a ball. Pee Wee Herman plays with an NBC peacock plush and a giraffe plush imitating Conan’s situation. Conan goes through more offers they got for the show on Craigslist. A derby winning horse in a mink snuggy comes out and is the show’s latest really expensive purchase. Ben Stiller comes out and does a Green PSA that they should not have built a huge studio to use for only 7 months. He also shows a reel of his appearance on the show. Robin Williams talks mostly about Conan and NBC including singing an Irish song with a lot of cursing about it. Barry Manilow performs and then talks with Conan. At the end they showed the end of show song that Conan always sings to the audience after the cameras have stopped rolling.

Fallon: Jimmy says he has learnt that hosting Late Night is a one way ticket to not hosting the Tonight Show. Lickin it for Ten was Vancouver Winter Olympics themed so one person had to lick a globe around to land on Vancouver, another had to lick a gold medal while sticking her tongue through the mouth of a Shaun White cardboard and two people compete to lick the fastest down a slalom course. After they send to commercial Jimmy does an ad for Cottonelle toilet paper asking the audience whether they have their toilet paper roll over or under. Queen Latifah talks and then plays charades with Jimmy, Tariq and Higgins. Rose Byrne. The cast of Fela performs.

Ferguson: To begin the show is a trailer for Jersey Shore The Movie starring Mila Kunis, Thomas Lennon, Nick Lachey, the show’s midget and Craig Ferguson playing characters from the show, except for Craig who was Mario from the video game. Craig’s Spanish Word of the Day. Adam Goldberg and Craig rub their hair together. Abbie Cornish.