Wednesday January 20th Late Night Talk Show Recap

Daily Show: The Republican in Massachusetts wins and the news networks say Obama is screwed. John Oliver talks about the matter including comparing it to Leno pushing Conan out of the way. The win made stocks go up so Jon listened to Jim Cramer to buy, but then they go down. Footage of Fox News’s coverage of the win and then old clips of Fox badmouthing Obama. Author Jim Wallis is the guest. Moment of Zen: Scott Brown says his two daughters are available.

Letterman: Models who became politicians included Abraham Lincoln with no pants on and his hat covering his crotch. Osama Bin Laden computer generated image is him clean shaven and in a baseball cap. Leno hosting Jack Paar’s show and interviewing Ronald Reagan. Anchors on a CBS local newscast say they are Team Conan, but then realize they are Team Letterman, except for one lady. Alan Kalter wants to go outside to ask people how they feel about Obama, but no cameras follow him so he gets mad. Dave buys girl scout cookies from a lady in the audience. Claire Danes. Will Arnett talks about his kid. James Taylor and Carole King perform.

Conan: Jokes about NBC. Conan runs down a list of things that lasted less than Conan’s 7 months on the show. The final one was the Masturbating Bear’s absence and then he comes out to do his masturbating. Classic clip is Conando with a horse. Ed Helms comes out to sing a song about Conan and NBC. Conan says where to go to donate to Haiti. A tank of hamsters comes out and it is all the hamsters born to the show’s staffers. Conan says they will be doing very expensive comedy bits and he brings out a Bugatti Veyron car dressed as a mouse while Satisfaction by The Rolling Stones is playing. Adam Sandler sings a song to Conan to try and make him cry. Then he talks about old times on SNL and dealing with NBC. He also shows posters of movies that he and Conan can star in. Joel McHale. Joss Stone performs.

Fallon: It is Quest’s birthday so Jimmy chats with him. Jimmy plays an angel and Higgins plays a devil who both give advice to Obama while he is giving a speech. Jimmy reads fake audience suggestions, which has them showing or doing a bunch of random things including Jimmy interviewing an audience member and Jimmy singing a song in pig latin. Tom Brokaw talks and has Jimmy do an impression of him. Richard Belzer. Football player Kerry Rhodes. Switchfoot performs.

Ferguson: A graphic for Penguin Awareness Day. Clip of John McCain sounding like Batman's The Penguin has more animals making sounds added to it. Craig's Spanish Word of the Day. Craig plays with the Jeff Zucker cardboard head and a stuffed penguin. Keri Russell talks about her legs and her husband. Comic Jake Johannsen does standup and then talks to Craig.