what you missed last night

Joel told you about Jay Leno's appearance on Oprah yesterday. Last night, Jimmy Kimmel explained exactly what happened when he went on The Jay Leno Show and joked about Leno.

After the jump, Kimmel shows all the best parts of Leno's interview, with help from REM.

Ah, The Wonder Years. Kevin's older brother used to tease and bully him all the time. Last night on The Daily Show, Jon Stewart used a clip from the show to illustrate what Republicans are supposedly doing to Democrats right now on healthcare, tax cuts, and many other issues.

He also makes a football analogy that no one in the audience gets.

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In case you haven't heard, Apple is probably going to release some sort of tablet/pad today that is GOING TO CHANGE THE WORLD AS WE KNOW IT. Actually, I'm pretty excited about it myself. So is Stephen Colbert. In this clip from last night, he talks about a new iPhone app and pleads for the new device too.

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OK, so it's from David Letterman, but still, it's a promo! Letterman ran this last night.

What I love about it is not only how they point out what Leno took from other shows for The Tonight Show, but they got ex-Tonight Show announcer Edd Hall to do the voiceover!

This was very satisfying to watch. Jimmy Kimmel appeared on The Jay Leno Show last night to do the "10@10" segment, just a couple of days after impersonating Leno on an entire Jimmy Kimmel Live episode. Did Kimmel pull any punches? No way. In fact, some of his barbs were really cutting, and if I can read people, he wasn't really kidding and Leno wasn't happy.

Every day on the morning shows, daytime shows, and cable shows, we see various "experts" and "trendspotters" who tell us what fashion, food, toy, and/or tech product is going to be the next big thing. Often these are ridiculous predictions, as The Daily Show pointed out last night.

I'd write more, but my flowers are boiling over.

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Yes, Jay Leno talked about the whole NBC mess during his monologue last night, but this is something else. Leno showed a clip from what happened to one of the Jay Leno Show staff members during Christmas. You'll probably see the punchline coming a mile away, but it's still sort of amusing.

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Whether you love Conan's Tonight Show or hate it, you have to admit there aren't many "must see" segments on the show. Most of them are the segments where Conan or someone else goes on location somewhere. Like last night, when Triumph The Insult Comic Dog visited a spa that caters to dogs.

I'd like to see a casino for turtles.

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It's a new year, and that means new beginnings for all of us, including The Colbert Report, which got a new set and a new HD look. Last night he said goodbye to the old set and hello to his new one. In these clips you can't see the two objects he has off to the side on his desk.

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I don't laugh much at The Cleveland Show, but I laughed at this from last night's episode. It opened with a flashback to 1984, and the show riffed on shows and movies that do everything they can do make us understand what year it is, from having songs from that year on the soundtrack, references to things in the news, and the clothes that the characters are wearing. I ain't 'fraid of no ghost!

Wallace should be carrying a Mac though.

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This was probably expected, but last night Kathy Griffin said the F-word while co-hosting New Year's Eve coverage on CNN with Anderson Cooper. Here's the video. I guess you can't have a time delay in a show that has a live countdown to New Year's Eve.

The late night shows are in repeats this week. Last night Jimmy Kimmel showed an episode from a couple of weeks ago (a practice that I hate) with a segment that I thought was worth posting: The Phantom of the Oprah.

It's pretty funny, even if the "Phantom of the Oprah" joke was made on Wings about 15 years ago.

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No, that's not something dirty, it's a holiday dish that Martha Stewart cooked last night on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon. You might know it as "that cookie thing that's shaped like a tree and has sticky stuff on it."

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So it's Christmas and you don't know how to wrap that special something that you bought for your special someone. Last night Jimmy Fallon pulled out an old videotape that a production company made in the '80s that show you how to wrap Christmas gifts (tip: don't give anyone anything that's round). I'm not sure if it's realistic that Fallon could have hosted a talk show 25 years ago, but the production recreation is well done.

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One of my favorite moments on television is when The Daily Show host Jon Stewart introduces John Hodgman. You know it's going to be funny and smart. In his "You're Welcome" segment last night, he attempted to solve the problem of the rising national debt.

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