On Friday night, Jay Leno squandered a potentially fortuitous appearance by First Lady Michelle Obama to ask her about Halloween costumes, her iPod playlist (was this another corporate plug?) and the birthday party she threw for her dog. Wherever your entertainment preferences lie, rest assured that the first lady's chit chatty segment still boosted Leno's ratings 17%, out of the toilet in which his numbers triumphantly plunged last week. With 6.1 million viewers, The Jay Leno Show managed to beat out Fox's Dollhouse. [Hollywood Reporter]