For every hundred karaoke and cell phone shoot-out segments that Jimmy Fallon airs on Late Night, there comes one bit so inspired that viewers are tempted to start watching NBC regularly after 12:35 PM. One of those rare moments arrived last night in the form of a Glee parody complete with blue slushy, Jayma Mays look-a-like Abby Elliott and Bon Jovi. Click through for that clip, as well as the other highlights you missed last night while imagining the best Avatar ethnic dance routine for your Oscar show this year.
5. NBC, This is Your Future
If you had been dropped onto Planet Earth last night at 10 PM, set up in front of a TV stationed to NBC and forced to watch the Jay Leno Show, you would have had no idea that what you were watching was supposed to be anything more than torture, let alone comedy. After a dull Jessica Alba kinda described the time she forgot to take baby toys with her on vacation, Leno served up another unappetizing helping of "Headlines", made a joke about a country named Radio Shackazan (it does not make any more sense in context) and then invited Adam Carolla over to host a poor man's Funniest Home Surveillance Videos (a smooth move since Leno did not have to directly deliver the final "sucker punch" to NBC). Can I go now?
4. Bruce Willis's Amazing Exploding Underpants
David Letterman returned from a dark week last night and curiously spared Jay Leno of any monologue ribs -- even relating to his sit down with Oprah. Instead, the Late Show host welcomed his old friend Bruce Willis back to the Ed Sullivan Theater and enjoyed another product pitch. (For past product pitches, see Scanket, RoboMop and StarBruce.)
3. Grammy Wars
Late night is always a battlefield but last night, it was an especially bloody one for George Lopez and Stephen Colbert, who went up against each other for Best Comedy Album on Sunday night. Colbert, of course, won the trophy and spent a segment with it on the Colbert Report last night (below). Meanwhile, a still-sore George Lopez voiced his shame in his monologue on Lopez Tonight ("That's like being beat by the funniest dude that works at State Farm.") before announcing how he and Kathy Griffin would punish themselves for losing (second video below).
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2. An Avatar Sequel!
Avatar's Giovanni Ribisi may not have been as comfortable with G-Lo's swap meet jokes as some of of Lopez Tonight's past guests, but he did tip the audience off to a potential sequel for James Cameron's box office beast.
1. 6-bee
It's amazing that it has taken NBC this long to come up with a Glee parody, especially considering Abby Elliott's striking resemblance to Glee co-star Jayma Mays, but Jimmy Fallon pulled off an inspired tribute on Late Night with the help of Elliott and Fred Armisen.