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Late Night Highlights: Mickey Rourke on Russian Prisons and Jon Favreau's Clown Days

David Letterman was the only host last night to acknowledge Conan O'Brien's heart-wrenching 60 Minutes interview -- "I always say, if you can't say anything nice about Jay, let's hear it." Unfortunately, no one else joked at Leno's expense last night, not even the Tonight Show himself, who chose to gloss over his underwhelming Correspondents' Dinner routine by just asking Kev if his parents enjoyed the show. It sounds grim, but there were some highlights from last night's programming worth revisiting -- all compiled after the jump.

5. Chelsea Handler Meets Her Teenage Icon

Molly Ringwald chose Chelsea Lately as the forum to plug her new book Getting the Pretty Back, while the host tried desperately to avoid talking about how she grew up with the John Hughes muse.

4. Sarah Silverman's Performance Art?

Jimmy Fallon revived the nonsensical "Let's Play With Your Look" game that he tried out with Zach Galifianakis awhile back.

3. Jon Favreau's Clown Days

The Iron Man 2 director stopped by The Tonight Show to reminisce with Julia Louis-Dreyfus about his days on Seinfeld and recall which unfitting songs Mickey Rourke requested that production blast during his Whiplash scenes.

2. Oil Spill Parody Songbook

Jon Stewart revealed that the Times Square car bomb found on Saturday was "only the second biggest bomb on Broadway that night," right after his one-man show.

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1. So Mickey Rourke Walks Into a Russian Prison...

Last night, the Iron Man 2 star kicked off his leg of the movie's promotional tour at the Late Show with David Letterman, where he explained the overseas preparation that went into his role of Ivan Vanko with a mysterious white plastic cup in hand. Take it from Mickey Rourke: Campaigning for an Oscar is a "pain in the a**."