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If you're like me, the last two weeks of Late Show reruns have driven you crazy. I actually get a little bummed out when the late night shows are in repeats, especially Letterman's show. Letterman is always the great bookend to my day. I can always count on him to entertain me before I go to bed, to make me laugh. But he has been in repeats for the past two weeks (not just one, but two!) and it's been lame. I mean, if they had older repeats from two, four, six, ten years ago, that would be cool (we've talked about this here several times before), but it's always repeats from a few weeks ago and that's just tedious.

So, to hold us over until new episodes of The Late Show start this Monday, a few videos from Letterman's past. The first one is from the Jacksons Variety Show in 1977 and features Dave with Michael Jackson!

Here's who's sitting down on the couch on the late night shows tonight.

• Charlie Rose: Jeff Bezos
• The Daily Show: Nikolas Kozloff (repeat)
• The Colbert Report: Willie Nelson (repeat)
• The Late Show With David Letterman: Halle Berry, Bill Hader, and Spring Snake Symphony (repeat)
• Jay Leno: Jennifer Lopez, Kevin Nealon, and Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova (repeat)
• Jimmy Kimmel Live: Ryan Seacrest, Anthony Anderson, and Hot Hot Heat (repeat)
• Tavis Smiley: Senator Barack Obama (repeat)
• Late Night With Conan O'Brien: Billy Bob Thornton, Senator Chris Dodd, and Kenny Chesney (repeat)
• The Late, Late Show With Craig Ferguson: Ben Stein, Megyn Price, and Rodney Laney (repeat)
• Last Call With Carson Daly: Alicia Keys (repeat)

I've seen some odd cameos in comic books, TV shows, and movies, but this is one of the more odd ones.

Marvel has a new comic book out, Mythos: Spider-Man, which retells the origin story of the webslinger with several changes. One of the changes? After Peter Parker is bitten by the radioactive spider, he doesn't go try out his powers in a wrestling ring, he demonstrates them on NBC's Late Night With Conan O'Brien!

The show's blog has the details, along with several pics from the issue, which hits newsstands today. Next month: the Hulk's band plays on Letterman's show.

[via TV Tattle]

I once called in sick to work when I wasn't sick. When I got to work my boss hinted that he didn't believe I had been sick. And it got me thinking: he's wrong. Let's say I really was sick that day. I would have done the same thing I did when I faked, which was call in to work and tell them I wasn't coming in because I was sick. If I was really sick, then my boss would have said the same thing to me, that he didn't believe me, even though I was really sick, and he would have been wrong.

I thought of that after watching this video of Conan O'Brien taking a film crew to the home of one of his writers who phoned in sick. It's pretty funny to see the late night host trying to figure out if the guy is sick, what jokes he's been working on (about Paris Hilton), and why the guy has so much gum. Video after the jump.

Tommy Newsom, best known for being the bandleader on The Tonight Show when Doc Severinsen had the night off, died this weekend of cancer at his home in Virginia.

Newsom was also a saxophone player and joined the show in 1962, when Johnny Carson took over from Jack Parr. When Carson retired in 1992, so did Newsom. Newsom was a very dry, laid back guy, and Carson jokingly called him "Mr. Excitement."

Besides his work on The Tonight Show, Newsom also composed music for Kenny Rogers, John Denver, and Skitch Henderson, the first Tonight Show bandleader, who died in 2005.

As we told you earlier, Sony Pictures is going to release a 4 disc Not Just The Best Of The Larry Sanders Show DVD set on April 17. The set will include 23 of the best episodes, a ton of extras like interviews and behind the scenes footage, and new interviews with costars and guest stars, but some fans aren't too happy about how the show is being handled.

The first season DVD set was released in 2002 and, according to DVD Dossier, was met with anger by fans of the show. They say the video transfer was really grainy and unprofessional, not to mention the fact that the extras were lacking. The site wants to know why they are releasing this "best of" set instead of continuing the season sets with a release of season 2.

Anyone have the first season DVD set? How is it? Are you looking forward to this set?

[thanks to Judith for the tip]

I'm not sure when this was, probably within the past week, but Andy Dick and Ivanka Trump were both on Jimmy Kimmel Live, and while Ivanka was trying to tell a story to Kimmel, Dick kept on interrupting and touching her. First he stroked her bare leg and then he touched her arm and took a light swipe at her hair, and that's when the security guards and Kimmel swooped in. And by security guards I mean a senior citizen, a older woman, and a couple of stage hands.

They dragged Dick off the stage so he wouldn't bother Ivanka anymore. Not sure if this was staged or just a really quick thing that Kimmel decided to do and Dick went along with. I wonder if there was anything in his mug stronger than water (and I don't mean Sprite). I don't know, I still like Andy Dick. I find him funny.

Video after the jump!

Update: it was last Friday.

• Charlie Rose: an appreciation of R.W. Apple, Jr.
• The Daily Show: James Baker
• The Colbert Report: Randy Newman
• The Late Show With David Letterman: Robin Williams and Sam Moore
• Jay Leno: Tina Fey, Fergie, and Annika Sorenstam
• Jimmy Kimmel Live: Dane Cook, Emilie de Rave, and The Killers (repeat...wait a second, this is from FIVE DAYS AGO. That's ridiculous.)
• Tavis Smiley: Chandra Wilson
  
• Late Night With Conan O'Brien: John Lithgow, Lewis Black, and Gomez
• The Late, Late Show With Craig Ferguson: Emmitt Smith and Kristin Chenoweth
• Last Call With Carson Daly: Leelee Sobieski and Kill Hannah (repeat)

I really like Craig Ferguson and The Late, Late Show. It's interesting that they're still using Craig Kilborn's old set. But all of that's going to change when Ferguson returns from a vacation week on July 24. Kilborn's old set is going to vanish, and a new set from Saturday Night Live set designer Akira Yoshimura will be in its place.

I always thought it was funny that the replacement they got for Craig Kilborn was another guy named Craig. Did they do it so they didn't have to change the towels in the dressing room?

I gotta admit that, even though I really like Ferguson and he's a completely different style from Kilborn, I'm probably one of the very few people who miss Kilborn. I think he brought something really different and offbeat (yet old school) about his show. I thought it was a funny, entertaining show and was sorry to see it go.

[via TV Tattle]

• Charlie Rose: Vince Vaughn and director John Lasseter
• The Late Show With David Letterman: Tom Hanks and Kanye West (repeat)
• Jay Leno: Hugh Jackman and Imogean Heap (repeat)
• Jimmy Kimmel Live: Katherine Heigl, Ben Lee, James Pickens, Jr, and Chandra Wilson (repeat)
• Late Night With Conan O'Brien: Charlize Theron and Cameron Crowe (repeat)
• The Late, Late Show With Craig Ferguson: Denis Leary and Bo Bice (repeat)
• Last Call With Carson Daly: Zooey Deschanel, Samaire Armstrong, Jack's Mannequin, and Eco Station Animals (repeat)

• Charlie Rose: Robert Baer, with guest host Brian Ross, and Fay Vincent, with guest host Frank Deford
• The Daily Show: Willie Nelson (repeat)
• The Colbert Report: Ted Daeschler (repeat)
• The Late Show With David Letterman: Tom Cruise and Jamie Oliver (repeat)
• Jay Leno: Robin Williams, Daniel Powter, and Keke Palmer (repeat)
• Jimmy Kimmel Live: Julia Stiles, Jason Ritter, and Atreyu (repeat)
• Late Night With Conan O'Brien: Naomi Watts, Kate Walsh, and The Magic Numbers (repeat)
• The Late, Late Show With Craig Ferguson: Mia Maestro and Nick Lachey (repeat)
• Last Call With Carson Daly: Andy Milonakis and Nada Surf (repeat)

• Charlie Rose: Gilberto Gil and Eugene Jarecki
• The Daily Show: Bernard Henri-Levy
• The Colbert Report: Paul Begala
• The Late Show With David Letterman: Dr. Phil and Bill Scheft (repeat)
• Jay Leno: Jake Gyllenhaal, Steve Irwin, and Seether
• Jimmy Kimmel Live: Dominic Monaghan, Lil' Wayne, and Nick Swardson (repeat)
• Late Night With Conan O'Brien: Emma Thompson, Jason Priestley, and Norah Vincent  
• The Late, Late Show With Craig Ferguson: Daryl Hannah and Thomas Lennon
• Last Call With Carson Daly: Donald Faison and Fort Minor