Tonight Gene "The Demon" Simmons is a guest on Late Night! Gene Simmons is the frontman for KISS and the star of the TV show Gene Simmons Family Jewels that chronicles Gene's life with his family. He's known for such hits as "Rock n' Roll All Nite", "Detroit Rock City", "Love Gun", "Lick It Up", "I Was Made For Lovin' You", "Let's Put The X In Sex", and "God Gave Rock 'N Roll To You II" among many others. He is also the king of a huge media empire that contains all things KISS. Tune in to see The Demon tonight!

Actress Lucy Liu who became known for her role on the TV series Ally McBeal as Ling Woo, and in her film roles, including Charlie's Angels and Kill Bill is a guest on Late Night tonight.

Two Things You Did Not Know About Lucy Liu (unless you read her Wikipedia page)

1. Lucy was born and was raised in Jackson Heights, Queens, New York, by Taiwanese immigrant parents. Her family spoke Mandarin at home and she did not learn English until she was five years old.

2. She also speaks "a little bit of Spanish, a tiny bit of Italian, a little bit of Japanese," that she learned for her role in Kill Bill. She also rock climbs, practices martial arts, skis, and plays the accordion.

Several people will attempt to set world records with the Universal Record Database on tonight's show, and this one is probably one of my favorites ever. At 8:12 a.m. this morning, two people, John and Rob from Serious Lunch, began an attempt to set the world record for Longest Time for Two People to Touch Noses. What does that mean? It means that two grown men strapped their heads together with a 90's-era belt and are touching noses face to face. It means their mouths are mere centimeters apart, and they are going to try and stay touching until tonight's show. That means going to the bathroom together. That means breathing on each other - CONSTANTLY. They rode the subway here this morning touching noses - and are currently sitting in one of our dressing rooms. This is INSANE and hilarious. We are live-streaming the attempt all day today - you don't want to miss one second of this.

Good luck boys! We'll bring you more updates throughout the day.

On tonight's Late Night with Jimmy Fallon Joseph Fiennes the English film and stage actor perhaps best known for his portrayals of William Shakespeare in Shakespeare in Love, and as Sir Robert Dudley in Elizabeth will be dropping in to Studio 6B. He is currently starring as Mark Benford in the ABC TV series FlashForward.

Tonight, the other big star in The Runaways will be here: Miss Dakota Fanning! Yesterday, we put the call out for your video questions for Dakota, so be sure to tune in tonight to see who made the cut. In the meantime, check out Dakota singing "Cherry Bomb" in this music video / trailer for the movie:

Tonight Dr. Drew Pinsky, celebrity doctor, radio, and TV host is a guest on Late Night. Dr. Drew is a longtime host of the radio call-in show Loveline and is currently hosting Sober House on VH1. Sober House is a spin off and continuation series of Celebrity Rehab where the celebrities transition from rehab to living a sober life in a drug free house. Dr. Drew spends a good amount of time with the show and his other shows but he's also found time to get into the inventing game releasing the new Rx Locker - a "locker" for prescription pills to keep them locked up and away from people who don't need to be taking them. The website for Rx Locker says that "70% of teens that have abused prescription drugs took them from friends or family" so the Rx Locker is a great way to keep prescriptiongs safe only for the ones to whom they're prescribed. This sounds like a great idea.

We don't have any pills lying around Late Night (hellooooo, Dr. Drew's gonna be here today, we wouldn't just leave pills lying around), but we thought of a fun game we could play where we put things in the Rx Locker that sound sound like the word "locker". Like you could have an Rx Locker with this DVD of The Hurt Locker, a newspaper with the headline "Subway Shocker", and a picture of Atlanta Braves pitcher John Rocker:

Why stop there? Why not have all these things in there and a pair of Dockers, the novel Clockers, YouTube clips of Chris Crocker, a DVD of Meet The Fockers, the URL for Gawker, a full season on VHS of Walker (Texas Ranger),a celebrity stalker, CD's from Ted Leo who's an indie rocker, the sport of soccer, a late shift grocery store inventory stocker, an insensitive mocker, a set of nice knockers, some beta blockers, and the Seinfeld episode "Close Talker". Anything else?

Whoa! Really?! Yes! Robin Gibb and Barry Gibb will be guests on Late Night tonight. The Bee Gees are a super awesome harmonic "soft rock" group known as the foremost stars of the disco music era in the late 1970s. The group sang three-part tight harmonies that were instantly recognizable. The three brothers co-wrote most of their own hits, as well as writing and producing several major hits for other artists.

But of course we're especially excited for this visit from Robin and Barry, becasue , well, the video below says it all!

Kristen Stewart is back tonight! She's here to talk about the new rock biopic, The Runaways, in which she plays Joan Jett. Hells yes. We hope she'll also give us the scoop on Eclipse, the next installment in the Twilight franchise - because we're almost as excited about it as this girl is. In the meantime, remember how awesome she was last time she came by Late Night? Yep, the girl can throw a football:

Between this and playing Joan Jett, I'd say Kristen is really rounding out her Badass resume.

Tonight the fabulous Toni Collette will be on the show.  But which Toni will it be?  Which one?? Are you catching my thinly veiled, horrible joke about United States of Tara, her series on Showtime for which she won an Emmy and a Golden Globe for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series?  Are you?  Well, you should've.  If you've never seen United States of Tara, Collette plays a housewife suffering from dissaciative identity disorder, and whenver she is stressed out, she takes on one of five personalities.  So she is essentially playing six characters in one show.  Very impressive.  Besides USoT you may have seen Collette in such films as Little Miss Sunshine, The Sixth Sense, About A Boy, and many others.  Tune in tonight!

Tonight's guest Julianne Moore began to appear in supporting roles in films during the early 90s, achieving recognition in many independent films before her performance in Boogie Nights which brought her widespread attention. She continued on to star in The End of the Affair and Magnolia. She was acclaimed for her portrayal of a betrayed wife in Far from Heaven, winning many critic awards as best actress of the year, in addition to a bunch of nominations, including the Academy Award, Golden Globe, and Screen Actors Guild Award. In 2009 she was nominated for a Golden Globe for A Single Man and we also saw her as Boston native Nancy Donovan on 30 Rock. Here's the trailer for her latest film, the sensual thriller Chloe.

Late Night BFF Jason Sudeikis is back tonight! He's here to talk about his new movie, The Bounty Hunter. He plays Stewart, who has convinced himself that his coworker (played by Jennifer Aniston) is his girlfriend, and goes looking for her while she gets chased by her ex-husband bounty hunter (Gerard Butler). Now, before he talks about that on the show, please prepare for tonight by brushing up on Jason's previous late night appearances. There may or may not be a pop quiz.

A Jason Sudeikis on LNwJF primer:
Interview
Random Objects Three Point Shootout
Jason Represents Late Night at E3
E3 Outtakes: Jason Interviews Tim Schafer
E3 Outtakes: Jason Interviews Eliza Dushku
E3 Outtakes: Jason's Interview with Mickey Rourke

May I have your attention pleaaaase....awesome announcement - Parker Posey will be a guest on the show tonight!! Yes Parker "A Penny For Your Thoughts" Posey. If you get that reference then you appreciate it, I'm sure of that. Posey made her mark in several indie films including Dazed and Confused and The House of Yes, and also starred in several of Christopher Guest's mockumentaries such as Waiting for Guffman and A Mighty Wind among others. She recently starred in the indie film Happy Tears alongside Demi Moore and Rip Torn. You might also remember this commercial from a few years ago Parker Posey did with Jimmy:

I still wonder where she flew off to.

Web Soup host and all-around great guy Chris Hardwick is back on the show tonight! Last time he was here, he took our Internet Personality Test, as administered by our writer Morgan Murphy. Also, there's a very special cameo by comedian Doug Benson.

Also, if you're in New York City, go see Chris perform at Comix this weekend!

Filmmaker Michael Moore who is also and author and political commentator is a guest on Late Night tonight. He is the director and producer of Bowling for Columbine, Fahrenheit 9/11, Sicko, and Capitalism: A Love Story, and has made four of the top eight highest-grossing documentaries of all time.

Tonight comedian and actress Rachael Harris will be on the show talking with Jimmy about her new movie Diary of a Wimpy Kid. Rachael is a veteran in the comedy scene and trained at the legendary Groundlings theater in Los Angeles.  She has appeared Reno 911!, The Sarah Silverman Program, and Curb Your Enthursiasm among others and also served as a correspondent for The Daily Show in 2002. She also played fellow ex-Daily Show correspondent Ed Helms' girlfriend in The Hangover, and man she was so horribly mean. I mean, wow, that character was mean, and also very, very funny. Tune in tonight!

Forest Whitaker is an actor, producer, director and an Academy Award winner for his performance as Ugandan dictator Idi Amin in the 2006 film The Last King of Scotland. He became the fourth African American man to win an Academy Award for Best Actor, following in the footsteps of Sidney Poitier, Denzel Washington, and Jamie Foxx and he is a guest on Late Night tonight! He is starring in the upcoming films, Our Family Wedding and Repo Men.

What's your favorite Forest Whitaker role?

Matt Walsh is an actor, writer and comedian best known as a member of the Upright Citizens Brigade comedy troupe. He's currently the star and creator of the new Spike TV series Players, which began airing this month. Also, he's a guest on Late Night tonight!

The hilarious and outspoken Chelsea Handler will be on the show tonight! She's here to talk about her new book and accompanying live tour, Chelsea Chelsea Bang Bang. In case you don't have cable and/or live under a rock, she's got her own successful late night talk show, Chelsea Lately on E!. On the show, she asks her celebrity guests the tough (and hilarious) questions and pierces all things pop culture with her quick wit. Currently, she's the only lady late night talk show host - and for that, we really admire her. Tonight on the show, Jimmy and Chelsea will be playing a fun game (hint: it involves alcohol - and no, it's not Beer Pong). I can tell you this: we're going to have a blast - or should I say bang?

Tonight longtime Saturday Night Live cast member Chris Parnell will be on the show talking to Jimmy. Parnell was a cast member on SNL throughout the 90s and early 2000s and has since gone on to roles in television and films. He currently stars in the very funny animated show Archer on FX. And he appears in a recurring role on 30 Rock as the hilariously inept Dr. Spaceman (pronounced "Dr. Spuh-Che-Men"). Oh lord, it's so funny. Watch:

"When is modern science gonna find a cure for a woman's mouth?" Hoooo boy. Tune in tonight!

The adorable, poised, and talented Abigail Breslin is back on the show tonight! Recently, she made her Broadway debut as Helen Keller in The Miracle Worker. We love her here on Late Night - remember her charming entry for our Dance Challenge?

Tune in tonight to see more adorableness!

Matt Lucas, a British writer, comedian, and actor, stops by the show tonight! He got his big break playing multiple hilarious characters on Little Britain, and has gone on to play Tweedledee and Tweedledum in Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland. Before his rise to stardom, Matt grew up in Stanmore, Greater London, with parents who ran a chauffeuring business. I hope he'll talk about what promises to be a visually stunning Alice in Wonderland - I heard that to shoot his two characters, he had to wear one of those full-body green lycra suit. Finally, let's all wish him a very happy birthday!! (It's today.)

Helping us celebrate one year on the air tonight is one of our favorites at Late Night, the one and only Mike Myers! Well, I guess not one and only because of the character from the Halloween movie franchise, but seriously, there really is only one and he's with us tonight, it's Mike Myers!!

Mia Wasikowska is an Australian actress and she is on our show tonight. This is a good thing. Why? Because after making her break in the HBO series In Treatment, she embarked on a film career - with roles in Amelia, Defiance, and the indie film That Evening Sun. Now, she has officially arrived: she will star as Alice in Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland. YES! When she was young, she trained as a ballet dancer for six years, including two years training 35 hours a week. Though I'm sure she would have made an excellent dancer, we're glad she turned to acting. Tonight, she'll talk with Jimmy about what it's like to work with Johnny Depp and Tim Burton, her appearance on the cover of Vanity Fair, and more.

Batten down the hatches everyone because Zach Galifianakis is in the building! (Or, he will be within a few hours of me writing this.) You may know Zach Galifianakis from the world of comedy because he is a hilarious, hilarious, hilarious man. You know this. He's hosting SNL this weekend and it looks great. Watch these promos!

I hope he gets that Amy Adams out of his throat before the show.

Regina King who has starred in such films as, Boyz n the Hood, Friday, Jerry Maguire, Ray, and now on TNT's Southland is a guest on Late Night tonight.

3 Things You Did Not Know Regina King (unless you read her Wikipedia page)

1. King began her acting career in 1985 in the role of Marla Gibbs' daughter Brenda on the television series 227, a role she played until 1990.

2. In 2004, King played Margie Hendricks, a singer in Ray Charles' backup group The Raelettes and one of the musical legend's mistresses, in Ray.

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You might be familiar with tonight's guest, the lovely Emilie de Ravin, because of her role on Lost as Claire Littleton. Now, she's co-starring alongside Robert Pattinson in Remember Me. She's Australian, had her initial big break playing Tess Harding in the WB hit, Roswell, and has made Maxim's Hot 100 three times. In other words, this lady is on fire! (Not literally, you fool. We take fire safety very seriously here.) Hopefully she'll give us the dish on Rpattz and maybe even some spoilers for this season of Lost!

On last night's show the great Mario Batali showed us how to make a spaghettini and lobster dish. Do you want to impress your significant other (or a potential one)? Now you can make this dish at home, for you, or for you and a friend.

Also, while I have you, click on the image below to visit Mario Batali's wonderful charitable foundation, the Mario Batali Foundation.

Spaghettini with Spicy Artichokes, Sweet Garlic, and Lobster Recipe Courtey of The Babbo Cookbook (Clarkson Potter 2002).

See the full recipe after the jump.

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Wesley Snipes, the actor, producer, and martial artist who has starred in numerous films and is perhaps best known for his role as Blade in the Blade trilogy as well as his roles in Jungle Fever, Major League, New Jack City, Passenger 57, Demolition Man, White Men Can't Jump, To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar and so many more is a guest on Late Night tonight. Snipes makes his return to the big screen in the upcoming Brooklyn's Finest.

Tonight Judah "World Champion" Friedlander returns to LNWJF! Judah Friedlander is a cast member of 30 Rock, comedic actor from movies like Zoolander, Meet The Parents, and The Wrestler (which isn't as much of a comedy as it is a sad portrayal of the harsh reality of professional wrestling, blue collar poverty, and strained relationships done in a beautiful way). Judah is also a wearer of trucker hats with funny titles on them and he wears new ones on every episode of 30 Rock. Some of my favorites are "Extra Sausage", "Karate Sluts", "ESP Tutor", and "Smells". (See a full list of 30 Rock Season 1 hats here.)  Also, you can follow Judah's Twitter!

I'm not going to lie: every girl on staff today is dressed to the NINES. Hair curled, nails did, lots of perfume, wearing something other than our usual hooded sweatshirts and jeans. There's excitement in the air. Dare I say, LOVE is in the air? That's because there's a very special guest on the show tonight. ROBERT PATTINSON! THE Robert Pattinson. Robert "Is Bothered" Pattinson. Mr. Twilight himself. Robert "International man of vampire mystery" Pattinson. RPattz. Robert "Perfect Gentleman" Pattinson. Robert "Loves dogs and probably also children" Pattinson. Robert "Starring in the upcoming movie Remember Me" Pattinson. Mr. Sara Schaefer.

Sorry Taylor Lautner, we really really love you, but just for today, it's TEAM EDWARD UP IN THIS B*TCH!

Friday's show was a howlin' good time! Benicio Del Toro talked about his new film Wolfman,Reggie Bush and Kim Kardashian talked with Jimmy about their engagement rumors, and Selena Gomez talked about her TV show and music tour. Oh, and everyone sucked in a lot of helium. It's the simple things, you know?

Benecio Del Toro Talks Wolfman

Kim Kardashian & Reggie Bush

Selena Gomez Interview

This evening, teen star Selena Gomez is a talky talk guest and the music musicy guest (with her band: Selena Gomez & The Scene)!! It's Go Go Go Gadget Gomez! (That made no sense.) Anyway, Selena will be talking about her new album Kiss & Tell, and about her cover of Teen Vogue - and as part of it, they'll be announcing a fun little contest we're going to have on the blog starting tonight. Definitely check it out. In the meantime, remember when Selena's BFF, Demi Lovato, came on the show and sang a death metal Barney theme in tribute to Selena? Refresh your memory:

Wow, did you know that Benicio del Toro's real full name is Benicio Monserrate Rafael del Toro Sanchez. It is. Also, he is a guest on Late Night tonight. He is known for his roles in The Usual Suspects, Traffic, Sin City, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Snatch, Che, and released today as Lawrence Talbot/The Wolfman in The Wolfman.

Jessica Szohr best known for playing Vanessa Abrams on the CW series Gossip Girl is a guest on Late Night tonight.

3 Things You Did Not Know Jessica Szohr (unless you read her Wikipedia page)

1. Szohr was born in Menomonee Falls, Wisconsin and is of Hungarian and African American descent. She started modeling at age six and her first national campaign was for Quaker Oats at age ten.

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Tonight John Lithgow makes his way to Late Night. Talk about a wide spanning career, this guy has been all over the place! He is an accomplished stage, TV, and film actor with roles in Raising Cain, Cliffhanger, Terms of Endearment, Third Rock From The Sun, and many others including a recent Golden Globe winning role on Dexter. He's also an accomplished children's book writer and recording artist. He's a master at playing a villain (say a serial killer in Dexter, evil maniacal genius in Cliffhanger, or a tortured split personality in Raising Cain) and a quirky funny lead (in Third Rock From The Sun). Lithgow is currently in "Mr. & Mrs. Fitch" on Broadway here in NYC. But one of his most memorable scenes is when he brings together the funny and the heart in Harry And The Hendersons. Heart. Wrenching. You must watch it now. Tune in tonight!

Wow, you guys. Legendary talk show host Dick Cavett is on the show tonight! He has hosted daytime, morning, and - most notably - late night talk shows. The Dick Cavett Show was beloved and ran from 1969 through 1975 opposite Carson. Some memorable moments from the show include "The Woodstock Show," when a group of musicians came directly from Woodstock to talk about their experiences there; Salvador Dali's appearance (he showed up Jeff Musial style with an anteater on a leash); Jimi Hendrix's interview; and when Marlon Brando appeared on the show with representatives of the Cheyenne, Paiute, and Lummi tribes (after the taping, Brando got into a fight with a photographer and ended up in the hospital with a bite wound). Those are just some of the historical - and crazy - things that happened while Dick was on the air. You can see episodes and highlights on The Dick Cavett Show DVD's, including "Hollywood Greats," "Comic Legends," "Rock Icons," "John & Yoko Collection," and "Ray Charles Collection." I also recommend checking our his autobiography, Cavett. Educate yourself! I'm sure he'll have some wisdom to share with Jimmy and all of us tonight!

Fashion alert! Check your pants and tuck in your shirts (or untuck them! I don't know what's cool now!), because Christian Siriano is bringing the fierce to Late Night tonight! Siriano is the youngest winner ever in the history of Project Runway, winning the show when he was only twenty three years old. He was known for his talent and attitude on Runway, and he popularized the terms "fierce", "hot tranny mess" and "farouche".  Siriano has worked on collections for Saks Fifth Avenue and Bluefly, and recently collaborated on a maternity line titled "Fierce Mamas".  Tonight he will bring fierceness to your TV screen.  Rawr. 

DAWSON!!!! I mean. James Van Der Beek!!! Is on the show tonight. Look, we all remember James from his breakout role in the WB classic Dawson's Creek. But he's so much more than Dawson! Hello? Varsity Blues. (I DON'T WANT. YOUR LIFE!) Van Der Beek is legend, and we are thrilled to have him here tonight. He's currently starring as a misanthropic doctor, Dr. Joe Briggs, on the show Mercy. Hopefully he'll chat with us about that, and also how far he's come since his days on the creek. His creek.

Our friend and animal expert Jeff Musial returns to Late Night tonight! It's always a great time when he visits us because of the unique exotic animals he brings and the "expect the unexpected-ness" of his segment. If you'll remember, one of the best moments of LNWJF so far was when one of Jeff's Brazilian cockroaches escaped during the show (without anyone realizing) and it was still there, lurking the next day!

Ok everyone, lock up your wives, because Bill "Big Love" Paxton is coming to the show tonight and you don't know what this guy is gonna do! (He might marry your wife. That's just a character he plays! I'm kidding!) Bill Paxton is currently starring in HBO's Big Love as Bill Henrickson, a modern day polygamist and husband to three wives. He has also been seen in such huge blockbusters as Twister, Apollo 13, and Titanic among many others. You have probably seen all these films more than once, but let me tell you what you probably not seen. Bill Paxton was once in a new wave band called "Martini Ranch" and they released a video for their song "Reach". Here are things that make this AWESOME. It features some Three Amigos characters being dragged behind a horse while playing instruments. Not enough? It has cameos from Judge Reinhold and Paul Reiser. Need more? It was directed by JAMES CAMERON and it's the only music video he's ever shot. How have you not seen this, right? It is an 80's new wave gem, so put your work aside and watch it NOW.

Actor Willie Garson is on the show tonight! You might remember him most as Stanford on Sex & The City, but if you're any sort of pop culture aficionado (like I know you are), he's played numerous roles in movies and television, including ones in Mr. Belvedere, Quantum Leap, Groundhog Day, Just Like Heaven, Being John Malkovich, Labor Pains, and Jimmy's own Fever Pitch! Most recently, he's taken on the role of Mozzie in White Collar on USA. Hopefully he'll have stories to dish about former LNwJF guest and White Collar co-star, Matthew Bomer! No matter what they talk about, Willie is a delight, so don't miss it.

The Emmy, Grammy, and Peabody award-winning political satirist, writer, comedian and television host Stephen Colbert is a guest on Late Night tonight. Look at this duet he recently had with Alicia Keys.

Tonight Brian Williams, the Funkiest Man In News (I just gave him that nickname) will be on the show talking with Jimmy. Brian Williams has the gift of being a serious newsman with a great sense of humor. Observe:

Oh that's what a squid is!!! (Tune in tonight.)

Amanda Seyfried star of the upcoming Dear John is a guest on Late Night tonight.

3 Things You Did Not Know Amanda Seyfried (unless you read her Wikipedia page)

1. In 2004, Seyfried made her film debut in Mean Girls playing a supporting role as Karen Smith.

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Hey everyone! Comedy alert! Parks and Recreations' Aubrey Plaza will be on Late Night tonight talking with Jimmy about her childhood and her behind the scenes life on Parks and Recreation. Not only has Aubrey been a cast member on Parks and Recreation for the past two seasons (and will also be one in it's newly announced upcoming third season - yeeeeeeah) but she also played "Daisy", Seth Rogen's love interest in Funny People. Busy lady. Here's an oldie but goodie starring Aubrey in a fake TV show that would be awesome if it were real:

"You're gross." You can also follow Aubrey on her Twitter.

Channing Tatum who began his career as a fashion model and has appeared in a She's the Man, Step Up, Fighting, Public Enemies, G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra and the upcoming Dear John is a guest on Late Night tonight. Check out the Dear John trailer. Tear jerker!

Jessica Alba, the television and film actress who began her TV and movie appearances at age 13 in Camp Nowhere and The Secret World of Alex Mack is a guest on Late Night tonight. She rose to prominence in the television series Dark Angel and later appeared in various films including Honey, Sin City, Fantastic Four, Into the Blue and Good Luck Chuck. Here's the trailer for her latest film, Valentine's Day!

Tonight Jesse Tyler Ferguson is on the show! You may know Jesse Tyler Ferguson from the hit ABC comedy Modern Family. Modern Family is GREAT! If you're not watching it, stop what you're doing now and watch it. You can find, use your google button. You might also know Jesse Tyler Ferguson from Broadway theater, specifically his role as Leaf Coneybear in The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, which was also GREAT. This man is involved in enjoyable things! Check out a clip from Modern Family:

Would you like to make water?

Who wants to be a guest on Late Night? Meredith Vieira does, and she wants to do it today. See what I did there? Meredith is one of our top six favorite hosts of Today. She's compassionate, funny, goofy, and real on the air. She's also great on the daytime version of Who Wants to Be A Millionaire, where one of our very own Roots members was the subject of a question. We're excited to have Meredith on the show tonight! After tonight, only two Today show hosts have not appeared on the show. Can you guess which two? Leave your guesses in the comments. (I want to see who the LNwJF super-nerds are.)

Late Night pal Anthony Anderson is here again tonight for guaranteed laughs and hijinks. We love this guy! He's always been so much fun on the show. Here's his interview from last time:

Also, never forget: Who the f**k are Chuck & Sue? This man is wild. Believe it.

Tonight Freddie Prinze Jr. will be talking with Jimmy. You can see Freddie in this upcoming season of 24 as "Cole Ortiz", Jack Bauer's newest partner. (Bonus factoid for you Battlestar Galactica nerds: Cole Ortiz's girlfriend on 24 is played by the same actress who plays "Starbuck" on Battlestar, actress Katee Sackhoff.)

Freddie will get his workout chasing terrorists with Jack Bauer this season, but this does pose a problem for his character. Jack Bauer is a dangerous man to be around. His son-in-law Chase had his hand cut off during a bomb disarming.  Freddie will be shot at dozens of times and be in put in ridiculously dangerous situations.  Tune in to hear him talk to Jimmy about how he'll handle this on this season's 24. 

David "Big Papi" Ortiz the designated hitter who has played for the Boston Red Sox since 2003 (and previously for the Minnesota Twins) is a guest on LNWJF tonight. Ortiz is a five-time All-Star and holds the Red Sox single-season record for home runs with 54, set during the 2006 season. Here he is in one of the best and funniest "This is SportsCenter" commercials ever made.

Don't forget to check out Big Papi En Fuego Hot Sauce and Marinade!

The lovely Maggie Gyllenhaal will be on the show tonight! She's here to talk about her new film, Crazy Heart, which has been getting rave reviews. Maggie has played all sorts of interesting roles, from the provocative Secretary to Donnie Darko's sister to Batman's lady friend. The Gyllenhaal family has film in its DNA: her father is director Stephen Gyllenhaal, and her mother is Naomi Foner, a screenwriter. And then of course there's brother Jake. While not acting, Maggie is raising her daughter Ramona and fixing up her brownstone in Brooklyn. She's also a strong supporter of human rights, civil liberties, and anti-poverty campaigns. I think it's safe to say she's a class act. Don't miss her tonight!

Tonight NYC mixologist Jim Meehan is bringing the sauce to Late Night. Jim mixes and serves drinks in NYC and also edited the latest edition of cocktail book Mr. Boston entitled Holiday Cocktails. And you could pair that book with this slick bartending utility bag designed by Jim for the ultimate in cocktail swankness. Tune in tonight for a tutorial on how to make his very own Tequila Highball with real tea. Check out the recipe below.

Tequila Highball
3 oz. In Pusuit of Tea brewed Lemon Verbena Tea
1.5 oz. Blanco Tequila
.25 oz. Agave Nectar (or simple syrup in a pinch)
.25 oz. St Germain Elderflower Liqueur

Build all of the ingredients in a highball glass filled with ice. Garnish with a twist of lime. Can serve hot or cold.

Daily Show correspondent John Oliver is on the show tonight! He is an absolute delight, not to mention a brilliant journalist. Especially when he's serving as the Daily Show's Senior Holiday Correspondent:

Be sure to tune in tonight. This man is hilarious. And charmingly British.

Amy Adams known for her roles in Catch Me If You Can, Junebug, Enchanted, Doubt, and Julie and Julia is a guest on LNWJF tonight.

3 Things You Did Not Know About Amy Adams (unless you read her Wikipedia page)

1. As a child Amy's father sang professionally in restaurants and her mother was a semi-professional bodybuilder.

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Ana Gasteyer, the stage, film and television actress, best known for her comedic roles as a cast member on Saturday Night Live from 1996 to 2002 is a guest on LNWJF tonight.

3 Things You Did Not Know About Ana Gasteyer (unless you read her Wikipedia page)

1. Gasteyer developed her comedy experiences at the famed LA improv sketch comedy group The Groundlings. Prior to joining SNL, she had small roles on Seinfeld (a customer of The Soup Nazi), as well as on the shows Party of Five, Hope & Gloria and NYPD Blue.

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Steel yourselves everyone, it's about to extraordinary up in here. And by "extraordinary", I mean megastar Brendan Fraser of Extraordinary Mesaures will be on the show tonight talking to Jimmy. Brendan and Harrison Ford team up in this medical drama. Check it out:

Intense. Tune in tonight!

Tonight Emmy and Golden Globe nominated actress Rose Byrne makes her return to Late Night! You may know Rose Byrne from her role as attorney Ellen Parsons in Damages on F/X. You also saw her in a small role in Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones and in The Phantom Menace as Senator Padme's aide.

Rose lives in NYC while shooting Damages but that isn't the only thing she shoots here. This year you'll also see her in Get Him To The Greek with Russell Brand, Jonah Hill, and Diddy (yes, Diddy). Also, you may not have known that Rose Byrne is Australian.  Did you know that?  Well now you do.  So tune in tonight, mate.  (That's Australian too!)

Tonight the great Queen herself, Queen Latifah returns to Late Night with Jimmy Fallon. She's always a lot of fun when on the show and she and Jimmy have such great chemistry together. She was a great sport on her previous appearance and will no doubt be super terrific tonight. Perhaps she'll be playing some....charades? We'll see! Here she is from her last appearance, racing!

New York Jet Kerry Rhodes is on the show tonight! J E T S! JETS! They'll talk about football, Kerry's handsome cameo in a Lady Gaga video, and more. In case you missed it, here's Kerry's cameo in a recent Late Night Thank You Note:

K E R R Y! KERRY!

Dun dunn! Tonight Richard "Law & Order" Belzer is in the building! I hope there's not a dead jogger somewhere around here. I'm sure there is. Omg, what's that behind that dumpster...oh geez, oh no.

Richard Belzer is not only one of the most recognizable faces from Law & Order, but is also a comedian and author. Richard was a fixture in the NYC stand up club scene in the 1970s and for a time he was the warm up comic for Saturday Night Live. He has also authored two books, the most recent being I Am Not A Psychic!. Tune in tonight! And get these dead joggers out of here! There are so many!

Journalist and author best known as the anchor of NBC Nightly News from 1982 to 2004 is a guest on LNWJF tonight. He is currently a Special Correspondent for NBC News and works on documentaries for other outlets. Here he is in a live sit-down with the great Ron Burgundy.

Are you guys watching American Idol this season? There's already been a splash made with the popular "Pants on the Ground." Tonight Randy Jackson visits us, no doubt to talk about that song and other goings on with American Idol.

3 Things You Did Not Know About Randy Jackson (unless you read his Wikipedia page)

1. While living in the San Francisco bay area, Jackson played in bands with Carlos Santana and Jerry Garcia. From 1986 to 1987 he was a member of the rock group Journey. Jackson joined Journey for their 1986 album Raised on Radio and subsequent tour.

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VRRRRROOOOOOM! NASCAR driver, champion, and gentleman Jimmie Johnson is on the show tonight. Here he is with his #48 Lowe's/Kobalt Tools Chevrolet Impala. He's a four-time winner of the Sprint Cup Series (a/k/a the Cup Series, the Sprint Cup, or only the TOP racing series in NASCAR!). What does that mean? He's kind of a big deal, that's what it means. Jimmie is originally from San Diego, California and is a huge San Diego sports fan. He has his own charity, the Jimmie Johnson Foundation, which helps families and children in need across the U.S. If you're interested in learning more about what it's like to race on the NASCAR circuit, you're in luck: Jimmie recently signed a deal with HBO to do a mini reality series following him up to the 2010 Daytona 500. Since Jimmie's all about racing...do you think they'll do some kind of race tonight on the show? Let's hope so!

Tonight the lady herself Ashley Judd will be on Late Night talking with Jimmy. Ashley is the star of the upcoming The Tooth Fairy movie. You know Ashley from other blockbuster films like Heat, A Time To Kill, and Kiss The Girls, among others. Also - a little known fact - she was originally in Oliver Stone's Natural Born Killers but her scenes were cut out of the finally edit. You learn something new everyday right?

Out of all these movies - (which are awesome - A Time To Kill? Genius.) my favorite Ashley Judd movie holds a special place in my heart. And that is because it's Simon Birch. What a good movie! And her character was so sweet! She was responsible for Simon Birch realizing how special he really was. My heart is swelling now. What is your favorite Ashley Judd movie?

Also, check out PSI, what Ashley is supporting for Haiti relief.  Tune in tonight!

The lovely Kerry Washington is on the show tonight! She's an actress! She's played some memorable wives in film: Della Bea Robinson, Ray Charles' wife in Ray and Kay, Idi Amin's wife, in The Last King of Scotland. She's also played the bachelorette: Nikki in I Think I Love My Wife, and Alicia Masters in the Fantastic Four films. Before she was Kerry from Hollywood, she was Kerry from the Bronx - performing and studying theatre from a very young age. She's currently co-starring in David Mamet's new play on Broadway, Race. Tonight, one of the things Kerry will talk about is V-Day, a global charity committed to ending violence against women and girls. They have a safe house in Haiti - and she'll talk about the effect of the earthquake there. You can find out more at V-Day's site, and also help out Haiti by visiting ClintonBushHaitiFund.org This is important! Classy lady on SET!

Tonight Kiefer Sutherland, aka Jack Bauer, aka "I've got one day to save the world!", aka "We don't have time to talk about this, just give me the bomb disarming code!!!", aka the star of 24 is on the show talking to Jimmy tonight. 24 returns in it's eighth season this month on FOX. 24 is marked by its intensity and also begs the question - "How many bad days can one man have?" Jack Bauer has had an insane life, which only means that this season will only be more intense.  Buckle up!!

Tune in tonight for talk about 24 and overwhelming intensity.  This may include but will not be limited to yelling, rolling on the floor, holding glocks, disarming bombs, and crying with deep, patriotic emotion.  We welcome you Jack Bauer.

Tonight Freddie Prinze Jr. - or as I like to call him The Freddie Prince of Bel Jr. - will be talking with Jimmy tonight. You can see Freddie in this upcoming season of 24 as "Cole Ortiz", Jack Bauer's newest partner. (Bonus factoid for you Battlestar Galactica nerds: Cole Ortiz's girlfriend on 24 is played by the same actress who plays "Starbuck" on Battlestar, actress Katee Sackhoff.)

Freddie will get his workout chasing terrorists with Jack Bauer this season, but this does pose a problem for his character. Jack Bauer is a dangerous man to be around. His son-in-law Chase had his hand cut off during a bomb disarming.  Freddie will be shot at dozens of times and be in put in ridiculously dangerous situations.  Tune in to hear him talk to Jimmy about how he'll handle this on this season's 24. 

Late Night pal Anthony Anderson is here again tonight for guaranteed laughs and hijinks. We love this guy! He's always been so much fun on the show. Here's his interview from last time:

Anthony is doing a show at Gotham Comedy Club on January 17 - the one-year anniversary of his Comedy Mixtape jam. Check it out! It's the Also, never forget: Who the f**k are Chuck & Sue?

That's right, tonight is the night. It's Late Night's Ringo Starr night. All Ringo all night. Yes, that Ringo Starr, the one from The Beatles. Ringo Starr, is a singer-songwriter, and actor who gained worldwide fame as the drummer for the rock group The Beatles. The Beatles! There will be a Beatle here tonight. That is crazy exciting. Starr featured as lead singer on a number of successful Beatles songs including "With a Little Help from My Friends" and "Yellow Submarine".

Here's some of what to expect: Multiple performances from Ringo and a special guest, a sit down interview with Jimmy and your submitted questions seen on air and answered directly by Ringo. It's going to be a fun, unique, thrilling show! A Beatle! Peace and love.

David "Big Papi" Ortiz the designated hitter who has played for the Boston Red Sox since 2003 and previously for the Minnesota Twins is a guest on LNWJF tonight. Ortiz is a five-time All-Star and holds the Red Sox single-season record for home runs with 54, set during the 2006 season. Here he is in one of the best and funniest "This is SportsCenter" commercials ever made.

Don't forget to check out Big Papi En Fuego Hot Sauce and Marinade!

The lovely Maggie Gyllenhaal will be on the show tonight! She's here to talk about her new film, Crazy Heart, which has been getting rave reviews. Maggie has played all sorts of interesting roles, from the provocative Secretary to Donnie Darko's sister to Batman's lady friend. The Gyllenhaal family has film in its DNA: her father is director Stephen Gyllenhaal, and her mother is Naomi Foner, a screenwriter. And then of course there's brother Jake! While not acting, Maggie is raising her daughter Ramona and fixing up her brownstone in Brooklyn. She's also a strong supporter of human rights, civil liberty, and anti-poverty campaigns. I think it's safe to say she's a class act. Don't miss her tonight!

Tonight actress and Twilight saga co-star Ashley Greene will be talking with Jimmy.

3 Things You Did Not Know About Ashley Greene (unless you read her Wikipedia page)

1. Greene is good friends with her Twilight co-stars, particularly Kellan Lutz, whom she knew before filming the movie.

2. She originally wanted to become a model, but was told that she was not tall enough at 5'5" to be a runway model and should instead focus on commercial acting. After taking commercial and acting classes, she fell in love with acting and realized that she liked it better than modeling.

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Word has definitely gotten out that Matthew Broderick is back on the show tonight!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I am telling you - there are literally THOUSANDS of teenage girls lined up around the block waiting to see him. It's total madness over here.  If I want to eat lunch today, I'm going to have to put on some riot gear.  I'm wearing ear-plugs right now - otherwise I wouldn't be able to focus on my work - what with all the high-pitched squealing we can hear seven floors up.  They're all holding posters from his new indie film Wonderful World hoping and praying for an autograph!  It's like the Twilight premiere up in here!  I haven't seen this kind of turn out since the Jonas Brothers were on the show....oh. Wait. 

Fine. Girls, you can have your Nick Jonas. Broderick still rules.

Tonight NYC mixologist Jim Meehan is bringing the sauce to Late Night and serving it up. Jim mixes and serves drinks in NYC and also edited the latest edition of cocktail book Mr. Boston entitled Holiday Cocktails. And you could pair that book with this slick bartending utility bag designed by Jim for the ultimate in cocktail swankness. That bag is dope. Tune in tonight for a tutorial on how to make his very own Tequila Highball with real tea. Sweet Tea Vodka ain't got nothing on this. I SAID IT. Check the recipe below.

Tequila Highball
3 oz. In Pusuit of Tea brewed Lemon Verbena Tea
1.5 oz. Blanco Tequila
.25 oz. Agave Nectar (or simple syrup in a pinch)
.25 oz. St Germain Elderflower Liqueur

Build all of the ingredients in a highball glass filled with ice. Garnish with a twist of lime. Can serve hot or cold.

Daily Show correspondent John Oliver is on the show tonight! He is an absolute delight, not to mention a brilliant journalist. Especially when he's serving as the Daily Show's Senior Holiday Correspondent:

Be sure to tune in tonight. This man is hilarious. And charmingly British.

Amy Adams known for her roles in Catch Me If You Can, Junebug, Enchanted, Doubt, and Julie and Julia is a guest on LNWJF tonight.

3 Things You Did Not Know About Amy Adams (unless you read her Wikipedia page)

1. As a child Amy's father sang professionally in restaurants and her mother was a semi-professional bodybuilder.

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Gabby Sidibe is an actress who made her acting debut in the role of 'Precious' in the 2009 film Precious and is a guest on LNWJF tonight.

3 Things You Did Not Know About Gabby Sidibe (unless you read her Wikipedia page)

1. Sidibe was born in the Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York and was raised in Harlem. Her mother, Alice Tan Ridley, is an R&B and gospel singer, and her Senegal-born father, Ibnou Sidibe, is a cab driver.

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Tonight Ethan Hawke swoops into Late Night to talk about his new movie Daybreakers (get it? he swoops in because he's a vampire and, therefore, part bat). You know Ethan Hawke from Hollywood movies such as Training Day, Dead Poet's Society, Gattaca, Reality Bites, and several others. Tonight Ethan will talk some about Daybreakers where he is a vampire scientist living in a world full of vampires where they farm humans for their blood. Eek! I hope that never happens to me.

Ethan is also directing a play, Sam Shepard's A Life Of The Mind which opens January 29th and will be awesome. And check out the trailer for Brooklyn's Finest which opens March 5th. Ethan is hanging out with Jimmy to play some vampire themed games so tune in! Check out the trailer for Daybreakers after the jump!

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Ana Gasteyer, the stage, film and television actress, best known for her comedic roles as a cast member on Saturday Night Live from 1996 to 2002 is a guest on LNWJF tonight.

3 Things You Did Not Know About Ana Gasteyer (unless you read her Wikipedia page)

1. Gasteyer developed her comedy experiences at the famed LA improv sketch comedy group The Groundlings. Prior to joining SNL, she had small roles on Seinfeld (a customer of The Soup Nazi), as well as on the shows Party of Five, Hope & Gloria and NYPD Blue.

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Yay! Michael Cera is on the show tonight. He'll be talking about his new film, Youth In Revolt, in which he plays a young man trying to woo a girl - and his badass alter ego. In the meantime, here's an awesome music video featuring Cera: it was released today by the band Islands, and guess who did some of the visual effects on it? Our very own graphics guy, Joel Knutson!! SYNERGY!

Also, no Michael Cera post would be complete without mentioning this brilliance. Watch tonight! We hope to get him to talk about his recent run-in with the Jersey Shore castmembers.

Yay! One of my favorite comedic actors is on the show tonight promoting the upcoming film Youth In Revolt. FRED WILLARD! He has made us laugh in many of Christopher Guest's films, including Best in Show, For Your Consideration, A Mighty Wind, and Waiting for Guffman. (I also loved him as Shelby Forthright in WALL-E - remember that?) Here's a funny web video he did, where he plays the "common sense" doctor.

Also, don't forget, Fred's the first one to ever say "I don't think so!" Don't miss him on the show tonight.

Bill Hader, an Emmy and Peabody award-winning actor, comedian, writer, producer, and cast member on Saturday Night Live is a guest on Late Night tonight.

Here he is as Vinny Vedecci talking with Drew Barrymore in the reoccurring La Rivista Della Televisione SNL skectch.

Actor, fashion model, producer, and probably most notable for playing Boone Carlyle in the TV drama Lost, and more recently Damon Salvatore in the TV drama The Vampire Diaries, Ian Somerhalder is a guest on LNWJF tonight.

3 Things You Did Not Know About Ian Somerhalder (unless you read his Wikipedia page)

1. Somerhalder was born in Covington, Louisiana, the son of Edna, a massage therapist, and Robert Somerhalder, a building contractor. He has a brother, Bob, a former professional cyclist, and a sister, Robin, a broadcast journalist. His father is of French and English descent and his mother, who grew up on a pig farm in Mississippi, is of Irish and Choctaw ancestry. The surname "Somerhalder" originates from his adoptive great-grandfather. Somerhalder's biological great-grandfather was a wealthy English landowner whose surname was Hull and he paid an immigrant worker to marry his pregnant mistress and give their baby a name, which was Somerhalder.

2. His first major acting role was in The Rules of Attraction, Roger Avary's adaptation of the Bret Easton Ellis novel of the same name.

3. With his mother's encouragement, Somerhalder began his career as a fashion model at the age of 10. He modeled in New York, Paris, Milan, and London. His modeling credits include Calvin Klein, American Eagle Outfitters, Dolce & Gabbana, Gucci, Versace, and Guess?. He was the face of Guess? for two fall seasons. He continues to model with his agency DNA Model Management in New York City, and Priscilla's Model Management in Sydney, Australia.

Rosie O'Donnell is on the show tonight! She'll check in on Jimmy (she was a guest on one of our test shows way back in the day), and she's here to promote her new Sirius Satellite Radio show, Rosie Radio. The show is a 2 hour call-in / talk extravaganza, focusing on whatever the heck Rosie feels like talking about. Here's a little preview from the show:

Straight talk.

Methods of Mayhem front man, former Motley Crue drummer, and all-around badass Tommy Lee is on the show tonight!! Tommy's going to tell us a little about his new Methods of Mayhem record, which is being built by the public - i.e., anyone can submit instrumentals, sounds, beats, etc. that will be incorporated into the album. WHAT? That sounds amazing. It's called The Public Record:

I think we just entered Web 2.ROCK, y'all. Submit your own stuff here.

Blake Lively, the actress most known for portraying Serena van der Woodsen from the TV series Gossip Girl is a guest on LNWJF tonight.

3 Things You Did Not Know About Blake Lively (unless you read her Wikipedia page)

1. During Lively's' childhood, she attended 13 different schools. When she was three years old, her mother enrolled her in the first grade because Lively's older brother was supposed to start school, but he didn't want to go alone. Her mother told the school Lively was six since she "was so tall". After a few weeks, her teachers "said they would have to put me in mentally disabled classes because I wasn't up to pace with the rest of the kids," and they thought that she "was slow because all I wanted to do was sleep while the other kids were doing their projects." Shortly afterwards Lively's mother took her out of the school. As a child, Lively was homeschooled.

2. Lively was not at all interested in acting but during the summer between her junior and senior years, her brother, Eric, made his agent send her out on a few auditions over the period of a few months; of the few auditions, she got the role of Bridget for The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants. Lively filmed her scenes in The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants between her junior and senior years at Burbank High.

3. Lively was cast in the CW's series Gossip Girl which premiered in September 2007. She plays Serena van der Woodsen in the teen drama.[12] While rumors of infighting among the Gossip Girl co-stars have circulated in the tabloids, Lively denies that there is any unfriendly competition on-set. "The media is always trying to pit us against each other," she said in an interview, "I guess because it's just not interesting to say, 'Everyone gets along; everybody just works 18-hour days and goes home to sleep.' That's not fun to read, I guess."

Watch the trailer for The Private Lives of Pippa Lee after the jump.

Padma Lakshmi, cookbook author, actress, model, and host of the US reality television program Top Chef since season two is a guest on LNWJF tonight.

3 Things You Did Not Know About Padma Lakshmi (unless you read her Wikipedia page)

1. Lakshmi's career began at age 16, when she was discovered by a modeling agent in Spain while sitting in a cafe. As she has stated, "I was the first Indian model to have a career in Paris, Milan and New York. I'm the first one to admit that I was a novelty."

2. Lakshmi had a comical supporting role as the lip synching disco singer Sylk in the 2001 American movie Glitter with Mariah Carey.

3. In 2009, Padma starred in the EELS video for the song 'That Look You Give That Guy', playing the love interest of Mark Oliver Everett.

If you missed it the first time around, be sure to check out Seth Green on the show tonight! Seth co-starts in the recently released moving picture Old Dogs.

3 Things You Did Not Know About Seth Green (unless you read his Wikipedia page)

1. He appeared in the 1987 film Can't Buy Me Love, playing the part of Patrick Dempsey's little brother, Chuckie Miller. He also starred in Woody Allen's Radio Days (1987) as Joe, and appeared in Big Business and, in the same year, in My Stepmother Is an Alien.

2. He is a co-creator and producer of the stop motion TV series Robot Chicken, for which he also does many voices and has even appeared in animated form.

3.In July, Green guest hosted the July 13th episode of WWE Raw. Green competed in the main event, a six-man tag team match, which his team won by disqualification.

Carey Mulligan an English actress currently breaking out as Jenny in the 2009 film, An Education is a guest on LNWJF tonight.

3 Things You Did Not Know About Carey Mulligan (unless you read her Wikipedia page)

1. Mulligan began her career with the role of Kitty Bennett in the 2005 movie version of the Jane Austen novel Pride & Prejudice, after being introduced to a casting agent by Julian Fellowes, whom she met after writing to him.

2. In 2009, she appeared in the films, Public Enemies, An Education and The Greatest; the latter two premiered at the 2009 Sundance Film Festival. She will appear in the film Brothers in late 2009 and Never Let Me Go, due for release in 2010.

3. In 2009, Mulligan worked on Wall Street 2 (set for a February 2010 release) in which she plays Winnie Gekko.

Fred Armisen is on the show tonight! If you missed it the first time around, be sure to check it out - because it is hilarious. In the meantime, remember this little gem?

Susan Essman, stand-up comedienne and comic actress in television and films best known for her role as Susie Greene, the verbally abusive wife of Larry David's manager on the HBO show Curb Your Enthusiasm is a guest on LNWJF tonight.

3 Things You Did Not Know About Susie Essman (unless you read her Wikipedia page)

1. Essman told the New York Times that by the show's third season, she could not "walk down the street anymore without people stopping her and begging her to say her character's catchphrase 'You fat f*ck.'" Her doorman does not give Essman her mail until she says it to him.

2. Essman also provided the voice of Helen Higgins on the Comedy Central series Crank Yankers; she was an occasional correspondent on the first season of the network's The Daily Show.

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Remember the very first week of Late Night shows back in March? Jon Bon Jovi was a guest, and he got Tina Fey to dance for him. It was a magical night. Tonight, it's not just Jon Bon Jovi - it's BON JOVI! As in, the entire band. They're here to promote their new album, The Circle. We'll be seeing an interview (with possibly some of your questions answered by the band), AND a performance. DOUBLE WHAMMY, people.

Now if you'll excuse me, I have to go put on my Bon Jovi wig.

Tonight Mary Steenburgen will be on the show talking with Jimmy about her new film, Did You Hear About The Morgans? Steenburgen began acting in New York City in 1972 and was discovered by Jack Nicholson in the reception room of Paramount's New York office. She went on to star such films as Back To The Future, Parenthood, The Butchers Wife, Step Brothers, Philadelphia, and Elf. What good movies, right!? She has also appeared in TV roles on Law and Order: Special Victims Unit, Back To The Future: The Animated Series, and Curb Your Enthusiasm (alongside her husband Ted Danson).

Other than being an Oscar winning actress, Steenburgen is also a business owner and philanthropist. Recently she launched a line of candles with her daughter Lilly with the company Nell's Compass. The candle scents are inspired by Steenburgen's travels around the world as an actor. And best of all, each candle supports Heifer International, a wonderful charity that focuses on ending world hunger in poorer countries.

Snoop Dogg is DOMINATING the show tonight! He's going to do an interview and a performance with The Roots. He'll be talking about his album Malice in Wonderland, how he provided his voice for a Tom Tom GPS system, and more. We got to see him rehearse with The Roots, and it's going to awesome. You'll definitely want to keep an eye out for Snoop's INSANE microphone, which is gigantic and covered in diamonds. Cory got to hold it, and I'm jealous.

Jonny Lee Miller is here! Though you may think of him as Eli Stone, he's now playing Mr. Knightly in the PBS Masterpiece Classic mini-series Emma! How delightful! Here's a preview, where you can see him lookin' all dapper:

I'm gonna go down to the studio and try to get Jonny to call me a "nonsensical girl." Byeeee!

Joy Behar is in the building! Yes tonight comedian and talk show host Joy Behar will be talking with Jimmy. You probably know Joy as one of the hosts of The View or from her own ,The Joy Behar Show, on CNN's sister network HLN. Joy is a New York City native, born in Brooklyn. After establishing herself as a successful stand up and actress she joined The View in 1997. Fred Armisen has often impersonated Joy on SNL and recently on her show she confronted Fred about it (it was much less dramatic than that):

So what!? (Tune in tonight.)

Tonight professional snowboarder Hannah Teter will be on Late Night. Teter won the Gold Medal in Women's Half Pipe in the 2006 Winter Olympics and will compete in the 2010 Winter Olympic Games in Vancouver. Teter is the only professional snowboarder to have a Ben & Jerry's flavor named after her - Maple Blondie. She also has her own company, Hannah's Gold, which sells maple Vermont maple syrup and partner's with World Vision for charity work in Africa. All good things.

Another amazing thing - Hannah is partnering with Samsung to send 10 lucky winners to the 2010 Olympics to be 'mobile explorers' for them. They need people (read: YOU) to be Samsung's Official Bloggers. You can go to Samsung's website and sign up with a friend (or family member - take your mom!) to be a blogging team and if you're picked, you go to the Olympics! You should go sign up! And tune in tonight!

Actor and comedian Tom Arnold is a guest on LNWJF tonight.

3 Things You Did Not Know About Tom Arnold (unless you read his Wikipedia page)

1. Arnold attended Ottumwa High School and began doing stand-up comedy when he was 23. He met comedian Roseanne Barr when she saw his act in 1983.

2. In the early 80s, Tom Arnold had a comedy routine called "Tom Arnold and the Goldfish Review". Starting with a bowl full of goldfish, he used various props such as a toy motorcycle, condoms and such. At the end of the routine, Tom would swallow all the goldfish for the final laugh.

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Tonight comedian, actor, writer and roastmaster Jeffrey Ross will be on Late Night. Ross is best known for his insult comic style stand up and for his being the current "Roastmster General" for the New York Friar's Club.

He has hosted the past six Comedy Central Roasts including the roasts of Bob Saget, Flavor Flav, and William Shatner. Ross also has a new book out about his roasting techniques entitled I Only Roast The Ones I Love. If you're in NYC, he will be performing for four nights at Carolines on Broadway so you should go see him. This is unconfirmed, but I'm sure some of his friends call him "The Rossmaster". I bet he'd destroy me if I said that to him. Tune in tonight!

Tonight, Jimmy's crafty pal Martha Stewart is back on the show! She'll be showing Jimmy how to make a croquembouche. A croquemwhat? A croquembouche! It's a Christmas-tree-shaped thingy made out of stacked up cream-puffs! Sounds delicious - and FANCY! In the meantime, remember last time Martha was on the show? She brought her two French Bulldogs, Francesca and Sharkey, to help make stuff for your pets. Francesca totally had a crush on Jimmy:

Yay! The adorable and talented SNL cast member Abby Elliott is on the show tonight. She was one of our guests on a test show, so we're really excited that it's for REAL this time! She's got some amazing impressions, including this one that she recently did on Weekend Update, which I LOVE:

The DOOOOGS, Seth!

Tonight Engadget editor-in-chief Josh Topolsky will be talking to Jimmy about the happenings and the goings on in the tech world. Big news dropped this week - Google announced that they will be making and selling their own phone, the Nexus One, and Engadget had exclusive pictures and what we call in the biz as "the scoop". The Nexus One will be sold by Google starting in January. This is big news, since no other smart phone front runners (the Palm Pre, the iPhone, etc.) are sold directly through the hardware company but instead are sold through their mobile carrier. In plain English that means, you'll be able to buy the phone off Google.com and put it on a carrier of your choice. That's the future people! Being the editor-in-chief of a huge gadget blog like Engadget has its privileges and one of those privileges is Josh being able to bring some mad technology to Late Night tonight. Tune in! Let's nerd out together!

Jude Law returns to Late Night tonight! Do you remember the last time he was on the show and recited Poker Face? That was fun. You can vote for that in the Late Nighties Best Celebrity Reading category today. Jude is playing the role of Dr. John Watson in the upcoming Sherlock Holmes. Here's the trailer. Enjoy.

You better bring your A-game tonight because Chris Jericho is on the show tonight and he means business!! Chris Jericho is a man of many talents. He is a WWE professional wrestler, was born on Long Island, and raised in Canada. Athletics run in his family, as his father, Ted Irvine, played for the New York Rangers. Jericho is credited as the first ever undisputed champion of the WWE. Aside from wrestling, Jericho is also the lead singer of Fozzie. You can keep up with him at his Twitter and read his book A Lions Tale: Around the World in Spandex.

You can see him this Saturday at 9pm on NBC in the WWE Tribute to the Troops and every Friday at 8pm for Friday Night Smackdown. But you should really tune in tonight because Late Night will never...ever...EVER be the same again!

Wait, what? Paul Shaffer on our show tonight? Did he get lost? Isn't he supposed to be at the Late Show with David Letterman? Wrong studio, buddy! Just kiddddding - Paul's visiting us tonight to swap Late Night stories with Jimmy and The Roots! He'll also talk about his book, We'll be Here for the Rest of Our Lives: A Swingin' Show-biz Saga. With Paul's long and legendary career as a late night band leader, and de facto sidekick, I'm sure this book has many great stories. He started out as a band member on Saturday Night Live when it first premiered (while also making regular appearances in sketches), and then in 1982, he took the role of band leader for Late Night with David Letterman. And the rest is Shaffer history! I've heard there may be some type of interaction between Paul and The Roots tonight - maybe some kind of battle of the Late Night bands? That would rule!

Jeff Musial returns tonight! He's got lots of great animals with him. Here's one that looks like a scary monster. In fact, it's a red tegu:

Let's hope he doesn't escape like last time.

Endocrinologist, lecturer, and author of books on spirituality and mind-body medicine, Deepak Chopra is a guest on LNWJF tonight.

3 Things You Did Not Know About Deepak Chopra (unless you read his Wikipedia page)

1. Chopra taught at the Tufts University and Boston University Schools of Medicine. He became Chief of Staff at the New England Memorial Hospital in Massachusetts and Chief at Boston Regional Medical Center in Boston, Massachusetts, before establishing a private practice.

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Did you hear about the Morgans? They have a movie out! It's called Did You Hear About The Morgans? One of the "Morgans" that I'm talking about is Sarah Jessica Parker who is on the show tonight talking with Jimmy. Sarah Jessica Parker needs no introduction. She's a great actress who became known for her portrayal of Carrie Bradshaw in Sex and the City which won her several awards including two Emmys. She starred in Sex and the City: The Movie and its sequel, which will be released in 2010.

Check out the trailer for Did You Hear About The Morgans? and tune in to see Sarah Jessica Parker tonight!

Tonight, director Jason Reitman is on the show to talk about his new film, Up in the Air. I saw it this weekend - and I can tell you, it's awesome. Can't wait to hear about it from the director himself. The film takes place largely in airports, airplanes, and hotels, so I'm curious if they actually flew around the country to all these different airports to shoot the film. Oh, and it stars a little-known actor by the name of George Clooney. Or should I say, George Swoon-ey? AM I RIGHT, ladies? Ahem. Sorry, got off track there for a second. Aaaanyway, you probably remember Jason from his previous films, Juno and Thank You For Smoking.  His father is the famous producer/director, Ivan Reitman, who directed Stripes, Ghostbusters, Meatballs, Ghostbusters II, Dave, and Legal Eagles. So yeah, I think it's safe to say that directing awesome movies is in his blood. No pressure, every future Reitman child!  Seriously though, Jason's going to be a fun guest on the show tonight - don't miss it.

Tonight actress Marion Cotillard will be talking with Jimmy about her upcoming movie Nine. Cotillard is a French actress with a background in singing and acting, and since Nine is a musical movie, that works out well. Cotillard had been seen in films like Gerard Pires' Taxi (not to be confused with Jimmy's film Taxi with Queen Latifah) and later Tim Burton's Big Fish. She was widely recognized for portrayal of Edith Piaf in La Vie en rose and won multiple awards for performance including a Golden Globe for Best Actress in a Musical or Comedy. She also recently starred alongside Johnny Depp in Public Enemies.

A random fact about Cotillard - one of her first on screen appearances was in Highlander: The Series. If you haven't watched the trailer for Nine you really should go watch it now. It looks spectacular.

Giovanni Ribisi whose film credits include Gone in Sixty Seconds, Saving Private Ryan, That Thing You Do!, Boiler Room, subUrbia, Lost in Translation, and most recently, Public Enemies and Avatar is a guest on LNWJF tonight.

3 Things You Did Not Know About Giovanni Ribisi (unless you read his Wikipedia page)

1. Ribisi began his career in network television with recurring and guest roles on a number of shows, including The New Leave It to Beaver, Married With Children, The Wonder Years and My Two Dads.

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Tonight actress and superstar Kate Hudson will be joining Jimmy to talk about her upcoming musical movie Nine. Here's a few things to know about her:

• Her breakthrough was as Penny Lane Almost Famous, for which she received an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress and won the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress - Motion Picture. She also appears in Almost Famous with a bearded Jimmy Fallon (who plays the band's new manager, Dennis Hope).
• Shortly after Almost Famous, she appeared in How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days, a romantic comedy, became a big success at the box office.
• In Nine she plays Stephanie, a fashion journalist in the musical story about the chaotic life of Italian flim director Guido Contini.

Check out the trailer for Nine after the break. It looks pretty amazing.

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Tonight Mary Steenburgen will be on the show talking with Jimmy about her new film, Did You Hear About The Morgans? Steenburgen began acting in New York City in 1972 and was discovered by Jack Nicholson in the reception room of Paramount's New York office. She went on to star such films as Back To The Future, Parenthood, The Butchers Wife, Step Brothers, Philadelphia, and Elf. What good movies, right!? She has also appeared in TV roles on Law and Order: Special Victims Unit, Back To The Future: The Animated Series, and Curb Your Enthusiasm (alongside her husband Ted Danson).

Other than being an Oscar winning actress, Steenburgen is also a business owner and philanthropist. Recently she launched a line of candles with her daughter Lilly with the company Nell's Compass. The candle scents are inspired by Steenburgen's travels around the world as an actor. And best of all, each candle supports Heifer International, a wonderful charity that focuses on ending world hunger in poorer countries.

Snoop Dogg is DOMINATING the show tonight! He's going to do an interview and a performance with The Roots! He'll be talking about his album Malice in Wonderland, how he provided his voice for a Tom Tom GPS system, and more. We got to see him rehearse with The Roots, and it's going to awesome. You'll definitely want to keep an eye out for Snoop's INSANE microphone, which is gigantic and covered in diamonds. Cory got to hold it, and I'm jealous.

On last night's LNWJF Julianne Moore talked to Jimmy about singing 30 Rock, her family band, and showering with her dog. David Alan Grier talked to Jimmy about his book and his role on Broadway in Race and another lucky audience member took home a Christmas sweater.

Julianne Moore: Singing and Showering

Watch David Alan Grier and 12 Days of Christmas Sweaters after the jump.

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The abundantly talented Julianne Moore will be visiting the show tonight! She'll be talking about her new film, A Single Man, co-starring Colin Firth and directed by recent Late Night guest, Tom Ford. The story revolves around an English professor who must deal with life after the death of his partner. Julianne plays his best friend, with a delightful British accent. Previously, she played amazing roles in Boogie Nights, Magnolia, The Hours, The End of the Affair, and Far from Heaven. (Personally, I loved her most in Nine Months opposite Hugh Grant.) Fun fact: Julianne played two half-sisters, Frannie and Sabrina, on the soap As The World Turns from 1985-1988. Look how far she's come! (Our show - the pinnacle of every actor's career. Duh.)

David Alan Grier, the actor and comedian known for his work on the sketch comedy television show In Living Color and the Comedy Central satirical news and sketch comedy program Chocolate News is a guest on LNWJF tonight.

3 Things You Did Not Know About David Alan Grier (unless you read his Wikipedia page)

1. Grier received a BA from the University of Michigan, and an MFA from the Yale School of Drama. Immediately after graduating, he landed the role of Jackie Robinson in the short-lived Broadway musical The First, directed by Martin Charnin and written by Joel Siegel.

2. Although primarily known for his dramatic work, Grier began to shift towards comedy, making memorable appearances in the cult films Amazon Women on the Moon and I'm Gonna Git You Sucka. Keenen Ivory Wayans, the director of Sucka, cast Grier in his new variety show In Living Color. It became a ratings hit and won an Emmy for Outstanding Variety Series. Grier became a popular cast member through his characters, which ranged from hyperactive children to crotchety old men. Among his prominent characters were obnoxious, megaphone-blaring shop teacher Al MacAfee; the elderly Mr. Brooks, whose autumn years are a never-ending verbal battle with his wife; Calhoun Tubbs, a blues musician with very limited creativity; a member of Funky Finger Productions, a production company with more ambition than resources; and, most famously, flamboyant and proud homosexual Antoine Merriweather in the recurring sketch 'Men On Film'.

3. He was often referred to as the third host of the radio show Loveline, as he was a frequent guest and guest host (usually filling in for Adam Carolla). One of his most famous contributions was a bit where he began calling out various pharmaceutical drugs Dr. Drew was recommending to a caller as though they were the names of black children being yelled at by their parents. The episode aired on 09/07/2005 towards the end of the show.

Susan Essman, stand-up comedienne and comic actress in television and films best known for her role as Susie Greene, the verbally abusive wife of Larry David's manager on the HBO show Curb Your Enthusiasm is a guest on LNWJF tonight.

3 Things You Did Not Know About Susie Essman (unless you read her Wikipedia page)

1. Essman told the New York Times that by the show's third season, she could not "walk down the street anymore without people stopping her and begging her to say her character's catchphrase 'You fat f*ck.'" Her doorman does not give Essman her mail until she says it to him.

2. Essman also provided the voice of Helen Higgins on the Comedy Central series Crank Yankers; she was an occasional correspondent on the first season of the network's The Daily Show. She has brought her distinctive New York voice and style to a number of small parts in movies and television, starting with memorable comic cameos in three 1988 films --Crocodile Dundee II, Baby Boom and Punchline.

3. She is best friends with comedienne and The View co-host Joy Behar. She does not eat meat--"Not a moral thing," she explains, but "aesthetic"; chicken "grosses me out"--and "lives on sushi".

Remember the very first week of Late Night shows back in March? Jon Bon Jovi was a guest, and he got Tina Fey to dance for him. It was a magical night. Tonight, it's not just Jon Bon Jovi - it's BON JOVI! As in, the entire band. They're here to promote their new album, The Circle. We'll be seeing an interview (with possibly some of your questions answered by the band), AND a performance. DOUBLE WHAMMY, people. (Also - it's not too late to submit a video question for the band - but do it soon!)

Now if you'll excuse me, I have to go put on my Bon Jovi wig.

Are you ready to get fashion forward tonight? Or should I say, "fashion ford" for short? That's because brilliant fashion designer Tom Ford is on the show! Tom Ford is a giant in the world of fashion. He became internationally known for his turnaround of the Gucci label, and since 2004 has been adorning people with his own line of luxurious designs. Tom is also a film director: his first film, A Single Man, premiered in 2008 at the Venice International Film Festival, and starred Colin Firth. He's got an eyewear line, a fragrance...looks like someone's been reading 50 Cent's book about succeeding in business!! Or maybe he's just incredibly talented. Either way, I'm excited. I hope Tom gives us some office holiday party fashion tips. I want to ask him if he thinks my lace body-suit is too formal.

Tonight Rachel Maddow will be a guest on Late Night. Rachel is the host of The Rachel Maddow Show on MSNBC. Here's a clip from her last guest appearance on the show. Can't wait to see what she will do tonight!

Tonight 50 Cent will be in da club (also known as "on the show") talking with Jimmy! As you probably know 50 Cent is a rapper, actor, producer and entrepreneur. He rose to fame with the multi-platinum albums Get Rich or Die Tryin' and The Massacre. He has also worked with Vitamin Water to release his own drink, Formula 50. What a busy man. "Fiddy" is also famous for starting beefs with other rappers - The Game, Cam'ron, Fat Joe, Rick Ross and others. One of his most recent - and most hilarious - beefs is with YouTube vlogger Pruane2Forever, aka Sexman. Here's how the beef ended up:

Wow. Check the history of Sexman and 50 Cent's beef after the break!

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Jason Bateman who has starred in several 1980s sitcoms as well as the role of Michael Bluth on the sitcom Arrested Development (and currently is in the film Up in the Air) is a guest on LNWJF tonight.

3 Things You Did Not Know About Jason Bateman (unless you read his Wikipedia page)

1. Bateman's older sister is Justine Bateman of Family Ties fame (and Satisfaction); he also has three half-brothers.

2. Bateman began acting in 1981, playing James Cooper Ingalls in the television drama, Little House on the Prairie. He appeared in the Knight Rider third-season episode "Lost Knight" in 1984. He earned the status of teen idol in the mid-1980s in shows such as Silver Spoons, It's Your Move, and most notably Valerie (later renamed Valerie's Family and then The Hogan Family after Valerie Harper left the series), and became the Directors Guild of America's youngest-ever director when he helmed three episodes of The Hogan Family at the age of 18.

3. In 2002, Bateman was cast as Michael Bluth in the comedy series Arrested Development. Although critically acclaimed, the series never achieved high ratings. It ended in a two-hour series finale (four episodes in a row) on February 10, 2006, broadcast opposite the opening ceremony of the 2006 Winter Olympics. Bateman won several awards for his work on the series, including a Golden Globe for Best Actor in a Television Series Musical or Comedy. He was also nominated in 2005 for the Emmy Award for Outstanding Actor in a Comedy Series.

Tonight Troy Polamalu will be a guest on Late Night. Troy is a two time Super Bowl champion with the Pittsburgh Steelers and five time Pro Bowl selection. He has also not had a haircut in NINE years. And he's in this great Coke commercial:

Tune in tonight. He's going to run some drills with Jimmy.

SPOILER ALERT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

January Jones is on the show tonight.

Don't get mad! It's my job to tell you. Anyway, are you still reeling from the series finale of Mad Men? So are we, and that's why we've got THE Betty Draper here. We just aren't ready to say goodbye yet. Do you think she'll be able to tell us anything about Season 4 (which now seems tortuously far away)? Okay, I think that might be wishful thinking. Instead, I hope she'll talk to us about what it was like to grow up in a tiny town in South Dakota, her days modeling for Abercrombie & Fitch, her love of sharks, what Jon Hamm smells like, and what her favorite Mad Men parody is. Also - in case you didn't know, this weekend, she's hosting SNL. Awesome.

Rashida Jones is stopping by Late Night tonight. If you've been living under a rock (which is totally ok, we don't judge), you may not know that Rashida Jones was a cast member on The Office and now stars on Parks and Recreation. This is Rashida's second time on Late Night. Refresh yourself and watch her interview here. And check out this clip of her on The Jeannie Tate Show:

"We're gonna do the show in the minivan? Oh no."

Academy-Award winning actor and legendary comedian Robin Williams is ON THE SHOW TONIGHT! How's that for an "awesome" alert everyone?! This is going to be crazy. I'm personally going to try and count how many different impressions Robin and Jimmy do during the course of the interview. I would turn it into a drinking game, but it might give me alcohol poisoning if I do that. Robin will be talking (at least for half a second) about his new film, Old Dogs, and his co-stars John Travolta and Seth Green. BIG BIG SHOW TONIGHT. You will definitely want to watch, because let's face it - it's the week after Thanksgiving and you're still gorging on leftovers and you need an excuse to stay up and eat that almost-week-old turkey and cranberry sauce sandwich. Please be careful.

Actress and singer-songwriter, best known for portraying Peggy Bundy on Married...with Children Turanga Leela on Futurama and Gemma Teller Morrow on Sons of Anarchy, Katey Sagal is a guest on LNWJF tonight.

3 Things You Did Not Know About Katey Sagal (unless you read her Wikipedia page)

1. Katey Sagal is the daughter of director Boris Sagal, best known for his work on 1960s television dramas, including The Twilight Zone. Her mother, Sara Zwilling, was a producer.

2. Sagal is the older sister of twin actresses Jean and Liz Sagal, best remembered as the Doublemint Twins of the early 1980s, and for their own short-lived sitcom of that era, Double Trouble.

3. In 1973 Katey worked as a backing vocalist for various singers, including Bob Dylan and Tanya Tucker.

Obviously the biggest news of today is that New Moon drops tonight at 12:01am. OMG!!! Seriously, I think every theater in NYC is sold out and there is gonna be a riot in the streets tonight while people are waiting for the Twilight saga to continue. And tonight Taylor Lautner will be a guest on Late Night.

Here's a few facts about Taylor to prep you for tonight:

• He's an accomplished martial artist, studying karate from age 6 to 13. At age 12 he won the Junior World Championships.
• At age 13 he won the role of Shark Boy in the Robert Rodriguez film, The Adventures of Sharkboy and Lavagirl in 3-D.
• The director of New Moon considered replacing Lautner with a different actor. To keep the role, Lautner weight-trained extensively and gained approximately 30 pounds.
• His nick name is "Dr. Abs".

Ok, I may have made up one of those facts. Tune in tonight!

I cannot take credit for writing this post. This was initially written and posted by Sara when Jamie Kennedy first appeared on the show....

Don't scream everybody, but Jamie Kennedy is on the show tonight! I wonder if he'll kick it old skool with Jimmy. Good thing the studio is air-conditioned, otherwise it would totally feel like a boiler room. I hope Jamie Kennedy will experiment with his talk-show style tonight. If there are any really big fans in the audience, I think they might scream two times. Or maybe even scream three times! I heard that after the show we're all going to go to White Castle. I'm pretty sure everyone in America is going to want to see the show - but I have inside information that in particular, it's Malibu's most wanted. Ooooooookay, I'll stop!!! Seriously though, very subtle references to his career aside, Jamie will be here tonight talking about his role on The Ghost Whisperer, and to just generally make us laugh! Don't miss it.

Tonight Kristen Stewart will be talking to Jimmy about the sensation that is New Moon. Kristen is one of the stars of the Twilight saga and has also starred in other films like Adventureland, Into The Wild, and The Messengers. Check out the trailer for New Moon and tune in tonight!

OMGGGGGGGGGzzzzz everyone. Tonight wunder-chef David Chang of Momofuku restaurant fame will be teaching Jimmy how to make some delicious food. If you've never eaten at any of the Momofuku restaurants do yourself a favor and go there when you're in NYC. You don't eat out much? That's ok, just get the new Momofuku book. Listen people. Listen to me with your "stomach ears". You need this book. And it makes a great holiday gift for your avid chef brother/sister/monster-in-law. And then they can make you delicious pork buns and Crack Pie, just what the holidays are about! So get the book because it's about to blow up. Speaking of blowing up, look closely at this picture:

Oh yes. There will also be blowtorches tonight. Tune in! And get the book !

Tonight, G4 queen and Attack of the Show! co-host Olivia Munn will be stopping by Studio 6B! We're going to have some serious fun with her tonight - and a very special guest will be stopping by to join in! If you're not familiar with Olivia's work, here's a quick nerd guide:

• Olivia got her acting start in a straight-to-video horror flick called Scarecrow Gone Wild.


• In 2005, landed the role of Mily Acuna, a teen surfer, on the show Beyond the Break on The N network.


• In 2006, Olivia took over hosting duties with co-host Kevin Pereira on G4's Attack of The Show! (AOTS), a show that brings you the latest in digital media, technology, and video games.


• AOTS was not her first experience in live television: she once interned for Fox Sports Net and did some sideline reporting for college football and women's basketball.


• One time on AOTS, Olivia dislocated her shoulder on a baby oil slip n' slide. See the incident (and her funny recap) here.

Don't miss tonight's show - but in the meantime: follow her on Twitter!

Artie Lange is a comedian, radio personality, author, and actor best known for his work on the Howard Stern show. And he's a guest on Late Night tonight.

5 Things You Did Not Know About Artie Lange (unless you read his Wikipedia page)

1. Early in life Lange was arrested for attempted bank robbery. He claimed he was flirting with the bank teller and passed her a joke note with a request for $50,000 with his name signed at the bottom. When he found out police were searching for him he turned himself in. As part of his probation, Lange attended the Connecticut School of Broadcasting from March to June 1987. This led to him pursuing a comedy career, after he was heavily influenced by Richard Lewis.

2. In 1995, he landed a role as one of the original cast members of FOX's sketch comedy show MADtv. Lange had previous sketch comedy experience with the improv troupe "Live on Tape". Lange later attributed his hiring to the fact that he fit the John Belushi mold that was popular in sketch comedy.

3. Comedian Norm Macdonald, impressed by Lange's work on Mad TV, offered him a part in the 1998 movie Dirty Work. Although Lange frequently jokes about the film's poor reception he credits Macdonald and director Bob Saget with rejuvenating his comedy career, leading to several more film appearances and a lucrative TV development deal.

4. Lange was a cast member on the shortlived The Norm Show, starring Norm Macdonald. After its cancellation, Lange would be selected from numerous guest comedians auditioning to replace Jackie Martling on The Howard Stern Show, beginning full time on October 29, 2001.

5. On November 11, 2008, Artie's first book, Too Fat To Fish, was released. The book is a collection of narrative episodes from throughout Lange's life, from his childhood to his recent USO trip to Afghanistan in July 2008. The foreword is written by Howard Stern.

Fred Armisen is on the show tonight in a post-Thanksgiving haze of hilarity! The interview is going to be great, but also - Fred will show us his amazingly accurate impressions of different drummers. Rad. Remember last time he was on the show, when he and Jimmy joined The Mighty Boosh in a raucous rendition of Jean Claude Jacquettie? NO? Well then, please, by all means, refresh your memory:

Rashida Jones is stopping by Late Night tonight! If you've been living under a rock (which is totally ok, I don't judge), you may not know that Rashida Jones was a cast member on The Office and now on Parks and Recreation. This is Rashida's second time on Late Night. Refresh yourself and watch her interview here. And check out this clip of her on The Jeannie Tate Show:

"We're gonna do the show in the minivan? Oh no."

Tomorrow night on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon chef Daniel Boulud will show us how to make his delightful Turkey and Sweet Potato Hash with Soft Poached Egg dish from Thanksgiving leftovers! Now you can make it yourself (or have someone else make it for you) with this sneak peek secret recipe revealed after the jump. (It's not really secret.)

Daniel works on the board of the terrific charity Citymeals (where you can text donations) and this is a great time of the year to check out their website. Also, be sure to check out Daniel Boulud's new book, "Braised."

See the recipe after the jump.

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Academy-Award winning actor and legendary comedian Robin Williams is ON THE SHOW TONIGHT! Yeah, Happy freakin' Thanksgiving everyone! This is going to be crazy. I'm personally going to try and count how many different impressions Robin and Jimmy do during the course of the interview. I would turn it into a drinking game, but it might give me alcohol poisoning if I do that. Robin will be talking (at least for half a second) about his new film, Old Dogs, and his co-stars John Travolta and Seth Green. BIG BIG SHOW TONIGHT. You will definitely want to watch - because let's face it, you're going to take a 5 hour nap after dinner and will be wide awake come show time.

Padma Lakshmi, cookbook author, actress, model, and host of the US reality television program Top Chef since season two is a guest on LNWJF tonight.

3 Things You Did Not Know About Padma Lakshmi (unless you read her Wikipedia page)

1. Lakshmi's career began at age 16, when she was discovered by a modeling agent in Spain while sitting in a cafe. As she has stated, "I was the first Indian model to have a career in Paris, Milan and New York. I'm the first one to admit that I was a novelty."

2. Lakshmi had a comical supporting role as the lip synching disco singer Sylk in the 2001 American movie Glitter with Mariah Carey.

3. In 2009, Padma starred in the EELS video for the song 'That Look You Give That Guy', playing the love interest of Mark Oliver Everett.

Tonight Seth Green Makes his return to Late Night. Seth Green is co-starring in the upcoming movie Old Dogs.

3 Things You Did Not Know About Seth Green (unless you read his Wikipedia page)

1. He appeared in the 1987 film Can't Buy Me Love, playing the part of Patrick Dempsey's little brother, Chuckie Miller. He also starred in Woody Allen's Radio Days (1987) as Joe, and appeared in Big Business and, in the same year, in My Stepmother Is an Alien.

2. He is a co-creator and producer of the stop motion TV series Robot Chicken, for which he also does many voices and has even appeared in animated form.

3.In July, Green guest hosted the July 13th episode of WWE Raw. Green competed in the main event, a six-man tag team match, which his team won by disqualification.

Tonight five time Pro Bowler (not that kind of bowlng!) & Cincinnati Bengals wide receiver Chad Ocho Cinco is a guest on Late Night! Chad Ocho Cinco, who legally changed his last name to "Ocho Cinco" from "Johnson" to match his #85 jersey, is one of the most entertaining athletes in the NFL. Not only is he an amazing athlete (five time Pro Bowl, three time All Pro, Bengals most all-time receptions record to name a few), he's also very entertaining and accessible on the web. Here's three ways to follow him:

• Follow his Twitter account: @OGOchoCinco
• Watch his UStream show: Ustream.tv/ogochocinco
• Catch up on HBO's Hardknocks: Cincinatti Bengals: Here's a sample where he has to give up his online life

Now you're ready. Tune in tonight! Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaand......BREAK!

3 Things You Did Not Know About Claire Danes (unless you read her Wikipedia page)

1. Danes attended the Dalton School in New York City, the New York City Lab School for Collaborative Studies, the Professional Performing Arts School, and the Lycée Français de Los Angeles in Los Angeles, California. In 1998, Danes went to Yale University, her father's alma mater. Oliver Stone wrote her letter of recommendation to Yale.

2. In 1994, 15-year-old Danes starred as the 15-year-old Angela Chase in the television drama series My So-Called Life, for which she won a Golden Globe Award and received an Emmy nomination.

3. Danes had her first onscreen kiss in an episode of My So-Called Life before she had one in real life.

Blake Lively, the actress most known for portraying Serena van der Woodsen from the TV series Gossip Girl is a guest on LNWJF tonight.

3 Things You Did Not Know About Blake Lively (unless you read her Wikipedia page)

1. During Lively's' childhood, she attended 13 different schools. When she was three years old, her mother enrolled her in the first grade because Lively's older brother was supposed to start school, but he didn't want to go alone. Her mother told the school Lively was six since she "was so tall". After a few weeks, her teachers "said they would have to put me in mentally disabled classes because I wasn't up to pace with the rest of the kids," and they thought that she "was slow because all I wanted to do was sleep while the other kids were doing their projects." Shortly afterwards Lively's mother took her out of the school. As a child, Lively was homeschooled.

2. Lively was not at all interested in acting but during the summer between her junior and senior years, her brother, Eric, made his agent send her out on a few auditions over the period of a few months; of the few auditions, she got the role of Bridget for The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants. Lively filmed her scenes in The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants between her junior and senior years at Burbank High.

3. Lively was cast in the CW's series Gossip Girl which premiered in September 2007. She plays Serena van der Woodsen in the teen drama.[12] While rumors of infighting among the Gossip Girl co-stars have circulated in the tabloids, Lively denies that there is any unfriendly competition on-set. "The media is always trying to pit us against each other," she said in an interview, "I guess because it's just not interesting to say, 'Everyone gets along; everybody just works 18-hour days and goes home to sleep.' That's not fun to read, I guess."

Watch the trailer for The Private Lives of Pippa Lee after the jump.

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Elvis Costello, the singer-songwriter who came to prominence as an early participant in London's pub rock scene in the mid-1970s, and later became associated with the punk rock and New Wave musical genres is a guest on LNWJF tonight.

3 Things You Did Not Know About Elvis Costello (unless you read his Wikipedia page)

1. Costello's first broadcast recording was alongside his dad in a television commercial for R. White's Lemonade ("I'm a Secret Lemonade Drinker"). His father wrote and sang the song; Costello provided backing vocals. The ad won a silver award at the 1974 International Advertising Festival.

2. Costello was born Declan Patrick MacManus in St Mary's Hospital, London.

3. On the basis of a demo tape, Costello was signed to independent label Stiff Records. His manager at Stiff, Jake Riviera, suggested a name change, combining Elvis Presley's first name and Costello, his paternal grandmother's maiden name.

Joseph Gordon-Levitt is hosting SNL this weekend, but first, he's stopping by our show to talk about hosting, his movies, and his super cool website HitRecord.org. You might have first gotten to know Joseph when he played an old and wise alien trapped inside the body of a young boy on 3rd Rock from the Sun. He's gone on to an illustrious film in career, most recently with his funny and sweet role in 500 Days of Summer, opposite Zooey Deschanel. In case you missed it, Joseph appeared in an adorable music video with Zooey in connection with the movie coming out:

Be sure to tune in tonight - Joseph and Jimmy will compete in a special game!

Actress and singer-songwriter, best known for portraying Peggy Bundy on Married...with Children Turanga Leela on Futurama and Gemma Teller Morrow on Sons of Anarchy, Katey Sagal is a guest on LNWJF tonight.

3 Things You Did Not Know About Katey Sagal (unless you read her Wikipedia page)

1. Katey Sagal is the daughter of director Boris Sagal, best known for his work on 1960s television dramas, including The Twilight Zone. Her mother, Sara Zwilling, was a producer.

2. Sagal is the older sister of twin actresses Jean and Liz Sagal, best remembered as the Doublemint Twins of the early 1980s, and for their own short-lived sitcom of that era, Double Trouble.

3. In 1973 Katey worked as a backing vocalist for various singers, including Bob Dylan and Tanya Tucker.

Don't scream everybody, but Jamie Kennedy is on the show tonight! I wonder if he'll kick it old skool with Jimmy. Good thing the studio is air-conditioned, otherwise it would totally feel like a boiler room. I hope Jamie Kennedy will experiment with his talk-show style tonight. If there are any really big fans in the audience, I think they might scream two times. Or maybe even scream three times! I heard that after the show we're all going to go to White Castle. I'm pretty sure everyone in America is going to want to see the show - but I have inside information that in particular, it's Malibu's most wanted. Ooooooookay, I'll stop!!! Seriously though, very subtle references to his career aside, Jamie will be here tonight talking about his role on The Ghost Whisperer, and to just generally make us laugh! Don't miss it.

Tonight Kristen Stewart will be talking to Jimmy about the upcoming release of New Moon. Kristen is one of the stars of the Twilight saga and has also starred in other films like Adventureland, Into The Wild, and The Messengers. Check out the trailer for New Moon and tune in tonight!

Shakira, the singer-songwriter, musician, record producer, dancer and philanthropist who emerged as a musical prodigy in the music scene of Latin America in the early 1990s is a guest on LNWJF tonight! Born and raised in Barranquilla, Colombia, Shakira revealed many of her talents in school as a live performer, demonstrating her vocal ability with rock and roll, Latin and Middle Eastern influences with her own original twist on belly dancing. Her newest video with Lil' Wayne was debuted live on Facebook yesterday. Check it out!

Visit Shakira's charity the Barefoot Foundation which helps all children exercise their basic right to an education, paving the way for their growth and development in society.

The lovely Anna Torv will be joining us tonight! Australian-born Anna plays FBI agent Olivia Dunham on Fringe, but you might also know her as the main character Nariko in the video game Heavenly Sword for Playstation 3. In other words: she's a TOTAL BADASS!

When Anna's not entangled in a J.J. Abrams plot-web, Anna loves the outdoors. To destress her life, she reads books and employs what Australians call the "ten-yard stare" while going on long walks. It's when you set your focus onto the horizon. Sounds intense. I'll have to try it sometime while I'm at work. Though for me it would probably be more like a one-yard stare. My office is pretty small. When Cory asks why I'm staring at the side of his head, I'll say, "WHAT? Anna Torv told me I could do it!!!"

Tonight country star and actor Tim McGraw will be talking with Jimmy about his new film The Blind Side. Tim McGraw is a country legend and a fantastic actor - Friday Night Lights anyone? Check him out in the trailer for The Blind Side:

Operation Waterworks, right? It looks like a great movie and I might've just pulled a hanky out at work. Check out this extended interview about The Blind Side with Tim McGraw after the jump and tune in tonight!

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Love guru Steven Ward is back on the show tonight to give us some more dating advice! Season 2 of Steven's Vh1 show Tough Love begins this weekend, and he's got a new book out with his mom, JoAnn Ward, called Crash Course in Love. Since Steven's got so much advice to give, here are some of the questions I'm hoping he'll answer on tonight's show:

• What should I wear on a first date? The LED dress or thong jeans?


• How do I ask a guy out on a date? Write it on his Facebook wall, or on his bathroom wall while he's in the shower?


• What's the best way to get a man's attention at the laundromat? Folding my underwear really obviously, or folding HIS underwear really obviously?

Tonight Amanda Peet makes her return to Late Night to promote 2012! I don't know about you guys, but 2012 looks really intense (and awesome). Mostly because I'm sort of afraid that the whole 2012 theory could be correct. Knock on wood, am I right? Let's hope not. But expect great earth shattering things from Amanda Peet tonight on Late Night. Here's a refresher of her last visit:

If those bulls happen in the 2012 we're all screwed.

Penn & Teller (Penn Jillette and Teller) the Las Vegas headliners whose act is comprised of illusion and comedy are guests on LNWJF tonight! They specialize in gory tricks, exposing frauds, and performing clever pranks! Here they are promoting the seventh season of their Showtime show, "Penn & Teller: Bullsh*t!". (NSFW, language)

As you probably know, I am a huge Grey's Anatomy fan, so that means by default that I am also a Private Practice fan. Which meeeeans I am super excited about tonight's guest, Kate Walsh! When Kate is not playing Dr. Addison "McLadySteamy"* Montgomery, she blogs AND vlogs at her website, she twitters, she helps save sea turtles, and she stars in the occasional feature film! In fact, she just finished shooting Legion alongside Dennis Quaid and Paul Bettany, which, judging by the trailer, looks awesome and probably more than a little terrifying (Creepy grandma demon!! Scary clowny-long-legs!). It comes out in 2010 (which is soon!). In the meantime, you can find her on Private Practice on ABC Thursdays at 10!

*Nickname that I just totally made up. You're welcome.

Tonight funny lady and actress Joan Cusack is a guest on Late Night. Joan Cusack is a veteran actress and has been in tons of movies like Sixteen Candles, Gross Pointe Blank, Say Anything, In & Out, and High Fidelity to name a few. She can also be 'heard' in the highly anticipated Toy Story 3.

Joan is also involved with Cookies for Kid's Cancer, a fantastic, and delicious, charity that is easy to get involved with. You throw your own bake sale and Glad will match all funds raised. So if you're making cookies this season anyway, do it for kids with cancer! Go to the website to find out the four step process to do hold your very own bake sale and raise money for kids with cancer, and Glad will match all of it! Such a great idea. You can also order some of her cookies for yourself. I partook of some today and I can assure you they are good. Very good. Tune in tonight to see Joan on the show!

Actor and musician perhaps best known for his roles in the films Rushmore, Shopgirl, The Darjeeling Limited, and Funny People as well as the new HBO comedy series Bored to Death and the upcoming Fantastic Mr. Fox, Jason Schwartzman is a guest on LNWJF tonight.

3 Things You Did Not Know About Jason Schwartzman (unless you read his Wikipedia page)

1. Schwartzman was born in Los Angeles, California; the son of actress Talia Shire. Yes, that Talia Shire from Rocky and The Godfather.

2. Many other members of Schwartzman's family are involved in film; he is the nephew of Francis Ford Coppola, cousin of Nicolas Cage, Sofia Coppola, Roman Coppola and Christopher Coppola, and grandson of Italia Coppola and Carmine Coppola. His brother is actor/musician Robert Schwartzman (vocalist for the band Rooney), and his half-brother is cinematographer John Schwartzman.

3. In 2007, he created the indie rock solo act Coconut Records. The first CD, entitled "Nighttiming" featured a cover photo from Roman Coppola and was released on iTunes on March 20, 2007.

Tonight Troy "The Hair" Polamalu will be a guest on Late Night! (I added that nickname for him.) Troy is a two time Super Bowl champ with the Pittsburgh Steelers and five time Pro Bowl selection. He also claims to not have had a haircut in NINE years. And he's in my favorite Coke commercial of recent times:

Tune in tonight. He's going to run some drills on Jimmy.

SPOILER ALERT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

January Jones is on the show tonight.

Don't get mad! It's my job to tell you. Anyway, are you still reeling from the series finale of Mad Men? So are we, and that's why we've got THE Betty Draper here. We just aren't ready to say goodbye yet. Do you think she'll be able to tell us anything about Season 4 (which now seems tortuously far away)? Okay, I think that might be wishful thinking. Instead, I hope she'll talk to us about what it was like to grow up in a tiny town in South Dakota, her days modeling for Abercrombie & Fitch, her love of sharks, what Jon Hamm smells like, and what her favorite Mad Men parody is. Also - in case you didn't know, this weekend, she's hosting SNL. Awesome.

There are Muppets in the building! Tonight, celebrating the 40th anniversary of Sesame Street, Elmo and Rosita from Sesame Street will be talking with Jimmy! Last time Elmo was here it was tons of fun. Check out his outtakes during our local market promos:

"You got the job!" Well played Elmo.

Related: The Real Life Elmo Photos You've Never Seen

3 Things You Did Not Know About Laurence Fishburne (unless you read his Wikipedia page)

1. Fishburne started acting at age twelve getting his first job in 1973 portraying Joshua Hall on the ABC soap opera, One Life to Live. He was initially cast in the hit television series Good Times, but the role was eventually given to Ralph Carter. Fishburne's most memorable childhood role was in Cornbread, Earl and Me in which he played a young boy who witnessed the police shooting of a popular high school basketball star. Fishburne later earned a supporting role in Francis Ford Coppola's Apocalypse Now, in which he played a 17-year-old sailor nicknamed 'Mr. Clean'. When production began in March 1976 he was just fourteen, apparently lying about his age to get the part. Filming took so long that he was already seventeen upon its completion.

2. Fishburne spent much of the 1980s in and out of television and periodically on stage. In the early 80s Fishburne had a very minor role in the critically acclaimed Steven Spielberg film The Color Purple. Fishburne had a recurring role as Cowboy Curtis with Paul Reubens' character, Pee Wee Herman in the CBS children's television show, Pee-wee's Playhouse.

3. In 1993, he received his first Oscar nomination for his portrayal of Ike Turner in What's Love Got to Do With It. In 1997 Fishburne starred in the science fiction horror Event Horizon alongside Sam Neill. Today, Fishburne is perhaps best known for his role as Morpheus, the hacker-mentor of Neo, played by Keanu Reeves, in the 1999 blockbuster science fiction film, The Matrix.

Drums please! Tonight DJ Jazzy Jeff will be sitting in with The Roots and talking to Jimmy about the freaking awesome new game DJ Hero. Check out this behind the scenes interview with DJ Jazzy Jeff about DJ Hero:

Here's two ways you can keep up with DJ Jazzy Jeff before tonight. You can follow his Twitter and you can watch this extended interview with him after the jump. And check him out tonight!

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Actor, fashion model, producer, and probably most notable for playing Boone Carlyle in the TV drama Lost, and more recently Damon Salvatore in the TV drama The Vampire Diaries, Ian Somerhalder is a guest on LNWJF tonight.

3 Things You Did Not Know About Ian Somerhalder (unless you read his Wikipedia page)

1. Somerhalder was born in Covington, Louisiana, the son of Edna, a massage therapist, and Robert Somerhalder, a building contractor. He has a brother, Bob, a former professional cyclist, and a sister, Robin, a broadcast journalist. His father is of French and English descent and his mother, who grew up on a pig farm in Mississippi, is of Irish and Choctaw ancestry. The surname "Somerhalder" originates from his adoptive great-grandfather. Somerhalder's biological great-grandfather was a wealthy English landowner whose surname was Hull and he paid an immigrant worker to marry his pregnant mistress and give their baby a name, which was Somerhalder.

2. His first major acting role was in The Rules of Attraction, Roger Avary's adaptation of the Bret Easton Ellis novel of the same name.

3. With his mother's encouragement, Somerhalder began his career as a fashion model at the age of 10. He modeled in New York, Paris, Milan, and London. His modeling credits include Calvin Klein, American Eagle Outfitters, Dolce & Gabbana, Gucci, Versace, and Guess?. He was the face of Guess? for two fall seasons. He continues to model with his agency DNA Model Management in New York City, and Priscilla's Model Management in Sydney, Australia.

We haven't seen Rosie O'Donnell since she was a guest on one of our test shows. Tonight, she's back to see how far we've come. Oh, aaaand she's also here to promote her new Sirius Satellite Radio show, Rosie Radio. The show is a 2 hour call-in / talk extravaganza, focusing on whatever the heck Rosie feels like talking about. Here's a little preview from the show:

Straight talk.

The inimitable Sir Ian McKellen will be stopping by the show tonight to talk about his new AMC miniseries, The Prisoner, a remake of the popular 1960's series about a government agent captured and sent to an island called "The Village." The series looks awesome - check out the trailer:

Definitely tune in tonight - Sir Ian and Jimmy will be revisiting their hilarious moment together on Weekend Update. Also, Jimmy will ask about the rumored script of The Hobbit - let's hope McKellen lets some details spill! WOOOO! This is super fun. Don't miss it.

Paula Patton, who stars as "Ms. Rain" in the movie Precious, is a guest on Late Night tonight. Patton made her debut in Hitch alongside Will Smith and later was in Idlewild with Big Boi and Andre 3000 (she gets major points in my book for being in the Outkast period piece movie.) Wanna know another fact about her? She is the daughter-in-law of actor and Growing Pains star Alan Thicke. Bet you didnt' think that. Check out the trailer for Precious:

Tune in tonight!

Tonight Shaun White, Olympic gold medalist snowboarder (and for that matter, pro skateboarder extraordinaire too) will be on the show talking about his new Wii game, Shaun White Snowboarding: World Stage. Shaun White is a snowboarding phenom that has been shredding the gnar for years now (that's snowboarder talk). And apparently, he has a secret halfpipe and can fly a helicopter too:

Geeeeez. That kid is talented. I think "sick" is what the kids say?

Cameron Diaz returns to Late Night tonight! Her past appearances have included participating in breaking URDB World Records, a dance off, and this very intense interview that she had with Jimmy.

Cameron Diaz Intense Interview

Watch the trailer for Cameron's newest movie The Box after the jump.

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We've got Matthew Bomer on the show tonight! He's the star of USA's new show, White Collar. Matthew's character on the show, Neal Caffrey, is a con-man who is so good at what he does, the authorities sign him up to help them catch other criminals. The show just premiered, so it's not too late to get hooked. In the meantime, who is this dashing young man, Matthew Bomer? Here are 5 things you might not have known (unless you are ahead of us and have already reached stalker status):

• He played a recurring role on Chuck.


• He got his start on television playing Ian Kipling on All My Children.


• Matthew was originally director Brett Ratner's first choice to play Clark Kent / Superman in Ratner's remake of Superman (which eventually turned into Superman Returns).


• He went to high school with Pushing Daisies star Lee Pace, and he went to the same college (Carnegie-Mellon) as his buddy Zachary Quinto.


• His dad was a Dallas Cowboy.

Need I say more? Tune in tonight to gaze into his piercing blue eyes.

Actor, comedian, cast member of Saturday Night Live and friend to Late Night with Jimmy Fallon is a guest on LNWJF tonight.

I am still laughing from his recent appearance on SNL in the sketch What Up with That?

Look at those sweet, sweet, moves!

Actor Scott Wolf is on the show tonight, talking about his role in the new V! You probably remember Scott the most from Party of Five, but we here at Late Night are super psyched about V. It was originally a miniseries in 1983, about aliens known as "The Visitors" - who show up all nice and pretty and peaceful but are quickly revealed to have a dark, ulterior motive. (In the 1983 version, they ate guinea pigs whole, which is a pretty standard red flag that you can't trust an alien.) This new imagining of V will be a full series, but broken up into "pods" (or, alien-like groupings of a small number of episodes) over the course of the year. It premieres on ABC starting tomorrow night!

Tonight Engadget's own Josh Topolsky returns to Late Night to give us the low down and the down low on all things in new gadgets. Josh is a friend of Late Night and has been on the show before to give us early looks of the iPhone 3G S and the Palm Pre. What will he have in store for us tonight? I don't know but the market is ripe with plenty of new techy stuff. Here's Josh checking out some new Apple gear that was recently released:

Wow. I'm having mouse lust.

5 Things You Did Not Know About Taylor Swift (unless you read her Wikipedia page)

1. In 2006, she released her debut single "Tim McGraw", which peaked at number six on the Billboard country charts. Later in October 2006, she released her self-titled debut album, which produced five hit singles on the Billboard Hot Country Songs charts and was certified 3× Multi-Platinum by the RIAA. The New York Times described Swift as "one of pop's finest songwriters, country's foremost pragmatist and more in touch with her inner life than most adults".

2. According to Nielsen SoundScan, Swift was the biggest selling artist of 2008 in the United States with combined sales of more than four million albums. Swift's Fearless and her self-titled album finished 2008 at number three and number six respectively, with sales of 2.1 and 1.5 million.[6] She was the first artist in the history of Nielsen SoundScan to have two different albums in the Top 10 on the year end album chart.

3. Swift was born in the borough of Wyomissing, Pennsylvania. She is the daughter of Scott Swift, a stock broker, and his wife Andrea, a homemaker. She has a younger brother, Austin. When she was in fourth grade, Swift won a national poetry contest with a three page poem entitled "Monster In My Closet".

4. At ten, Swift began writing songs and singing at karaoke contests, festivals, and fairs around her hometown. During one summer, Swift devoted herself to writing a 350 page (unpublished) novel. She was a member of Kirk Cremer's SNL-inspired kid's sketch comedy group, TheatreKids Live!, where she was a natural comedic talent. After seeing her karaoke performance at one of the cast parties, it was Cremer's mother who first suggested that Swift seemed more of a natural to pursue a career in country music, rather than theatrical performing.

5. Swift first learned to play guitar from a computer repairman who showed her how to play three chords. After learning those three chords, she wrote her first song, "Lucky You". She began writing songs regularly and used it as outlet to help her with her pain from not fitting in at school. Other kids would react badly to her so she wrote songs about them.

Actor Josh Charles will be on the show this evening, talking about his television program, The Good Wife. Josh plays Will Gardner, the boss of main character Alicia Florrick (played by former Late Night guest Julianna Margulies).

Prior to this role, you might remember Josh from his outbreak role in Dead Poet's Society or perhaps his part in one of my favorite movies (I'm not joking), Don't Tell Mom The Babysitter's Dead. It's hard for me to look at Josh and not imagine him with his Clown Dog hat on. Fun fact! Did you know that the original title for Don't Tell Mom was The Real World? You didn't? Well now you do, and you're slightly smarter now. But enough about the past - Josh is here TONIGHT and we love him! Don't miss it.

5 Things You Did Not Know About Wanda Sykes (unless you read her Wikipedia page)

1. Sykes was born in Portsmouth, Virginia and raised in the Washington, D.C. area. Her father served as a US Army colonel employed at the Pentagon, and her mother worked as a banker. She attended Arundel High School in Gambrills, Maryland, and went on to graduate from Hampton University where she earned a bachelor's degree in marketing. After college, her first job was as a procurement officer with the National Security Agency (NSA), where she worked for five years.

2. Not completely satisfied with her role with the NSA, Sykes began her stand-up career at a Coors Light Super Talent Showcase in Washington, DC, where she performed for the first time in front of a live audience. She continued to hone her talents at local venues while at the NSA until 1992, when she moved to New York City. Her first big break came when opening for Chris Rock at Caroline's Comedy Club.

3. In 1997, she joined the writing team on The Chris Rock Show and also made many appearances on the show. The writing team was nominated for four Emmys, and in 1999 won for Outstanding Writing for a Variety, Music, or Comedy Special. Since that time, she has appeared in such films as Pootie Tang and on TV shows such as Curb Your Enthusiasm.

4. In March 2009 it was announced that Sykes would be the host of a new late-night talk show on Saturdays on Fox. The Wanda Sykes Show is scheduled to premiere November 7, 2009. In April 2009, she was named in Out magazine's Annual Power 50 List, landing at number 35.

5. In May 2009, Sykes was the featured entertainer for the annual White House Correspondents' Association dinner, becoming both the first African American woman and the first openly LGBT person to get the role.

Carrie Fisher is in the building, people, and she's going to talk to Jimmy about her memoir and one woman Broadway show, Wishful Drinking. Not only that, but she'll also be performing a short piece from the show for us! In the memoir / play, she talks about her life in Hollywood, her struggles with substance abuse and bipolar disorder, her relationships, and yes, Princess Leia. Sounds heavy - but we know that if anyone can make such dark material funny, it will be Carrie Fisher. I'm a huge fan of her dry wit, and I've been getting my daily dose of it on her Twitter feed. Her most recent tweet: "I'm about to film my segment on Jimmy Fallon- my dressing room is like a whore house for boyscouts complete w/ cupcakes." That's EXACTLY what we were going for when we remodeled the dressing rooms!

Sam Rockwell is an actor featured in several independent films. And he's a guest on Late Night tonight.

5 Things You Did Not Know About Sam Rockwell (unless you read his Wikipedia page)

1. He was raised by his father, Pete Rockwell, in San Francisco while his mother, Penny Hess, stayed behind in New York. He had what The New York Times described in 1998 as a "footloose upbringing" and, at age 10, made his brief stage debut playing Humphrey Bogart in an East Village improv comedy sketch starring his mother..

2. He attended School of the Arts High School (San Francisco) with Margaret Cho and dropped out before graduation. He later received his high school diploma after his parents enrolled him in an Outward Bound-style alternative high school called Urban Pioneers because, as Rockwell explained, "I just wanted to get stoned, flirt with girls, go to parties.".

3. The turning point in Rockwell's career was Tom DiCillo's 1996 film Box of Moon Light, in which he played an eccentric man-child who dresses like Davy Crockett and lives in an isolated mobile home. The ensuing acclaim put him front and center with casting agents and new-found fans alike, with Rockwell himself acknowledging that "That film was definitely a turning point....I was sort of put on some independent film map after 10 years in New York."

4. Rockwell won the biggest leading role of his career as "The Gong Show" host Chuck Barris in George Clooney's 2002 directorial debut, Confessions of a Dangerous Mind. Rockwell's performance was well received, and the film received generally positive reviews.

5. Rockwell played Victor Mancini in the film Choke, based on the novel by Chuck Palahniuk. Critic Roger Ebert said of his performance that he "seems to have become the latter-day version of Christopher Walken -- not all the time, but when you need him, he's your go-to guy for weirdness." In 2009 he featured in a science fiction film Moon, directed by Duncan Jones.

Hogan who had mainstream popularity in the mid 1980s through the early 1990s as the all-American, working-class hero character Hulk Hogan in the World Wrestling Federation (WWF--now World Wrestling Entertainment) is a guest on LNWJF tonight.

5 Things You Did Not Know About Hulk Hogan (unless you read his Wikipedia page)

1. The son of Ruth, a homemaker and dance teacher, and Peter Bollea, a construction foreman, Hogan was raised in Tampa, Florida. As a boy, he was a pitcher in Little League Baseball. He began watching professional wrestling at 16 years old. While in high school, he revered Dusty Rhodes, and he regularly attended cards at the Tampa Sportatorium. It was at one of those wrestling cards where he first turned his attention towards "Superstar" Billy Graham and looked to him for inspiration.

2. In the late 70's, Hogan appeared on a talk show, where he sat beside Lou Ferrigno, star of the television series The Incredible Hulk. The host commented how Terry, who stood 6 ft 7 in (201 cm) and weighed 295 pounds with 24 inch biceps, actually dwarfed "the Hulk." As a result, Bollea began performing as Terry "The Hulk" Boulder and sometimes wrestled as Sterling Golden.

3. Vince McMahon, who wanted to use an Irish name, gave Terry Bollea (Hulk Hogan's real name) the last name Hogan.

4. After filming his scene for Rocky III, against McMahon's wishes, Hogan made his debut in the American Wrestling Association (AWA), owned by Verne Gagne.

5. Hogan was named the most requested celebrity of the 1980s for the Make-a-Wish Foundation children's charity. He was featured on the covers of Sports Illustrated, TV Guide, and People magazines, while also appearing on The Tonight Show and having his own CBS Saturday morning cartoon titled Hulk Hogan's Rock 'n' Wrestling. Hogan went on to headline eight of the first nine WrestleMania events, and he also co-hosted Saturday Night Live on March 30, 1985 during this lucrative run.

Tonight musical parody genius "Weird" Al Yankovic will be performing on Late Night. "Weird" Al has been making music for 30 years. 30 YEARS!! "Weird" Al started out playing coffee houses and sent a tape into the comedy radio show "Dr. Demento". The tape impressed Dr. Demento and he played it on the air. Soon after that, while in school studying architecture, "Weird" Al recorded a parody of The Knack's "My Sharona" entitled "My Bologna". This caught attention of The Knack who liked the song which led to a recording contract, and eventually the "Weird" Al you know today. Here are more facts about "Weird" Al Yankovic. I'm not yankin' your chain!

1. Weird Al is known for his elaborate concerts. He dresses up and performs characters from his songs.

2. "Weird" Al was nominated for and won a Grammy award for Best Comedy Record for Eat It. Since then he has been nominated ten times and won a total of three times.

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Edward Norton is on the show tonight! Do I really need to tell you how awesome this guy is? He beat up gamma-ray monster Tim Roth in The Incredible Hulk. Heck, he beat himself up in Fight Club. Add that to his great performances in American History X, 25th Hour, The Italian Job, and countless other films, you've got yourself a force of nature on your hands.

Speaking of nature (see what I brilliantly did there?), Ed will be telling us all about the Maasai Marathon. What's that, you say? Well, Ed and 3 Maasai warriors will lead a team of 30 runners to complete the New York Marathon next weekend to raise money for Maasai Wilderness Conservation Trust. The Trust aims to support the preservation of biodiversity in the Maasai tribal lands of East Africa. Hello! Like I needed another reason to love this man!!! I am currently doing a performance (vocal + dance) of The Lion King's "Circle of Life" in celebration of Mr. Norton's efforts to protect wildlife.

p.s. Do you realize that the Hulk will be meeting the Hulk tonight on our set? Think about it.

Tonight, G4 queen and Attack of the Show! co-host Olivia Munn will be stopping by Studio 6B! We're going to have some serious fun with her tonight - and a very special guest will be stopping by to join in! If you're not familiar with Olivia's work, here's a quick nerd guide:

• Olivia got her acting start in a straight-to-video horror flick called Scarecrow Gone Wild.


• In 2005, landed the role of Mily Acuna, a teen surfer, on the show Beyond the Break on The N network.


• In 2006, Olivia took over hosting duties with co-host Kevin Pereira on G4's Attack of The Show! (AOTS), a show that brings you the latest in digital media, technology, and video games.


• AOTS was not her first experience in live television: she once interned for Fox Sports Net and did some sideline reporting for college football and women's basketball.


• One time on AOTS, Olivia dislocated her shoulder on a baby oil slip n' slide. See the incident (and her funny recap) here.

Don't miss tonight's show - but in the meantime: follow her on Twitter!

Artie Lange is a comedian, radio personality, author, and actor best known for his work on the Howard Stern show. And he's a guest on Late Night tonight.

5 Things You Did Not Know About Artie Lange (unless you read his Wikipedia page)

1. Early in life Lange was arrested for attempted bank robbery. He claimed he was flirting with the bank teller and passed her a joke note with a request for $50,000 with his name signed at the bottom. When he found out police were searching for him he turned himself in. As part of his probation, Lange attended the Connecticut School of Broadcasting from March to June 1987. This led to him pursuing a comedy career, after he was heavily influenced by Richard Lewis.

2. In 1995, he landed a role as one of the original cast members of FOX's sketch comedy show MADtv. Lange had previous sketch comedy experience with the improv troupe "Live on Tape". Lange later attributed his hiring to the fact that he fit the John Belushi mold that was popular in sketch comedy.

3. Comedian Norm Macdonald, impressed by Lange's work on Mad TV, offered him a part in the 1998 movie Dirty Work. Although Lange frequently jokes about the film's poor reception he credits Macdonald and director Bob Saget with rejuvenating his comedy career, leading to several more film appearances and a lucrative TV development deal.

4. Lange was a cast member on the shortlived The Norm Show, starring Norm Macdonald. After its cancellation, Lange would be selected from numerous guest comedians auditioning to replace Jackie Martling on The Howard Stern Show, beginning full time on October 29, 2001.

5. On November 11, 2008, Artie's first book, Too Fat To Fish, was released. The book is a collection of narrative episodes from throughout Lange's life, from his childhood to his recent USO trip to Afghanistan in July 2008. The foreword is written by Howard Stern.

Willem Dafoe is a well accoplished screen and stage actor known for his roles in Platoon, Mississippi Burning, the Spiderman films and most recently Antichrist. He is a guest on LNWJF tonight.

5 Things You Did Not Know About Willem Dafoe (unless you read his Wikipedia page)

1. Dafoe, the sixth of eight children, was born William Dafoe in Appleton, Wisconsin. His birth name is William Dafoe; he changed it to "Willem" (Dutch for "William") so people would not call him "Billy".

2. Dafoe's film career began in 1981, when he was cast in Heaven's Gate, but his role was removed from the film during editing. In the mid 80's he was cast to star in To Live And Die In LA, in which Dafoe portrays counterfeiter Rick Masters. A year later he starred as the leader of a motorcycle gang in The Loveless, but his first breakthrough film role was as the compassionate Sergeant Elias in Platoon.

3. He also played Jesus in The Last Temptation of Christ. He once remarked "To this day, I can't believe I was so brazen to think I could pull off the Jesus role", though Dafoe received acclaim despite the controversy surrounding the film.

4. He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor in 1986 for Platoon and 2000 for Shadow of the Vampire. He played a rare heroic film role when he provided the voice of Gill in the animated movie Finding Nemo.

5. He worked briefly as a model in a 1990 Prada campaign. In 2004, Dafoe lent his likeness and voice for the James Bond video game Everything or Nothing as villain Nikolai Diavolo.

David Wells is a former Major League Baseball pitcher and one of 18 players in Major League Baseball to have ever pitched a perfect game. He is also a guest on LNWJF tonight.

5 Things You Did Not Know About David Wells (unless you read her Wikipedia page)

1. Wells was a journeyman starter for the first eight seasons of his career. He debuted for the Toronto Blue Jays in 1987 as a reliever and did not secure a job as a full-time starter until he was 30 years old, despite pitching well most of the time and helping the Blue Jays win a World Series.

2. He emerged as a top-flight pitcher in 1995, when he was 32. After starting the year at 10-3 for the last-place Detroit Tigers and making his first All-Star Game appearance, he was traded to the Cincinnati Reds.

3. In 1997, he signed as a free agent with the New York Yankees, his favorite team because of a lifelong interest in baseball legend Babe Ruth. He asked for uniform number 3, and was of course denied, as the Babe's number had been long retired. He ended up taking 33 for the Yankees. On June 28, 1997, Wells took the mound wearing an authentic 1934 Babe Ruth hat, which Wells bought for $35,000. Manager Joe Torre made Wells take it off after the first inning because it didn't conform to uniform standards.

4. On May 17, 1998, Wells became the 15th pitcher in major league history to pitch a perfect game when he blanked the Minnesota Twins, 4-0. Wells claims that he threw the perfect game while being hung over.

5. Wells will be a broadcaster on TBS Sunday baseball broadcasts during 2009.

This is NOT David Wells' website. Tune in tonight to see him!

Kristen Wiig the hilarious Saturday Night Live cast member and co-star of the recently release Whip It is a guest on LNWJF tonight.

5 Things You Did Not Know About Kristen Wiig (unless you read her Wikipedia page)

1. Kristen attended the University of Arizona with a major in art. She was hired as a graphic artist by a plastic surgery clinic to show clientele what they would look like after surgery, but left for Los Angeles before ever starting the job to pursue an acting career. In Los Angeles she joined The Groundlings, working "odd jobs".

2. In 2003 she starred on the Spike TV spoof show The Joe Schmo Show, a satire of reality television in which she played "Dr. Pat", the Quack Marriage Counselor.

3. Wiig debuted on Saturday Night Live shortly into its 31st season, on November 12, 2005. In Wiig's first sketch, she played the wife of Jason Sudeikis; the two accidentally pick up an escaped murderer (Jason Lee), unwittingly giving the murderer carte blanche to break into their home and violate their blind niece. Wiig survived an SNL budget cut, becoming a full member of the repertory cast at the beginning of the show's 32nd season in 2006.

4. Wiig has become famous for her characters Penelope, the one-upper, Gilly, a highly mischievous schoolgirl, The Target Lady, a clerk at the chain store and a kitsch collector, Judy Grimes, a nervous travel agent frequently appearing on Weekend Update, as well as real-life people like Suze Orman, and Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi.

5. She recently co-wrote a script with her Groundlings co-worker Annie Mumolo for Universal Pictures. Judd Apatow will produce the film. Upcoming work also includes Greg Mattola's Paul, co-starring Seth Rogan, Jason Bateman, Jane Lynch, and Bill Hader; "MacGruber" opposite SNL castmate Will Forte; and her first purely dramatic role opposite Ryan Gosling, Kirsten Dunst and Frank Langella in Andrew Jarecki's "All Good Things". Most recently, Wiig has signed on to co-star in SNL castmate Casey Wilson's upcoming "lady buddy-comedy" film Ass Backwards, which is set to start filming in November 2009.

BONUS: Watch Kristen in "The Jar Glove" after the jump.

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Emma Stone (who made her feature film debut in the comedy Superbad playing Jules; and is currently playing Wichita in Zombieland) is a guest on LNWJF tonight. Stone launched a career in television after winning the role of Laurie Partridge on In Search of the New Partridge Family (2004), a VH1 talent competition reality show. Please enjoy the Zombieland trailer, and be sure to enjoy the awesome Emma tonight on air!!

Zombies!

Tonight Ryan Reynolds makes his return to Late Night. The first time Ryan was here, he sought to avenge Betty White's beer pong loss to Jimmy through a friendly game of shuffleboard. Check out it out here:

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The lovely Taraji P. Henson will be on the show tonight. You might remember her from Hustle and Flow and The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (ahem, for which she was nominated for an Academy Award). She'll talk about her role in the recent Tyler Perry film, I Can Do Bad All By Myself, which is about April (played by Henson), sister of the famous Madea (you know, the one who went to jail?). April is a heavy-drinking nightclub singer who must care for some delinquent kids:

Tajari can do awesome all by herself.

Elijah Wood is an actor best known as Frodo from The Lord Of The Rings movies and several other roles. And he's a guest on Late Night tonight.

5 Things You Did Not Know About Elijah Wood (unless you read his Wikipedia page)

1. Elijah Wood modeled and did local commercials before moving with his family to Los Angeles in 1988. It was there that Wood got his first break: a small role in a video by Paula Abdul - "Forever Your Girl," directed by David Fincher.

2. He made his film debut with a minor part in Back to the Future Part II. Soon after, he landed a succession of subsequent larger roles and became a critically acclaimed child actor by age 13.

3. The Lord of the Rings was filmed in New Zealand and, before the cast left the country, Jackson gave Wood two gifts: one of the One Ring props used on the set and Sting, Frodo's sword. He was also given a pair of prosthetic "hobbit feet" he wore during filming.

4. In 2008, he set a new world record when he became the first person ever to cross the Victoria Falls on ropes during an appearance on Jack Osbourne's show Adrenaline Junkie.

5. In 2005 Wood started his own record label called Simian Records. On September 19, 2006 Wood announced that Simian had signed The Apples in Stereo as their first band.

On tonight's show, Landon Pigg will serenade you with their song "Falling In Love At A Coffee Shop." If that song sounds familiar it's probably because you've heard it here. And if Landon looks familiar it's probably because he can be seen with Jimmy in the new movie Whip It. This guy is multi-talented! Check it out tonight - only on your telly!

New Orleans Hornets team captain Chris Paul is on the show tonight! You might know him from his hoop-shootin' on the ole hardwood (can you tell I know everything about basketball?), but did you know these other fun facts about him?

- Chris is a ten-pin bowler. Like, he's really good at bowling. Don't get fooled when he challenges you to a friendly set of frames. Because he will destroy you.

- Last season, Mr. Paul finished as the league leader in assists and steals. Does that make him kind of like the Robin Hood of the court? He steals from the "rich" (the other team) and gives to the "poor" (his team). That metaphor doesn't work at all, does it? (I told you I know a lot about basketball!)

- Chris wrote a children's book called Long Shot: Never Too Small To Dream Big, inspired by his own experiences growing up when people told him he was too small to play basketball.

- He played for the U.S. Olympic basketball team in Beijing. (The team, if you recall, was known as the "Redeem Team" - winning the gold for the first time since 2000.)

All in all, I think you're really going to like this guy. Be sure to watch tonight!

Seth Meyers, the head writer for Saturday Night Live and the anchor for its weekly news segment Weekend Update is a guest on LNWJF tonight.

5 Things You Did Not Know About Seth Meyers (unless you read his Wikipedia page)

1. Meyers was born and raised in Bedford, New Hampshire, attending West High School in Manchester, New Hampshire. He went on to graduate from Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois.

2. Meyers is the older brother of Josh Meyers who was a cast member of MADtv and That '70s Show.

3. Before SNL, Meyers got his improv comedy start as a member of the Northwestern University improv sketch group Mee-Ow, created by Paul Warshauer and Josh Lazar. He continued his career at ImprovOlympic with the group Preponderate as well as overseas as a cast member of Boom Chicago, an English language improv troupe based in Amsterdam, where his brother was also a cast member.

4. In July of 2008, Meyers directed the web series The Line on Crackle.

5. Meyers and SNL castmate Bill Hader penned a Spider-Man one-shot entitled "The Short Halloween". It was illustrated by Kevin Maguire and came out May 29, 2009 to positive reviews.

Tonight, comedian Neal Brennan will be on the show performing stand up and telling some hilarious stories with friend Tracy Morgan.

If you missed his stand up performance the first time around - now's your chance - only on the TV!

Tonight Tracy Morgan returns on our 100th episode! Brush up on your Tracy Morgan SNL history with ten of his best sketches...

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This evening the lovely and super cool Gina Gershon will be on the show. Gina is a woman of many talents. Aside from being an actress in such films as Cocktail, Showgirls, Face/Off, P.S. I Love You, and many more, she also has shown her satirical talents (with her impression of Sarah Palin), and she plays a very unusual instrument! The mouth harp. Other famous mouth harp enthusiasts include: Bon Jovi (it was used in the intro to "Blaze of Glory"), John Lennon (he played it in the song "The Fool on the Hill"), Atticus Finch, and of course Snoopy!!! Gina even played a mouth harp cameo on a Scissor Sisters song. Let's hope she breaks it out tonight. I'm thinking it would sound really great with the sousaphone, don't you?

It's Friday, and what better way to celebrate than to see the legendary comedian Eddie Izzard appear on the show? Eddie's got a new documentary coming out, called Believe: The Eddie Izzard Story, about his life, career and his recent journey to rebuild his act.

Also, Eddie performed live at Wembley Stadium (yes, that Wembley Stadium), which is out on DVD in November. If you prefer to see him in the flesh, he'll be on tour in the U.S. this January. More info about that here.

The stunning businesswoman, socialite, heiress, fashion model and author of The Trump Card, Ivanka Trump returns to Late Night tonight. Do you all remember what she did last time she was on the show? I surely do. Her and Jimmy had a sweet game of beer pong. What will she do tonight?

That's a good game to watch.

Tonight Gerard Butler will be "guesting" on LNwJF! You've seen him in the films 300, P.S. I Love You, and Rocknrolla and this weekend he will be hosting SNL with musical guest Shakira (and her unlying hips). Tune in tonight to see him chattin' it up with Jimmy and check out this trailer for his upcoming movie Law Abiding Citizen. It looks intense.

Geez. INTENSE.

Greg Proops is a stand-up comedian and actor best known for his work in the UK on the improv comedy show Whose Line Is It Anyway? He is also a guest on Late Night tonight.

5 Things You Did Not Know About Greg Proops (unless you read his Wikipedia page)

1. Proops was raised in San Carlos, outside of San Fransisco. Later, he studied improvisation and acting at San Francisco State University. He was captain of SFSU's winning College Bowl team.

2. After graduation, he joined an improv group with Mike McShane, which proved to be his ticket to stardom. Both Proops and McShane impressed producers Dan Patterson and Mark Leveson, who put them on their show, Whose Line Is It Anyway?.

3. One of his trademarks is his tendency to issue witty comments when something in or about the scene strikes him as ridiculous, usually breaking the fourth wall in the process and bringing the scene to a temporary halt. He is also known (and infamous) for his ability in improv games such as "Weird Newscasters", via a play on words, to drop innuendos that can also bring a scene to a halt and cause others to occasionally break character and laugh.

4. In addition to his stand-up and improv acts, Proops has done voice work in various films and TV shows, including the miniseries Stripperella with Pamela Anderson, and in Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas alongside Whose Line Is It Anyway? co-star Catherine O'Hara.

5. For several years, Greg upheld the idea that he owned an ocelot. However, on March 25, 2009 in a written interview, he stated that he doesn't actually own one whatsoever. He was quoted saying: "Oh, I say I have an ocelot and it's a joke, but I've had so many news programs in this country say, "So what's it like, having an ocelot?" And I'll say, "It's marvelous just to see them run free. When feeding time comes and they're mulling, it just warms your heart."

Tonight Andy Samberg the Saturday Night Live star and of the comedy troupe The Lonely Island (along with Jorma Taccone and Akiva Schaffer) is a guest on LNWJF tonight.

Here's an exclusive behind the scenes video of Samberg's recent SNL Digital Short: On the Ground.

Watch the actual "On the Ground" video after the jump.

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The legendary Kathie Lee Gifford is on the show tonight! Kathie Lee spends her days just a few floors below Late Night, hosting the fourth (and golden) hour of The Today Show with Hoda Kotb. Kathie Lee and Hoda are always doing crazy stuff (I particularly loved when Kathie Lee tested out the Wine Rack Bra - she is our We Get Stuff kindred spirit!), but one of my favorite moments was when Chef Sam Zien told them both to be quiet during a cooking segment. Who dares to tell Kathie Lee and Hoda to pipe down??? Watch by clicking below:

Can't wait to see what she and Jimmy have in store for tonight.

Tonight Jeff Lewis from Bravo's Flipping Out and Jeff Lewis Design is a guest on Late Night.

Here's a video of Jeff sharing his phobias from Flipping Out.

THE Martin Short is on the show tonight! Do you know what this means? It means that my life goal of having all three of the Three Amigos on our show is now complete. First, we had Steve Martin, then earlier this week we had Chevy Chase, and now we've got Martin Short. But if you want to get technical, Martin has actually been on the show before - in picture form. Remember when Steve Martin came and confronted Jimmy about the dinner party? Jimmy got really fresh with Martin:

Next goal: get the Three Amigos all on the show simultaneously to sing "My Little Buttercup." A girl can dream, right?

Eve, the recording artist and actress whose first three albums have reached 7 million copies sold world wide and ranks number 48 on VH1's "50 Greatest Women Of The Video Era" is a guest on LNWJF tonight.

5 Things You Did Not Know About Eve (unless you read her Wikipedia page)

1. Her husband is Adam, from whose rib God created her to be his companion.

2. She succumbed to a serpent's temptation via the suggestion that to eat the forbidden fruit from the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil, would improve on the way God had made her, and that she would not die, and she, believed the lie of the Serpent rather than the earlier instruction from God, shared the fruit with Adam.

3. As a result, the first humans were expelled from the Garden of Eden and cursed.

4. She went on to take an interest in music. Eve's first musical interest was singing. She sang in many choirs and even made an all-female singing group (Dope Girl Posse or D.G.P.) with a manager. This group covered songs from En Vogue and Color Me Badd. After the group's manager saw the rap group ABC, they suggested that the group should rap, and Eve stuck with it. She then went on to form a rapping group. After the group split, Eve began working on a solo career under the name "Eve of Destruction." She spent the better part of her days perfecting her craft,

5. Eve is featured (along with Erykah Badu) on the song "You Got Me" by The Roots, from their 1999 album Things Fall Apart. She also provided background vocals on the song "Ain't Sayin' Nothin' New" from the same album. In the album's liner notes, she is referred to as Eve of Destruction.

Christopher Meloni is an actor known for his role as Detective Elliot Stabler on Law & Order: Special Victims Unit. He is also a guest on LNWJF tonight.

5 Things You Did Not Know About Christopher Meloni (unless you read his Wikipedia page)

1. Meloni was born the youngest of three children in Washington, D.C. After college he moved to New York City where he continued his studies with Sanford Meisner at the famed Neighborhood Playhouse.

2. Meloni worked as a construction worker prior to getting his acting break. He has also worked as a bouncer, bartender, and personal trainer. He worked his way up the acting ladder with commercials, short-lived TV series, and bit parts in a number of films, including the role of Julia Roberts' fiance in Runaway Bride.

3. From 1998-2003, Meloni portrayed bisexual serial killer Chris Keller on the HBO series Oz. He also played comedic roles as the character "Gene" in Wet Hot American Summer in 2001, and the "Freakshow" (albeit in heavy make-up) in the Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle. And he briefly appeared in the first episode of Michael & Michael Have Issues on Comedy Central portraying himself for a fake movie staring Michael Ian Black and Michael Showalter.

4. He is a personal friend and wine drinking buddy of Maynard James Keenan of the progressive rock band Tool.

5. On July 6, 2006, Meloni was nominated for his first Emmy Award, in the category of Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series. He was also included in the 2006 edition of People magazine's Sexiest Men Alive.

Tonight comedy legend Chevy Chase will be talking with Jimmy about his role on the new series Community (a very funny show that you should check out if you aren't watching it already). Chevy Chase is known for his multiple roles in comedy films like Caddyshack, the National Lampoon's Vacation series, and ¡Three Amigos! among many, many others. But one of the things he's best known for is his time on Saturday Night Live. Although he was only there for one season, he remains one of the most memorable cast members. Check out these Chevy Chase SNL clips and tune in tonight!

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Tonight, Eliza Dushku is going to get all up in your TV when she appears on our show! She's here to talk about her show, Dollhouse, which is now in its second season. I know you're super excited - but calm down - you can get Eliza all up in your computer screen RIGHT NOW. She has this cool Virtual Echo app that allows Echo (her character in the show) to randomly walk onto your screen and interact directly with you. For instance: she'll shoot you!

Hot. I know one person who's definitely got this running on loop on his computer - Jason Sudeikis! Remember his interview with Eliza at the E3 games?

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Look, you IDIOT, Lewis Black is going to be on the show tonight and you better watch if you have even an OUNCE of brains. He's coming here to talk about his brand new comedy movie Stark Raving Black, and you'd be a total EFFING MORON to not go see it when it opens on October 8. I've been involuntarily busting out into my (amazingly accurate) Lewis Black impression all day (getting really pissed off, cursing, shaking my head and waving my hands around), and let me tell you - my office mates absolutely love it! I highly recommend doing the same to those around you. In the meantime, check out this trailer for Stark Raving Black (language NSFW you nitwit):

For information on show times, locations, and tickets, go here.

Peter Sarsgaard of film and stage who has appeared in Dead Man Walking, Another Day in Paradise, The Man in the Iron Mask, achieved critical recognition for his role in Boys Don't Cry, and most recently starred in the horror thriller Orphan is a guest on LNWJF tonight.