Bill Burr, for the last few years, has seemingly become many comedy fans’ favorite comic. And talk to a well-respected comedian about who they think is doing well and they’ll no doubt say Bill Burr.

So it’s no surprise that Burr impressed on Late Show with David Letterman last night. Don’t believe us? Check out the evidence below.

Here’s a little Late Night television history lesson. There once was a man named Johnny Carson; he was the host of The Tonight Show. Joan Rivers was good buddies with him, and was his official fill-in.

Rumor has it, that around that time, NBC was drawing up a list of names with possible replacements for Johnny after his retirement; and Rivers wasn’t on it.

With this knowledge she jumped at the chance of having her own late night show after Fox asked her to host one. Joan told Carson what she was planning to do, and apparently he didn’t like it. They never spoke again, and because Carson was so highly respected and considered the king of late night, Rivers felt all the hosts of these programms had unofficially banned her.

And what does this whole fiasco lead to? Great late night television almost two decades later! Joan Rivers was on The Late Show with David Letterman last night explaining how she felt exiled by all the hosts, even let out a nice little jab at Leno. Check it out.

Tomorrow at 7 pm on CBS’ 60 Minutes, Conan O’Brien sits down with correspondent Steve Kroft. It’s the first interview he’s been permitted to give since he left NBC with a huge payout that came with a few restrictions– talking to the press being one of them. Below, check out the first released clip from the interview.

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CBS’ 60 Minutes just posted some more excerpts of their Conan O’Brien interview, which airs Sunday at 7 pm EST. As you’ve probably surmised, this is Conan’s first interview since he left NBC; he chose to speak to the show’s Steve Kroft. Upon his exit, he signed a contract with the network that gave him a hefty payout but came with restrictions– one of which prevented him from speaking to the press until May 1.

Below are the newest portions of the interview as they appear on the CBS site. Enjoy!

Regrets?

“I don’t regret anything. I don’t regret one decision I made in that week and a half period,” says the late night television comedian. “I wish it had ended differently. But, I’m fine. I do believe, and this might be my Catholic upbringing or Irish magical thinking, but I think things happen for a reason. I really do. And I think that this all happened for a reason,” he tells Kroft.

Was He Screwed?

“The biggest thing people come up and say to me in gas stations and restaurants, I have so many people say this to me. ‘Hey partner, you got screwed.’ I don’t, and I always tell them, ‘No, I didn’t. I didn’t get screwed. I’m fine. It just didn’t work out.’ But I don’t want people thinking, you know, that I got screwed. Because it just didn’t work out.”

Resolved His Issues?

“No, I have not resolved all my issues. I am mostly very happy. I love this tour it’s the most thrilling thing I’ve done in my career. And so I’m in a really great place in a lot of ways. But I’d be lying if I said I don’t have my moments of everything, you know, anger, disappointment, frustration and just confusion.”

Speaking to Kroft about Jay Leno and his exit from the network, O’Brien says he would have left NBC rather than do what Leno did to him.

“He went and took that show back and I think in a similar situation, if roles had been reversed, I know…I know me, I wouldn’t have done that,” O’Brien says. “If I had surrendered The Tonight Show and handed it over to somebody publicly and wished them well and then…six months later. But that’s me, you know. Everyone’s got their own, you know, way of doing things,” he tells Kroft.

Asked by Kroft what he would have done, O’Brien says, “Done something else, go someplace else. I mean, that’s just me.”

O’Brien eventually left NBC, deciding not to play second-fiddle to Leno. He says he didn’t see the point in giving his all in a relationship that seemed to have no future. “I think this relationship is going be toxic and maybe we just need to go our separate ways,” he says. “That’s really how it felt to me…and I started to feel that I’m not sure these- people even really want me here….I can’t do it [anymore].”

Those sly dogs at CBS are feeding us baby birds little by little, trying to get us all excited for Sunday’s big reveal: the first Conan O’Brien interview since his leaving NBC, which will go down at 7 pm EST. Here’s a wee taste:

“He went and took that show back and I think in a similar situation, if roles had been reversed, I know…I know me, I wouldn’t have done that,” O’Brien says. “If I had surrendered The Tonight Show and handed it over to somebody publicly and wished them well and then…six months later. But that’s me, you know. Everyone’s got their own, you know, way of doing things,” he tells [Steve] Kroft.

Asked by Kroft what he would have done, O’Brien says, “Done something else, go someplace else. I mean, that’s just me.”

O’Brien eventually left NBC, deciding not to play second-fiddle to Leno. He says he didn’t see the point in giving his all in a relationship that seemed to have no future. “I think this relationship is going to be toxic and maybe we just need to go our separate ways,” he says. “That’s really how it felt to me…and I started to feel that I’m not sure these- people even really want me here….I can’t do it [anymore].”

This will be the first time in a very long while, we’ll be tuning into 60 Minutes.

Looks like Aisha Tyler might carry the momentum she gained from playing Lana Kane on FX’s Archer this year into a new TV project.

Deadline Hollywood is reporting that the multi-faceted stand-up comedian landed a starring role in the CBS pilot Open Books. She’ll play the lead’s best friend— a waitress and actress. The show centers around June (played by Laura Benanti) a book editor at a small publishing company in New York City.

If the pilot doesn’t get picked up, comedy fans will still get to hear Tyler voice a new season of the animated Archer, since its been picked up for a second go around. Check out our recent interview with Tyler here.

Ok, not like that. But now that our pseudo-sexual headline has captured your attention, here’s the video of Ms. Fey’s appearance on Letterman, doing her impersonation of Tracy Morgan. Bonus: Tracy’s got some smooth pick up lines; Tina explains.

On tonight’s Late Show with David Letterman, the big man welcomes Jimmy Kimmel to the guest seat. Not surprisingly, Letterman thanks Kimmel for all he’s done ripping apart Jay Leno during the Great Late Night Clusterfuck of 2010 (our term, not his).

What we found most hilarious, is Dave’s quick aside to Kimmel, saying that he’s still in the game to lay into Leno, despite Jay having already taken over the new Tonight Show. Shit, we hope he’s not just joking. Check out the clip below and tune into the Late Show tonight to see the interview in full.

UPDATE: Seems CBS is having some trouble with the embed code for this clip. If you don’t see the video load below, check it out here.

Looks as if another Daily Show With Jon Stewart alum, former correspondent Rob Riggle, may graduate to prime time.

CBS has greenlit the pilot for Team Spitz, an ensemble comedy about a pompous high school football coach (Riggle), according to the Hollywood Reporter. Tackling the role of a football coach should be easy for the stand-up, a physical-comedy kind of guy on the Daily Show.

So, now’s as good a time as ever to look back on Riggle’s brilliant stint at the Daily Show. Enjoy.

For the the third night in a row, David Letterman is hitting at Jay Leno hard. We guess it makes sense. Letterman has nothing to lose. However, it’s funny that after poking fun at NBC sports chief Dick Ebersol for meddling in the Conan/Leno fight — saying it has nothing to do with him — Letterman is investing so much time in the same thing. We’re pretty sure Letterman has nothing to do with the Late Night wars at this point too. But we like him. So here’s what you’ll see tonight at 11:35 pm on CBS.

Meanwhile, Leno shot back at David Letterman tonight for his constant bashing from the last three nights. Check it out below: