Jay Leno performed a $40 – $150-a-head benefit show in Biloxi, Miss Aug. 21, where he helped raise $90,336 for the Gulf Coast Community Foundation. He agreed to throw in $10,000 of his own dough to get it up to an even 100,000.

The show went down at the Beau Rivage Resort and Casino in Biloxi with more than 1,000 people showing up to watch the late night chat show host flex his stand-up chops.

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.

Hey, remember when The Jay Leno Show first premiered– before the late night wars began? Leno employed a solid group of comedians for recurring segments– peeps like Nick Thune and Jim Norton, guys that wouldn’t normally be thought of as network friendly, even at 10 pm.

Luckily, Leno invited Norton back to file a report last night from INPEX, the Invention and New Product Exposition. And once again Norton was able to bring his brand of twisted, dark humor to a show that, well, doesn’t ever do that kind of stuff. Check the veteran comedian out below as he deals with products like the Handwash Reminder, the Nurse N’ Go bra, and yes — we are not joking — the Douche To Go. Just watch.

Louis C.K. sat down last night with Jay Leno to, as it would seem, not to talk about his new sitcom, Louie, which premiers – with two episodes – this coming Tuesday on FX at 11 pm EST. C.K., instead, simply talked about his own life: his kids, volunteering at a public school his sex life, the pitfalls of milk cartons, nut allergies, and why he doesn’t care if someone else’s kid swears.

And for a review of Louie and more info, go here. Enjoy!

On a recent Tonight Show with Jay Leno interview punctuated by awkward questions about where the red-haired guy went, Chris Rock talks about his two daughters and what life was like growing up in a shoe. Rock quips that his young daughters recently got out of rehab and elaborates on a recent statement that he wouldn’t want them to get into show business.

Rock also talks about growing up with seven siblings and subsisting on breadless peanut butter and jelly sandwiches (and from the way he describes it, trying to eat these should be an Olympic sport). Finally, Rock and Leno bond over their fathers’ food racism. Ever cut the black spots out of a banana? Exactly.

Check out some highlights below!

Prior to the Conan-Leno late night debacle, and even before Leno pushed Letterman out of the running to become host of The Tonight Show, there was another man who got the infamous Jay Leno treatment. Or so he claims.

Back in 1984 Leigh Savidge produced a live tape of a comedy competition featuring a young Jay Leno – at the top of his stand-up game – as the host of the night’s events. Savidge shopped the tape around to television networks with Leno’s blessing and received offers from a few stations for the broadcast rights.

And then the hammer came down. Leno’s manager managed to block all agreements between Savidge and the networks with threatening phone calls.

“Jay decided he didn’t want his act overexposed on cable TV so I got steam-rolled over by the Leno machine. I was probably one of the first guys to get Lenoed,” says Savidge.

After years of legal battles The 1984 Los Angeles Comedy Competition is finally seeing the light of day. On July 13 Leigh Savidge’s own Xenon pictures will be releasing the show to the public for the first time on DVD, which also features stand-up performances by Ray Combs, Howie Gold, Jeff Gerbino, and Steve Oedekerk as well as a panel of celebrity judges, including Fred Willard.

To promote the release of the DVD, Mr. Savidge has created an animated viral video and song depicting his Lenoed moment. Of course, the video also includes the moment where Leno claims no responsibility for blocking the original show’s broadcast and saying it was a “tough break” for Savidge.

Check it out and let us know what you think. Did Savidge really get Lenoed? Or is he just now trying to capitalize on the incredibly popular Leno/Conan scandal?

Bill Cosby was a guest last night on The Tonight Show With Jay Leno Redux. Surprisingly, unlike many aging comedians, he came on doing what he has always done best, stand-up comedy…except he delivered it while sitting down. Can’t blame Cosby for that, after all he is 72 years old (not to mention, he’s been doing live stand-up sitting down for years). And what did he talk about? Well, the fact that he’s 72 years old and growing older. It’s nice to see the cherished comedian hasn’t lost his touch and his wit is as sharp as it ever was. 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].”

Looks like TBS won’t be the only new venue housing a displaced Conan O’Brien. As of Sunday, Variety is reporting that Conan will be packing up and moving to Warner Bros. TV for his new, forthcoming TBS show. This brings about a drastic change for Team Coco, as the comedy superstar’s production company, Conaco, has long been housed at NBC Universal – an arrangement that, obviously, no longer holds any real water.

Of course, this is all just idle speculation; no real deal has been inked with Warner Bros. yet, but talks continue betwixt both parties. But how tense is it for Coco, being stuck toiling on his old, bittersweet stomping grounds? On Saturday, he vented forth via the mouthpiece of Twitter: “I’m doing my live show tonight from the Universal lot where I taped The Tonight Show. So if a shot rings out, tell my wife I loved her.”