Week 7!

Week 7? More like Week Strike-beard, amirite? Oh, man, there is nothing on television more fascinating than David Letterman’s face right now. Conan’s not looking too shabby either, although his stock, “I can’t even grow facial hair” response is ruined. He’s going to have to come up with a new conversational lie (Our guess: “I am filled with tinier men!”) if he wanted to keep pretending he’s not bored by some boring celebutard’s dog park story. Or he could take the Letterman route and not even try to pay attention. I think we’d all be fine with that.

Anyways, it’s week 9 of the strike, Jay, Jimmy, and the Zone made it through half a week without writer’s (except for Leno, who may or may not have had help with his crappy jokes). Is this the week everything falls apart? Don’t worry, we’re here with your daily walk through the minefield of the ongoing, strike-ravaged Late Night Television Wars.

Monday:

• The Tonight Show With Jay Leno - TBA
• The Late Show with David Letterman - Tom Hanks, Gov. Mike Huckabee
• Late Night with Conan O’Brien - Hulk Hogan, Regina Hall, Nicole Atkins & the Sea
• The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson - RZA, Greg Proops, Ian Hunter
• Jimmy Kimmel Live - Kathy Griffin, Scott Baio, Velvet Revolver

STEPHAN: You might notice that the Tonight Show lineup is blank. We’re having some inside information issues here at Late Night Thing. Sarge, c’mon, man! Just because we don’t like Jay, it doesn’t mean we don’t like you. Your work has been nothing stellar, (and we’ve never said otherwise), so let’s get back on the help train and get our informational synergy flowing again.

Also, Craig Ferguson loves Ian Hunter. If you’ve ever wanted to see a Scottish person fellate the guy who wrote Cleveland Rocks!, you might want to watch this episode.

ERECH: Are all the comedians in LA mad at Yimmy or something? He’s what, can’t get anyone on the show anymore who’s actually either interesting or not completely washed? All his friends and contacts, and this is what he’s giving us - ouch. I blame the lack of a strike-beard.

Dave grilling that googly-eyed Huckabee should be good.

Tonights winner has to be Fake Craiggers and RZA though, if only because it will either be really awesome or totally a train-wreck - MY MONEY IS ON THE LATTER. And hey, if RZA doesn’t bring the awkward, seeing Proops on your telelvision screen surely will - either that or you’ll think it’s 1998 again - players choice.

Stop back by tomorrow as we tear through even more of the super-apparently-secret line-ups of the week. Oh boy.

Read Past LNT’s:
Week 6
Week 5
Week 4
Week 3
Week 2
Week 1