Comedy Club Invites Palin to Perform

After he mockingly reads from her book, she returns favor

(NEWSER) - Sarah Palin made a surprise appearance on The Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien tonight—and turned the tables on actor William Shatner. Shatner mockingly read passages from Palin's blockbuster Going Rogue—including ones about rapper Kid Rock and stalking sheep. Afterward, it was Palin's turn to read from Shatner's Up Till Now. The former Alaska governor's selections included one in which Shatner talks about visiting an African elephant "in my underwear." After the readings, there appeared to be no hard feelings. The two left the stage arm-in-arm. More»

This time, drawn from her Twitter feed

(NEWSER) - After realizing Sarah Palin’s incoherent resignation address was not actually a speech but rather poetry, Conan O’Brien started investigating her Twitter feed. “Some people have found her tweets to be a little rambling, confusing, and off-topic,” O’Brien said on last night’s Tonight Show, but that’s because “these are not tweets. This is beautiful free verse!” Once again, “master thespian” William Shatner did the honors. Watch the clip at left. More»

(USER SUBMITTED) - A sound engineer of 30 years who was in the audience writes that audio portions of Sarah Palin's Tuesday appearance on Jay Leno's Tonight Show were added or amplified, edited before broadcast to make it appear that she was more welcome than she was. They added laughter where there was none during uncomfortable portions, she writes on Daily Kos. More»

Sarah Palin gets mocked, multiple times, by Late Show host

(NEWSER) - Jay Leno wasn't the only one with Sarah Palin this week on late night. The former Alaska guv made her way into David Letterman 's interview last night with Mitt Romney ("Be careful what you say about her," cautioned the former presidential candidate. "She has a rifle.") More importantly, Letterman debuted a new segment Monday—“Is It a Satellite Delay?”—using clips of Sarah Palin’s awkward pauses during live satellite interviews to great effect. Watch both clips in the gallery. More»

Fellow comedian makes the case for much-maligned superstar

(NEWSER) - He knows he's branding himself unhip, but Steve Macone isn't backing down on the subject of Dane Cook: "Yes, he is probably more popular than he should be. Yes, there are other comedians equally deserving of fame." But "at this juncture, it's wrong to say, 'Dane Cook is not funny,'" he writes. "Because he is." And Macone considers the almost-universal backlash against his fellow comedian confirmation that Cook is a victim of his own arena-size success. More»