In the need of some extra spending money, Conan O’Brien takes a seasonal job at Best Buy.

Updated with video of the Letterman appearance – see the bottom of the post.
A decade ago, yours truly spent about the life span of a mayfly as an aspiring stand-up comic. I followed the lead of my childhood friend (and lifelong cut-up) Lee Levine and performed a “tight five-minute” routine at a few open mic comedy nights in the San Francisco area. On one of those nights, in a British pub near Stanford University, Lee introduced me to the event’s host, a charming and affable Midwesterner named Steve Mazan. After …

Watch a tribute to Michael Jackson performed by dancing inmates of the Cebu Provincial Detention and Rehabilitation Center in the Philippines. The tribute was performed just 10 hours after receiving word that the King of Pop passed away, as hundreds of tourists and Cebuanos crowded the jail to watch the emotional performance.
Moonwalking Bird:

My 10-year old daughter got me to do something this past year that I had never done before.
Watch “American Idol.”
It started innocently enough one day when she asked me if I knew who Kris Allen was.
“Isn’t he that new second baseman for the Cardinals?” I responded.
“What about Adam Lambert?” she asked.
“Outfielder for the Orioles, right? Good speed, but not much in the field?”
She rolled her eyes and breathed a heavy sigh that all 10-year olds instinctively know how to do when their parent says something stupid and took me …