We've seen him on "The Daily Show" and "30 Rock, " so we all know Brian Williams is pretty funny. But this latest video is just hilarious. Williams' description of the aroma of the "Kathie Lee & Hoda" studio as a "combination of alcohol and sweat and a little Love's Baby Soft" is priceless. Watch Williams banter with Kathie Lee & Hoda as they try to promote better health and fitness.
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You have to see this. It's the haunting "Mad Men" theme music ("A Beautiful Mine" by hip hop/electronica artist RJD2), performed by a big band in a live, one-shot mash-up with Nat King Cole's "Nature Boy." And that's NBC Nightly News anchor Brian Williams' daughter Allison Williams on vocals. Go here for a full list of credits.
Stand Up to Cancer (8pm) - Network news anchors Diane Sawyer, Katie Couric, and Brian Williams host a fundraiser for cancer research which is airing on several major networks (ABC, CBS, NBC, Discovery Health, VH1). There's a musical performance by Stevie Wonder, Natasha Bedingfield, Queen Latifah, Martina McBride, Aaron Neville, and Dave Stewart. Also appearing are celebrities who are themselves cancer fighters and survivors, including Raleigh native Michael C. Hall, Sharon Osbourne, Maura Tierney, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Sofia Vergara, Christina Applegate, Lance Armstrong, Fran Drescher, and Ethan Zohn.
Hellcats (8pm, CW) - CW is repeating two of their fall premieres tonight. "Hellcats" airs at 8pm and "Nikita" will air at 9pm.
Freshman Father (9pm, Hallmark) - A new Hallmark movie about a Harvard freshman (Drew Seeley) who becomes a single dad and must learn to balance fatherhood with school. Helping out is a friendly psychic (Annie Potts), but the school's dean (Kim Zimmer) is less supportive and threatens to withdraw his scholarship.
Haven (10pm, Syfy) - Audrey's new Haven friends throw a surprise birthday party for her at a local hotel, but the celebration sours when the group learns that a predatory shape-shifter has replaced one of the party-goers. I hate when that happens.
Tonight's 6:30 national news on ABC ws the final broadcast of Charles "Charlie" Gibson.
It was a weeklong goodbye, as Gibson said, "you may have heard a time or 6", with Gibson on each broadcast since Monday, sharing different memories of his long farewell.
Gibson, you'll remember, came in to the anchor job when ABC News was in trouble. The network had replaced the late, great Peter Jennings with two anchors -- Bob Woodruff and Elizabeth Vargas in 2006. But Woodruff was badly injured by an IED in Iraq, and Vargas got pregnant, and had to take a leave. In disarray, ABC pulled Gibson off of "Good Morning America," a gig, ironically, that was supposed to be temporary for he and Diane Sawyer.
Conan O'Brien got a pretty major endorsement on his second night in the driver's seat of "The Tonight Show."
Conan played a clip last night "excerpted" from the NBC special "Inside the Obama White House" in which anchor Brian Williams asks President Obama if he considered rescheduling his trip to the Middle East this week because of O'Brien's "Tonight Show" debut.
Obama praised O'Brien, who is originally from Brookline, Mass., but had a harsh warning for him:
[UPDATE: Video added below]
