Talking today

David Letterman: Bruce Willis, Sia (R)

Jay Leno: Kathy Griffin, Colbie Caillat

Late Late Show: Drew Carey, Tony Parker, Lady Antebellum (R)

Conan O'Brien: Ted Koppel, Emily Mortimer, Steel Train (R)

Last Call: Dana Gould, Tony Rock (R)

Daily Show: Calvin Trillin

Colbert Report: Jeffrey Goldberg

Jimmy Kimmel: Debra Messing, Kevin McKidd, Akon

The View: Patricia Heaton, Jennifer Esposito

Regis and Kelly: Heidi Klum, Barenaked Ladies, Terry Fator

Ellen DeGeneres: Anthony LaPaglia, Lady GaGa

Tavis Smiley: Quincy Jones

Chelsea Lately: Chris Franjola, Carl DeGregorio, Brad Wollack

George Stroumboulopoulos: Malcolm Gladwell, Cheech & Chong

Bonnie Hunt: Bill Pullman, Nicole Sullivan, the latest castoffs from The Amazing Race

Mike and Juliet: Kristen Chenoweth, Gurbaksh Chahal

Late-night laughs

(from Nov. 28, 2008)

The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson

People do a lot of shopping on Black Friday -- or as Sarah Palin calls it, just Friday.

The malls were packed on Friday. All those women fighting and screaming and shoving ... it's like an episode of The View.

Late Show with David Letterman

This is the biggest shopping day of the year. Good news for the economy: So far, four shoppers have shown up.

I bet a friend that by New Year's Eve, the Dow Jones will be lower than my cholesterol.

At the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade, Santa and his elves were marching down Broadway. Tomorrow, they're going down to Washington to get some of that bailout money.

Today in music history

* In 1949, Gene Autry's Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer hit the pop charts.

* In 1973, The Who spent the night in jail in Montreal after causing $6,000 worth of damage to a hotel room. The incident inspired John Entwistle to write Cell Block Number Seven.

* In 1983, Michael Jackson's 14-minute horror-themed mini-movie Thriller debuted on MTV. The production budget was $600,000, more than 20 times the cost of the average music video at the time. The video resurrected Jackson's year-old Thriller album, putting it back in the top spot on the charts. By late 1996, worldwide sales had topped 44 million copies. An hour-long program, The Making of Thriller, had sold more than 750 million copies on tape within six months of the video's debut.