Shat happens.

Most recently, on Wednesday night, when William Shatner gifted the viral video gods with yet another dramatic interpretation of awe-inspiring tweets, this time seemingly from the mind and keyboard of pro leg-spreader Levi Johnston.

Only they weren't.

"We'd been following Levi on Twitter and felt his gift for the written word needed to be shared with the world," Conan O'Brien explained. "Today I wake up, very late, I sleep in, and I got some shocking news: Apparently the tweets that we read are counterfeit. They were written by a clever imposter posing as the witty Levi Johnston.

"And the real Levi is angry with us now."

So what better way to redress the balance than by inviting the beat poet extraordinaire back out to the stage to reinterpret some bonafide Johnston sound bites.

"The first thing Sarah said to me at the hotel was, you gotta cut your hair," the Shatman recited. "I told her, I didn't want to. I had a mullet at the time.

"Guess what? I shot a big ass bear," he went on. "I just get naked, that's what I do."

On second thought, he might have been better off laying claim to the counterfeit quotes.

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If we were Bristol Palin, we'd shut down our Twitter account now. After all, getting mocked dramatically reinterpreted by William Shatner has turned into a family affair for Alaska's former first family, as estranged baby-daddy turned professional trou-dropper Levi Johnston is the latest tweeter to get caught in Captain Kirk's crosshairs.

As he did with Sarah Palin (twice) before, the Shat man grabbed his bongos, his bass and his never-bland delivery, and gifted the Tonight Show audience with a beat-tastic reading of Johnston's 140-character musings.

Let's just say, he makes Palin look like a veritable wordsmith.

"Maybe I'm a genius and not even know it," Shatner recited. "Maybe I don't exist and it only seems like I do. Maybe this is a parallel universe where I don't. Anybody know where I can get some good weed?"

Turns out, you can take the hick out of Wasilla, but not out of tweets.

"What's the deal with taxi drivers not speaking English, is it a law against it?" he mused. The blissfully ignorant questions didn't stop there.

"Is it true that fat kids never get kidnapped?"

And no tweet reenactment would be complete without touching on his upcoming, highly unanticipated Playgirl spread.

"You know you're a celebrity when strangers want to see your penis. LMAO."

Yes, Levi. But only to L their own AO.

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David Letterman might have thought that taking a week off from Late Show duties would at least temporarily decrease the bad publicity. Clearly, he thought wrong.

This time around, he has former scorned employee Nell Scovell to thank for bringing the subject of his indiscretions back under the microscope.

Scovell, one of the few female writers ever to be hired at Letterman HQ (or, for that matter, Jay Leno and Conan O'Brien HQ), is speaking writing out about her time working for the Top 10 boss, via a short essay for Vanity Fair that paints her late '80s tenure on his NBC Late Night show as one marred by uncomfortable tension, hostile environments and sexual favoritism.

Scovell starts weaving her tale exactly where people want her to: in the gutter.

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Conan O'Brien better steer clear of the Holland Tunnel next time he's in New York.

Newark Mayor Cory Booker has banned (humorous mock-feud-style) the Tonight Show host from the entire state of New Jersey after O'Brien, who had already mocked the sanitation situation in Booker's fair city, dared to ban the politico from Bob Hope Airport in Burbank, Calif.

Booker said in his second YouTube video on the subject (the first having banned O'Brien from Newark's airport) that he's received emails from mayors all over the state.

"You see, we in New Jersey roll hard, we roll strong and we roll together. And now I'm here to officially tell you, you have been banned from the entire state of New Jersey.

"Now look, you may like [Atlantic City spots] Boardwalk and Park Place, but the only way you're going to get to them is on a Monopoly board."

And it turns out there are a few other places Conan can't go, as well.

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Blame Teri Hatcher. Or the floor-buffing guy.

Either way, viewers got a video replay and first-hand account of the Tonight Show bit that bit back at Conan O'Brien Friday, causing the host to cancel the taping midway through and take up an afternoon residency at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center.

"I've been bombarded with emails and calls and people wondering just what the hell happened on Friday," O'Brien said.

"When you smack your head on cement it tends to elicit that kind of interest," cohort Andy Richter replied.

The injury, which briefly rendered O'Brien's otherwise razor-sharp verbal abilities slurred and the entire incident, in his mind, blurred, occurred at the tail end of a bit in which Hatcher had the "great idea" to stage a mock triathlon against O'Brien, which should've ended with both stars crossing the finish line in the studio.

Nonspoiler alert: It didn't.

"I raced down the stairs, I think I was trying to take a slide, it's a very slick floor, and my feet go out from under me and just…actually, I don't remember much," O'Brien said. "I'm not even kidding."

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This is why it's good to have a second in command.

Andy Richter had to step in as host of The Tonight Show Friday after Conan O'Brien fell during a skit being taped for Friday's episode and was taken by ambulance to the hospital, sources confirm to E! News.

Our insider says O'Brien was running down a flight of stairs when he slipped and banged his head, possibly sustaining a concussion.

NBC will likely air a repeat instead of the show that was halted by O'Brien's accident. Teri Hatcher and Seth MacFarlane were tonight's scheduled guests. (The network has not yet returned a request for comment.)

We hope one of our favorite funnymen gets well soon!

Last night while President Obama was telling jokes and talking business on Letterman, the real late-night party was over on The Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien, where Ricky Gervais taught us all a new game.

It's called Awful Jim Jam and involves that strategically placed hole in men's pajamas and then, well, Mr. Gervais does a much better job at explaining it than we ever could:

"You can play it with your wife or girlfriend or mom, I don't know where you live. You pull out a little bit of skin, you don't give anything away and you go to your girlfriend, 'C--k or ball?'"

Sounds fun? The British comedian also gave Conan an ugly makeover for his rickygervais.com blog, where Ricky keeps all his own ugly photos, and cried. You know, just a typical late-show appearance promoting a new movie (that movie happens to be The Invention of Lying, btw).

And yes, there's more of the Gervais-Conan experience after the jump...

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William Shatner is nothing if not game for a sequel (Star Trek producers, take note).

The Shat man was back, along with his bongos, on the Tonight Show Wednesday, once again turning rain into a rainbow with Sarah Palin-penned prose.

Whereas on Monday, he somehow managed to turn Palin's rambling resignation speech into a spoken-word spectacular, last night he topped even himself, proving that a mere 140 characters is all that's required to spin pure comedy gold.

If he keeps this up, Shatner's late night appearances may just live long and prosper.

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It takes a captain to mock a maverick.

William Shatner, the master of spoken-word peculiarity, turned up on the Tonight Show last night to deliver a little viral gem—a verbatim delivery of governor-no-more Sarah Palin's steadily more rambling, picnic-accompanied resignation speech.

It's no "Rocket Man." But it does have bongos.

Tina Fey may have nothing to worry about, but Palin herself? Oh, you betcha.

By the sounds of it, it's not just the rivers that are merciless.

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First John McCain is done in by Jackson Browne, now this. What's a media-mocked Republican to do?

We know the G in G-Force stands for guinea pig, but after seeing Zach Galifianakis on Thursday's Tonight Show, all we can think about is genitalia. Namely, his own.

The comic actor was on hand to chat about his new flick when the convo with Conan O'Brien began to focus more on the appearance (or would that be cameo?) of his nether regions while shooting a scene in The Hangover involving a Bengal tiger and a bottomless Zach…

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If you can't beat 'em, join 'em. Gerard Butler has learned that once the rumors start, sometimes it's best to just play along.

Such is the case with the sexy Scot, who can't seem to even breathe the same air as Jennifer Aniston without somebody insisting they're a couple. Of course, the latest round of speculation stems from the fact that the two are currently making a movie together.

"Yeah, we're very much in love," the Ugly Truth star told Conan O'Brien on Thursday's Tonight Show. "Especially her. And I'm going to make an announcement."

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Sometimes, it's actually not so good to be the king.

Two weeks after NBC declared Conan O'Brien "the new king of late night," the latest ratings show David Letterman outdrew The Tonight Show, now hosted by the, well, you know…

CBS said Letterman's Late Show victory in viewers for the week of June 15 was the first of its kind since December 2005.

NBC, meanwhile, is not about turn in O'Brien's crown. It pointed out that O'Brien dominated Letterman among advertiser-coveted demographic groups, and, in an especially cruel twist of the knife, noted that Letterman's audience is, on average, 11 years older than O'Brien's.

O'Brien was proclaimed the king after eight years days on the job.