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Wednesday, The Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien featured master thespian William Shatner reading Tweets from Levi Johnston, poetry-style, in a hilarious skit.

Well, it turns out the Twitter page they quoted from was a fake. Levi was not pleased at being portrayed as a racist pothead, and demanded Conan apologize.

He did so last night, saying: "I would like to personally apologize to Levi Johnston for misrepresenting him in any way. Levi is truly a great American. We wish him the best of luck as he trains for his upcoming naked photo shoot."

Conan then brought Shatner back out to make amends, and recite, in similar fashion, some actual verified quotes from Levi Johnston. Some of the gems:

• "The first thing Sarah said to me at the hotel was 'you gotta cut your hair.' I told her I didn't want to. I had a mullet at the time."
• "Guess what? I shot a big ass bear."
• "If Sarah wanted food, then we'd get her something to eat. Like a Crunch-Wrapped Supreme from ... Taco Bell."
• "I just get naked. That's what I do."

Classic. Here's William Shatner channeling his inner Levi last night ...

Most things sound better when master thespian William Shatner recites it over soothing, melodic percussion. Levi Johnston's Twitter page (real or fake) is no exception.

Levi is furious over a skit on last night's Tonight Show in which Levi came off looking like a moronic, racially insensitive pothead ... by virtue of his own Twitter page.

His alleged Twitter page, anyway. The attorney for the future Playgirl centerfold is claiming that the outrageous Tweets Conan O'Brien attributed to Levi are fake.

Conan introduced the skit referencing Shatner's reciting of Sarah Palin's inane farewell speech over the summer, and saying who better than to read Levi's Tweets?

"All real ... we did not make these up," Conan added.

Among the Tweets read poetry-style by Shatner: "Anybody know where I can get some good weed?" "Is it true that fat kids never get kidnapped?" "Whats the deal with the taxi drivers not speaking English, is there a law against it?"

And: "You know you're a celebrity when strangers want to see your penis. LM ... AO."

His lawyer, Rex Butler, is not LMAO. He  is demanding a retraction from NBC, as well as from Twitter, saying that "I think they have an obligation once something like this happens to make some kind of corrective measure."

NBC has yet to comment. Here's the hilarious video in question ...

Last night on The Tonight Show, Conan O'Brien tried to defend his obsessive viewing of The Hills by pawning it off on his wife, and its retired star, Lauren Conrad, talked about some of her previous encounters with fans of the show.

LC, who was there on her L.A. Candy book tour before the conversation turned to more important topics, discussed a time when a crazed fan literally threw a baby at her.

In case you were wondering, babies do not ricochet.

Here's an excerpt of Lauren Conrad's talk with Conan O'Brien - and Curb Your Enthusiasm star Larry David - about that particular fan run-in:

Conan: So she threw her baby at you?
Lauren: But my back was to her, and it ricocheted off of me, and I was like-
Conan: Babies don't ricochet!
Lauren: It did, though!
Conan: I have had two babies. They do not ricochet. They hit and slide.
Lauren: But I was moving. So it ricocheted.
Conan: That's one of the stranger stories I've ever heard.
Larry: I'd like to steal that story for my show!

Check out the video of Lauren's trip to the Tonight Show below ...

Jay Leno has left The Tonight Show for a new prime time series, but that was not about to stop Howard Stern from making his feelings about him known.

In summation, the shock jock ripped Leno during his appearance on last night's Late Show and vowed to help David Letterman take down Conan O'Brien.

"We gotta beat this Conan. For God sakes, how are you feeling that Jay left late-night television and now we got a new guy we gotta compete with?" the admittedly disgruntled, bitter old man Stern asked an amused Letterman.

"And I wanna say something to this audience about loyalty ... Dave put me on national television many, many years ago before I was known. And I have stuck with Dave ... I didn't like Jay. I never liked Jay. I can't stand Jay."

No arguments here - or from the studio audience that greeted the 55-year-old radio host's scathing, somewhat odd comments with big applause!

And Stern, who later talked about other important topics, such as his wedding to Beth Ostrosky, wasn't finished with Leno there by any means.

"Let me say something. I never seen anybody who behaves like a robot like this guy," he continued. "I watched his final show. He says goodbye to The Tonight Show. He says goodbye reading it off a teleprompter for cryin' out loud."

"Where's the emotion, and where's the humanity?"

Stern recounted his one and only appearance on The Tonight Show, when he "showed up with two lesbians," which naturally turned off Leno:

"He's shocked. He walks off his own show. I knew it wouldn't last."

Did we mention Conan O'Brien taking over for Jay Leno on The Tonight Show was a great move by NBC? Last night, he reprised a classic Late Night bit to give viewers a glimpse inside the minds of the stars with his "Celebrity Surveys."

With faux responses to Conan's questions, stars ranging from Paris Hilton and Spencer Pratt to Stephen Baldwin and Matthew McConaughey share their thoughts.

Watch the list of people Conan can't run into on the street grow ...

It gets better still! Follow the jump for part two of this bit ...

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Jay Leno passes the Tonight Show baton to Conan O'Brien tonight, and we couldn't be happier. Seriously. We love David Letterman, but are much happier to see him go up against a formidable Conan than the utterly replaceable Leno.

In anticipation of Conan's first show, below is a look at one of his previous show's most genius creations - Triumph the Insult Comic Dog - talking to "Attack of the Clones" enthusiasts outside the Star Wars film's premiere in New York in 2002.

Here's Triumph venturing into the eye of the storm ...

Part of our staff adamantly maintains that John Mayer is a douchebag.

Well, the video below seems to confirm this revelation - although we have to give the singer his due for being funny and self-depricating.

John Mayer paid his respects to Conan O'Brien on the final night of his Late Night show Friday with a brief, taped and moving musical tribute.

Mayer's song, called "L.A.'s Gonna Eat You Alive," offered his thoughts on O'Brien's impending move to the Tonight Show, which films in L.A.

The best lyric? "Look at me, I used to live in NYC. Now I'm as douchey as a man can be." So true. At the end, Mayer said: "Good luck, loser."

Peep the video below ...

Uh-oh. The Emmy Award gloves are coming off!

Host Conan O'Brien was recently quoted as chiding ABC for not supporting its own, heavily nominated show. See, Grey's Anatomy is up for 11 awards and the late night talk show host seems to think its network should, therefore, encourage viewers to watch the Emmy broadcast. Even though it's on NBC.

Instead, the folks at the American Broadcasting Corporation are showing Pirates of the Caribbean in a counter-programming move.

"It just isn't done," O'Brien said of the aggressive scheduling. "ABC is pretty much saying, 'No one watch the Emmys! Screw you, Grey's Anatomy!'"

Scheduling a movie to garner ratings for your network isn't done, Conan? The Gossip doesn't see a reason why ABC would actually want viewers to tune in to the Emmys - they just hope Grey's Anatomy rakes in the awards and then the channel can market the heck out of that fact.

Plus, the Emmys did completely snub Desperate Housewives and Lost, so ABC has legitimate reasons for taking aim at the show's ratings.