He may have lost the election, but many still wanted to watch John McCain on the Tonight Show Tuesday.

It was the highest-rated late-night program of the night on any network and it gave Tonight its best ratings since February 2007 for a Tuesd

Tonight averaged a 4.9 household rating/12 share in the 56 metered markets, Nielsen Media Research said Wednesday afternoon.

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Check out the highlights from McCain’s first post-election TV interview.

Michelle Obama shares a story of her daughter’s reaction to Barack Obama being on every TV channel at once with his half-hour commercials prior to election day.

Monday’s “Tonight Show With Jay Leno” with guest star Phelps gave the late-night talker its best ratings since June 17.

“Tonight” averaged a 4.1 household metered-market rating/10 share, Nielsen Media Research said Tuesday.

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That’s what “industry types” are saying will happen when Jay Leno turns “The Tonight Show” over to Conan O’Brien, according to the New York Post.

Why?

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Don’t be scared Jimmy - it’ll be fine!

Before you see Jimmy Fallon hosting Late Night - guess what?

You’ll be seeing him practice on the Internet.

Where is still to be determined.

But, it’s an effort by Lorne Michaels and NBC to help Fallon “work out the rough spots” before he goes live and replaces Conan O’Brien.

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“I am definitely done next year — with NBC,” he says, sitting in a huge recliner in his poster-strewn shop office.

Would he go to another network?

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NBC is getting closer and closer to replacing Jay Leno with Conan O’Brien.

This will either be the biggest f&*k&p in history or pure genius by Jeff Zucker.

Only time will tell.

The Hollywood Reporter runs down a list of options for Jay Leno - who pretty much can do whatever he wants:

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“We live in a time when a lot of people think everything’s impossible to do or it’s not like what you do in the ’20s and come from nothing and start your own business.

Well, sure you can!

This (EcoJet) project is four guys in a garage in Burbank. It shows what’s possible. Anyone can do something like this.

OK, maybe not exactly like this. I mean, I have a pretty good-paying job. But you can do something similar.

After gay rights organization GLAAD urged Jay Leno to apologize for making derogatory remarks during a recent interview with Ryan Phillipe, the talk show host clarified his remarks in a statement, according to US Weekly.

The Tonight Show host, 57, teased Phillippe, 33, for landing his first role as a gay teen on the soap One Life to Live.  He also asked Phillippe to give the camera his “gayest look.” 

“In talking about Ryan’s first role, I realize that what I said came out wrong,” Leno said. “I certainly didn’t mean any malice. I agree it was a dumb thing to say, and I apologize.”

Good for Jay for apologizing quickly.  But he looks like a dumb ass for making a joke like that in the first place! 

Is Jay still upset over Conan’s appearance from the other night???  He can’t be too happy right now knowing that he’s about to be kicked out of late night!