I've cut my late show TiVoing and viewing back to 2.5 shows: Conan, Craig Ferguson and the first half of Jay. I realized that I'd stopped watching The Tonight Show past the mid-break and since there was something else I wanted to record on another channel, I'm set to just get the first half of Leno each night. Unless there's a very special guest booked, I don't watch Dave, George, Carson or either Jimmy.
But the other night, Jimmy Fallon had on something that's worth watching. As you may know, composers often write "dummy lyrics" to a song just so they can remember or refine the melody, then they go back later and write (or have a lyricist write) the real lyrics. Fallon had Paul McCartney on and in what was of course a planned, agreed-upon moment, asked him to sing the dummy lyrics to "Yesterday." I believe the lyrics to "Scrambled Eggs" only ran a few lines so someone — probably not Sir Paul — extended them into an entire song. Funny moment…
