From: drew.c@verizonSPAMBEGONE.net   
      
   Updated with late additions (preceded by '+') and my notes and observations.   
      
   On 2009-07-28 7:24 p.m., Drew verbated:   
   >  From nbcumv.com as usual.   
   >   
   > Tonight Show guests for July 27-31, 2009   
   > Format: Date - Episode No. - Guests (*=musical guest)   
   >   
   > Mon 7/27 - 36 - Meryl Streep, Judd Apatow, The Fray*   
      
   William Shatner read Sarah Palin's resignation speech as poetry. Celebrity   
   Survey. Streep was sweet and self-deprecating, ending her segment by   
   attempting to play an odd instrument called a concertina. Apatow had some   
   off-color stories to share from his married life. The Fray performed "Never   
   Say Never," a radio-friendly song, if a bit derivative-sounding (Coldplay   
   comes to mind).   
      
   > Tue 7/28 - 37 - Heidi Klum, Steve Zahn, Jimmy Carr   
      
   Andy tried iFly. Klum, 28 weeks pregnant, was full of her usual spunk in a   
   spirited give-and-take with Conan. Zahn, fresh from picking up horse crap   
   on his farm, brought his laid-back sense of humor, and Carr hit the spot   
   more often than not with his jokes.   
      
   Wed 7/29 - 38 - Rainn Wilson, Rachel Maddow, +Chicago*   
      
   Shatner recited Palin's Twitter tweets. Jordan Schlansky house-hunting   
   remote bit. Wilson talked about nerdy things. Maddow talked about political   
   things. Chicago, with members of the Tonight Show Band, performed one of   
   their '70s hits, "25 or 6 to 4."   
      
   > Thu 7/30 - 39 - Jack Dagger, Tonya Kay, Paul Giamatti, Regina Spektor*   
      
   Squirm-inducing Bernie Madoff bit. Googling with the Stars bit. The first   
   guests were a knife-throwing act, with Dagger doing the throwing as his   
   assistant Kay stood still while knives flew around her. In the obligatory   
   host-participation part of the segment, Conan acquitted himself well for an   
   amateur. Giamatti wants everyone to know he is Italian, since he never gets   
   to play Italians in films. Spektor sang "Laughing With," an unusual take on   
   a serious subject (people's attitudes towards God during times of misfortune).   
      
   Fri 7/31 - 40 - +Hank Azaria, Adam Richman, Ben Harper & Relentless7*   
      
   Tonight Show Kiss Cam. Twitter Tracker. Azaria, of "Simpsons" fame, was a   
   late added guest. Richman brought some humongous entrees from his show "Man   
   Versus Food." Harper and his band, which seems to spell its name   
   Relentless7 rather than the more conventional way I spelled it previously,   
   performed "Fly One Time," a rather intense song exhorting us to free   
   ourselves from the immobilizing strictures of everyday life. Well, not in   
   those words, but that was the idea.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)