M. Night Shyamalan’s latest movie, The Happening, opened in U.S. theaters on Friday, and co-star John Leguizamo made an appearance on Jimmy Kimmel Live the same day to help promote it.

I love catching the comedian-actor when he visits talk shows because his New York and comedy roots are always on full display.

Take a look at the interview in the following video to learn about what’s going on with Leguizamo these days, including his old-school approach to fatherhood. His description of survival camp is classic.

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Entertainment legend Bill Cosby paid a visit to Jimmy Kimmel Live on Friday, and he stuck around long enough to have a seat and chat with the host for a good eight minutes.

The occasion was the recent eBay charity auction featuring several of the instantly recognizable colorful sweaters Cosby regularly sported on his hit NBC sitcom The Cosby Show.

After Cosby and his wife Camille came across the garments in their closet one day while cleaning, their daughter Evin had the wise idea of auctioning them off to raise funds for the Hello Friend/Ennis William Cosby Foundation, a nonprofit organization named after Cosby’s son Ennis, who was murdered in Los Angeles in 1997 shortly before beginning a doctoral program.

It was very nice to see the 70-year-old comedian, actor, and educator out and about and still delivering his usual homestyle humor. Take a look at the appearance in the video below.

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30 Rock star and Saturday Night Live alum Tracy Morgan dropped by Jimmy Kimmel Live at the end of March to shoot the breeze with a fellow comic while pushing his current TV show and recently released spoof flick Superhero Movie.

Enjoy the two-part interview after the jump. If you stick around for the duration, you’ll even get to watch a clip from the film, which features Morgan as Professor Xavier, a send-up of Patrick Stewart’s Professor Charles Xavier in the X-Men trilogy. (And, Morgan keeps his shirt on this time, too.)

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If you haven’t already seen the hilarious video that brash comic Sarah Silverman presented to her boyfriend, late-night talk-show host Jimmy Kimmel, last Thursday on the occasion of his show Jimmy Kimmel Live’s fifth anniversary, please hurry up and take a look after the jump.

Many people might not realize it, but this Kimmel-Matt Damon thing started long before Silverman decided to go public with her, uh, love for the popular star in a mesmerizing video duet that is guaranteed not to go away for the rest of the year. Incidentally, the video was filmed way back in October 2007 for Kimmel’s fortieth birthday, but the writers strike put a big crimp in the plans to present it to him for that hallmark.

The fake feud between the comic and actor—yes, people, Kimmel and Damon don’t really have it out for one another—began a couple of years ago, when Kimmel picked up the habit of ending his show by apologizing to Matt Damon for running out of time, although Damon wasn’t a scheduled guest. Damon then appeared on Live in September 2006 and good-naturedly took part in an expletive-filled pretend argument when Kimmel abruptly ended the show before conducting a proper interview. Check out that clip, too, following the Silverman video after the jump.

Kimmel’s sidekick Guillermo even joined in the long-running joke when he did a few red-carpet interviews at the premiere of Ocean’s Thirteen and then played a major role in a spoof of the trailer for last year’s megahit The Bourne Ultimatum. With all of that history, I’ve got a feeling the fun and pranks aren’t over yet, which is good for all of us who can’t get enough of this stuff.

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This is just a quickie reminder that as of tonight, Craig Ferguson, Jimmy Kimmel, Jay Leno, David Letterman, and Conan O’Brien will all be returning to their respective late-night talk shows to produce fresh episodes for the New Year. Although Ferguson’s Late Late Show will present a new installment with no guests, the remaining hosts will put on shows featuring an assortment of celebrities.

Tomorrow’s Late Late Show will have something to offer in the way of famous people, however, such as former Lost star Dominic Monaghan and magician Jason Randal. Meanwhile, over on basic cable’s Comedy Central, Jon Stewart’s The Daily Show and Stephen Colbert’s The Colbert Report are due back next Monday, January 7.

Keep in mind, too, that the quality of the individual shows is likely to vary as only Letterman and Ferguson have an agreement with the Writers Guild of America that will allow their writers to pen original material. I, for one, can’t wait to see how this fact will impact the overall entertainment value for viewers.

Here’s who’ll be occupying the other late-night couches tonight:

Jimmy Kimmel Live

• Helio Castroneves
• Andy Dick
• Kid Rock

Late Night with Conan O’Brien

• Robert Gordon and Chris Spedding
• Dwayne Perkins
• Bob Saget

Late Show with David Letterman

• Hillary Clinton
• Lupe Fiasco
• Robin Williams

The Tonight Show with Jay Leno

• Chingy
• Governor Mike Huckabee

The late-night talk-show hosts are returning to their gigs like all get out. First, it was Conan O’Brien issuing a statement Monday regarding his plans to resume Late Night with Conan O’Brien on Wednesday, January 2. Jay Leno’s statement then followed within a nanosecond, alerting the public that The Tonight Show with Jay Leno will resume on the very same date.

Now that NBC’s post-primetime schedule is entirely intact again for the early New Year, here comes word from ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel on Tuesday evening that his early-morning gabfest Jimmy Kimmel Live will get back to business on January 2, as well. The three-sentence (he’s not a man of many words these days, is he?) announcement follows.

Though it makes me sick to do so without my writers, there are more than a hundred people whose financial well-being depends on our show. It is time to go back to work. I support my colleagues and friends in the WGA completely and hope this ends both fairly and soon.

Sounds pretty much like the same song and dance that his NBC colleagues offered, although O’Brien at least had the consideration to put together three whole paragraphs as opposed to just three redundant sentences—or four in the case of Leno.

So, tell me? If non-Writers Guild member Carson Daly is a scab, as so many were quick to label him, does that mean Writers Guild members O’Brien, Leno, and now Kimmel are, too? And how about David Letterman and his fellow ABC/Worldwide Pants yakker Craig Ferguson, yet two more union men, who’ll inevitably be returning sooner rather than later? Or does less talent give people more of a right to point fingers at the creatively-challenged? Hmmm…

If you want to know how some individuals with very strong opinions about the strike feel, just take a gander at the comments on the recent Deadline Hollywood Daily post “WGA Reminds Returning Jay And Conan: No Monologues.” [Warning: The commenters use strong language liberally]

Danny DeVito, the last new regular cast member added to FX’s buddy sitcom It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia, will chat with Jimmy Kimmel a few minutes after the stroke of midnight tomorrow. Catch the discussion on ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel Live at 12:06am EST.