Orianthi Promotional Photo. Photo: 19 Entertainment

Orianthi will perform on this week’s American Idol this Wednesday March 17th.

We broke the news exclusively on Friday to our Twitter Followers and our Facebook Fan Page  as Fox did not want to make the official announcement  on the site til Monday, so we snuck to our followers because they didn’t say we couldn’t. 

Orianthi will be performing “According To You” on the show, which is slowly creeping up the charts that used to matter, The Billboard Charts and is sitting at Number 17 right now.  She has been on Funkenberry Radio’s Top 21 for quite a while now. 

When we interviewed Orianthi a few weeks back, she let us know that she recorded an updated version of “Stairway To Heaven” by led Zeppelin with Mary J. Blige and guitar God Steve Vai. 

ALSO, Orianthi will be performing  on this Thursday’s “Tonight Show With Jay Leno” and that performance should be hot as well. Janet Jackson will be a guest on the show.  As you all should know, Orianthi was due to play with Janet’s brother, Michael Jackson (You might have heard of him) before his untimely death.  She is all over the documentary “This Is It” which is now out on DVD.

Hope you enjoy the great photo of Orianthi and be sure to check out her rocking performance on “American Idol” this week to see why we are raving about this girl.  “This Is NOT It” for her for sure…..-Dr.FB

Usually, Simon Cowell is used to embarrasing others on American Idol. Last night, Jay Leno turned the tables and mad Simon blush as he grilled him about his recent engagement.

Sorry, videos don’t embed well, so click below to view them on the Tonight Show website; links below. -Dr.FB

Clip 1: Simon Cowell
Clip 2: Simon Cowell

Sarah Palin was on “The Tonight Show With Jay Leno” last night and tried her hand at comedy by doing stand-up. Oh Lawd. Comparing Alaska to Los Angeles and talked about the Winter Olympics.

Jay set her up for softball questions during their Q n A such as being caught writing cliff notes on her hand during a speech.

Check out the video of Sarah Palin on The Tonight Show and let us know what you think.-Dr.FB

P.S., for the 2nd night in a row, Leno dominated Letterman in the ratings. Team Coco, where you at?

Here is Jay Leno’s return to the Tonight Show including dream sequence (we knew it was coming, we just did not know it would have Bettie White.) and his first monologue back.

What do you think of Jay’s return? i think they tried to keep things moving and fast paced. Maybe a little too much. What do you think?-Dr.FB

Jay Leno Photo File

Jay Leno will return to “The Tonight Show” March 1st and it has been revealed who will be on the show in the first few days.

Olympic medalist Lindsay Vonn, Shaun White , Jamie Foxx, and Sarah Palin will be Leno’s first guests.

Along with Morgan Freeman and Matthew McConaughey, Kristen Stewart, Chelsea Handler, and Simon Cowell,  there will be more Olympic athletes.  The musical guests have yet to be announced. 

Is it enough to make you tune back in and watch or are you still reeling from Coco?-Dr.FB

Kevin Eubanks File Photo

Kevin Eubanks made it public yesterday that he is leaving “The Tonight Show With Jay Leno”….or did he?

There were reports that hit that Kevin would be leaving the show, then that he would be there March 1st when the show returns.  The reason?  After 18 years of being on the Tonight Show and about 15 years as being band leader, he is suddenly getting the itch to tour. 

Why does this seem fishy to me?  Max Weinburg of Conan O’Brien’s show was the band leader and also able to tour as the drummer of Bruce Springsteen’s band.  So if Kevin really wanted to tour, wouldn’t he just take a leave of absence and then return?

What this seems like to me is that perhaps someone is looking for a pay raise. 

If I am the Tonight Show producers, I give Kevin a raise.  It is too important right now to mess with anything on the Tonight Show.  There is so much on the line right now for Leno to gain the audience that Conan lost.   Kevin is more than Jay’s safety net when it comes to jokes, but he also appears in skits and when you think of Kevin, you think of the Tonight Show.  There are rumors if Kevin does leave, Darius Rucker of Hootie & The Blowfish will take his place.  Oh my.

So do you think if Kevin leaves the Tonight Show, will it mess up the shows chemistry?-Dr.FB

P.S., I still think this is a ploy for a pay raise.

Oprah Winfrey. Photo: Aceshowbiz.com

Oprah Winfrey is gonna have a packed show today.  Not only will she give the behind the scenes details of the commercial she did with Jay Leno and David Letterman,  she will have Super Bowl MVP Drew Brees from the New Orleans Saints and wife and baby boy on the show.

Also, Lionel Richie will perform a special Valentines Day performance.  For those who are not from the 80’s, that is Nicole Richie’s father.

You might want to make sure you catch today’s episode of Oprah as it looks pretty star studded.-Dr.FB

Jay Leno is about to take one last shot on his chin tonight as the “Jay Leno Show” will tape it’s final episode tonight. 

It won’t be a sad goodbye as Jay Leno will be returning as the host of “The Tonight Show” in March.  His studios in Burbank during that time will be getting another makeover.

I expect some sort of send off from leno and maybe a few jabs at NBC for what an awful idea it was to put him in the 10′o’clock spot in the first place when he was number 1 in late night for so long. 

For those that think Leno will not regain the number 1 spot in his return, there will be backlash at first, but I have a feeling by the end of May, he may be back to that #1 spot. 

So long Jay Leno at 10 and say hello perhaps to the return of the king of late night.-Dr.FB

The Super Bowl had some pretty horrible commercials, where it seems advertisers forgot to entertain and at the most, make you laugh.

The biggest surprise, however, was the Late Show With David Letterman commercial which featured David Letterman, Oprah Winfrey and….Jay Leno?  Yup. 

Shortly after the commercial aired, Oprah revealed on her Twitter that the commercial was filmed in Dave’s studio undercover with all 3 of them.

It was one of the shorter commercials but effective.  What do you think of the commercial?  Am I right that the commercials were hella lackluster this year?-Dr.FB

Jimmy Kimmel talked about Jay Leno and his interview with Oprah.

Jimmy decides to give the real story about what happened when Jimmy went on Jay Leno.

Check it out above.-Dr.FB