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After banging his head during a taping of The Tonight Show, host Conan O’Brien was taken by ambulance to the hospital, reports TMZ. He was reportedly in good spirits, cracking jokes the entire way to Cedars-Sinai Medical Centre in Los Angeles.

O’Brien was unable to finish taping the show, leaving NBC to air a repeat Friday night.

Perez Hilton reports The Late Show with David Letterman has beaten The Tonight Show in ratings for four consecutive weeks. This is the first time in a decade that Letterman has stayed above the competition for so long.

Letterman has been hosting the show since 1993, while Conan O’Brien, the new host of The Tonight Show, only just took over for Jay Leno in June.

The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson, which follows Letterman on CBS, has scored higher ratings than NBC’s Late Night with Jimmy Fallon for three weeks running.

Jay Leno is set to return to “The Tonight Show” after an overnight stay at a hospital last week.

According to NBC, the talk-show host was discharged from Providence St. Joseph Medical Centre in Burbank, Calif., on Friday and is “anxious to return to work Monday.”  Leno had checked himself into the hospital on Thursday after feeling ill at his office.

“Tonight Show” spokesperson Tracy St. Pierre told the New York Daily News that the 58-year-old entertainer had not suffered a heart attack or food poisoning, contrary to Internet speculation.

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