Last night on Late Night, Conan O'Brien asked the Big Daddy of television news, Brian Williams, about the Sue Simmons, um, "incident." Who else can give this whole fiasco in some fiasco?

Simmons, who Williams says is a friend, made a "mistake" while "joking" with co-anchor Chuck Scarborough. Hey, that's what she said.

Williams himself acknowledged using "salty language" sometimes. And then he made an Eliot Spitzer joke!

And then he tried to explain the enigma that is Chris Matthews', a task only worthy a theatre critic.

Watch the video here; third segment. (via SC)