Emergency True Fact: Sarah Palin's resignation speech was meant to be read as a poem. William Shatner, master reciter, appeared on Conan O'Brien's show to fix this grievous error.

We could use this is an opportunity to make random references to the past work of the great Patton Oswalt, but we shan't.  That said, he's definitely funnier than Robert Frost and... poet laureates other than Robert Frost.

The heated competition for the title of Poet Laureate is currently being led by this well-read chap, E. Hamish Plumbrick.  He looks to take down the current laureate, Kay Ryan, by strutting his stuff with beautiful poetry and...

Oh, Obama.  Oh!

Obama. Oh, Obama

Oh, Obama.  Oh!

Blago came out over the weekend with the intent to "answer every allegation" but just wound up b.s.-ing his way through a hilariously short press conference.  He then proceeds to quote poet Rudyard Kipling from the 1910 poem,...

Jimmy Stewart made many memorable appearances on the Tonight Show, usually reading a short poem he penned. In his all-American drawl, Stewart could read the instructions for Windows Vista and it would be riveting, but this 198