Last night’s TV lineup was notable for two reasons: Conan’s last show, and far more significantly, the Hope For Haiti Now Telethon for earthquake relief funds.

The mood was subdued, yet the underlying force of A-list stars was a force to be reckoned with. No one was more instrumental in this than George Clooney.

The actor spent a week pulling together the two-hour Hope for Haiti Now: A Global Benefit for Earthquake Relief, and donated million of his own money.

Anderson Cooper’s dispatches from the earthquake-torn nation and Wyclef Jean’s closing message of hope for his fellow Haitians were particularly moving.

George Clooney and his army of A-list fundraisers.

You don’t often see phone banks manned by the likes of Charlize Theron, Mel Gibson, Julia Roberts, Steven Spielberg, Reese Witherspoon, Cindy Crawford, Ben Affleck, Sigourney Weaver, Ringo Starr and Jack Nicholson - to name a select few.

Did we mention Leonardo DiCaprio, Russell Simmons, Zac Efron, Billy Crystal, Gerard Butler, Neil Patrick Harris, LL Cool J and Selena Gomez were also there?

We could go on for hours about this event, which raised tens of millions for a good cause. Click to enlarge some images from our Hope For Haiti Now album:

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He’s as free as a bird now, and this bird you cannot change.

Truer words have never been spoken, and early this morning, a departing Conan O’Brien spent the last few minutes of his Tonight Show tenure jamming with none other than Will Ferrell on the classic Lynyrd Skynyrd farewell ballad.

Here’s Will, Conan and his band doing “Free Bird” …

Conan’s final episode was, in many ways, a somber one. He showed a picture of his staff and expounded on what hosting The Tonight Show meant to him.

“Every comedian dreams of hosting the Tonight Show and, for seven months, I got to. I did it my way, with people I love, and I do not regret it,” he said.

Refraining from any well-deserved NBC bashing (probably because of his contract buyout), he thanked the network for making his entire career possible.

He did needle NBC for building a million studio for him just a year ago, suggesting alternate uses for it going forward: Site of Tiger Woods’ mistresses 1st annual reunion, water park for Max Weinberg’s illegitimate children, etc.

Oddly enough, after the Hope for Haiti Now benefit Friday, NBC chose to air Dateline at 10 p.m., rather than the Jay Leno Show, meaning the final night of Conan O’Brien’s career at NBC was the only one in which he didn’t have to follow Jay.

As for his next move?

“As I set off for exciting new career opportunities, I just want to make one thing clear to everyone listening out there: I will do nudity,” Conan boasted.

Follow the jump for a montage of some of the best moments from The Tonight Show with Conan O’Brien, the finale of which came a decade too soon:

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For a few hours a couple weeks ago, there was a rumor that said Adam Lambert would appear on Glee. It was quickly shot down.

However, the singer has made it clear he’d be open to appearing on various TV shows, especially if he could gaze into the eyes of a certain shaggy-haired CW star on one of them.

“As long as I can do a scene opposite Chace Crawford, I’d be happy,” the former American Idol runner-up recently said. “I just want a couple moments where I can just look and be like, hmmmm. Just some eye contact and I’ll be really happy.”

Lambert on Gossip Girl? Who wouldn’t pay to see that?!?

If he can’t land that gig, Adam has a couple other ideas:

1. True Blood: “Maybe this vampire was an underground performer at clubs like Fantasia or whatnot and he’s part of a new movement of vampire that is in the public eye and isn’t afraid to embrace his vampire nature onstage and off.”

2. Weeds: “I’d either be very sober and against the lifestyle just to kind of be ironic or I’d be like a drug dealer or something. I just would want to go to two extremes of things that I would never be.”

What TV show would you most wanna see Lambert guest star on?

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We don’t want to jinx it, but Spencer Pratt, master manipulator and media madman, has remained mute regarding the whole Heidi Montag plastic surgery debacle.

Speaking out for the first time to People, Heidi’s husband says he supports her, but at the same time he isn’t totally in favor of what she did. A politician at work!

For the past three years, while Heidi Montag has obsessed about her imperfections and eagerly planned her 10 procedures, Pratt was there to voice his opinion.

“Anytime I hinted that it might be a little much or if I just asked if she was sure, I even felt like I was crossing lines,” Spencer Pratt says. “I’m not in charge of what she does with any part of her body. I’m her husband – not her owner.”

What a surprisingly lenient pimp/manager.

GROSS: Spencer Pratt moves in for a hot, surgically-altered plastic kiss.

To Spencer, his wife of a year was perfect to begin with, but “everyone sees themselves differently when they look in the mirror … nobody truly understands how she feels except her. I may not be okay with things, but it’s not my call.”

Throughout the seven-week-plus recovery from her 10 procedures, Pratt played nurse day and night. But the hardest part of all was seeing his wife post-surgery.

“Right after … it was the worst experience of my life,” Pratt said. “Nobody that loves a loved one should see that.” Talk about a ringing endorsement right there!

“At the end of the day we do share a same opinion,” says Heidi, appreciative of her man being honest. “It’s my body and I need to feel comfortable as a woman, as a person, and my inner beauty is always there and that’s what’s most important.”

Except it’s clearly not most important, otherwise you wouldn’t have had your face butchered over the course of a few years. But whatever helps you sleep at night!

Heidi Montag looks/looked way better …

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Britney is not free. At least not yet. She surprisingly has no beef with this.

At least that’s the face she puts on in public. Despite speculation that the 28-year-old pop star was heading to court Friday to get the ball rolling on ending her father’s control over her financial and medical affairs, this was not the case.

If Britney is indeed feuding with dad Jamie, there was no indication of that (or anything like it) yesterday in court. Instead, money was the order of the day.

L.A. Superior Court Commissioner Reva Goetz signed off on the conservators’ request for “the disposal of certain property” and their desire to auction off a dress Britney rocked at the 2008 MTV Video Music Awards to benefit Haiti relief.

WHAT A DICK! We mean the dude on her shirt, of course.

No one divulged what said property was, only that it included “items no longer useful to Spears” and that she is “perfectly satisfied with the disposal of property” according to the singer’s attorney, Samuel Ingham. Well, that’s great news!

Spears “was very enthusiastic” about the Haiti donation, he added.

Britney left the court appearance early because of a prior commitment with her kids, but is “appreciative of the extra time and energy the court has given” to her.

No sign of any of the weird behavior that has been observed in recent weeks, or any drama from within the singer’s camp. We now return to actual celebrity news!

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