If you feel like wasting 6 minutes of your life, you can’t do it more efficiently than to watch the weird appearance of Michelle Obama on the Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon, which she used to pitch her health campaign.

◼ Jimmy Fallon & Will Ferrell Exceed the Limits of Weirdness Pushing Michelle Obama's Health Kick - SooperMexican/IJ Review

◼ Jimmy Fallon, Democrat Political Asset - Brent Bozell and Tim Graham/Newsbusters

The Obamas have had few more obsequious media allies than NBC's Jimmy Fallon. Now that he's taking over the hallowed ground of "The Tonight Show," Fallon's proven ability to spread his reach into viral videos on YouTube promises to become even more politically potent.

◼ The changed politics of late-night TV - Hadas Gold/Politico

The curtain rose this week on a new era of late-night TV — altering the terrain for politicians who frequent the shows and complicating life for Republicans, who have lost their most comfortable seat in front of the camera.

“The whole landscape’s about to change,” Arsenio Hall, the recently reincarnated late-night host, said in an interview. “Jay [Leno] going home is going to change it for a lot of people.”