many colleges think it's the fairest system. as for the president of butler -- >> i didn't think the ncaa would go for it, but i would be in support of it. >> reporter: he's all for the tougher system. gary tuckman, cnn, indianapolis. >> that's it for "360." "larry king" starts now. see you tomorrow night. >> larry: tonight, george lopez exclusive. he's making way for conan o'brien on tbs this fall. >> you're moving over for the white man, huh? >> i am. i am. >> i hope he appreciate this. >> i think the white man does appreciate it very much. >> okay. you don't have to clean a park or nothing, right? >> larry: george reveals for the first time how he helped seal the deal for team loco. and bill cosby on bullying. the cause and his alter ego fat

albert. >> some people get attention by being mean. and that's a bully. they're defending kissed everywhere who get picked on, beaten up and driven to suicide by other kids. all next on "larry king live." >> larry: good evening. george lopez is just finishing up with this evening's taping of his show. and there you see a live shot of george's studio. that's where the comedy happens. he'll be joining us from his own studio shortly. here is some of his conan humor from "lopez tonight," hot off the press. watch. >> it's almost like every time i say i'm down with conan, we're lo-co together, they almost look at me like i got to take a breathalyzer. will you breathe into this?

i'm glad conan is coming, okay? i'm glad! i'm glad. >> larry: george will be with us in a little while. now we welcome back our friend, the one and only dr. bill cosby. dr. marilyn irving is also with us. she is a professor at howard university school of education. she is also ceo of irving & associates character education services. they're here to talk about bullying. the case of phoebe prince is the late toast make news. she may have been bullied to death, allegedly by schoolmates who are charged in the case, and there are others. surveys indicate one-third of american kids have bullied or been bullied. some 100,000 children skip school every day, fearing insults and worse. bill, what do you make of this? >> i think that the adults -- and there are supposed to be adults who have gone to college, studied psychology or something

who are around these children, or should be around these children, they should be able to recognize it when they see it as they're walking around the hallways, as the kids are sitting in the classrooms. they should be able to recognize it and play it for real. i'm really asking all of them to wake up, because, you know, for a child to hang him or herself, to me that's a very, very violent, violent act. a way of taking yourself out because some people are practicing hatred towards you, whether they know what they're doing or not. >> larry: dr. irving, why do people bully? do we know the psychology of bullying?

>> i think people bully because of low self-esteem and problems that stem from home. usually children who are bullied at home tend to bully in school. >> larry: is there more of it now or are we hearing more about it now? >> i think it's more of it now. and i think that it stems from children watching tv and looking at violence on tv shows. i think it has to do with the technology. students not being supervised or monitored using the computer. >> i think i agree wholeheartedly. you know, you see things on whatever youtube or something, and it looks like the more you see it, the more it could be thought of as well, that's

normal. and i don't want anybody saying well what is normal. if you see it enough, pretty soon in your mind, the minds of these kids or whatever, it may be a fun thing to do to somebody. and when you see people fighting, when you see videos of people beating on someone and it's on tv, and it's called reality tv or whatever, i think an awful lot of kids want to imitate that to give themselves a feeling of power. >> larry: by the way, bill cosby celebrated animated series "fat albert and the cosby kids" combine entertainment and education to take on lots of social issues. one episode includes this musical message about bullies.

watch. ♪ are you a bully, ask yourself why, are you really happy, being that kind of guy ♪ ♪ you'll half win if you're always mean, you'll be the loneliest kid that you've ever seen ♪ >> larry: taking us back in time. fun to see that. and important too. was cosby ahead of his time? we'll also ask the doctor for a definition of bullying. it can be physical or psychological, and we'll be right back. hey!

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program she has designed. dr. irving, quickly, what is a definition of bullying? >> bullying is when someone intentionally causes harm or say hurtful things to others. >> larry: and it can be psychological or physical, right? >> it can be psychologically, physical, and verbal abuse. >> larry: bill, wasn't there bullying when you were a kid? >> big time. >> larry: didn't you always see bullying? >> big time. and one of the stories i think you and i since we're of that age can remember, i don't know if you had a parent like it, but

certainly people your age. you remember when the big guy beat up -- beat you up. and you came home crying. and your mother or your father said let's go back out and made you fight the bully. did you ever hear that? >> larry: no. i've heard of it. but it didn't happen to me, bill. >> you had your own tv show when you were a kid? >> larry: no, no. my father had passed away. i was bullied a little, but not a lot. >> yeah. well anyway, of course it did. and we had guys on the corner. i was born in 1937. there were guys on the corner, young teenagers, and if the point larry is these adults have to get in now. this is something that cannot just fly away and happen by itself. if you're in charge, if you're a teacher, if you're someone in a rec center or something, recognize it and it can be stopped. kids understand and bullies --

as you were asking, a long time ago, bullies had different philosophies about when to bully and when not to bully. and this saying of getting together and staying on the person who may before the bullying started a kid may be very depressed. without it even happening. and then by the time you apply it, the bullying and you stay on it, i just call it a form of hate and hatred. if you don't realize you're bullying, and somebody tells you, then you stop it. >> larry: what makes a kid, bill, do you think, susceptible to bullying? >> depression. i think a kid may have low self-esteem. want to belong, or have someone or people at home not giving the strength or looking at the child and saying, you know, how do you feel today. i think also that these kids have too much time in the room

alone at home with a computer. and this becomes very important to them. that becomes another life, one that they disappear out of the home and away from the parent or the love caregiver. >> larry: dr. irving, what kind of kids get bullied? >> children who have low self-esteem, children like dr. cosby mentioned who are depressed, and usually who do not have a support system at home. not only not have a support system at home, but if they see bullying at home, they may carry to it the school. >> but they also -- this is the computer. this is a new life that kids get into and want to join and want to be a part of. and when they see these things, see they're able to tune in and see a group of people beating

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>> larry: george lopez is our guest at the bottom of the hour. he'll be with us from the set of "lopez tonight" just ahead. we'll even ask cosby what he thinks about this late night shuffle involving o'brien and lopez. but back to the important topic of bullying. we'll take another look at the fat albert and cosby kids episode on bullying. important. watch. >> why you always hassling us kids, slappy? >> because i feel like it. see? >> you wouldn't do this to fat albert. >> that tub a lard doesn't scare me. >> uh, sloppy. >> if fat albert were here, i would tell him a few things. >> hey, hey, hey, what you got

to say? >> larry: let's take a call for bill cosby and dr. marilyn irving. springfield, illinois. hello. >> caller: hello, how are you, larry? >> larry: fine. >> caller: i have a question for dr. cosby. does he think bullying is something new in the last 10 years or 20 years? what is his time frame? >> no, it's not new at all. at all. >> larry: it's just we hear more about it, right? >> well, we're trying -- it's not that we're hearing about it. what we're getting is at a point where people who should be handling the situations appear to be ignoring it. >> larry: you mean teachers? >> the school, the parents, people need to look at their

children and they need to really find out well, what is going on with so and so. you're not yourself today. what is the problem? we also may have a problem because the kid may not -- may be caught up in well i don't want my people to think i'm a snitch. a lot of things going on. so we really have to look at our kids. >> larry: dr. irving, do you see any improvement at all? i mean we have a suicide two weeks ago. >> no, i don't. and i agree with dr. cosby. sometimes bullying is ignored. and it's ignored by i think the school districts. >> larry: ignored how? they turn -- >> well, let me put it to you this way. if you look at some schools, there is one counselor for 420 kids. and unless that child really steps out and comes to that counselor, how would one know? >> larry: let's take a call. tucson, arizona, hello.

i'm sorry, tucson, arizona. hello. >> caller: how you. >> larry: okay. >> caller: bill cosby, i think you guys are great. my question is this. when we bullied back when we were kids, it seemed like it was restricted to just a certain group of kids there may have been 10 or 15 kids. now the internet, do you think the internet, 24 hours news cycles, i don't remember anybody ever committing suicide that we bullied. is it because now with the internet it spreads out throughout the world, your local neighborhood, the state, the city, the government? i mean everywhere it seems like. so is that what adds to the pressure of what the recipient of being bullied is?

>> larry: good point. bill? >> yes, it does. and it does because for example, when phoebe prince was being bullied, it's called cyberbullying. where children post bad things about other children. where they say hurtful things, they spread rumors, and if a child has a low self-esteem, it is very hurtful and will cause that child to become depressed and fearful. >> larry: bill, are you shocked when teachers and administrators in the prince case say thanksgiving had no idea it was going on? >> i don't know if shocked is the word as much as i just didn't not believe. i don't believe that you can take a job as a teacher, as a superintendent, as a principal and not recognize when you're

being told by parents -- for instance, when our daughter erica had a problem, she reported it to us. mrs. cosby then went to the school. the school immediately and erica is maybe 7, 8 years old, immediately brought the parents in of the child who was doing the bullying. and it worked. >> larry: we got more coming up. was george lopez, by the way the key to conan's deal with tbs? we're going to ask him from the set of "lopez tonight." he'll be back in several minutes. back with the cos after this. [ female announcer ] it's lobsterfest...

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>> larry: let's take a call. hattiesburg, mississippi. hello. >> caller: hi, thanks, larry. >> larry: sure. >> caller: this question is for dr. cosby. dr. cosby, i work with a grassroots anti-bullying campaign called the coastal factor, and we try to fight bull leg through education, communication and legislation. what do you think about the criminalization of bullying behavior? >> larry: yeah? what about making it a crime, bill?

>> well, first of all, i think that it is hateful. and secondly, i don't know what you're going to do with all these kids, because most of your prisons like the state of california is now -- i mean, i just think that they have just prison camps. i don't think the state of california has anything to do with turning the criminal mind around in terms of behavior, to put a person back into society who -- >> larry: well, these nine people have been charged in the case of the girl who committed suicide. do you think they should be criminally charged? >> i think they need to be fixed if they are charged. why are we charging them? you're a taxpayer.

i'm a taxpayer. if they go to jail, you and i are responsible for paying 41 grand or more a year for them to be incarcerated. what is prison supposed to be about? >> larry: well, it's supposed to rehab. >> that's what i'm about. but if we're not rehabbing, you're not making any sense. put them in and let's hire psychiatrists to work with these people and turn them around. >> larry: makes sense. before you leave us, bill, we have to ask you what, do you make of what is going on late night, lopez, o'brien, leno? what do you make of all of this? >> i'm sorry i started it. it's all because i wouldn't -- i didn't want my own show at that hour. so now all three of these people are just wandering around. the networks are having a terrible time. >> larry: you turned down a late night show? >> i turned everybody down. i turned down george lopez. >> larry: what do you mean you turned him down? >> well, george wanted me to take conan's slot. and i said no to george. then conan, conan offered me

george's slot. and i turned it down. then somebody else came along. i think it was george burns. or was it carlin? somebody asked me. i'll have none of it. >> larry: thank you, bill cosby, for setting us straight. and now you know the rest of the story. dr. marilyn irving and bill cosby, thank you so much. half of team lo-co is standing by, ready to launch tbs's late night lineup, the george lopez, the george lopez is next. george, you ready to go? >> i'm ready to go. i want to profess my love to bill cosby also. i love bill. >> larry: okay, well done. get ready to laugh. we'll be right back. i think i'll go with the preferred package.

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are you happy? i'm really happy. really. and i'm a latino. i'm never happy. i'm really happy. >> larry: that was from tonight's show as yet to be seen. you've seen it here first. it will be on later. george lopez, the actor, comic and host and executive producer of "lopez tonight" on america's most famous channel today, tbs. he played a role in bringing conan o'brien to tbs late night. tbs is owned by time warner, cnn's parent company. so, george, conan and i are all working for the same people, along with you. george joins us from the set of "lopez tonight," part of team lo-co, as he calls it. all right. give it to us straight. the story is that you called up.

conan was hesitant to do this. he didn't want to see someone get bumped to a later time, that you personally called conan and assured him it was okay. >> absolutely, larry. last wednesday, steve koonin who is the head of tbs flew and said i have something that sounds really crazy. if i don't have your blessing, this deal does not go forward. what do you think of conan o'brien coming to tbs and taking the 11:00 spot and you going to midnight? i said i think it's fantastic. he said will you call conan and tell him how you feel about tbs, how we do business? absolutely. tbs and warner pictures have been great to "lopez tonight" tonight. they have been nothing but great to me. and conan is a wonderful asset to the tbs family. and also, i believe that this combination, almost the same sex desi arnaz and lucille ball if you will take late night into a new generation. and change the landscape. larry, i'm a latino. i know something about landscape. it's going to be fantastic come november. >> larry: george, what did conan say to you when you called him

and said it was all right with you? what did he say to you? >> you know, everybody has been asking me this question. i haven't really answered this question from the time conan and i last spoke on sunday. i'm going to tell you, and i think respectfully conan will not have an issue with this. what he was concerned with was that he wasn't going to do to me what was done to him at nbc. that was his biggest concern, that he did not want to get, as they say on twitter, leno'd. i am not getting leno'd. i welcome conan. i think that moving to midnight, hey, i'll go to work an hour later, come on. it's a dream come true. and the pay is the same. conan o'brien only wanted to know that he could do the type of show that he wanted to do and his biggest concern was that he was not going to do to me what was done to him that is not the case. and if you hear than, you didn't hear it from me. that is not the case. >> larry: george, in the conversation, did he tell you he was going to take the deal? >> you know, he didn't tell me

that he was going to take the deal. i didn't hear about it until in the morning when i was in a meeting this monday morning, and it just everything changed. i mean everything. i almost feel like, you know, i almost feel like one of the "dancing with the stars" that got voted on to the next week. my profile has changed in a day. no longer do i get confused from being eric estrada. i'm not paul rodriguez anymore. i'm george lopez, come on, larry you know, jorge! >> larry: did he take it you think after you spoke to him? >> well, you know, i know the one thing that was important to him was the freedom of doing a show that was edgy, that was his own, that was a vision of his own show, like we do at "lopez tonight." when you go to cable, there are no -- there are no stations, and

there are no affiliates. and they allow you to do your type of show. i believe that the system of the network talk show is a little bit dated. larry, the guys are a little bit older. they're not as fresh. people are tuning away. the demographic for "lopez tonight" is 33 years old. that's amazingly young. and with conan, it is an incredible contribution to our dynamic two-hour block every night. come on. hey, larry, it sells itself. come on. >> larry: you saying -- are you predicting then that these shows are going to do very well, the 11:00 and the 12:00? >> i am predicting that these shows will change late night tv. my intention was to bring the party back to late night. from the time i've been on in

november, i've been doing that. and conan is a fantastic edition to tbs. and, listen, he is on earlier. he needs to get done earlier and get out and get some sun. eventually i want us to end up being the same color. >> larry: ah, you have a goal! >> i have a goal. we want to end up the same color. >> larry: george lopez. >> and no one is going to miss this show. >> larry: well ask if the suits anted up for george since he helped land conan. did he get anything extra for this, a bonus, a big thank you, a bigger studio, some special dressing room? we'll ask next. [ advisor 1 ] i have clients say it's really hard to save for the future and they've come to a point where it's overwhelming. [ advisor 2 ] oh gee, i'm scared to tell you i've got this amount of credit card debt

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>> larry: the four captains from discovery's "deadliest catch" are with us tomorrow night. sig, andy, keith and jonathan are all here. friday night willie nelson. right now george lopez. all right, george, you pulled this off, you called him. if you didn't do it that. >> wouldn't have got him. did tbs give you any extra special things for this? >> well, i can probably say right now unofficially and allegedly, a word i like to use, that i probably will be picked up for another season. >> larry: ah-ha. >> i feel comfortable putting on the spot with you. the contract could have been up, you know, in a couple of weeks. so i believe that i will continue for another year. and here is the beautiful part. you always know somebody is making more money than you when the terms of their deal aren't disclosed. >> larry: by the way, do you

know where conan will do his show from? do you know where he is going to work physically? >> i believe that it would be done at warner brothers. we're trying to keep him close because he and i want to have something that you don't see in late night. well want to have some synergy. east coast, west coast, conan and i talked about doing things together, about him being on the lot, about him and i doing pieces together back and forth, which i think is innovative for late night tv. sao. >> larry: is there space there? is there room on the lot they could build a nice studio by november? >> well, you know, i'm prepared to blow out dark blue on the stage next to me. big bang theory, hands off. "two and a half men," hands off. big blue, maybe we can get it to move out. >> larry: by the way, conan is now on tour with his live comedy show -- legally prohibited from being funny on television. but he was still featured in a way on last night's "lopez tonight."

watch. >> i'm looking forward to you being my lead in opposite family guy. >> why don't you two get together and have a coupe of spanglish love children. >> that's stew which, conan. he is now your lead-in. he is head and shoulders above your former lead-in. >> hey, i followed a baby for years. >> come on, guys, why are you taking a shot at me? that's hitting below the denim belt. i'm not the bad guy. you see the news today? tiger woods had a tough weekend. hey, we've got some big guests coming up on the show. >> wow. now he is trying to take over this sketch. >> larry: funny, george. funny stuff. >> thank you. >> larry: by the way, do you have any background with conan? are you friends? do you know him well?

>> you know, i was on conan's show twice in 2004. in 2003 we co-hosted the emmys together. and we've always been cordial. and very honest with each other. i think it's interesting that in hollywood, this deal was brokered the way deals used to be done. a guy comes into the office and says this is my intention. if i have your blessing, this is what i'm going to do. i picked up the phone. i called conan on wednesday. he started to mull it over. i talked to him on sunday night, man-to-man. i called him and he picked up the phone. we did it the way things used to be done, face-to-face, phone call to phone call. that's the kind of integrity that conan has. he wanted to make sure i was happy moving to midnight and that i was okay. that he would not have come over if he would even feel a little bit like, you know, he was going to have done to him what jay leno did to him. >> larry: honestly, george, were you team coco or team leno? >> you know, i am -- i got to tell you the truth. if a show is promised to somebody, then that person should have a chance to either succeed or fail on his own terms.

the 10:00 show that jay leno did in front of conan o'brien and "the tonight show" i think was a disservice to conan having a fair shot of succeeding as the host of the tonight show. it was offered to him six years before. it was not a surprise. and in my opinion, as george lopez, i don't think that jay leno should have done a show at 10:00. >> larry: so that you were team coco. >> i'm team coco. and now i'm team lo-co. >> larry: you know that crossover idea is interesting. we're going to see him at the beginning of yourself, you'll come on at the end of his? you'll be like a team. >> you know, i think that would work. conan, unfortunately, with the significant amount of severance that he was given, has been asked to stay off until the end of september. i think he was given by nbc a million dollars a day until the end of september to stay off. >> larry: not bad. we would have taken that. >> i'm trying to get carrot top to fill his shoes while -- until

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we've got a couple of moving reads for you on our blog. first, yankees slugger mark teixeira befriended a young boy with cancer when the boy needed him most. and the other baseball icon, hank aaron reveals his fight with osteoarthritis. hank is open and honest about a chronic condition. makes some predictions too about the 2010 baseball season. go to cnn.com/larryking and check it out. right now we'll check out anderson cooper. he'll host "ac 360" at the top of the hour. what's up? >> militia is a sensitive topic in oklahoma with monday being the 15th anniversary of the oklahoma city bombing. so did the oklahoma state senator and candidate for governor go too far in seemingly supporting the idea of an armed state guard to defend the state from an overreaching state government? we'll talk with the senator tonight and keep him hmos. also, raw politics. sarah palin is a hit on the speaking circuit. maybe not as popular with voters. an early poll released today

puts her as a distant third as a gop contender for white house. the top pick a surprising one. and comedian chelsea handler weighing in on conan o'brien's new move to cable. that and a lot more on "360" at the top of the hour. >> that's at 10:00 eastern, 7:00 pacific. let's switch. kate gosselin is competing on "dancing with the stars." what are your thoughts about kate? >> larry, i have to tell you. have i never enjoyed anything more than kate gosselin dancing on "dancing with the stars." i went in person a week ago. it is a train wreck you cannot turn away from. ketel one, i don't know why she bothers to train. ketel one is the secret to her rhythm and her dancing feet you. think someone with such a talented cervix and hip area

could be able to gyrate and keep a rhythm. >> larry: you -- you're giving it a thumbs-down. >> no. i'm giving her the thumbs-up. i was on twitter. i follow you on twitter, by the way. i'm on twitter, and i want everybody to vote to keep kate gosselin on "dancing with the stars." last night i watched with my wife, my daughter, the dogs in the bed. it was like a norman rockwell painting. only kate gosselin has been able to make that happen in my house. i'm not ready for that to end. >> larry: what about sarah palin? reports are that she has made apparently $12 million in the last year. >> well those are alaskan dollars. here is the beauty of sarah palin.

with her at fox news, she is not the craziest person at fox news anymore there is something to be said for that. >> larry: that's a good way to look at it. >> she makes -- >> larry: she what? >> she makes glenn beck look significantly abnormal. >> larry: george has had a lot to say about tiger woods on this show. hold on. what do you want to say? >> let me say this. everyone is trying to build a wall. they don't know the answer to immigration. i'll give you the answer. if sarah palin wins and runs for president in 2012, i have a reliable source as head of all the latinos, we will voluntarily go back to mexico. if she becomes president of the united states. there it is. >> larry: there you have it from george himself. he's had a lot to say about tiger woods. here is a sample. >> won the masters with the lowest score in nine years. thanked his wife and then tiger woods said screw you, man.

all hugged up. nice. rub it in. >> larry: by the way, tmz reported you had a pleasant meeting with tiger woods last week in the locker room at augusta international. is that true or false? >> i was a guest of former champion wier. here walks in tiger woods swing coach and tiger woods. i thought i'm either going to take a swing or reminisce without an escalade and take a nine iron to the face. neither of that happened. >> larry: what did he say to you? >> he said hello. he was gracious. few people know tiger woods played since he was released from sex rehab. he played with an an kell monitor.

his was different. it could detect maple syrup to keep him on the course and out of pancake houses and waffle houses in the area. >> larry: we'll be back with more of george lopez. he's a smurf, by the way.

amy, what are you doing? >> changing a lightbulb. >> get down. you have to make it one more day without getting injured. >> in 1992, there was a study that -- >> are you okay? >> yeah, yeah. my leg broke my fall. >> larry: funny. what a show that was. sandra bullock, a terrific lady, going through tough times was the exec producer of your sitcom, "george lopez." have you talked to her? how is she doing? >> without sandra bullock in my life, i would no have been given an opportunity to succeed in this business. she's been a friend and inspiration the ten years i have known her.

she's going through a difficult time. she's a strong woman. we all love her and wish the best for her. she's doing all right. she's doing as well as can be expected. i can say this. she's not been asked to host a late night show. i can say that. >> larry: glad that's revealed. that's the one. are you in a smurf movie? >> yes. i've gone blue. i'm in the new smurf movie with katy perry. i'm grouchy smurf. >> larry: grouchy smurf. >> same sized hair, blue body. >> larry: you have done this late night show for five months. are you enjoying it? >> i truly am enjoying it. i'm curious. here is the beauty of growing up with tv as your sibling. i watch the tonight show with johnny carson.

he threw a party every night. he knew everybody in hollywood. he loved music. he smokes cigarettes. he was a good listener. that all came across. he was cool. this is a dedication to what i grew up watching on johnny carson. david letterman, the same thing. i love jimmy kimmel. i have no ill will toward anybody. i'm happy conan is coming. it makes late night exciting. it's like a heavyweight division filled with contenders. everybody can knock everybody out. >> larry: does it mean you don't go out and do stand-up anymore? >> it's difficult. i was talking to chris rock about this on the show.

it's difficult because of youtube and twitter and everybody having a video camera. when you are trying to work something out, it's difficult to have it pulled 40 seconds and taking. michael richards can tell you he's not in favor of cameras in comedy clubs. you go and whatever was said was meant to stay in that room. >> larry: yeah. by the way, you mentioned chris rock. here's a little of him on your show. watch. >> did conan come to tbs. >> conan is coming? >> yes. >> where you going? >> i'm staying. he's coming out at 11:00 and i go until midnight. >> get out of here. you gonna move for the white man? >> i am. hey. >> i hope he appreciate this. >> i think the white man does appreciate it. >> you don't have to clean nothing, right? >> no. and i get to go to work an hour later. it's a latino dream come true. an hour later. >> larry: that's a great line.

that was a lot of terrific stuff. you can tell you really enjoyed him, right? >> you know, i really do. i love music. i have made great relationships. jennifer lopez is coming back. she hijacked my monologue a month ago. she's coming back as a guest. luke wilson. kara, the judge from "american idol" is not only a judge, she's going to sing. a lot of stuff happens on "lopez tonight." you know that. >> larry: larry king is coming to lopez tonight. >> and lopez is going to host "larry king live." >> larry: george lopez. you can catch him tonight on tbs at 11:00 until it moves. the guys from deadliest catch are here tomorrow night. willie nelson on friday. now, anderson cooper and "ac 360". anderson.