you so. >> she should have just come on camera and said that, i had sex with bob marley. >> are you it was not marley and me? >> that's something else i hate. i hate that she died at the end. spoiler alert. >>> from mike bloomburg's proposal banning sugary drinks was met with scorn, now a few brave souls are jumping to his defense. they say we owe mike thanks for being a visionary mayor in the struggle for public help. there is a chief criticism saying, quote, the liberty restricted is not the liberty of the soda drinker. the liberty being restricted is that of the soda seller. to manipulate known weaknesses to the advantage and the buyer's detriment. get it? we need smart people like bloomburg to protect dumb old us from the evil soda sellers. meanwhile, bloomburg is putting the mayo in mayor. he says he loves the stuff. saying, quote, i love the blt. probably a lot of calories in the blt when you put as much mayo on it as i do. what a joy. i bet you do. here is there. -- here is this. >> i just got a note that imo philips is still alive. >> now that we know i am happy. jim, you mu

>> jimmy: no, not that bob marley. standup. >> steve: oh, sorry. >> jimmy: he's doing standup. [ laughter ] >> steve: my mistake. >> jimmy: yeah, no problem. hey you guy, you know, there's a lot of bad news out there in the world, but here at "late night" we always try to find the silver lining. so with that in mind, it's time for a segment we call "on the bright side." [ cheers and applause ] ♪ on the bright side on the bright side on the bright side ♪ [ cheers and applause ] >> jimmy: here's how it works. i'm going to give you the cold, hard facts that we've pulled from some of the world's top news sources. and i'm gonna give you the silver lining. okay? here we go. ♪ mitt romney released an iphone app where he misspelled america as amercia. on the bright side, he has a way better chance of becoming president of amercia. [ laughter ] ♪ after walking into a glass window, justin bieber can no longer raise one of his eyebrows. on the bright side, he now does an excellent impression of the rock. [ laughter ] [ scattered

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