also, anjelica houston. she's been in everything from prizzy's honor and now she's a broadway producer on s.m.a.s.h. >> there's something about really good material. you know you've got something really good. >>> plus, only in america. what is better than miniature golf in vegas? a rock star. this is it, rosie o'donnell on "tonight" starts right now. >>> good evening. i'm christ stee yawn an apore in for piers morgan. joel mchale from community joins us. >> it's great to be here, piers. >> ouch. rosie o'donnell, star of the flinstone. nice to meet you. >> viva las vegas. >> do you remember? >> blu-ray. >> that's exactly right. >> i think you are exceptionally funny. >> oh, great. >> i do. that is from my heart, joel. >> that is really nice of you. i think you're exceptionally funny and i remember liz taylor hip replacement joke you told maybe 20 years ago -- >> can you remind me because i don't recall? >> you said, well, she's been married 13 times, no wonder she had to have her hips replaced and i said -- y

you have megan and you have katharine mcphee and you have anjelica houston and debra messing and they'reas -- that was about six or eight or whatever. they like to cover it very well. >> now, you again, since you've been through broadway, you know the highs and lows of it. and i think they depict it really well in this show. what kind of lessons did you learn, bernadette, just from your career? i mean, you've been on top. you've had low moments. tell us a little bit about that. >> well, i think the thing is to just do the best you can really in anything. and if you're given a role to fulfill that role as best you -- and to tell the truth. that's really what you want to do everywhere. >> do you know how young you look? every time she comes on -- no, this is what bothers us. usually over different years people seem to age -- >> like me. >> but you never get in the sun. isn't that part of the deal? >> no. >> you never get in the sun. >> i don't know how to swim. so that helps. >> and what else do you do? that's it? >> and i don't care for the sun too much. >> that's not your thing. >> i mea

tomorrow, rosie o'donnell takes over with angelica houston and joel mchale. in with anjelica huston and joel mchale. >>> hello, i'm monita rajpal at cnn london. here are the headlines this hour. huge explosions in the syrian town have marked the first anniversary of the syrian uprising this thursday. activists say government forces have taken control of the rebel stronghold. saudi arabia and italy have suspended their embassy operations in damascus, and special u.n. and arab league envoy kofi annan is due to brief the u.n. security council on friday. >>> the u.s. soldier accused of killing 16 afghan civilians in kandahar on sunday has been transferred to kuwait. the pentagon says it's because there isn't a proper long-term detention facility in afghanistan. about 200 people are taking part in the peaceful protest against the killings in a neighboring province. u.s. defense secretary leon panetta is on his second day of his visit to afghanistan. around the time he was scheduled to arrive, an afghan national stole a vehicle and drove it on to the runway. the car crashed into a