Shat happens.

Most recently, on Wednesday night, when William Shatner gifted the viral video gods with yet another dramatic interpretation of awe-inspiring tweets, this time seemingly from the mind and keyboard of pro leg-spreader Levi Johnston.

Only they weren't.

"We'd been following Levi on Twitter and felt his gift for the written word needed to be shared with the world," Conan O'Brien explained. "Today I wake up very late, I sleep in, and I got some shocking news: Apparently the tweets that we read are counterfeit. They were written by a clever imposter posing as the witty Levi Johnston.

"And the real Levi is angry with us now."

So what better way to redress the balance than by inviting the beat poet extraordinaire back out to the stage to reinterpret some bona fide Johnston sound bites.

"The first thing Sarah said to me at the hotel was, You gotta cut your hair," the Shatman recited. "I told her I didn't want to. I had a mullet at the time.

"Guess what? I shot a bigass bear," he went on. "I just get naked, that's what I do."

On second thought, he might have been better off laying claim to the counterfeit quotes.

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Want more funny videos? Check out the offerings from resident funnylady Chelsea Handler!

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Remember when Levi Johnston twittered about getting some good weed?

Funny—he doesn't.

Despite The Tonight Show and William Shatner's hilarious reinterpretation of the Alaskan's tweets, Bristol Palin's baby daddy claims he has no account on the microblogging site.

"Levi doesn't have a Twitter," his lawyer, Rex Butler, tells E! News. "We thought it was common knowledge by now that there was an imposter Twittering in his name. Obviously, some outlets have chosen to run this anyway. A simple phone call before would have taken care of it."

But the attorney isn't too quick to point a finger at NBC. He'd like to hear back from the website before he bothers taking on a network.

"I've sent an email to Twitter because they need to step up and take care of business," Butler says. "Then we’ll deal with The Tonight Show. First thing's first."

That's probably a good thing, since Levi won't be hearing a peep (or a tweet) from NBC anytime soon.

"We will have no statement from the show or network," a rep for NBC tells E! News.

For the record, the bio for the account @LeviJohnston15 reads, "this account its not wor it will never be verified .. so stop asking." The Johnston he'll be showing Playgirl, however, will be the real deal for sure.

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This story sure beats the weighty issues we were discussing earlier today!

If we were Bristol Palin, we'd shut down our Twitter account now. After all, getting mocked dramatically reinterpreted by William Shatner has turned into a family affair for Alaska's former first family, as estranged baby-daddy turned professional trou-dropper Levi Johnston is the latest tweeter to get caught in Captain Kirk's crosshairs.

As he did with Sarah Palin (twice) before, the Shat man grabbed his bongos, his bass and his never-bland delivery, and gifted the Tonight Show audience with a beat-tastic reading of Johnston's 140-character musings.

Let's just say, he makes Palin look like a veritable wordsmith.

"Maybe I'm a genius and not even know it," Shatner recited. "Maybe I don't exist and it only seems like I do. Maybe this is a parallel universe where I don't. Anybody know where I can get some good weed?"

Turns out, you can take the hick out of Wasilla, but not out of tweets.

"What's the deal with taxi drivers not speaking English, is it a law against it?" he mused. The blissfully ignorant questions didn't stop there.

"Is it true that fat kids never get kidnapped?"

And no tweet reenactment would be complete without touching on his upcoming, highly unanticipated Playgirl spread.

"You know you're a celebrity when strangers want to see your penis. LMAO."

Yes, Levi. But only to L their own AO.

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Judging by her public comments, this is one comedy bit Sarah Palin can probably get behind.

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It's not often that we agree with Sarah Palin this strongly.

The former Republican vice presidential nominee has been known to state the preposterous, but calling her daughter's baby daddy desperate hits below the belt and right on the money.

Levi Johnston, who will be showing all of his assets in an upcoming issue of Playgirl, appeared on The Early Show Wednesday morning and claimed the former Alaska governor refers to her infant son with Down syndrome, Trig, as "retarded."

"We have purposefully ignored the mean-spirited, malicious and untrue attacks on our family," Bristol Palin's mom said in a statement. "We, like many, are appalled at the inflammatory statements being made or implied. Trig is our 'blessed little angel' who knows it and is lovingly called that every day of his life. Even the thought that anyone would refer to Trig by any disparaging name is sickening and sad."

And then comes the big finish.

"Consider the source of the most recent attention-getting lies—those who would sell their body for money reflect a desperate need for attention and are likely to say and do anything for even more attention."

Hey, she said it!

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Speaking of people who say the darndest things, have you seen Paris and the pumpkin in Big Pic?

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Ladies, suppress your gag reflex: Levi Johnston is posing for Playgirl.

The opportunistic absentee Alaskan baby daddy is currently de-doughing himself for the nudie shoot, which, his lawyer Rex Butler told Us Weekly, will be assaulting the magazine's Internet-only pages "probably before the end of the year."

"Team Levi is in the process of preparing for his Playgirl appearance," Butler said. "He is in the gym six days a week for the next three weeks."

Unfortunately for Team Levi, the booking is not quite as done a deal as the 19-year-old's people would like us to believe. Butler admits while there isn't a contract, the shoot is a "foregone conclusion."

But not in the nude—according to Gawker, Johnston agreed only to an undies-on shoot. Talk about an elephant in the room.

Looks like for the time being those pistachios are the only nuts he's willing to share.

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Missed Levi's pistachio commercial? Go nuts and check it out now.

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The big winner at Saturday's Creative Arts Emmys?

Sarah Palin. Tina Fey. The bespectacled funnylady's spot-on Saturday Night Live spoofin' of a certain veep wannabe earned her an Emmy for Outstanding Guest Actress, Comedy.

You betcha.

"This would not be possible without Mrs. Palin...[who is] an inspiration to working mothers everywhere," Fey said as she picked up the prize. She also gave a shout-out to "my parents, who are lifelong Republicans, for their patience."

"They thought the first four sketches were very funny and the last two, enough already," said Fey, who stands to collect more hardware at next weekend's Primetime Emmys.

Meanwhile, all that booty-shaking with Beyoncé and mother-loving with Susan Sarandon paid off for Justin Timberlake...

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So now we know: American Idol didn't want to replace Paula Abdul with a singer, songwriter or Paula Abdul. It wanted someone who would judge its pop-star hopefuls from "the people's point of view," as Ellen DeGeneres put it.

And that's fine. And Ellen DeGeneres, who got the gig, is more than fine—as a performer, personality, wit and world-class enthusiastic dancer. But as a people's judge?

If that's what Idol wanted, then Idol didn't do fine. It failed. It failed to see that there is but one woman who represents the voice of the people. And her name isn't Ellen DeGeneres.

It's Sarah Palin.

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Aww, it's Levi Johnston! That hunk of burning love from Alaska who can't stop talking about Sarah Palin.

It's been exactly one year since the now ex-Gov. Palin came into our lives. Somehow, Levi has managed to stick around by just revealing random little tidbits about the Palins whenever he gets a chance.

And look at him, writing for Vanity Fair, a real magazine that likes to pride itself on its exclusive fanciness. In "Me and Mrs. Palin," Levi says he had to do all the cooking for the Palin kids since there was no parenting in the house:

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Levi Johnston is doing his best to make this famous person thing happen, and there's nothing like gossiping about Sarah Palin to get some attention.

The Alaskan dreamboat stopped by the Today show to shed some light on Palin’s recent resignation and try to catch a little bit of the spotlight for himself while he still can.

Johnston says Palin's on the verge of collecting all kinds of bank, which makes just being a governor seem kinda boring now. "After the campaign and things, we had tons of offers, from everybody out there; just all kinds of ridiculous things. There had been talk about, 'It'd be nice to just take the money and run,' " he told Ann Curry this morning.

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So it's the weekend already! Although, really, it couldn't have come fast enough for us. Robert Pattinson can only have so many brushes with death, David Letterman can apologize only so many times and Brangelina can donate only so much money before we declare it a day and retire to our caves with the first season of True Blood and a case of Mike's Hard Lemonade.

Here's what else haunted our dreams last week...

1. We might stop talking about Heidi and Spencer. Seinfeld pulled off being about nothing, but the hourglass has about run out on the Pratts' vacuous run. Al Roker votes yea, but sometimes Speidi are fun for all the wrong reasons, so you still have plenty of time to state your case before a final ruling is announced Monday during E! News.
2. This is getting serious. Ladies, you know Robert Pattinson isn't really immortal, right? At this rate, he may not make it to the Twilight-mad Teen Choice Awards in one piece! And then who would Kristen Stewart spend all her time yearning for?!
3. David Letterman threw himself under the bus and offered up a more sober apology to Sarah Palin, who accepted the Late Show host's kinder mea culpa. And yet people still protested the poor schlub!
4. The next episode of Jon & Kate Plus 8 will feature a "special announcement." We're thinking divorce, but isn't that what TLC wants us to think? Won't we feel silly when it turns out they're just planning a trip to Mall of America or something. Mom and dad did spend a few minutes together, after all...
5. A couple of cops in Ohio are being investigated for allegedly breaking into the home of the woman who's carrying Sarah Jessica Parker and Matthew Broderick's baby in order to dig up tabloid dirt. Have you no shame, sirs?

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