NBC Nightly News anchor Brian Williams appeared on The Daily Show last night, and things got jokingly uncomfortable quickly as Jon Stewart asked about MSNBC dissension: "Is there no control? Is it 'Lord of the Flies?' Does anyone have the conch? Can anyone be the leader over there? Could you go in there? Or is it all just Piggy."

Williams started, "Jon, I think every family has a dynamic all...is this working? Has a dynamic all it's own. Sometimes it takes a figure to come in..." "But does MSNBC have to be the Lohans?" asked Stewart:

• TVNewser's Gail Shister will be talking to Brian Williams later today.