Anderson Cooper commiserated with talk show host Jay Leno about getting gray hair at a young age. Cooper made a joke on Wednesday’s Tonight Show, analogizing getting gray hair to a common male sexual problem, premature ejaculation.

The well-respected CNN journalist joked, “I started [getting gray hair when I was] young. It’s like premature ejaculation. You know it can happen but when it happens to you, it’s kind of a shock.”

Fellow guest Heidi Klum proceeded to plugs her ears and playfully responded, “La la la, I don’t hear anything!”

Watch Anderson Cooper’s premature guest appearance on Leno below!

Cooper also chatted briefly about the CNN-YouTube debate he recently moderated. He also shared a funny story about the ambient temperature at Presidential debates, specifically between John Kerry and George Bush.

He said, “The Kerry camp wanted the ambient temperature to be cool because John Kerry sweats and the Bush people wanted the ambient temperature to be very high because… John Kerry sweats.”

FYI: Anderson used the same joke as a regular contributor for Details Magazine in their August 2003 issue. He wrote, “Going gray is like ejaculation. You know it can happen prematurely, but when it actually does, it’s a total shock.”

CNN’s Anderon Cooper made a quick cameo on The Colbert Report last night. He promoted Stephen Colbert’s new Ben & Jerry’s “Americone Dream” ice cream flavor. Here’s the line Anderson delivered after tasting Colbert’s delicious treat:

“WOW! Stephen Colbert’s ‘Americone Dream.’ That’s 360 degrees of flavor!”

Said Colbert of his ice cream flavor, “No one will ever find out, because I’m married, but this is what I taste like. Very sweet.”

Watch the video of Anderson Cooper below (timestamp 4:12 to be exact) right after a cameo by Tim Robbins (Shawshank Redemption)!

After all is said and done, make sure you get your free foldable frisbee!

Yes, they did!

Anderson Cooper made a guest appearance on yesterday’s Late Night with Conan O’Brien and shared about everything from offering Nicole Richie food to constipated sloths.

Anderson said, “I literally could not think of one thing to ask [Nicole Richie]. All I could think of was offering her food.”

For the next couple of months, CNN will have extensive reporting on deforestation, global warming, and population. Anderson, 39, accompanied wildlife biologist Jeff Corwin into the jungle one time to release a “really sweet” sloth back into the wild.

It doesn’t go exactly as planned, as the sloth starts to climb the tree but comes crashing down few seconds later. Anderson gets so startled, he jumps back and holds Jeff’s hand. It’s the funniest thing ever.

The second funniest moment is when Anderson starts flailing his arms, mimicking the falling sloth. A very close second.

Watch the video below of Anderson Cooper and Jeff Corwin holding hands!

Dirka, dirka, dirka, dirka, dirka!

How much in danger are you? The place where I’ve been staying, Kiryat Shmona, has been hit really hard, particularly in the last several days. A couple of reservists were killed here.

I’ve seen rockets fall. Everyone has experiences where they’ve seen rockets fall. There’s constant shelling here, most of it outgoing. That you ignore. But you very quickly adjust to the sound of incoming. For outgoing it’s boom-whoosh. For incoming it’s whoosh-boom.

So when you hear the whoosh first, you know you’re in trouble.

Do you get frightened?  Yeah. Anybody who claims never to be scared is a fool or a liar or probably both. I’ve been doing this for 15 years. There are some things I’m used to, like being around soldiers and being in a combat environment. The things that scare me go beyond. Kidnapping, that really scares me. Being taken hostage really scares me.

The Houston Chronicle has a great article today titled, "CNN’s Cooper sees rockets fall, but he’s staying" about Anderson Cooper’s experience on the frontlines in the Mideast.  "It was one of the most unpleasant experiences of one’s life," Anderson said. Above is an excerpt of the interview.  Bigger pictures in the gallery!

Check out Anderson’s blog entries from the Mideast:
Getting personal with Katyusha rockets (July 26)
Seeing red in Israel (July 31)
Tracking Hezbollah with a Puma (August 7)
History repeats: Blown up once, blown up twice (August 7)

Anderson Cooper talked with Jon Stewart on The Daily Show the night after his interview with Angelina Jolie on Anderson Cooper 360°. He talks about his interview with Angelina Jolie, his new book "Dispatches from the Edge", and his frequent visits to New Orleans.  Be prepared, he giggles a whole lot during this interview. You can watch the video below — Anderson Cooper on The Daily Show.

Angelina Jolie and CNN’s Anderson Cooper pose for a photo during the taping of an interview to air tomorrow, June 20, 2006 on CNN’s "Anderson Cooper 360." Angelina will give her first U.S. television interview since giving birth. She talks about baby Shiloh, Brad and her passion for refugee relief. Angelina tells Anderson, "Next, we’ll adopt… it’s going to be the balance of what would be the best for Mad and for Z right now." Angelina on being inspired by the people she helps in her role as UN Goodwill Ambassador "You think, ‘Jesus, the things these people go through,’ I owe it to all of them to get myself together and stop whining about being tired and get there and get focused because, God, it’s the least I can do with what they live with."  Bigger pictures in the gallery!

UPDATE :: Added Anderson Cooper’s blog post regarding his interview with Angelina Jolie.  Check it out after the jump!

One-on-one with Angelina Jolie

When Angelina Jolie came into the room, just four days after returning from Namibia, she was alone. No handlers, no entourage. True, elaborate precautions had been made to make sure no photographers followed her to the hotel where we met, but there she was, by herself, walking into the hotel suite, smiling, ready to talk.

There are a lot of ridiculous stories circling on the Internet, spread by alleged "insiders" who claim that CNN or its parent company Time Warner somehow paid for the chance to talk to Angelina. These anonymous "sources" claim that People Magazine and CNN had some kind of joint deal to secure rights to photos and the interview.

I have no idea what People Magazine did or did not pay for those photos of the Jolie-Pitt family. It’s been reported they paid as much as $4 million, which was donated to a variety of charities in Africa, but I have no way of knowing if that is true or not. What I do know is that CNN did not pay anything — directly or indirectly — to get Angelina Jolie to sit down for an interview.

So why did she do it? And why talk to me?

Both are valid questions. I’m sure there were plenty of news programs requesting interviews with Angelina Jolie. The truth is, mine wasn’t one of them. They called us. I was told that they were aware of my interest in Africa and knew that as a broadcast we have devoted a lot of time to reporting stories from the continent.

Tuesday is World Refugee Day. Angelina Jolie was interested in discussing the plight of refugees, so we sat down to talk about what she has seen and learned in refugee camps around the world. She had no movie to promote, no product she was pitching. In fact, I have no idea what her next movie is and we did not discuss any upcoming films. There were no ground rules. I was free to ask whatever I wanted.

A lot of celebrities have causes and show up to talk about them when cameras are around, but the truth is that Angelina Jolie knows what she is talking about when the subject is refugees. To use a cliche, she doesn’t just talk the talk, she walks the walk. She has traveled to some 20 countries over the years as a goodwill ambassador for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, and she says she donates one-third of her income to charitable causes.

I’m not sure what I expected before I met her, but to say I was impressed would be an understatement. She is smart, funny, self-deprecating, and intensely passionate about her children and her work on behalf of refugees.

Tuesday night, you will hear Angelina Jolie talk about some of the experiences in refugee camps that have changed her life. Yes, you will also learn about Angelina’s family — Maddox and Zahara as well as Shiloh Nouvel — but the focus of the interview is the plight of refugees. During the two-hour program, we will take you to the frontlines of some of the worst humanitarian crises in the world.

It’s going to be an interesting broadcast, and I hope you watch.

• I guess we can call off the baby bump watch now.  Jennifer Lopez definitely doesn’t look pregnant in this bikini she’s wearing…
• Free household products!!  Pick up a Swiffer Sweeper, Dyson Vacuum Cleaner, and Tide Detergent!
• Now it’s sister’s time!  Jessica Simpson’s nose job.
• Brandon Davis wearing a TEAM FIRE CROTCH t-shirt.  Classy.
• Natalie Portman and Gael Garcia Bernal Back Together?
• Be sure to check out CNN’s Anderson Cooper 360° on Tuesday for Angelina Jolie’s interview. It should be absolutely fantastic hearing both of them giggle at the same time.  Giggle heaven.
• Sounds like Cameron Diaz will be getting a nose job of her own…
• Beyoncé gets confronted by two PETA members at NYC’s Nobu restaurant for her usage of fur in her clothing line, House of Dereon..  How embarrassing!
• Check out the pictures of the youngest Hanson brother’s wedding photos — Zac Hanson.

• Excepts from Angelina Jolie’s interview with Anderson Cooper –
  

  – "You know, because you’re there for the birth, which I wasn’t for my first two kids, you’re just suddenly terrified that they’re not gonna take a first breath."

  – "That was my whole focus. I just wanted to hear her cry."

  – "[Brad] was in the operating room, yeah, yeah.  And we had amazing doctors. And everybody was so lovely."