you asked david bowie a question about the questions of performing. and you actually get a great answer. let's take a listen. >> have you set yourself up to be measured by a different standard that you just can't go out and make a record and do a tour, that you have to be someone that -- is the pressure on you to do that? >> to do a tour? >> just to be someone -- not to make the 14th david bowie record, but now you've got to be the glassspider. >> yeah. i don't -- i'm not sure. i think i might have helped myself in that way, saving myself being entrapped by that with the serious moonlight tour. it helped an awful lot to just go out without a character and just do it on the strength of the -- a body of work. however, i had done that before. in 1976 was the last time i did a character performance, which was the thin white. after that, i toured in '78. i think it's the least known of any tours i've done. but that was the first time i had sort of stripped away anything that had to do with character. and i just went out and performed a body of work. and i

jimmy fallon got the idea to combine tim tebow and david bowie called tebowie. ♪ tim tebow to jesus christ ♪ commencing fourth down hut hut hike ♪ >> okay. so last night, tebow was asked what he thought about tebowie. >> we created a character, what if david bowie met tim tebow. we called it tebowie. and that's tebowie. i appreciate you being a good sport about this whole thing. >> well, the only thing that was kind of messed up about it was, i mean, you were a little bit off tune and a little pitchy, you know. i mean -- >> he's good. tebow is good. >> adorable. nice, joe. >>> defense secretary leon panetta announces american combat forces will step back in afghanistan some time next year, a year ahead of the previous timetable. we'll ask richard haass to help us through that news. >>> and fans go on the attack in egypt, more than 70 people have died. the latest when we come back. hey, aren't you supposed to be following that fidelity green line? well, yeah, but it keeps leading me back to my old office. i think it might be broken. or maybe it's trying to tell you something. yeah, but

we created a character, what if david bowie met tim tebow? [ applause ] we called it the tim tebowy. i appreciate you being a good sport about this whole thing. >> absolutely. >> i did it in all due respect. >> the only thing that was messed up about it was, i mean, you were a little bit off tune and a little pitchy. i mean, wouldn't you all agree with that? >> a little pitchy. that kid is good. mitt romney spent the day yesterday explaining part of a comment he made about his concern for the country's very poor or lack thereof. does he deserve, though, the heat that he's getting for it? we'll knock that around with our crew. >>> within we come back, we'll huddle around the water cooler to get jon stewart's take on romney feeding the character as candidates out of touch rich guy. "way too early" coming right back. one. -two. -three. -one. -two. -three. [ male announcer ] with the bankamericard cash rewards credit card, earn 1% cash back everywhere, every time. 2% back on groceries. and 3% back on gas. automatically. no hoops to jump through.

how cool is david bowie? >> 65 years old, david bowie. >> is that right. >> he can finally get a free bus pass in london. he's the one guy, if you look alt of the rock stars, he's the one guy who has remained ice cool. to his brand, it's as cool today as it was in the '70s. >> some kids don't even know who david bowie is now, and when they hear him, they go, oh, yeah. >> he knew when to stop performing. ziggy stardust in the '70s and all of the reinventions he went through. he was saying around 2000, he last performed. >> the vision tour, yeah. >> it's to give up when they want you back on the stage. >> you have to get off the stage if people want you back on stage. right now, he could have a giant comeback. i think he's working on a book. he's got to be working on something. >> can i e-mail you? >> no. really? i can't e-mail you? >> you can go through my publicist. by the way, there's a guy on saturday night live, a great, great cast member. taryn killm. he does an impression of you. it hasn't been on air ye

>> jimmy fallon does david bowie almost as good as my brother's interpretation of david bowie. >> next time i go into a pizza hut, i have mitt romney to thank. >> and jimmy fallon made my week, that was great. >> going back to the informal and games, willie, who do you like? do the patriots cover the spread? >> yeah, i don't think that's a close game, but i said that

happy birthday, david bowie. and how about a comeback tour? that sure would be nice. >>> up next -- must see television. my no talking points segment. tonight's subject, the gop candidate and black people. çtool >>> it is time now for no talking points. >> tonight's segment is about that very uncomfortable subject for many. especially the gop presidential candidates. black people. first the question for you. what exactly is a blah person? don't think about it too much. let's hear rick santorum use it in a sentence. >> i don't want to make blah people's lives better by giving them somebody else's money. i want to give them the opportunity to go out and turn -- and earn their money. >> well, to just about everybody it sounds like he said black people, but he walked it back in a cnn interview. >> i looked at the video and i don't -- in fact, i'm pretty confident i didn't say black. what i think i started to say a word and sort of mumbled it and changed my thought. >> play it again, rob. >> i don't want to make blah people's lives better by givin

david jones adopted the name david bowie in the late '60s and hits and grammys soon followed. >>> one hour special day more s calendar. the african national congress turned 100 years old this weekend. former president nelson mandela we're told will not attend the festivities due to his failing health. >>> a thrilling tourist adventure goes horribly wrong. could have been worse, though. this is erin worth, a tourist from australia, plunging toward the river right there. oh, my gosh. and then the cord of that bungee breaks. watch the cord, one more time there. she falls to the water below, 300 feet, and amazingly, she actually survives that. >> it wasn't black straightaway and i felt like i had been slapped all over. i had to swim down and yank the bungee cord out of whatever it was caught under. i think it is a miracle i survived. >> it turns out the cord broke at just the perfect moment if there is a perfect moment. she avoided serious injury because it broke when she was already so close to the surface of the water. she's bruised pretty badly. that river is known for being filled wit