'Tonight Show' song on Mormons had unusual roots

Late-night television audiences have come to expect zany song-and-dance numbers from Conan O'Brien's "The Tonight Show," but the show's recent Mormon Christmas send-up actually had its roots in an unusual place: An offline brainstorming session among progressive Jewish bloggers.

The backstory started earlier this month when Tablet magazine published a story on a Chanukah song written by Orrin Hatch, a Mormon Republican senator from Utah. In response, blogger Larry Yudelson posted a query to his fellow Jewschool.com contributors wondering if "there are any special Mormon holidays for which we can return the favor?"

Read the full story via MormonTimes.com.