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The best of last night's late-night TV. The sign language interpreter at Nelson Mandela's memorial service admits he's a fake and Fox News's Megyn Kelly says Jesus and Santa were white. Megyn Kelly absent from show post Santa, Jesus segment

The night after Fox News's Megyn Kelly asserted that both Santa Claus and Jesus Christ were white, Kelly was nowhere to be found for Thursday's "The Kelly File."

Despite Bill O'Reilly leading in with "Ms. Megyn is next" at the end of his show, Martha MacCallum filled in for Kelly with no explanation, tweeting several hours before the 9 p.m. show that she would be stepping in.

Kelly's segment was widely panned by news organizations, bloggers and late-night comedians. Some, like The Washington Post's Max Fisher took a factual approach to the story, interviewing religious scholars about the long debate over the race of Jesus. Others pointed to the segment's apparent contradiction to Kelly's assertion on Monday night during an appearance on "The Tonight Show with Jay Leno" that she's a "straight news anchor."

And of course, the late-night comedians had a field day with Jon Stewart, Stephen Colbert and Conan O'Brien all using the segment as fodder for jokes.

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We've reached out to Fox News for comment and will update this post.

Update 9:55 a.m.:

TVNewser reports that Megyn Kelly was out sick Thursday night and will address her Santa and Jesus comments on Friday night's show. On Monday's Leno appearance, Kelly mentioned she wouldn't shake hands with Simon Cowell before the show because she had a bad cold.