Posted on 03/15/2006 7:03:53 AM PST by JamesP81
LOS ANGELES — Jay Leno knows that comedy means sometimes having to say you're sorry. After Leno's "Tonight Show" aired a sketch that compared Vice President Dick Cheney's hunting accident to a 2003 videotaped shooting outside a Los Angeles courthouse, he received a letter of complaint from a viewer.
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Jay Leno is a comedian. He makes fun of stuff. And he's an equal opportunity insulter. He'll make fun of anyone. For these reasons, I don't necessarily think Leno owes an apology. If he were seriously comparing the two, it would be a different matter, but he wasn't.
What say you, FReepers?
Leno is a pretty decent sort for an entertainment guy. I've always preferred him to Letterman. The Dancing Judge Ito's still makes me laugh.
I'll go on record as saying that it'd been nice if your excerpt given me an idea of what the fuss was really about.
I saw the bit and I thought it was very, very funny.
Jay's probably a Dem(God, he's from a working class family in MA!), but he jabs both sides of the aisle pretty well.
If he apologized, he probably did it to be polite.
I admire Jay. He's worked very, very hard all of his life and still does. In addition to the "Tonight Show" he does about 150 separate gigs around the country annually. I don't know where he gets all that energy. He just loves what he does.
Besides, he's got the best personal car collection in the country. Wow! It must be worth milions and millions of dollars.
Leno accomplished a number of things by doing what he did. First, he showed he does have some degree of ethics and scruples, totally absent in the MSM and on the left. He won there. Secondly, he, indirectly, acknowledged the perverse and rotten coverage the incident got from the leftist MSM.
He did himself good, with what he did.
I would wager that the offended viewer was connected to the shooting. In a case like that, you do the right thing and apologize. Generally speaking, tho, Leno stays on the right side of the line, and seems like a decent guy.
Sometime humor can be a little offensive, but there's nothing wrong with that.
No apology was needed. The whining PCPerson needs to get a life. Or a thicker skin.
Jay offends someone every day of the week, and i assume he gets complaint letters all the time. I don't know that he's ever issued a public apology for his comedy before.
This complaint letter musta been from a very IMPORTANT viewer.
I was so offended I tried to burn down the Danish embassy.
"Polls not looking good for President Bush, has an approval rating of 34%, his lowest ever. In fact, if the election were held today, he'd still beat John Kerry, but it's not good." --Jay Leno
He doesn't owe an apology. He's a pretty fairminded guy, and a good comedian, whose job it is to poke fun at things and people.
Just doing his job.
We need to develop thicker skins, and start fighting the battles that actually matter.
Kill your television!
(Or at least, wound it badly)
Even the President had a few jokes over Cheney's shooting accident at a recent roast.
I quit watching Jay because he constantly makes jokes saying President Bush is stupid.
He jokes about Clinton and sex which to me is okay, because the funniest comedy always has a ring of truth to it. There is no truth that President Bush is stupid.
I never watch Letterman.
"Over the weekend while on a hunting trip down in Texas, Vice President Dick Cheney accidentally shot a member of his hunting party. He apologized. In fact, he told Brit Hume that he was actually trying to hit Cindy Sheehan." --Jay Leno
"Hillary Clinton blasted the vice president today for failing to disclose all the facts. She wants Dick Cheney to give exact details. You know like, 'How do you shoot someone and make it look like an accident?'" --Jay Leno
"President Bush says he is standing behind the vice president. Way behind him." --Jay Leno
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