Jay Leno Jokes About Fox News, NPR War Coverage

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[GulliverSwift]

Friday Night April 4

Leno

• Welcome to "The Tonight Show.” I’m Jay Leno’s double. Jay’s in his bunker, 60 feet below the Earth.

• I had something strange happen to me yesterday, I’m coming to work, I turn on the radio in the morning, the war is going badly, we weren’t in control, the enemy was escaping and the people of Iraq hated us. Then, I’m driving home, we’re winning every battle, racing toward Baghdad, cheered on by Iraqi people, and then I realized: On the way in I was listening to National Public Radio when I commuted to work. And on the way home, I was listening to Fox News.

• The bad news is it looks like Saddam Hussein is still alive. The good news: We still get to kill him.

• I thought this was nice – on the video today, Saddam Hussein thanked Peter Arnett for filling in for him. Very nice of him.

[RAT Patrol]

Leno is a nice guy who is basically liberal but not political. That's my take. He isn't afraid to point out anyone's flaws if it will get him a laugh. He is not driven by any issue; he is driven by entertainment value.

The funniest political joke he ever produced, imo, was the Vote Cat; Vote Dog video that played during the 2000 election cycle (I think).

[GulliverSwift]

As far as war coverage, I don't want anybody to be "fair and balanced" if that means giving equal time to that inane Information Minister.

[mlbford2]

My opinion is that he is clearly conservative, although, he will take potshots at anybody. I like him.

[GulliverSwift]

Yeah, that's right. I wonder which animal was the Democrats? Dogocrats, Democats?

This is corny, almost Craig Kilborn corny.

[alnick]

However the "Fair and Balanced" line is laughable, I mean, why even pretend? Fox leans to the right, and I _like_ it that way.

True, but they tell the truth. That's fair and balanced. How fair and balanced would it be to tell lies just in order to have the left's side told?

[hapy]

both obrien and lena are from ma

obrien it from newton
leno is from andover

[Xenalyte]

If only you couldn't see his punch lines coming a mile away.

That's why I haven't watched Leno since he took over for Carson - he yelled his punch lines, in case we couldn't tell the funny part from the setup. Never could stand that little mannerism.

[AUsome Joy]

He was raised in Andover, Massachusetts, born in New Rochelle.

[GulliverSwift]

I don't think Leno is naturally funny, without a teleprompter. Some of his joke writers are good, though, and he is able to say funny jokes sometimes.

[Bigg Red]

He also always talks about "rich white Republicans..

There are few people in the US richer than he is, are there?

[Bigg Red]

During the 2000 election...

Your analysis was dead on. I noticed the same thing, so I stopped watching him.

[litany_of_lies]

I couldn't disagree more.

Fox IS fair and balanced. It has Colmes paired Hannity, it has Mara Liasson and Juan Williams on Brit Hume's panel discussion, it has Ellen Ratner, and others.

The only reason it looks conservative is because conservative arguments are so superior to the liberal ones.

Also, Fox's fair and balanced looks conservative to some because they benchmark it against the insufferably liberal CNN, CBS, and ABC.

[oyez]

Leno's wife did push for the liberation of the women victims of the Talibun. I didn't think the average leftest really gave a damn about the women of Afganistan.

[SquirrelKing]

I wonder what are Leno's politics?

It's about making $$. Wither the winds shall blow...

vox populi, vox humbug

[GulliverSwift]

Normally the are "fair and balanced" when talking about the daily political grind, but they haven't been during the war coverage, and thank goodness. I don't want to hear all the crap from the Info Minister, or from fringe anti-war protestors, or from the Frenchies. I don't think that's biased, because Fox is American.

When it gets back to the daily political grind, they should go back to being "fair and balanced." I noticed MSNBC copied them with a slogan of their own, "fiercly independent." They'll try anything and everything, but it's like trying to scoop up the Atlantic with a bowl.

[philosofy123]

Leno is a Liberal with a capital L. I watch ALL his shows as I record them from the night before. I wrote to him many times for dissing George W as a stupid ignorant guy.

The 9/11 thing made lots of liberals think twice before dissing our President or America. This Iraq war is supported by the big studio bosses in Holllywood, and Jay knows to kiss asses as much as any one to keep his gig going.

Jay said on April first, that Dick Chaney went into the oval office to ask the President: would you like to run things for a while, so the President said sure, and Chaney replied APRIL FOOL!

[cinFLA]

I wonder what are Leno's politics? He also always talks about "rich white Republicans" (wish I were one), and yet he also attacks the liberal media.

I liked the one about C. Chung.

(Jay Leno - paraphrased due to my poor memory)

It was bad for her (Connie) that she was fired; but the worst part was that she heard it while watching FOX.

[CarmelValleyite]

Re Leno's politics -- he is no doubt a Democrat at heart, but as the old saying goes...everyone's a Democrat until they get a little money...

Jay's not entrenched enough with the liberal AND moneyed Hollywood crowd like Streisand, etc., to carry on as they do -- and I believe he is a bit of an independent thinker which isn't a bad thing. At least he doesn't offend me every time he opens his mouth the way Letterman does...

[cinFLA]

One example. During the 2000 election, most of his Bush jokes had as the premise that he was a moron. Most of the Gore jokes had as the premise that he was a bit too nerdy. It sounded like he was making fun of both, but the message each time was that we had a choice between a moron and a smart superman who could use a little polish. Which would you vote for?

Same for many others. Bump

[ameribbean expat]

he had dennis miller on the other night and miller skewered the libs and war protestors.