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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsUgh. Leno is definitely slanting his jokes as anti-Obama.
Switched to Letterman.
Raster
(20,998 posts)Laura PourMeADrink
(42,770 posts)caught when he mocked Obama's "Forward" message
jpbollma
(552 posts)I don't think his normal routine is too bad. Letterman has always tended towards the Dems. My cynical side says they are each just trying to corner part of the night time audience.
HiPointDem
(20,729 posts)proud2BlibKansan
(96,793 posts)I seem to remember him making fun of his wife for being a liberal.
pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)Google his name and politics.
chollybocker
(3,687 posts)LiberalAndProud
(12,799 posts)His humor always strikes me as mean spirited when directed at Democrats. I've never found him funny. The Tonight Show has been dead to me since Carson retired. Leno may vote liberally, but his humor is CONservative.
xmas74
(29,675 posts)Supposedly he supports the same charities and organizations as his wife. I heard somewhere once that all family donations are made under her name so that he can still keep at least some of his views private.
(His wife is on the board of Feminist Majority Foundation and supposedly he also supports them.)
Guy Whitey Corngood
(26,501 posts)funny.
jpbollma
(552 posts)As I stated earlier. He and Letterman are in competition and are each trying to corner separate markets. It's all just show biz.
Guy Whitey Corngood
(26,501 posts)he isn't. So he's got the overpaid corn ass unfunny market cornered.
Zoeisright
(8,339 posts)All his jokes are mean and stupid. Just like him.
grantcart
(53,061 posts)working person in entertainment.
He continues to go to make standup appearences on the weekends and writes three or four columns regularly only sleeping 5 hours a night.
It is reported that he lives on his stand up income and has never spent a penny of his income from the Tonight Show apparently intending to give it away at some point.
HiPointDem
(20,729 posts)grantcart
(53,061 posts)I do know that he has made a substantial donation to Feminist Majority.
In 2001, along with his wife, he donated $100,000 to the Feminist Majority's campaign to stop gender apartheid in Afghanistan, to educate the public regarding the plight of women in Afghanistan under Taliban rule. Mavis Leno is on the board of the Feminist Majority.[61][62]
Read more: http://www.answers.com/topic/jay-leno#ixzz27Ufkbk4q
He also to a pay cut to save 20-25 jobs on the tonight show.
I think that there is a lot to criticize Leno for, and I can't do that because I don't watch him but as far as I know his use of personal funds is among the most progressive in Hollywood.
Nye Bevan
(25,406 posts)President Bush announced he plans to help out homeowners in this mortgage-lending crisis thing thats going on. He said millions of people could lose their house, and you know, he knows what hes talking about. Last November he lost a house and the Senate.
Bush is upset, very upset that the Iraqi parliament has failed any major legislation since taking office. I guess, of course, on the other hand, it made him feel right at home.
The White House announced President Bush is on the last page of the Harry Potter book. So, apparently, he's reading it backwards.
President Bush welcomed the prime minster of India to the White House today. Bush said, "While you're here, can you look at my computer for a second?"
One of the big problems in Iraq right now is agreeing on a constitution. They should do what the Bush administration does: Have a constitution, but just dont use it.
Happy Birthday to U.S. President Bush, hes 59. If you havent gotten him a birthday gift yet, I know hes still looking for an exit strategy for Iraq.
U.S. President Bush met with Palestinian president Abbas. There was one embarrassing moment when he said to Abbas, I love your hit, Dancing Queen.
President Bush said he was anxious to see the film though he was a little upset when he heard it was in Aramaic and Latin. Bush said "Why make a movie only Arabs and Latinos would understand?"
According to a new poll, if the election were held today both John Kerry and John Edwards would beat George Bush by double-digit margins. In fact, the White House is so worried they're thinking about moving the capture of Osama bin Laden up to next month.
President Bush is now focusing on jobs. I think the one job he's focusing most on ... his own.
Some sad news, President Bush's lap dog passed away. I didn't know Tony Blair was sick. I was shocked.
President Bush was on Meet The Press Sunday, a lot of his White House staffers thought it was a bad idea
"Hey
better than him going on Jeopardy"
Be honest
He didn't seem very well prepared
actually there was a reason he wasn't prepared, see Bush thought he was just gonna to meet the press, he didn't know there was gonna be questions
.There was one kind of embarrassing moment where President Bush was asked if he was ever AWOL?" and he said "No no no I have Earthlink
we use Earthlink, can't get AOL"
The Bush administration says it will file a brief with the Supreme Court over the University of Michigan's affirmative action policy, saying it's wrong to determine acceptance based on race. Bush said acceptance should be based on fair things like what private school you went to, who's your dad, how much money you gave to the alumni fund."
"President Bush has declared Sunday to be National Sanctity of Human Life Day. He said we have to protect the weak, the imperfect and the unwanted. But first, we have to give tax cuts to the rich."
This Sunday, President Bush will be at the Daytona 500 for the start of NASCAR season. President Bush is a big fan of NASCAR. Bush says if it weren't for NASCAR, man never would have stepped foot on the moon. Finally, somebody said, "Uh, sir ... that's NASA."
A Newsweek poll said if the election were held today, John Kerry would beat Bush 49 percent to 46 percent. And today, President Bush called Newsweek magazine a threat to world peace." -
Today President Bush said he was "troubled" by gay people getting married in San Francisco. He said on important issues like this, the people should make the decision, not judges - unless of course we're choosing a president, then he prefers judges.
I was watching TV last night and I saw an interesting documentary on TV last night about the ninja - you know, the Japanese soldiers. According to the legend, the ninjas were warriors who could make themselves invisible whenever we fought in a war. You know, kinda like George Bush in the National Guard.
In his annual economic report to Congress President Bush said that the transfer of American jobs overseas is actually part of a positive transformation that will enrich the U.S. economy over time. So basically, losing your job to someone else can be a good thing - of course we'll see how he feels about that in November.
Happy President's Day everybody! Today of course is the day we honor our presidents. We honor Bill Clinton by having a mattress sale, and as most people don't have to work today, we honor George Bush.
Earlier today President Bush spent some time with National Guard troops in Louisiana. When Bush arrived, the commanding officer said, "You're a little late."
A retired Alabama National Guard commander says he remembers President Bush showing up there for duty back in the seventies. He says Bush used to come into his office and read. However, payment records released by the White House suggest that was not President Bush. Hey, the fact the guy was reading I think suggests it wasn't president Bush.
Yesterday President Bush stopped off at a bass pro fishing store to pick up a fishing reel, some line and some rubber worms. He's going to disappear and go fishing. So he must think he's back in the National Guard again.
Does this bother a lot of people? Who cares if Bush did his job in the National Guard 30 years ago - I'm more frightened about the job he's doing now.
Today in the L.A. Times, one critic wrote that the problem with John Kerry is "he looks like he thinks too much." Well, you won't hear anyone accusing President Bush of that.
jpbollma
(552 posts)lets not get our feathers too ruffled . Different comedians have different styles and also don't want to be making the same types of jokes when they are on the same time slots.
winstars
(4,220 posts)Having just taken a pay cut, Jay Leno will surely do what they say, especially now. I would too but I am not a millionaire. If i was him, a millionaire that is, I would tell them to fuck off. But there is a reason why all the other comics hate him. He is a dick, to quote Mark Halperin.
mucifer
(23,559 posts)Go Dave!
Frank Cannon
(7,570 posts)I didn't think anyone outside of a retirement home still watched him.
Raine
(30,540 posts)but he still keeps on with the same old Clinton "jokes".
AzSweet
(102 posts)davidpdx
(22,000 posts)I've never liked him.
chemenger
(1,593 posts)Wrote jokes for Letterman.
davidpdx
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undeterred
(34,658 posts)Need I say more?
reformist2
(9,841 posts)ananda
(28,873 posts)nt
graham4anything
(11,464 posts)He old comedy wise, zings both sides though, but his comments on President Obama were harmless
It's the reason year in, year out he kicks Letterman's ass
(and it took Letterman 2 decades to decide to be pro-anything at all.
Jay also has contributed most likely maximum amounts of money
(btw- if you wanna bitch about someone, how about rightwing now Lorne Michaels who sold out on SNL years ago.)