Word: leno
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Some things never change. Both Leno and Letterman took a pass on Karla Faye, preferring instead to do their silliloquies on what Letterman has been calling "The Monica Lewinski White House Sex Scandal Gate." Among Dave's throw-aways: "While you were having sex" pink message pads from the Oval Office...
...public sentiment--Clinton's philandering has never been in doubt. He has long been an easy joke, a shorthand figure of fun right up there with staples like Michael Jackson and Pamela and Tommy Lee. Indeed, last Wednesday night as the Monica Lewinsky scandal was first breaking, Jay Leno scored a twofer on the Tonight Show with a lame joke about the Lees' wanting to see Clinton's home videos (he did a lot better with his line that Clinton's may be the second presidency to be brought down by Deep Throat...
...good news for the President or bad news for average married men, the real danger for Clinton is that what had once been mostly confined to the back of the national classroom is now up at the chalkboard giving lessons. The problem for the President isn't that Leno, Bill Maher and Conan O'Brien are talking about his sex life night after night (luckless David Letterman was in reruns last week), it's that Ted Koppel, Sam Donaldson and Cokie Roberts are. The disquieting effect is not unlike having to hear how your dad is in bed. From your...
...even Leno's monologue captured the nightgeist: "Let's move on." He then closed with three nice, clean, bland, always-good-for-a-laff jokes about Twinkies. Remember those? Letterman was playing catch-up with Air Force One jokes about the "right-wing conspiracy." It was sad. Really...
...Last laughs: Okay, there was one Leno line on-point: "Bill Clinton vows to bring Saddam Hussein to his knees with a military strike. And when it comes to bringing people to their knees..." Plus, among Letterman's "Monica's Top 10 Nicknames for the President": "Commander in Briefs...