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...feel that the guy comedians that I came up with, and boy did I come up with a great class - Jerry Seinfeld was the MC the night I auditioned at the Comic Strip along with Paul Reiser, whom I went to college with. Jerry introduced me to Jay Leno when I moved out to L.A., and we quickly became friends. I think of them all as big brothers to me to this...
Boston NBC affiliate in has no interest in running Jay Leno in prime time...
...today, it is still amazing how well he was able to personally connect, reassure and educate. But what F.D.R. was able to do in one broadcast today takes a raft of appearances that create a composite impression: gravitas from a press conference and 60 Minutes, living-room intimacy from Leno, regular-guy connection from ESPN...
...question: "Are people going to look at this and say, 'I mean, he's sitting there just making jokes about money'?" - asking the President to analyze the public's reaction to his tone in an interview he was in the middle of. And thus the hyperventilating over Obama's Leno sit-down, coverage of which focused not on substance but on Obama's comparing his bowling skills to the "Special Olympics." Here's another thing F.D.R. didn't have to deal with: a public jaded by superficial, 24/7 political spin...
...work to do.") Every time he forces himself to say, "I'm as angry as anybody about those bonuses," it sounds clearer that he's not as angry as anybody. And he may actually do better in tough Q&As, like his press conferences, than in soft ones like Leno's. He gaffes more when he feels he's on friendly turf. (See his flub about "bitter" small-town Americans at a fundraiser in the primaries...