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...have a lot. Chevy Chase and Steve Martin. I love this kid Jay Leno. Johnny Carson I love -- I've been with him for so many years. This Billy Crystal kid is coming along. He's so clever. And Jonathan Winters. He lives right across the fence, over here. He is a funny man. Crazy funny. Don Rickles. I think he could be approaching genius because of his brain. He's just so fast and bright...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bob Hope: Thanks for The Memory | 6/11/1990 | See Source »

...material is available to children. One way to get attention, to appear hip, to make a provocative point or just to give a joke some taboo oomph, is to talk dirty. Plenty of comics don't; the most popular TV comedian of the '80s is clean (and funny) Jay Leno. But plenty do. Just watch them on HBO or Showtime. Sam Kinison, a kind of defrocked evangelist of red-neck rage (and also, in spurts, funny), provoked the condemnation of gay spokesmen with his jokes about AIDS. On his new album, Leader of the Banned, Kinison declares that his motto...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: X Rated | 5/7/1990 | See Source »

...Elmer award is named for former Lampooncurator Elmer W. Green, who died in 1977. Pastwinners have included Jay Leno, Bill Cosby andRobin Williams

Author: By Seamus C. Gallagher, | Title: Parading Poonsters Honor Cleese | 3/5/1990 | See Source »

Brave. As Jay Leno quipped, the other planets must be really jealous...

Author: By Kristine M. Zaleskas, | Title: The Real People of the Decade | 1/24/1990 | See Source »

...same as sparking sales. During the last two months of 1989, Infiniti dealers in the U.S. sold only 32 cars a day, far short of the 134 sales a day of its archrival, Toyota's new Lexus (base price: $35,000). "On the other hand," quipped comic Jay Leno, "sales of trees and rocks are up over 300%." Now Infiniti's ad agency has released new ads originally scheduled to appear later in the first quarter. Prominently featured: cars...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUTOS: Phantom Car, Faint Sales | 1/22/1990 | See Source »

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