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...archive is also just a fun place to browse. You can go to the cover collection and look at the cover images by year. One of my favorites is an elegant Al Hirschfeld line drawing of Jay Leno from 1992. Of course, I also wrote that story, but then, you can look that up in the TIME archive...
Since Hyundai broke into the U.S. auto market in 1986, the jokes have rolled off comics' tongues as fast as the company's unwanted cars have piled up in showrooms. How about Jay Leno's line--that the only consumers who benefit from high gasoline prices are Hyundai owners because every time they fill up, the car's value doubles. The tinny, troublesome autos had so many problems that dealers made repairs a profit center. Their unadvertised slogan: Hope You Understand Nothing's Drivable and Inexpensive. The notion that Korea was another Japan ready to challenge U.S. competitiveness evaporated...
...think a lot of the jokes are funny. Leno has been hilarious and kind-hearted in his jokes. I thought Letterman's Top 10 was really funny. But I think that people who are not professional comedians and maybe not well intended should put a lid on it and let the man survive the injury...
...great, we had John Updike '56, Lorne Michaels, Andy Richter, Jay Leno, 'Macho Man' Randy Savage, Robin Williams and Conan O'Brien," Hely boasted...
...snowball of George W. Bush's frolicksome charm. Fine. He's a conservative. But in this country, now, conservatism without discretion is mere doctrine, and principles without brains or strategy are indistinguishable from stupidity: dead weight. If George W. Bush begins to suffer an ignominious nightly death-by-Leno - the vast middle third of America tucked in bed and laughing derisively at the Homer Simpson in the White House - then Bush is gone...