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...Number of Marv Albert jokes Jay Leno has told on the Tonight Show...
...said John had puppies' feet hidden in his freezer and that his wife drank breast milk for breakfast," she says, shaking her head in disbelief at the silliness. "I wanted to make him laugh, and I did. But it came out weirder than I thought it would. Jay Leno asked me if I'd been talking to Marlon Brando lately...
Comedy, at least as it is currently practiced, thrives on building consensus. Comedians will tell you that one of the best ways to kill a performance is to move ahead of the audience's prejudices. Thus Jay Leno and David Letterman can get away with portraying Bill Clinton as a pig and a lech only because viewers have already come to the same conclusion. It is our comic shorthand for Clinton. Of course, all public figures exist in shorthand versions, comic or not--that's what being a public figure is all about. For someone like Princess Diana who suffers...
Celebrity names boost the ratings, feed Leno jokes...
Preliminary ratings last week for both shows were good--Wayans averaged a 3.6 over his first four nights, while Spencer measured 3.0. Leno, meanwhile, pulled a 5.9, Letterman a 3.8. Both newcomers may be able to survive, since despite going head to head in New York City and L.A., they are not seen at the same time in most markets and since advertisers yearn to reach young adults. Whether they both should survive is another question. There's a place for late-night programming that reaches out to bring fresh faces to TV. But who's going to watch...