Word: letterman
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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...
...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 mom. Comics at least have an advantage over newspeople in that they don't have...
...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...
Lipinski rocketed through figure skating's triple crown--the Nationals, Champion Series and World Championships--and made time to chat up Letterman and model DKNY Kids clothing on her Website. Chevrolet, Minute Maid and Campbell's soup are only a few of her endorsements, and her agent, Michael Burg, says, "Wherever we go, we see Kwan's people too." It all seems so cutthroat for a girl whose hometown is called Sugar Land, Texas...