Jay Leno apologizes to offended viewer(for comparing Cheney - LA shooting)

[sabra]

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/tv/1401AP_TV_Lenos_Apology.html

Jay Leno apologizes to offended viewer

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

LOS ANGELES -- Jay Leno knows that comedy means sometimes having to say you're sorry.

After Leno's "Tonight Show" aired a sketch that compared Vice President Dick Cheney's hunting accident to a 2003 videotaped shooting outside a Los Angeles courthouse, he received a letter of complaint from a viewer.

Wendy Brogin, a friend of shooting victim Gerald Curry, wrote to Leno condemning the recent sketch as offensive and asking him to "do the right thing relative to this matter."

Within days, Leno responded with a phone call that greatly impressed Brogin, the Daily News of Los Angeles reported Tuesday.

[joefree1]

1. How about apologizing for the Democrats and hookers joke

"That's something you rarely see -- Republicans rejecting a business deal. That's like a Democrat turning down a hooker." --Jay Leno, on the port deal

http://politicalhumor.about.com/library/bldailyfeed3.htm

what the f**K!

[Atman]

3. Did you complain, like the other person did?

Might as well! We should start complaining every time he does that shit! Make him regret ever dissing a democrat on his stupid-ass show. Jay Leno sucks anyway...I simply cannot watch his show. I just don't find him in the least bit entertaining.

[joefree1]

4. I can't

I don't watch him. I like Letterman better. I just heard about the joke and google it.

Leno sucks.

[Texacrat]

5. That actually is funny

I'm sorry, you can't take yourself too seriously.

[Starbucks Anarchist]

8. Exactly.

[joefree1]

14. "You can't take yourself too seriously."

What if I took myself more seriously I would realize that as a democrat I have a hooker problem?

[liberalpress]

17. Damn straight we Dems have a hooker problem..

...and the problem is hookers is way too 'spensive for the working man!

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

18. Your avatar is funnier.

[Bill McBlueState]

20. yeah, that's the funniest part of the whole thread!

Although in a thread containing Jay Leno jokes, that's not hard to pull off.

[VegasWolf]

21. If you really want funny, you should check out the FReaks over

at Free Republic. A bunch of high school educated morons arguing science. Funniest damn thing I've ever seen in my life.

[TankLV]

24. Ahh - FINALLY got booted.

I suspected a freeper from his many posts.

[daleo]

10. How about Neil Bush?

Oh yeah, he doesn't even have to pay for his Bangkok prostitutes.

[jamesinca]

11. Bangkok is a fake name

But if you are going to have prostitutes, why not in Bangkok?

[Kailassa]

16. A fake name?

Are you trying to tell us that bangkok is not an actual geographical location?

[daleo]

19. Is there another way to spell it?

I checked google, and that spelling gave plenty of hits. I suppose it might be one of those place names that came out of the colonial era, and thus not the "real name".

Or do you mean that Niel's free hooker episodes actually happened elsewhere and were just reported as Thailand?

[Inland]

2. How about apologizing for being largely NOT FUNNY.

Leno decided a long time ago to be friendly instead of funny, and this pretty much is in line with that.

[VegasWolf]

6. Leno dumps on Bush's incredible stupidity all the time. I love it. The

one democrat that Leno does not dump on is Russ Feingold. I think Leno respects balls!

[951-Riverside]

7. Who should give a crap about Wendy Brogin she's not Gerald Curry

As far as I'm aware he never personally raised objections, I wonder if she ever bothered to ask if he was offended?

[onehandle]

9. Is Jay Leno still on TV?

If so, why?

Are there really enough octogenarians watching him to keep him on the air?

[Starbucks Anarchist]

12. I'm in my 20s and I watch him.

:shrug:

[joefree1]

13. hee hee, you just understand humor better then the rest of us

I can't stop staring at his chin. But then I can't take myself too seriously. :crazy:

[Celeborn Skywalker]

15. I'm in college and I watch it

As do most of my friends. As to comments above about him dissing Democrats, I think he disses Republicans a lot more than Democrats. Yes, the Clinton-Monica jokes have gotten a bit old, but that's only one minor complaint. Most of the time I find him funny.

[Bucky]

22. I am 3 years old and I watch him

Now wait. I am a FETUS and I watch him. That's it

[Ignis]

23. Great! When will he apologize for being a Doritos whore?

I mean, not to channel the late, great Bill Hicks or anything...
;)

[Initech]

25. How about apologizing for launching Ahnuld's campaign?

[lpbk2713]

26. I wouldn't put a whole lot of effort into commending Leno.

From the article:

Within days, Leno responded with a phone call that greatly impressed Brogin, the Daily News of Los Angeles reported Tuesday.


Leno works for a large media subsidiary of a multi-billion dollar corporation and image is everything to them. According to the article it took "days" for them to reach a collective decision on how to spin this.

They reached a decision and Leno's puppeteers pulled his strings accordingly.

I wouldn't give him a whole lot of credit.