- OBAMA IS FIRST BLACK PRESIDENT ON LATE NIGHT TEEVEE: Oooh sexy NBC press release time: “President Barack Obama will be making his first sit-down talk show appearance in studio in front of a live audience since becoming elected on Thursday, March 19 on ‘The Tonight Show with Jay Leno’ … This marks the first appearance of a sitting President on a late night talk show.” How’d they land that? It’ll probably just be Kevin Eubanks in a suit.
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Why?
Suffer through Leno to get more of Hopey? Fuck that. Hopey’s on the tube EVERY day.
Sorry, but the price is WAAAAAY too high.
Kevin Eubanks in a suit? That’s not racial transcendence!
On LENO?
Grossness. Letterman got the Shaft.
The sad thing is that Obama was hoping that Ed was still there so that he could sell off some of the United State’s Gold to help pay off the Chinese.
Leno blows but i get the point. Take it to the people…sorta
But Fallon’s got THE ROOTS!!!!!
[re=266525]NoWireHangers[/re]: Well Barry is going to be in California anyway for some event. I still question the wisdom of this; he should wait until Conan takes over!
[re=266525]NoWireHangers[/re]: He ought to go on The Daily Show & show Jon some love.
Aw, man. Why not Dave? Dave’s right there in New York! Or Jon Stewart?
Or, if you insist on L.A., Craig Ferguson? Or pretape something for Conan’s June show?
Or fucking anyone else besides Leno?
Yeah, he totally should’ve waited for Conan, to make good on his Promise.
C’mon, people, he’s not preaching to the choir — he’s gotta go to where the old & bitter people are when they’re done watching FOX news.
Oh Barry, why that snoresville schmuch Leno? Need I remind you that there is a shiny, autographed, mint-condition Spiderman comic waiting for you on the set of the Colbert Report?
Isn’t that pathetic joke stealing unfunny fuck off the air yet?
I heard Conan had to hold off on signing the papers for his new L.A. house because Leno had to be forcibly removed from the Tonight Show set by NBC security first. His fingernail marks are still scratched into the floor where they dragged him away…
[re=266549]SayItWithWookies[/re]: They’re in bed with their snuggies long before Leno.
[re=266556]Atheist Nun[/re]: NBC gave him a whole new show. The bitterz have spoken – digital teevee is too hard, and CoNan is not funny.
I’d like to see Barry do an hour with SpaceGhost.
[re=266558]smashtheduck[/re]: They get their grandkids to work the TIVO for them.
[re=266558]smashtheduck[/re]:Snuggie – is that the ShamWow with sleeves?
Best watered-down and lame questions of the YEAR! TONIGHT! ON LENO!
YAY!
[re=266561]problemwithcaring[/re]: Yeah, I know Lemmo’s got a “new” show, if you can call “moving my time slot so I can keep working on show you fired me from, wherein I steal everyone else’s jokes and pander to retards” a “new” show.
Conan’s probably the best comedy writer on television, who also hires other excellent comedy writers.
(I do not engage in debates about this with the aforementioned bitters, a.k.a. the kind of mouthbreathers who’ve kept “Paul Blart: Mall Cop” in the Box Office top ten for 9 weeks in a row, a.k.a. Sarah Palin)
Was Bono already booked elsewhere?
I think this is due to Obambi’s guilt towards beating the more experienced Walnuts to a well deserved bloddy pulp. Now he feels bad for old farts and will give them that one last dying wish to interview a real prezidents on their show.
This also makes a great photo for gramp’s Wall of Fame.
[re=266525]NoWireHangers[/re]: he doesn’t have to win over Letterman viewers. Obama already has our support.
Chill Out, space cats. Leno is just the warm up for other other late-nighters who may actually have the balls to ask him something other than puffball questions. Dudes got four years of preznitcy to spread around the late night love.
The other hosts will get their turn.
I’d love to see the First Lady arm-wrestle Mr. Leno. Or play a little make-it-and-take-it on an outdoor court.
No matter how much Leno blows, he’s still a member of the best news team in television, by which I mean late night comedians. They don’t have much competition for that title, mind you.
I though Obama was/is Kevin Eubanks in a suit!
Don’t worry Wonkette! There’s still plenty of time for the first ever Presidential blog comment. And if he does grace these pages, I really hope his avatar is a picture of his birth certificate, obviously.
[re=266622]iwillsavethispatient[/re]: We don’t know that he isn’t here right now, do we?
He’s appearing with Lenin, not Leno.
Don’t you people watch FOX news?
But our pretend girlfriend is on Letterman! Choices, choices. Yup. There’s still officially no one who could make it worth my putting up with Leno.
[re=266558]smashtheduck[/re]: No, not all of the olds are in bed. Many cannot sleep, hence the number of ads for snuggies, clappers, and scooters, as well as Three’s Company reruns, on late night TV.
I’m down with Barry but I don’t do that Leno shit.
wait, niether Dennis Haysbert nor Morgan Freeman have ever appeared on Leno?
At least it’s not Geraldo.
Wish it was Chelsea Lately.
Wait. Late night Teevee wants this guy? What, do they need ratings or something?
Don’t get the Leno channel on my teevee.
I’m just so glad everyone knows Jay is such an obsequious fuckhead. Thanks, Wonkette!
That said, Barry already has the Conan voters (self-conscious hipsters), the Dave voters (older hipsters + New Yorkers) and the Jimmy Kimmel voters (drunks + stoners). So I don’t begrudge him his Leno appearance to go after the olds, conservatives and people who have died but left their TV on.
[re=266556]Atheist Nun[/re]: Um…Leno is going to be on NBC just as much as he was before…only in an earlier, juicier time slot. Do not cry for Jay Leno and his garage of a million cars.
Al Jazeera, Iranian Martyrs’ Posthumous News, and the Marxist Bowling Channel will be ever gosh-durn annoyed. And NBA cable, too. Bipartainship has now gone absolutely down the drain. Mitch McConnell says.
I, for one, am hoping that a big earthquake hits LA while Obama is there so that all the Conservatives will go nuts and start saying out loud that Obama is the anti-Christ.
[re=266538]Texan Bulldoggette[/re]: Agree! But Stewart’s already had his March Sweeps stunt when he pwnd Cramer, so he doesn’t want to crowd too much ACTION! into one month – check back in the next Sweeps period…
[re=266690]Lionel Hutz Esq.[/re]: Only if there’s a tornado that wipes Crawford TX off the map, first…
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TRANSCRIPT
“THE TONIGHT SHOW”
Jay Leno: It’s been almost 60 days since the start of new administration and John McCain is still looking for his invitation to the Presidential Ball. (Eubanks: heh, heh, heh.) The economy is not lookin’ good and that other guy, what’s his name, George Bush, has found a spider hole in Texas. And the Lakers are asking for a bailout in the next NBA draft and a green card for Pau. So I cannot think of a better person to have as my first guest, former Illinois politician, Barack Obama, our President. Please welcome him, in his first live television interview,
Obama: Thank you, Jay. It is an honor to be here..
Jay Leno: I mean, this economy thing. People are driving up and down Rodeo Drive trying to sell Mexicans at half-price. What’s with that? (Laughter.)
Obama: Well, Jay …
Jay Leno: I mean, what about Afghanistan? Why can’t we buy a decent prayer rug for rumpus room wall without bullet holes in it. (Laughter.)
Obama: Well, Jay …
Jay Leno: I mean, what about healthcare? In Burbank, the studio cafeteria has stopped giving a dose of penicillin when you order of whole wheat matzahs. (Eubanks: heh, heh, heh.)
Obama: Well, Jay …
[Etc.]
[re=266702]Bearbloke[/re]: How could one tell?
Leno is a hump.
[re=266718]S.Luggo[/re]: Ignore “of”. Not getting a job with NBC.
After John-the-Baptist bearded Ted Kaczynski [kazyinski], also known as the Unabomber, was arrested by the FBI and, in an orange jumpsuit, was taken chained to federal court for indictment, Leno did a skit in which 6 unshaven Teds, in orange prison suits, did a vigorous can-can. Recalling Ted’s dead and mutilated bomb victims and Ted’s unmitigated adolescent paranoid schizophrenia, I stopped watching Leno after that.
I wondered if Leno ever had expressed any sense of shame for exploiting the Unabomber tragedy for cheap network laffs. So far, no.
Long/short: Leno remains an unrepentant cyst om the hind quaters of entertainment talk TV. But I mean that in a analytical and non-critical way.
Good choice, Barry.
[re=266750]S.Luggo[/re]: What a sensitive soul you are. Let me brew you a nice cup of herb tea and get you a hot towel. There, there.
(And no, you can’t borrow my Lenny Bruce records.)
I think Hopey needs to set a precedent by beeyotch-slapping Leno. In fact, I think this is what he’s doing, since it’s not the true late-nighters.
Once Leno makes his first lame joke, have Hopey say, “You know, Jay, my mother PAID for us to see Collision Course. It sucked, AND it gave her cancer.”
I predict no late night comedian will have eff with him after that.
[re=266803]Tommy Says Soooo, Jugdish![/re]: Hahahahahahaa — can you promise me I’ll see THAT exchange tomorrow night??
But boys and girls, Kevin Eubanks has a totes banging body — he loves the gym! Wouldn’t you love to see him and Hopey in a posedown? RAWR!
“Perceiving a threat to the president, Secret Service agents wrestled Jay Leno’s monologue to the ground.”
>>It’ll probably just be Kevin Eubanks in a suit.
Don’t “they” all look alike, anyhow?
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