If you want to get elected, talk to Leno

[T_i_B]

Sorry, but I've seen Leno's show on TV before and I think he sucks.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uselections2004/story/0,13918,1185609,00.html

During the last presidential election both sides monitored the late night shows for an indication of how certain issues were playing. "The monologues are evidence of when a certain story really breaks through," Chris Lehane, Al Gore's former campaign press secretary, told the New York Times just six weeks before the 2000 election. "If it makes it on to Leno or Letterman, it means something."

A survey by the Pew Research centre before the last election showed that almost half of Americans between the ages of 18 and 29, and more than a quarter of all adults, often gained information about the presidential campaign from late-night comedy shows.

If you want to get elected, rehabilitated, generally understood as a regular person or simply not misunderstood as an irregular person you will find yourself on the late-night talk-show circuit. They are crucial media pit stops for presumptive presidential candidates and actors in disgrace alike. During the last election both Gore and Bush did them. It was on Leno's show that Arnold Schwarzenegger declared that he would run for governor of California, and Hugh Grant first appeared after his encounter with Divine Brown to what is now one of Leno's most famous lines: "What the hell were you thinking?"

Leno has already worked out his line of attack on both George Bush and the Democratic nominee John Kerry, who has been criticised for flip-flopping on important issues. "Bush has no position and Kerry has both positions," says Leno. "This is going to be one of the nastiest presidential elections ever. Great, fabulous, good for me."

[KissMyAsscroft]

1. Leno....

Ahhhh....what a hack. I love listening to comedians who insult the intelligence of the audience by explaining their punchlines immediately after telling their jokes.

[punpirate]

2. If Jay Leno helps decide elections...

... then god help us. He's a glorified motorcycle mechanic....

[murielm99]

3. Leno does suck.

He is not a comedian any more, he is a Republican. After he became a shill for the governator, I stopped watching him altogether. I

I was already turned off by his Clinton jokes. Doesn't he realize that the man has been out of office for more than three years? Get some fresh material you fool!