I too was a big fan of Letterman back in the 80s when I was in my 20s. Even went to a few shows. Loved the Larry "Bud" Melman bits.
Posted on 06/15/2019 4:21:04 AM PDT by sodpoodle
News is leaking out from Hollywood executives in-the-know that the Obama White House had been leaning on, pressuring executives at NBC for two years to replace Jay Leno because the comedian was criticizing Obama every night. Obama didn't like it and considered it a racist attack on him.
After data came to light that $100's of millions had been spent on First Family vacations during a recession, Mrs. Obama's unpopular new laws that changed food in America's schools and other negative news including the disastrous Obamacare roll-out & website mess, Jay Leno took his comedy to a new level and his ratings skyrocketed -- none of the other comics were so bold. NBC couldn't stomach the fact that Leno's jokes about Obama were always right on target about the first black president.. And left-leaning Democrat executives at NBC were being harassed by Obama himself who thought the comedy was a racist attack on him.
GOLDEN OLDIES FROM JAY: "I was going to start off tonight with an Obama joke, but I don't want to get audited by the IRS."
On NSA surveillance: "We wanted a president who listens to all Americans -- now we have one."
On a new IRS commissioner: "He's called 'acting commissioner' because he has to act like the scandal doesn't involve the White House."
On closing the Guantanamo prison for terrorists: "If he really wants to close it, turn it into a government-funded solar power company. The doors will be shut in a month."
Concerning the Benghazi, Associated Press, and IRS scandals: "Remember in the old days when President Obama's biggest embarrassment was Joe Biden?"
On saying he didn't know about the IRS scandal: "He was too busy not knowing anything about Benghazi to not know anything about the IRS."
"The White House has a new slogan about Benghazi: Hope and change the subject."
"It's casual Friday, which means that at the White House, they're casually going through everybody's phone calls and records."
"It is not looking good for President Obama. Today his teleprompter took the fifth."
"Fox News has changed its slogan from 'Fair and Balanced' to 'See, I told you so!'"
On commencement address: "He told the young graduates their future is bright unless, of course, they want jobs."
On a Chicago man who set a record for riding a Ferris wheel: "The only other way to go around and around in a circle that many times is to read the official report on Benghazi."
On White House claims of ignorance on the scandals: "They took 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell' out of the Pentagon and moved it into the White House."
Now the last and I think best..... "These White House scandals are not going away anytime soon. It's gotten so bad that people in Kenya are now saying he's 100 percent American."
That explains a lot. Maybe senility?
Thank you for that response;)
The worst FR critics are those who never bother to post threads - but they find fault with those of us who take the time to offer a little political humor.
God bless.
Leno still has a great head of hair. We saw him live in the 80s in Lowell, I think. He was great.
It’s not a coincidence that most late night talk show hosts and SNL barely discussed politics when Obama was President.
That sounds like an interesting conversation. Picasso is crap IMHO. However, Davinci is spectacular. I am an engineer so maybe that is why. I love realism.
Nobody watches that compared to his late night. Barak was the thinist skinned President ever. This is probably true.
I too was a big fan of Letterman back in the 80s when I was in my 20s. Even went to a few shows. Loved the Larry "Bud" Melman bits.
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I'm sure you will appreciate the thread...
A man spent $300 on a painting at a thrift sale. It could be worth millions
FoxNews.com ^ | June 7, 2019 | Chris Ciaccia | Fox News
Posted on 6/8/2019, 1:28:25 AM ET by ETL
I first saw that rodeo skit back in 1968. All presidents have had their turn in the “barrel”. Only with st.Obama did people yell “REICISM!”
That was one idea floated among staffers - that he was getting senile. Oddly enough, I was friends with his dresser from the 80s, she loved Letterman personally. Which just shows how much he changed over the years. From a nice midwestern boy to a sex-crazed nutcase.
Jay is a nice guy. Years ago a Friend of my B-I-L was driving on Mulholland and saw Jay on the side of the road trying to get one his old Cars running.
The guy stopped and helped him get it running. The guy owns a Garage and builds Cobra Kit Cars.
He followed Jay to his House and Jay fed him Lunch and showed him around. He keeps some of his Car Collection at his House. He couldn’t say enough about Jay’s hospitality.
As far as Jay’s Politics, he is obviously a Democrat, but he is more inline with the Democrats we knew when we were younger, the ones that loved this Country.
In other words, he is sane.
Lol. Ya. What’s worse than your typical Picasso rendering? A Picasso of a naked woman.
His old shows are on YouTube.
What’s with me is that the Right has lost any connection with western culture, popular or high art. Whether it is thinking that “Kismet” is a musical written by jihadis or that Picasso is a bad artist - when he is a seminal figure in the 20th century - or that Dan Brown writes good books about Leonardo, over and over again freepers show their appalling ignorance. Not all but too many.
When you’ve lost the culture through sheer lack of interest in reading and observing, you’ve lost the war.
But I did think Jay Leno was much funnier and nicer than Letterman.
Letterman always had a snarky, mean, nasty streak to him. When he said what he did about Sarah Palin's daughter on TV, he showed his true self and it wasn't pretty.
I love watching Jay Leno's Garage on YouTube. He always makes the cars he's talking about interesting. Seems like a nice guy too.
And he is still not funny. Never was.
From a nice midwestern boy to a FAR LEFT POLITICAL HACK, sex-crazed nutcase.
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From NewsBusters.org, June 9, 2009...
9. Laughed at all the crazy-looking foreigners entering the U.N.
8. Made moose jerky on Rachael Ray
7. Keyed Tina Fey's car
6. After a wink and a nod, ended up with a kilo of crack
5. Made coat out of New York City rat pelts
4. Sat in for Kelly Ripa. Regis couldn't tell the difference.
3. Finally met one of those Jewish people Mel Gibson's always talking about
2. Bought makeup from Bloomingdale's to update her "slutty flight attendant" look
1. Especially enjoyed not appearing on Letterman
"One awkward moment for Sarah Palin at the Yankee game, during the seventh inning, her daughter was knocked-up by Alex Rodriguez."
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He seems to have gone off the deep end, many years ago.
From that other thread I mentioned above...
miss marmelstein:
Ah! The enlightened art crowd of Free Republic weighs in with the usual results. ...
"I think he [Pablo Picasso] was a very great artist. Very highly trained, btw"--miss marmelstein
LOL!
Now here below is a TRUE "very great artist" (Rembrandt!)
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