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Late show news: Stuttering John joins Leno on 'Tonight'; Janet Jackson guests on Letterman
Various sources ^ | March 29, 2004 | In_25_words_or_less

Posted on 03/29/2004 2:00:17 PM PST by In_25_words_or_less

Edited on 04/13/2004 1:42:10 AM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]

"Stuttering John" Melendez will officially join The Tonight Show with Jay Leno as regular announcer. Click link for details.

Also tonight, Janet Jackson makes her first CBS appearance since "Nipplegate" as a guest on Late Night with David Letterman.


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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: janetjackson; leno; letterman; stutteringjohn
IS Leno is bringing Melendez on board to be an East Coast connection into the show to undercut Letterman's NY edginess?
1 posted on 03/29/2004 2:00:18 PM PST by In_25_words_or_less
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I just can't see any chemistry being possible between Leno and Melendez. Two totally different kinds of comedy.
2 posted on 03/29/2004 2:04:45 PM PST by sigSEGV
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To: In_25_words_or_less
Will be watching Letterman for another possible "wardrobe malfunction."
3 posted on 03/29/2004 2:05:27 PM PST by My2Cents ("Well...there you go again.")
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To: In_25_words_or_less
Thanks for the heads up. Now I know 2 shows that I WON'T be watching tonight. (Wouldn't have anyway, actually, but now I can flip by them extra fast).
4 posted on 03/29/2004 2:06:48 PM PST by LisaMalia (In Memory of Sgt. James W. Lunsford..KIA 11-29-69 Binh Dinh S. Vietnam)
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To: sigSEGV
I did find it interesting that Melendez doesn't really stutter anymore.
5 posted on 03/29/2004 2:27:59 PM PST by In_25_words_or_less
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To: In_25_words_or_less
Some FReepers still watch this cr*p, eh? Amazing.
6 posted on 03/29/2004 2:43:05 PM PST by newgeezer (Just my opinion, of course. Your mileage may vary. You have the right to be wrong.)
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Some FReepers still watch this cr*p, eh? Amazing.

Whaddaya mean, "still"? Some of us just got indoor plumbing. ;o)

7 posted on 03/29/2004 2:46:36 PM PST by In_25_words_or_less
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To: My2Cents
The taping's already done and an AP/Yahoo story filed:

NEW YORK - Unlike the last time she appeared on CBS, Janet Jackson was bleeped by censors Monday while talking to David Letterman — for saying "Jesus."

The exclamation, made in apparent exasperation as Letterman asked the singer about her famed Super Bowl "wardrobe malfunction," was edited out for broadcast, a show spokesman said.

Jackson told Letterman that her breast-baring, when a piece of clothing was yanked off by duet partner Justin Timberlake during the halftime show, "was totally an accident. It wasn't a stunt."

Another piece of clothing was to have been in place to conceal the breast from view, said Jackson, who conceded the maneuver wasn't rehearsed.

On the "Late Show," she wore a red dress that exposed cleavage and her navel, which was affixed with jewelry. Despite being booked on the first of a round of national television appearances to promote her new album, "Damita Jo," Jackson repeatedly told Letterman she didn't want to talk about the incident.

"You're going to make me relive this?" she asked. "I want to put all that behind me. I truly do."

She told the audience she was "sure you're sick of hearing about this."

"I'm not so sure they are sick of hearing about it," Letterman replied.

Pressing for further details, Letterman said it looked to Super Bowl viewers that the breast-baring was intentional.

"Oh, Jesus," Jackson said, according to an unedited tape of their conversation.

She said it was "very embarrassing to me, to have so many people see this little breast."

"Well ...," Letterman said, indicating Jackson was doing some verbal downsizing.

The singer said she learned from the incident that she had reserves of strength like her mother.

Jackson and Timberlake's duet sparked a round of recriminations and complaints about broadcast standards. Jackson later canceled an appearance on the Grammy Awards. Timberlake appeared but apologized for the Super Bowl incident.

Jackson told "Access Hollywood," in an interview to be broadcast Tuesday, that she was "straight up asked not to go" on the Grammy Awards show. CBS has said Jackson would have been welcome if she apologized like Timberlake but she declined.

Asked whether she was still friends with Timberlake, Jackson said, "at some point, he and I need to talk."

Interesting they bleeped the use of the Saviour's name in vain -- that usually gets a pass. Does this mean MSNBC will start bleeping Imus?
8 posted on 03/29/2004 6:34:37 PM PST by In_25_words_or_less
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The entire Jackson family needs to be in a psychiatric hospital.
9 posted on 03/29/2004 10:47:11 PM PST by My2Cents ("Well...there you go again.")
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10 posted on 03/30/2004 12:43:58 AM PST by NewRomeTacitus
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