In Jay Leno’s defense, he also had Rush Limbaugh on the other night. I think he’s being forced to host more news and politics-oriented guests because ABC and CBS ordered their prime-time stars not to do his show. They’re afraid of the competition. And he has been ripping into Roman Polanski. After a monologue joke this week on Polanski, someone in the audience booed, and Jay shot back something like, “Oh, right, he rapes a 13-year-old girl and flees the country, and I’m the bad guy.”
Forgot to mention, Jay had Chris Rock on last night, and he was also tearing Polanski a new one. He said he did not get these Hollywood people defending this guy who raped a 13-year-old girl. Rock said that on the crime scale, “Rape is #2. There’s murder, then rape. We’re trying to capture Osama bin Laden because we want to MURDER him. But we’re not gonna RAPE him! That would be uncivilized!”
Point taken! BUT... I’m still waiting on some Obama jokes.