****...Mr. Greenblatt had taken offense to monologue jokes Mr. Leno made last month in the wake of news stories about NBC’s ratings struggles...****
So what was the difference between Leno’s jokes and the old LAUGH IN joke of news of the future, “when President Goldie Hawn requested that NBC stop the bombing”?
For those in the dark, at that time (1968-1969)the US was bombing North Vietnam to the chagrin of the leftists in the US.
NBC’s TV lineup that fall also bombed big time.
I’ll never forget one Laugh-In “News of the Future” where they predicted the fall of the Soviet Union to within a few years.