From: gts (gts_2000@yahoo.com)
Date: Sat May 24 2003 - 12:13:29 MDT
Ron wrote:
>..what you say is entirely fair.
I'm glad you think so.
> However I doubt Leno for his immense popularity gets even 25%
> of the potential audience (the entire American population) on any given
> night. That leaves a lot of people that are underwhelmed.
25% of the entire American population is huge number of people! I'm sure the
Tonight Show ratings are good, but not that good.
Getting back to the subject, I just think it's a bit silly to suggest that
late night comedians like Jay Leno have some kind of liberal political
agenda. (I was a little hard on Mike in my last post for this reason. Sorry
Mike). I think any late night comedy fan like me can see that guys like
Leno, O'Brian and Letterman have anything BUT a political agenda. They
respect no political party. Their only agenda is to make people laugh. That
is what they do best. It's why they get paid the big bucks.
I think Jay Leno would crack a joke about his own mother if he thought it
would get a laugh from the audience. In fact he probably has.
-gts
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