The CIRCLE of LAUGH

I have watched Jay LENO for years on the Tonight Show which airs at 11:35 everywhere I am. I used to enjoy it, particularly "Headlines" and "Jay Walking" where he asks average Americans simple questions like "How many members of the Supreme Court are there?" and the answer is "There's Diana Ross, and two other black chicks." Lately, and I mean progressively over the last several years he has become UNfunny. Once in a while he tells a good one but during the political season, his monolog material is only a string of vitriolic bias against all things Republican while he tells a light funny about the President or Joe Biden. It is not even close to balance. Last night's show was no exception.

When he spouts his hate-speech against the Republican candidates (when there were lots of funny things that could have been said about them) his audience erupts with laughter. With the token Obama joke (feigning balance), there is near silence. Clearly he has a self-selected audience of Liberal Weenies. Thus the Circle of Laugh is created. Pick on the Right, tell jokes that are moronic and puerile, get a laugh from the morons in the audience, they tell other morons how "funny" Jay is, and more come to the show or watch on TV. Then Jay has to pander to his selected audience and the jokes all swing one way. It wouldn't do to have no laughter following a joke about the President... the folks at home would tune out.

Talking about tuning out, at first I just went to bed earlier and used the DVR to record and later watch the show. Now I do not even do that. Despite the fact that Jay Leno has a nice motorcycle and car collection and spends most of his day in jeans and a chambray shirt, it is clear that he is a "laugh whore" who has painted himself into the LEFT corner. Some day soon, he can stay home, play with his cars and kitty cats, and spend more time with his wife, Mavis "Gloria Steinem" Leno. I no longer include The Tonight Show in my daily routine.