The non-political comedian Leno jokes about Assange, Israel, Iraq... Archived Message
Posted by Morrissey on April 15, 2022, 2:11 pm, in reply to "Politically Serviceable Comedians. No. 6: JAY LENO"
"Well, that WikiLeaks founder, Julian Assange, turned himself in to police in England today," Jay Leno said this week on late night TV. "When the judge asked him where he lived, he said he didn't want to give out that information. Well, you can understand that. Everybody has the right to privacy, don't they?" https://www.csmonitor.com/USA/2010/1210/WikiLaughs-Top-eight-WikiLeaks-jokes/A-little-privacy-please 9/03/2015 · “I don't understand how Israel is the bad guy here,” Leno said in the interview, most likely referring to Israeli-Palestinian relations. .... https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/reliable-source/wp/2015/03/09/jay-leno-says-israel-has-worst-pr-in-the-world/ The Times of Israel loves his "non-political" comedy: When Jay Leno was in Israel a year ago, the AP asked him to pick sides. Leno went with Israel. “It is a democracy in the Middle East and I don’t like to see the little guy getting picked on by the big guy,” he said. It was an answer to warm the hearts of the pro-Israel lobby: Tiny Israel surrounded by a sea of hostile neighbors. It has the added benefit of being true. Israel is isolated in a neighborhood where it isn’t welcome, and if not for the qualitative military edge that it has managed to maintain, with a big boost from the United States, the surrounding armies would have prevailed decades ago. .... https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/in-pop-culture-little-israel-has-lost-its-lustre/ His non-political Iraq jokes were just as unfunny as his other ones... "You know what they should call this war - Son of Bush vs. Son of a Bitch." -Jay Leno source: http://www.jokes4us.com/ethnicjokes/iraqjokes/iraqjaylenojokes.html
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