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  • OBAMA IS FIRST BLACK PRESIDENT ON LATE NIGHT TEEVEE: Oooh sexy NBC press release time: “President Barack Obama will be making his first sit-down talk show appearance in studio in front of a live audience since becoming elected on Thursday, March 19 on ‘The Tonight Show with Jay Leno’ … This marks the first appearance of a sitting President on a late night talk show.” How’d they land that? It’ll probably just be Kevin Eubanks in a suit.


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5:26 PM on Mon March 16 2009
By Jim Newell
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  1. ManchuCandidate says at 5:32 pm, March 16th, 2009

    Why?

  2. Canuckledragger says at 5:33 pm, March 16th, 2009

    Suffer through Leno to get more of Hopey? Fuck that. Hopey’s on the tube EVERY day.

    Sorry, but the price is WAAAAAY too high.

  3. Naked Bunny with a Whip says at 5:37 pm, March 16th, 2009

    Kevin Eubanks in a suit? That’s not racial transcendence!

  4. NoWireHangers says at 5:38 pm, March 16th, 2009

    On LENO?

    Grossness. Letterman got the Shaft.

  5. Lionel Hutz Esq. says at 5:39 pm, March 16th, 2009

    The sad thing is that Obama was hoping that Ed was still there so that he could sell off some of the United State’s Gold to help pay off the Chinese.

  6. Fox n Fiends says at 5:39 pm, March 16th, 2009

    Leno blows but i get the point. Take it to the people…sorta

  7. Skwerl Nutz says at 5:43 pm, March 16th, 2009

    But Fallon’s got THE ROOTS!!!!!

  8. NoWireHangers: Well Barry is going to be in California anyway for some event. I still question the wisdom of this; he should wait until Conan takes over!

  9. Texan Bulldoggette says at 5:45 pm, March 16th, 2009

    NoWireHangers: He ought to go on The Daily Show & show Jon some love.

  10. thesycophant says at 5:46 pm, March 16th, 2009

    Aw, man. Why not Dave? Dave’s right there in New York! Or Jon Stewart?

    Or, if you insist on L.A., Craig Ferguson? Or pretape something for Conan’s June show?

    Or fucking anyone else besides Leno?

  11. Yeah, he totally should’ve waited for Conan, to make good on his Promise.

  12. SayItWithWookies says at 5:50 pm, March 16th, 2009

    C’mon, people, he’s not preaching to the choir — he’s gotta go to where the old & bitter people are when they’re done watching FOX news.

  13. DeLand DeLakes says at 5:53 pm, March 16th, 2009

    Oh Barry, why that snoresville schmuch Leno? Need I remind you that there is a shiny, autographed, mint-condition Spiderman comic waiting for you on the set of the Colbert Report?

  14. Atheist Nun says at 5:54 pm, March 16th, 2009

    Isn’t that pathetic joke stealing unfunny fuck off the air yet?

    I heard Conan had to hold off on signing the papers for his new L.A. house because Leno had to be forcibly removed from the Tonight Show set by NBC security first. His fingernail marks are still scratched into the floor where they dragged him away…

  15. smashtheduck says at 5:55 pm, March 16th, 2009

    SayItWithWookies: They’re in bed with their snuggies long before Leno.

  16. problemwithcaring says at 6:01 pm, March 16th, 2009

    Atheist Nun: NBC gave him a whole new show. The bitterz have spoken - digital teevee is too hard, and CoNan is not funny.

  17. shanemacgowan says at 6:05 pm, March 16th, 2009

    I’d like to see Barry do an hour with SpaceGhost.

  18. SayItWithWookies says at 6:06 pm, March 16th, 2009

    smashtheduck: They get their grandkids to work the TIVO for them.

  19. problemwithcaring says at 6:09 pm, March 16th, 2009

    smashtheduck:Snuggie - is that the ShamWow with sleeves?

  20. shortsshortsshorts says at 6:13 pm, March 16th, 2009

    Best watered-down and lame questions of the YEAR! TONIGHT! ON LENO!
    YAY!

  21. Atheist Nun says at 6:19 pm, March 16th, 2009

    problemwithcaring: Yeah, I know Lemmo’s got a “new” show, if you can call “moving my time slot so I can keep working on show you fired me from, wherein I steal everyone else’s jokes and pander to retards” a “new” show.

    Conan’s probably the best comedy writer on television, who also hires other excellent comedy writers.
    (I do not engage in debates about this with the aforementioned bitters, a.k.a. the kind of mouthbreathers who’ve kept “Paul Blart: Mall Cop” in the Box Office top ten for 9 weeks in a row, a.k.a. Sarah Palin)

  22. Hooray For Anything says at 6:21 pm, March 16th, 2009

    Was Bono already booked elsewhere?

  23. I think this is due to Obambi’s guilt towards beating the more experienced Walnuts to a well deserved bloddy pulp. Now he feels bad for old farts and will give them that one last dying wish to interview a real prezidents on their show.

    This also makes a great photo for gramp’s Wall of Fame.

  24. NebraskashireGentry says at 6:33 pm, March 16th, 2009

    NoWireHangers: he doesn’t have to win over Letterman viewers. Obama already has our support.

  25. Lascauxcaveman says at 6:34 pm, March 16th, 2009

    Chill Out, space cats. Leno is just the warm up for other other late-nighters who may actually have the balls to ask him something other than puffball questions. Dudes got four years of preznitcy to spread around the late night love.

    The other hosts will get their turn.

  26. Mr. Herpes says at 6:41 pm, March 16th, 2009

    I’d love to see the First Lady arm-wrestle Mr. Leno. Or play a little make-it-and-take-it on an outdoor court.

  27. comradepaulson says at 6:44 pm, March 16th, 2009

    No matter how much Leno blows, he’s still a member of the best news team in television, by which I mean late night comedians. They don’t have much competition for that title, mind you.

  28. 21stCenturyAntiFederalist says at 6:47 pm, March 16th, 2009

    I though Obama was/is Kevin Eubanks in a suit!

  29. iwillsavethispatient says at 6:59 pm, March 16th, 2009

    Don’t worry Wonkette! There’s still plenty of time for the first ever Presidential blog comment. And if he does grace these pages, I really hope his avatar is a picture of his birth certificate, obviously.

  30. comradepaulson says at 7:04 pm, March 16th, 2009

    iwillsavethispatient: We don’t know that he isn’t here right now, do we?

  31. Scarab says at 7:05 pm, March 16th, 2009

    He’s appearing with Lenin, not Leno.
    Don’t you people watch FOX news?

  32. smashtheduck says at 7:08 pm, March 16th, 2009

    But our pretend girlfriend is on Letterman! Choices, choices. Yup. There’s still officially no one who could make it worth my putting up with Leno.

  33. Jukesgrrl says at 7:22 pm, March 16th, 2009

    smashtheduck: No, not all of the olds are in bed. Many cannot sleep, hence the number of ads for snuggies, clappers, and scooters, as well as Three’s Company reruns, on late night TV.

  34. magic titty says at 7:37 pm, March 16th, 2009

    I’m down with Barry but I don’t do that Leno shit.

  35. wait, niether Dennis Haysbert nor Morgan Freeman have ever appeared on Leno?

  36. At least it’s not Geraldo.

  37. Colander says at 8:29 pm, March 16th, 2009

    Wish it was Chelsea Lately.

  38. Scandalabra says at 8:30 pm, March 16th, 2009

    Wait. Late night Teevee wants this guy? What, do they need ratings or something?

  39. rocktonsammy says at 8:36 pm, March 16th, 2009

    Don’t get the Leno channel on my teevee.

  40. assistant/atlas says at 8:43 pm, March 16th, 2009

    I’m just so glad everyone knows Jay is such an obsequious fuckhead. Thanks, Wonkette!

    That said, Barry already has the Conan voters (self-conscious hipsters), the Dave voters (older hipsters + New Yorkers) and the Jimmy Kimmel voters (drunks + stoners). So I don’t begrudge him his Leno appearance to go after the olds, conservatives and people who have died but left their TV on.

    Atheist Nun: Um…Leno is going to be on NBC just as much as he was before…only in an earlier, juicier time slot. Do not cry for Jay Leno and his garage of a million cars.

  41. S.Luggo says at 9:29 pm, March 16th, 2009

    Al Jazeera, Iranian Martyrs’ Posthumous News, and the Marxist Bowling Channel will be ever gosh-durn annoyed. And NBA cable, too. Bipartainship has now gone absolutely down the drain. Mitch McConnell says.

  42. Lionel Hutz Esq. says at 10:04 pm, March 16th, 2009

    I, for one, am hoping that a big earthquake hits LA while Obama is there so that all the Conservatives will go nuts and start saying out loud that Obama is the anti-Christ.

  43. Bearbloke says at 10:13 pm, March 16th, 2009

    Texan Bulldoggette: Agree! But Stewart’s already had his March Sweeps stunt when he pwnd Cramer, so he doesn’t want to crowd too much ACTION! into one month - check back in the next Sweeps period…

  44. Bearbloke says at 10:20 pm, March 16th, 2009

    Lionel Hutz Esq.: Only if there’s a tornado that wipes Crawford TX off the map, first…

  45. S.Luggo says at 10:39 pm, March 16th, 2009

    http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3198/2908241495_39a0c74774.jpg?v=0

    TRANSCRIPT

    “THE TONIGHT SHOW”

    Jay Leno: It’s been almost 60 days since the start of new administration and John McCain is still looking for his invitation to the Presidential Ball. (Eubanks: heh, heh, heh.) The economy is not lookin’ good and that other guy, what’s his name, George Bush, has found a spider hole in Texas. And the Lakers are asking for a bailout in the next NBA draft and a green card for Pau. So I cannot think of a better person to have as my first guest, former Illinois politician, Barack Obama, our President. Please welcome him, in his first live television interview,

    Obama: Thank you, Jay. It is an honor to be here..

    Jay Leno: I mean, this economy thing. People are driving up and down Rodeo Drive trying to sell Mexicans at half-price. What’s with that? (Laughter.)

    Obama: Well, Jay …

    Jay Leno: I mean, what about Afghanistan? Why can’t we buy a decent prayer rug for rumpus room wall without bullet holes in it. (Laughter.)

    Obama: Well, Jay …

    Jay Leno: I mean, what about healthcare? In Burbank, the studio cafeteria has stopped giving a dose of penicillin when you order of whole wheat matzahs. (Eubanks: heh, heh, heh.)

    Obama: Well, Jay …
    [Etc.]

  46. S.Luggo says at 10:41 pm, March 16th, 2009

    Bearbloke: How could one tell?

  47. gliberal says at 10:41 pm, March 16th, 2009

    Leno is a hump.

  48. S.Luggo says at 10:48 pm, March 16th, 2009

    S.Luggo: Ignore “of”. Not getting a job with NBC.

  49. S.Luggo says at 12:18 am, March 17th, 2009

    After John-the-Baptist bearded Ted Kaczynski [kazyinski], also known as the Unabomber, was arrested by the FBI and, in an orange jumpsuit, was taken chained to federal court for indictment, Leno did a skit in which 6 unshaven Teds, in orange prison suits, did a vigorous can-can. Recalling Ted’s dead and mutilated bomb victims and Ted’s unmitigated adolescent paranoid schizophrenia, I stopped watching Leno after that.

    I wondered if Leno ever had expressed any sense of shame for exploiting the Unabomber tragedy for cheap network laffs. So far, no.

    Long/short: Leno remains an unrepentant cyst om the hind quaters of entertainment talk TV. But I mean that in a analytical and non-critical way.

    Good choice, Barry.

  50. Lascauxcaveman says at 1:41 am, March 17th, 2009

    S.Luggo: What a sensitive soul you are. Let me brew you a nice cup of herb tea and get you a hot towel. There, there.

    (And no, you can’t borrow my Lenny Bruce records.)

  51. Tommy Says Soooo, Jugdish! says at 8:43 am, March 17th, 2009

    I think Hopey needs to set a precedent by beeyotch-slapping Leno. In fact, I think this is what he’s doing, since it’s not the true late-nighters.

    Once Leno makes his first lame joke, have Hopey say, “You know, Jay, my mother PAID for us to see Collision Course. It sucked, AND it gave her cancer.”

    I predict no late night comedian will have eff with him after that.

  52. WickedWitch says at 9:05 am, March 17th, 2009

    Tommy Says Soooo, Jugdish!: Hahahahahahaa — can you promise me I’ll see THAT exchange tomorrow night??

  53. WickedWitch says at 9:06 am, March 17th, 2009

    But boys and girls, Kevin Eubanks has a totes banging body — he loves the gym! Wouldn’t you love to see him and Hopey in a posedown? RAWR!

  54. “Perceiving a threat to the president, Secret Service agents wrestled Jay Leno’s monologue to the ground.”

  55. teebob2000 says at 12:36 pm, March 17th, 2009

    >>It’ll probably just be Kevin Eubanks in a suit.

    Don’t “they” all look alike, anyhow?

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