As cliches go it isn’t bad: “Opinions are like a**holes everybody’s got one.”
Surely that is not as absolute as it seems for surely someone for some reason or the other is missing an a-hole and some unfortunate is bound to have more than one as in the accompanying cliche: “He/she/it ripped me a new a**hole.”
Such an orfice might be an unusual introduction to a critique of Jay Leno’s new primetime TV show were it not for the fact that the human a-hole, Kanye West, was a guest on Leno’s first-ever last night. Jay, the Chin Man, Leno racked up a variety of critiques overnight elucidating the good, bad and ugly of his escape from early late-night. There is too much for me to pick and choose and link. Start with Google News if you need someone to get your link up.
This I will say about the first primetime Leno. Yee-awwwn. That’s actually an extended yawn.
Nothing differed last night on the new Leno show from his routines off the old one. If it works, why fix it? Because it doesn’t work, Jay. It hasn’t worked in a long time. I like only so much of Jaywalking. Now they do a take-off on the local high school football extra on Friday nights where a ditzy cheerleader or acne-eaten seventh-grader gets asked the meaning of “facemask” but fails to answer the question. It is barely funny when a professional comedian like Leno does it but it sucks royally when attempted by a bored local small-market sportscaster and an assortment of clueless high school-junior high students.
Even Jerry Seinfeld fell flat. Not because he is, rather because Leno was uninspiring. The skit with Seinfeld interviewing Oprah on screen was about the funniest piece.
And Kanye West? If I had a pet ego I’d shave it’s ass and name it Kanye West.
Enough said?
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