Leno And NBC Accused Of Giving Coulter A “Free Pass”...

TV Squad Michael Sciannamea June 15, 2006 at 02:08 PM
READ MORE: 9/11, NBC

I haven't watched The Tonight Show in a while. I much prefer David Letterman to Jay Leno anyway, but I find it a greater struggle to stay up past 11:35 PM to watch late night television. However, I wanted to watch The Tonight Show last night because both George Carlin, one of my favorite comedians, and Ann Coulter, who has been gathering much attention lately for her caustic commentary on the 9/11 widows, were going to be on the show. I thought there would be some major fireworks between Carlin and Coulter and would make for terrific television. I thought wrong.

After Leno's monologue, Carlin comes out and does a boring routine featuring all the latest buzzwords and phrases in sort of a stream of conciousness rap. Usually, George Carlin is a brilliant commentator on current events as well as joking about everyday life, but this set bored me to tears. I couldn't wait for it to end. It probably wasn't more than 5 minutes long, but it seemed more like 50 minutes.

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