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Ever on the alert for new reasons to play the victim and gin up resentment, Brian Kilmeade seized on NBC's firing of Jay Leno from the Tonight Show as “proof” that life is just so unfair for anyone who criticizes President Obama, especially in Hollywood. But about the only thing he really proved is that Fox is as out-of-touch with young people as ever.

Kilmeade asked his guest, “If you watch the late night monologues, back to back to back, Jay Leno is the one that’s somewhat fair and balanced. He’s number one and he might be paying the price for his job. Is there a relationship to that?”

Given that the guest was “conservative comedian” Evan Sayet, we could pretty much count on a “fair and balanced” discussion from one perspective only. Sayet admitted he didn’t know the inner workings of NBC “but it’s at the very least suspect.” Sayet, who looked to be in his 50s, commended Leno for continuing the Johnny Carson and maybe the Will Rogers traditions of taking on politicians in general.

Nostalgic for Johnny Carson and Will Rogers? Could anything say “your father’s comedy” more?

Pointing a finger at NBC’s connection to MSNBC, Kilmeade suggested, “Maybe they just couldn’t tolerate a guy at the top looking at the news, just trying for jokes, rather than an agenda.”

Yes, yes, it has to be the politics. Sayet – an unknown as far as I can tell – argued that Showtime turned down his “very, very successful” comedy routine because, he claimed, Showtime said it would “hurt our brand and the other entertainers would be angry at us.” Even though, according to Sayet, Showtime said it “would probably be the highest rated show in our history.”

So now Mr. Successful says he avoids comedy clubs and late-night shows, instead appearing at Republican events and “shows like this.” “So I don’t need Hollywood at all any longer,” he added.

Right.

Of course, what they didn’t mention is that Leno is just not cool any more. As Perez Hilton put it:

Personally, we'd love, love, LOVE to see Jimmy (Fallon) take over for Grandpa Leno! He's young, fun, easy on the eyes and the best guy to help steal the attention from Jimmy Kimmel over on ABC.

Our only problem with the switch is it's not happening sooner! HA!

The fact that neither Kilmeade nor Sayet get that or else didn’t want to get that speaks volumes about their old-world thinking.

President Obama killed and Jay Leno bombed at the WHPC. That's got to be embarrassing to all comedians, especially conservative comics.

Wanna know why?

The only person whose ratings fell more than mine did last year is here. Great to see you, Jay!” Obama dinged the off-and-on Tonight show host, who, when his turn came on the podium at the Washington Hilton, proceeded to confirm just why that might be true.

Obama—aided (as presidential political guru David Axelrod acknowledged to me when the show was over) by the razor-sharp jokesters from The Daily Show—came armed with fresh and funny material that prompted some of the biggest laughs I’ve witnessed the Leader of the Free World receiving in more than two decades of attending this strange Washington media-political celebration of self-congratulation—a tribal (and, to outside observers, potentially unappealing) rite of spring in which supposedly discerning and skeptical journalists laugh their posteriors off and lavishly kiss the one belonging to the Comedian-in-Chief.

Leno, while entirely competent, recycled and repurposed old material from his television show—and even made a mother-in-law joke. After one of his japes was greeted by eerie silence, it was hard not to feel a tinge of sympathy for him when he marveled desperately, “This is a tough room!”

You go, girls.

Jodie Evans: You outed a CIA officer, you lied to take us to Iraq. You ruined the country. You totally ruined the country.

Wonkette:

Fancy book-author Karl Rove went to Beverly Hills last night to take questions about his very very gay dad. But then Code Pink showed up to make a citizen’s arrest, and Karl had no security! Was he able to beat up these ladies good? Also, someone brings up the Downing Street Memo, which Rove calls a fabrication — just like in 2005!

Lying us into a war is the kinda thing that can get people a tad bit upset. Does Rove really think he's going to be welcomed at book events like he is with Jay Leno or on FOX News? Poor Michele Malkin was shaken to her core over the event. I'd figure it would just roll off her back since she stalks children and family's like Graeme Frost because she disagrees on a policy level. Hey, she even goes to their homes for a little chat.

UPDATE: TP commenter Mr. Ed notes that Malkin visited the Frost’s home and business today. A coworker of Mr. Frost tells Malkin that the family is “struggling,” but she refuses to believe it.

Jane Hall was on FOX and was shocked that the right wingers attacked a 12 year old boy.

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Jane Hall on the Frost family: Right Wing bloggers swiftboated a 12-year old boy!"

Malkin and her kind are shocked that Rove would be confronted by the very un-scary Code Pink, but takes pride in stalking children. Nice.

Also read: Malkin Debases Herself With Further Attacks On A 12 Year Old. C&L Exclusive Quote!

They can sure dish it out, but they can't take even a light little pink-colored whiff of it.

Palin's whole stand up routine the other night on The Tonight Show was more than a little surreal. But I thought it was odd how boisterous the audience was for such lame jokes.

Who needs teleprompters when a studio can simply insert canned laughter?

I've dealt with sound engineering for 30 years, as a film maker, interviewer, musician, working with master reel to reel tapes/decks at EMS Music in Seattle in the 80's as a sound duplication engineer, or setting sound levels for my and other bands in live situations at shows. I won a Hollywood award for animation in 2000. I know sound. And it's my opinion that audio portions of Sarah Palin's March 2nd appearance on Jay Leno's Tonight show were added or amplified, edited before broadcast to make it appear that Sarah Palin was more welcome than she was.

I know. I was there.

They added laughter where there was none during uncomfortable portions. Well, there was some laughter. Mine, of derision. During those pregnant pauses in her performance I was laughing long and loud, couldn't help myself as much of what she was saying was utterly surreal, ridiculous, hypocritical - nonsense, spewed platitudes, pushed buttons. I was seriously thinking of leaving as it was getting hysterically unfunny.

After sitting through the taping of the show in the studio I can recount many portions where there was little or no laughter or response, but at the later broadcast they are smoothed over with applause and laughter that WERE NOT THERE at the taping. Groans, hoots, grumbling, or just dead silence - all missing.

Given how carefully Palin's people manage her appearances, I think it's safe to say we'll never see Palin trying her act anywhere else. Can you imagine how Letterman or Colbert would laugh in her face for that kind of special treatment? Or even better, the kind of heckling she'd face at a comedy club?

From Brando's Top Twenty List: What new TV shows will we be watching this fall?

• The Five Minutes of Saturday Night Live That Might Make You Smirk, Plus Jimmy Fallon (NBC)
• Law & Order: Congressional Investigation Unit (C-SPAN)
• Why I Had to Marry Your Mother (CBS)
• Some Sketch Show That Still Won’t Be as Good as Kids in the Hall (Comedy Central)
• Dr. Surly, the Sarcastic Surgeon with a Heart of Gold (CBS, ABC, NBC, Fox)
• You Can’t Escape Jay Leno (NBC)

Add your own if you like, plus it's an open thread....

(from MichaelMoore.com)

Via Raw Story:

Filmmaker Michael Moore revealed on Thursday's "The Tonight Show" with Jay Leno that the Bush Administration had served him with a subpoena regarding his recent trip to Cuba made as part of his new film, Sicko.Moore told the audience that he was notified of the subpoena backstage.

"I haven't even told my own family yet," Moore remarked. "I was just informed when I was back there with Jay that the Bush administration has now issued a subpoena for me.  Read more...

Michael Moore (who live blogged with us last weekend) has more videos from the Leno appearance on this site as well as his "SiCKO Medical Card" available for download.

Wanda joined Jay Leno and talked about the Dick Cheney shooting episode. She wondered why Cheney was hanging out hunting instead of working.
Download | play -WMP Download | play -QT (hat tip Jonsey)

Wanda: ...I sent them a fruit basket, did you send the White House something?

I couldn't believe he got to play this song on NBC.

I'm waiting for the right wingers to mount a protest against Jay Leno and NBC now. Brent Bozell will proclaim "liberal bias" high atop the rafters of the MRC.

Click here for the performance

Daily Kos: Last night, folk-rocker Conor Oberst (aka Bright Eyes) performed on the Tonight Show with Jay Leno. If you've heard any of his albums, you know Bright Eyes is clearly political (he participated in last year's Vote for Change tour, as noted in the Rolling Stone excerpt I posted below the fold).

But last night's performance was just incredible -- in fact, I'm legitimately surprised NBC even allowed it to air

Some lyrics: When the President Talks to God" When the president talks to God, Are the conversations brief or long? Does he ask to rape our women's' rights And send poor farm kids off to die? Does God suggest an oil hike When the president talks to God?...

NY Times: A High-Tech Lynching in Prime Time

...The "Justice Sunday" mob is also lying when it claims to despise activist judges as a matter of principle. Only weeks ago it was desperately seeking activist judges who might intervene in the Terri Schiavo case as boldly as Scalia & Co. had in Bush v. Gore. The real "Justice Sunday" agenda lies elsewhere. As Bill Maher summed it up for Jay Leno on the "Tonight" show last week: " 'Activist judges' is a code word for gay." The judges being verbally tarred and feathered are those who have decriminalized gay sex (in a Supreme Court decision written by Justice Kennedy) as they once did abortion and who countenance marriage rights for same-sex couples. This is the animus that dares not speak its name tonight. To paraphrase the "Justice Sunday" flier, now it's the anti-filibuster campaign that is being abused to protect bias, this time against gay people...read on

The fraudulence of "Justice Sunday" begins but does not end with its sham claims to solidarity with the civil rights movement of that era. "The filibuster was once abused to protect racial bias," says the flier for tonight's show, "and now it is being used against people of faith."...read on

Didn't the Southern Baptist Church break off from the Baptist Church because of segregation? Didn't many southern democrats turn into republicans because of segregation? So to me it would suggest that the representatives of this function would be leading a filibuster against the civil rights movement as we speak. So the notion that they are for civil rights is in itself a fabrication as well.

According to the most recent Gallup poll, 62% of Republicans think Saddam Hussein was personally involved in the 9/11 attacks. (These are the same dumbasses who Jay Leno embarrasses when they can't name the governor of their own state)The biggest problem John Kerry and the Democrats face is that George W. Bush is practically the patron saint of Dumbass America.

...the numbers were on a CNN report from Gallup and they *were* at the E&P link at one point. Will post transcript when it arrives, and all the trolls can cry.