David Letterman, “Late Show with David Letterman”: “Hillary Clinton announced she’s running for president, and the Republicans are already busy digging up dirt. They found out that once in her lifetime she slept with Bill Clinton.”
Comedy writer Bob Bates: “O.J. Simpson claims the chapter from his unpublished book, ‘If I Did It,’ recently excerpted in Newsweek, was not a confession and that he didn’t write it. He added he will spend the rest of his life searching for the real authors.”
Comedy writer Jake Novak on Republican Sen. John Warner’s speaking out against President George W. Bush’s planned troop surge in Iraq: “Of course, Warner learned all about retreating from disasters when he divorced Elizabeth Taylor in 1982.”
Conan O’Brien, “Late Night with Conan O’Brien”: “Muslim-American groups are angry over the way Muslims are portrayed on the Fox drama ’24.’ A spokesman for Fox said, ‘If Muslims are upset about that, they should see how they are portrayed on Fox News.’”
Comedy writer Jim Barach: “A New York couple is divorcing, but neither one wants to give up their house, so they built a wall down the middle. They would have tried it earlier, but Bill Clinton says by law they couldn’t alter the White House.”
O’Brien on former President George Bush’s announcement that he plans to jump out of a plane on his 85th birthday: “So, for a few minutes, there will be two George Bushes in free fall.”
A very cool tool…basically after you buy something from one of numerous merchants, you can have this site monitor the price and alert you via email if the price drops, thus allowing you to take advantage of that merchant’s price protection policy…
Somwhat of a funny video…I can’t tell if it’s real or staged…it looks pretty real, but then again, I can’t imagine any professor actually doing this or getting away with it…
For those of you that don’t know, I’m a big proponent of mobile technology, and am very interested in the mobile industry in general. Recently, Cingular announced that they were switching their name back to AT&T.
Stephen Colbert did a humorous report on this change:
Conan O’Brien, “Late Night With Conan O’Brien”: “In a prime time speech, President Bush said that he was sending in 20,000 more troops to end the war. He wasn’t talking about Iraq. He was talking about the war between Rosie O’Donnell and Donald Trump.”
David Letterman, “Late Show With David Letterman,” on Bush’s interview on “60 Minutes”: “Bush admitted to making mistakes in Iraq and says he has learned from these mistakes and will do better in Iran.”
Comedy writer Jake Novak: “The House of Representatives has passed the first increase in the federal minimum wage in a decade. This means workers at McDonald’s will finally be able to afford to eat there.”
Jay Leno, “The Tonight Show”: “Connecticut Senator Christopher Dodd, a Democrat, has announced he is running for president. Dodd said over the past few weeks he’s been having a conversation with the mirror about running. The bad news? Today, the guy in the mirror came out in favor of Barack Obama.”
Michael Feldman, public radio’s “Whad ‘Ya Know,” on Apple’s stylish new iPhone: “Any way you dress it up, it’s still Cingular.”
Comedy writer Alex Kaseberg: “Donald Trump is being given a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Ironically, it’s right in front of a Supercuts.”
Leno on soccer star David Beckham coming to the United States: “People say he could make a huge impact on the way Americans ignore soccer.”