Leno just reads the jokes his writers supply, and they're careful to make sure that the "victims" have no political clout.

Can you just IMAGINE what would happen if he started one off with:

"This Muslim terrorist, Israeli terrorist, American terrorist and Irish terrorist walk into a bar.......

The French have been gettin' it for years, and nowhere as much as in my all-time favourite "funny" show, "Yes Minister". I really wish that more Americans had a chance to see that show. It runs (it's twenty years old) periodically here in Canada, and can cause you to actually go into hysterics for minutes on end. The best description of it I can give anyone who hasn't seen it is, just picture what Bush, Rumsfeld, Ari Fleischer etc. discuss when the cameras are OFF!

Rick