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Originally Posted by Danielle
This is a bit more on topic:
It's part of an interview Jay Leno did for a book recently,
Jay Leno: The trick is not to know more than everybody else knows, it's to know exactly what everybody else knows. If a story's on the cover of the New York Times, USA Today, the L.A. Times, the Boston Globe, if they all have the same story, that's what you write jokes about.
My job is not to give the audience new information--sometimes you can, but the trick is to take the information they already have, then turn it on its head a little, or exaggerate or blow it out of propotion to make it funnier than it is in real life.
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Leno is a go-with-the-flow type. His act, back decades ago when I used to watch that shit occasionally, was not as sex-puerile as it is today. But that's where the jews were pushing, so that's where he went.
It does work, that's for sure.