Opinion: Late-night jokes: WikiLeaks, Karzai, ‘Jersey Shore,’ Starbucks and Justin Bieber
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As The Ticket’s 55,300 Twitter followers here and 6,300+ Facebook fans here know, we regularly share our daily picks of the late-night jokes of interest, usually before broadcast each night. Here’s our regular Monday morning collection No. 7:
Leno: President Obama got an elbow sandwich during a weekend basketball game. Twelve stitches on his lip. Of course, he blamed George W. Bush.
Conan: This week’s big story, of course, is WikiLeaks. The website WikiLeaks released more than 250,000 secret government documents –- some of which refer to computer passwords for world leaders. The most shocking revelation? Kofi Annan’s password is Bieberfan9.
Conan: WikiLeaks says the U.S. sees Afghan President Hamid Karzai as....
...paranoid and weak. Karzai replied, I was really afraid of something like this, but there’s nothing I can do. Conan: Today is ‘Cyber Monday,’ a huge online shopping day. Which is followed tomorrow by ‘Identity Theft Tuesday.’
Leno: WikiLeaks has ALL the classified secrets. They know all the Pentagon’s secrets. But still, no one knows Victoria’s Secret.
Leno: Doesn’t WikiLeaks sound like some kind of drug like Flomax? My doctor had me on Flomax, then decided I really needed to be on WikiLeaks.
Conan: Tonight’s the second night of Hanukkah. Actually since we’re on TBS, we’re just re-running the first night.
Conan: Facebook’s creator Mark Zuckerberg will be on ’60 Minutes’ Sunday. In other words, Zuckerberg will be interviewed by the only people currently not on Facebook.
Conan: This year’s ’10 Most Fascinating People’ show has Barbara Walters interviewing the cast of ‘Jersey Shore.’ So it’s official: Walters is very easily fascinated.
Letterman: Wow, five public restrooms now in Times Square. What, the curb isn’t good enough anymore? Anyway, they’re taking reservations now for New Years.
Conan: Two Oklahoma women were caught shoplifting $2,000 worth of merchandise stuffed in the rolls of their body fat. The cops said, we can do this the easy way or the disgusting way.
SNL: A Brooklyn coffee shop is now serving 20-ounce espressos, like 10 shots. All they ask is that you leave the coffee shop through the door.
Conan: The Federal Deficit Commission wants to raise the retirement age to 69. In other words, they want Brett Favre to play two more years.
Conan: Starbucks may start selling beer and wine at its coffee shops. Apparently, Starbucks is having trouble finding sober people willing to pay nine bucks for a cup of coffee.
Conan: On this day in 1929 the game of Bingo was created. And so was everybody who still plays it.
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Late-night joke collection: No. 1
-- Andrew Malcolm
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