Leno on political humor

by Brian McKim & Traci Skene on May 13th, 2009

From a ReadersDigest.com article on the occasion of Jay Leno‘s departure from late night television.

Q. How has your humor changed with a new president in office?

A. God may have taken away Bush, but he gave us Joe Biden. And there are always governors screwing up and politicians not paying taxes. I go after Democrats and Republicans. But there are rules. When you make fun of presidents, you can question their intelligence or their actions or their physical appearance, but you don’t question their character or their patriotism. That’s like going after the wives in the Mafia.