7/16/2007 - Jay Leno and Josh Duhamel sniff some gas

The late night wars was over for me a long time ago. I've never liked David Letterman. It's not because of his quirky sense of humor. It's because he doesn't have a sense of humor worth quirking! I mean, quirky is fine, but you have to be funny! Letterman just comes across as some kind of comic snob who thinks that he's entitled universal understanding of his "humor". His jokes and his skits are almost always lame. The only thing worth watching is the Top Ten list and that's only because Dave didn't write them.

Jay Leno may not be the funniest man in America, but he's a fine stand-up comedian. Maybe the biggest difference between Jay and Dave is that Jay doesn't try to be anything more than a comedian. His monologues are almost always well-delivered, and if they're not, he'll tell a self-deprecating joke. My favorite segments of the Tonight Show, though, are the Headline skits on Mondays. I still can't find a good one to submit to him, though.

Here is a recent segment of the Tonight Show which I found hilarious. You know what happens when you talk after breathing in helium gas, right? Well, apparently there is another gas that has the opposite effect. Since it's not harmful, it made a great science experiment, of course: