Jokes for Show #74

You rarely hear about bad news on the late night talk shows. There a place where the stories of the day that are joked about are the fun, silly, or scandalous ones — not the bummers.

I think Michael Jackson’s death came too late in the day for Jimmy to mention it on his show. But I think it’s a topic he will certainly go into tomorrow. There are tasteful jokes you can make about a massive celebrity’s death, where the point isn’t to mock him, but to find whatever humor there can be in a sad situation.

• Michael Jackson, of course, passed away today. Somewhere, Jay Leno is screaming at his manager to get his show on the air now.
• Michael was only 50 years old, but it would seem that indeed, he finally got enough. (And thus, was able to stop.)
• You know, Farrah Fawctet passed away today, too. And earlier this week, we lost Ed McMahon. All I can say is Johnny Carson is putting on one hell of a show up in Heaven tonight. And on that show, Michael is being very, very weird. You know, I like to imagine that for his musical number, Michael performs Thriller, and it’s oddly inappropriate, because all the dead people dancing are actually dead.