The Taliban's Hunting Accident
March 4, 2007 — -- A roundup of the late-night comics.
Jay Leno: Hey, Al Gore taking a little global heat today after it was revealed that his home in Tennessee -- he's got a big house down there -- uses 20 times the energy of the average household. Now, that is an inconvenient truth.
Conan O'Brien: Angelina Jolie is joining the prestigious Council on Foreign Relations. That's right. In a related story, Kofi Annan will be playing the part of Lara Croft in "Tomb Raider 3."
Bill Maher: "Did you hear the latest about Barack Obama -- that he comes from a family of slave owners? And he's black. But he's half white, and apparently on his mother's side -- the white side -- they owned slaves. And the Barack Obama camp was going to deny it. But his approval ratings in the south shot up 27 points.
Leno: Vice President Dick Cheney [is] safely back in Washington after an attempt was made on his life in Afghanistan yesterday. Although, the Taliban denies they were trying to kill the vice president. They now claim it was just a hunting accident.
Jimmy Kimmel: I saw something even scarier than that on CNN. If they are to be believed, our first lady -- the first lady of the United States -- is an extremely dangerous woman.
CNN Promo Voiceover: Larry King tonight: Laura Bush speaks out from the White House on her urgent mission to save America's women from their number one killer. Laura Bush.
Kimmel: Wow, that's--
O'Brien: True story: An American Airlines employee tried to let former Vice President Al Gore bypass airport security, but guards stopped Gore and made him go through the metal detector. That's true, yeah. Good, yeah. Yeah, the head of security said we had to search Al Gore, [that] he could have been armed with a speech.
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