Funnies: Gore's 'Inconvenient Son'
A look at the best in late night political comedy.
July 15, 2007 — -- A roundup of the late-night comics.
David Letterman: You hear about this? Al Gore's son was arrested speeding, doing 100 miles an hour. And Al has already made a movie about it, it's called, "An Inconvenient Son."
Jay Leno: Because of the war in Iraq, President Bush's popularity now plunged to 2 percent BC. Two percent BC. You know what that means, BC? "Below Carter." It doesn't get any worse than that.
Conan O'Brien: The other day, Sen. Hillary Clinton returned to her old stomping ground, Arkansas, for a political event. Yeah, she went back home. Hillary said for old times' sake, she stopped by the governor's mansion and tore the guy a new one.
Jennifer Lange: Al Gore III was arrested when police found marijuana, Vicodin, Valium and Xanax in his car. Psychologists note young Gore's drug problems started years ago when he was [shows picture of Al and Tipper Gore kissing] traumatized by an event in his youth.
Leno: And Homeland Security chief Michael Chertoff said today he had a gut feeling -- a gut feeling -- there may be another terrorist attack this summer. Yeah. He has no specific intelligence to back it up, just a gut feeling. Now, is that reliable? How do we know it's not just bad clams, okay? It's like, "False alarm! It was just Long John Silver."
Letterman: Here's good news. Osama bin Laden's son Omar just got married. Let's see how he likes being terrorized.