# Jay Leno have a hardon or something....? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [June 14, 2012, 6:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jay-leno-have-a-hardon-or-something/625111 "2012-06-14T06:57:57Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![VinylTurnip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2012, 2:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jay-leno-have-a-hardon-or-something/625111/21 "2012-06-14T14:05:13Z")
Boy am I glad you were speaking figuratively. ---
**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2012, 2:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jay-leno-have-a-hardon-or-something/625111/22 "2012-06-14T14:08:52Z")
Leno’s been off the air for years. \ Hey look at that, he has a show again. I guess that guy who replaced him died. ---
**Author:** ![johnpost](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f17d59/32.png) [@johnpost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/johnpost)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2012, 2:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jay-leno-have-a-hardon-or-something/625111/23 "2012-06-14T14:14:31Z")
> [@Smeghead](#): > > Nobody in the US watches him, either. Until the OP posted, I was unaware of anyone who watched him. Somebody wanna get this kid a TV? ---
**Author:** ![hopesperson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e95f7d/32.png) [@hopesperson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hopesperson)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2012, 2:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jay-leno-have-a-hardon-or-something/625111/24 "2012-06-14T14:14:44Z")
> [@Nzinga\_Seated](#): > > Yeah. I’m curious, too, about how he appears to be anti-democrat. Although, I admit, I don’t watch the cornball…can’t stand him. I still have never heard of him that he is ‘notoriously anti democrat’. And yeah, Marley, it sounds like democrats can’t take a (lame) joke. Well, he did make that one joke in 1988, besmirching the good name of Michael Dukakis and almost certainly costing him the election. And to lampoon The Honorable _Lance Ito_? Is no cow too sacred for Leno, that racist?! ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2012, 2:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jay-leno-have-a-hardon-or-something/625111/25 "2012-06-14T14:18:00Z")
Is hard-on really one word? When I see it as a single word, I always think of that big collider thing. ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Lendervedder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_lendervedder/32/8488_2.png) [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2012, 2:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jay-leno-have-a-hardon-or-something/625111/26 "2012-06-14T14:45:46Z")
I’ve read he’s a moderate/centrist/Republican, but I also know he’s rather pro-union. This doesn’t mean he’s anti-Democrat. He doesn’t have a hardon for the prez; he has a hardon for being the unfunniest man on television-- a title he’s very much owning since George Lopez left the airwaves. ---
**Author:** ![Sigmagirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c89c15/32.png) [@Sigmagirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sigmagirl)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2012, 2:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jay-leno-have-a-hardon-or-something/625111/27 "2012-06-14T14:51:12Z")
> [@kayaker](#): > > Is hard-on really one word? When I see it as a single word, I always think of that big collider thing. I think of that Oscar-winning actress. Marcia somebody. She’s not gay, though. ---
**Author:** ![madmonk28](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madmonk28/32/20811_2.png) [@madmonk28](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madmonk28)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2012, 2:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jay-leno-have-a-hardon-or-something/625111/28 "2012-06-14T14:53:29Z")
Leno is completely soft edges, wrapped in foam. I would be surprised that he has ever taken a strong position on any person/issue in his entire career. Of course, like everyone else, I never watch him: Colbert is on at 11.30. I just assumed Leno’s audience are residents of nursing homes who don’t have control of the remote and people who died in front of the TV while watching NBC and the no one has noticed the smell yet (of Leno, not the corpse). ---
**Author:** ![Nzinga\_Seated](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/b5ac83/32.png) [@Nzinga\_Seated](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nzinga_Seated)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2012, 3:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jay-leno-have-a-hardon-or-something/625111/29 "2012-06-14T15:11:47Z")
> [@madmonk28](#): > > … I just assumed Leno’s audience are residents of nursing homes who don’t have control of the remote and people who died in front of the TV while watching NBC and the no one has noticed the smell yet (of Leno, not the corpse). That’s hilarious. ---
**Author:** ![garygnu](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/garygnu/32/2924_2.png) [@garygnu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/garygnu)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2012, 3:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jay-leno-have-a-hardon-or-something/625111/30 "2012-06-14T15:22:55Z")
> [@Revtim](#): > > … I would assume that the president is always going to be the butt of late-night humor, it’s pretty much part of the job description. This. If Leno didn’t skewer Obama, his middle-America audience would accuse him of bias. W was _so_ easy. ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2012, 3:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jay-leno-have-a-hardon-or-something/625111/31 "2012-06-14T15:26:22Z")
> [@garygnu](#): > > If Leno didn’t skewer Obama, his middle-America audience would accuse him of bias. It _would_ be bias, and it’s not just to even up the score with W. Presidents have always been one of the big topics on late-night TV. ---
**Author:** ![Kimballkid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b5a626/32.png) [@Kimballkid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimballkid)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2012, 3:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jay-leno-have-a-hardon-or-something/625111/32 "2012-06-14T15:32:24Z")
> [@ftg](#): > > Leno is notoriously anti-Democratic. Has been for a long time. E.g., the joke he made in 1988 about “Dukakis” being Greek for “Mondale”. > > He’s also a bit racist. (Dancing Itos and all that.) > > Put them together and guess what you get? The facts of life? ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2012, 3:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jay-leno-have-a-hardon-or-something/625111/33 "2012-06-14T15:33:12Z")
> [@kayaker](#): > > Is hard-on really one word? When I see it as a single word, I always think of that big collider thing. In my world, hardon collisions aren’t that rare. ---
**Author:** ![bup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/6bbea6/32.png) [@bup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bup)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2012, 3:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jay-leno-have-a-hardon-or-something/625111/34 "2012-06-14T15:33:39Z")
Well, he did say Obama wasn’t constitutionally eligible to be president on account of being a n\*\*\*a. I’m just kidding! But really, we’d need somebody who’s seen the Leno show to prove me wrong. So maybe he did say that. ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2012, 3:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jay-leno-have-a-hardon-or-something/625111/35 "2012-06-14T15:42:44Z")
> [@panache45](#): > > In my world, hardon collisions aren’t that rare. :DTook me a second. . . ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2012, 3:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jay-leno-have-a-hardon-or-something/625111/36 "2012-06-14T15:58:18Z")
> [@Marley23](#): > > It _would_ be bias, and it’s not just to even up the score with W. Presidents have always been one of the big topics on late-night TV. I dunno, Letterman focuses almost exclusively on Romney. (Anyone know what the song is supposed to be in the off-key singing clip?) #donthavecable ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2012, 4:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jay-leno-have-a-hardon-or-something/625111/37 "2012-06-14T16:01:15Z")
> [@twickster](#): > > I dunno, Letterman focuses almost exclusively on Romney. Letterman is more open about his personal opinions, though. ---
**Author:** ![DMark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@DMark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DMark)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2012, 4:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jay-leno-have-a-hardon-or-something/625111/38 "2012-06-14T16:01:52Z")
I like Leno. Sue me. I would imagine he is more Democrat that Republican - very much in favor of Gay marriage, agrees the rich should pay more taxes than they currently do, and you can tell when he interviews politicians he pushes a far more liberal agenda in his questions than most Republicans would care to discuss on a talk show. Yes, he makes fun of Obama and Romney…that is sort of his job. ---
**Author:** ![WOOKINPANUB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wookinpanub/32/132_2.png) [@WOOKINPANUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WOOKINPANUB)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2012, 4:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jay-leno-have-a-hardon-or-something/625111/39 "2012-06-14T16:44:25Z")
> [@DMark](#): > > I like Leno. > Sue me. > > I would imagine he is more Democrat that Republican - very much in favor of Gay marriage, agrees the rich should pay more taxes than they currently do, and you can tell when he interviews politicians he pushes a far more liberal agenda in his questions than most Republicans would care to discuss on a talk show. > > Yes, he makes fun of Obama and Romney…that is sort of his job. Couldn’t agree more on, all points. I watch most nights, or at least have it on when I go to sleep, and I haven’t noticed anything particularly over the top. I’m really surprised to hear anyone say he’s a staunch Republican. As **DMark** pointed out, socially he’s very liberal. ---
**Author:** ![hogarth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hogarth/32/1773_2.png) [@hogarth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hogarth)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2012, 4:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jay-leno-have-a-hardon-or-something/625111/40 "2012-06-14T16:49:06Z")
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