Last night I was watching Leno, which I mostly watch due to inertia, as I watch the NBC news before and Conan O'Brian afterwards, so I rarely bother to turn to Letterman, a show that I prefer. I don't really particularly care for Leno, but it's mostly innocuous, so it really doesn't hurt too much to have it playing in the background as I foofle around on the computer.

Well, last night, in the monologue, he started making jokes about Robert Blake's wife being killed. I hadn't really heard about it, or I did, but thought that I must have mis-heard, so I checked online and found this story.

Leno was making OJ jokes, and said something about "If you forget something in a restaurant, glasses, your gun, don't go back!" and "He was called back into the restaurant, and he was thrilled, because that was his first callback in years!" and I sat there thinking, what?

Maybe it's just me, maybe I'm overreacting, but somehow, I don't think that making fun of a man whose wife was murdered practically in front of him like ten minutes ago is either funny or tasteful. In fact, I'm kind of horrified that anyone would be making jokes about this so soon after it happened, let alone in public, on national television. I'm sure that I'm wrong, I'm sure that I just have no sense of humour, but I really must admit that I don't find the thought of a dead woman in a car and her husband frantically trying to get help particularly hilarious.

I guess I must have missed the show where the monologue was full of jolly Phil Hartman being murdered by his wife who then killed herself quips, but hey, the anniversary is coming up, I'm sure he can tell them all again!

I think that I have watched my last Tonight Show, and I am sorry, because I have watched it for 20 years or so, but that left such a bad taste in my mouth that I really don't think that I can watch it anymore. I'm not the kind of person who has ever written to a magazine saying, "In re your article about whatever, I am appalled and disgusted, please cancel my subscription immediately!" and honestly, I have always felt that those people were being silly, but now here I am, being one of them. I guess Leno has become too ugly-natured for me to want to see anymore.

I cut and pasted most of this into an email form at NBCi.com, and it's not like I think he'll see it, but I wanted to try to make him understand that what he said was really shitty, and he should be ashamed. He wouldn't be, I have no doubt, but he should.

What isn't funny? What would make you stop watching a show or reading a website?

And we're still talking about inexplicable texperiences.

Today's horoscope:
You will need to compromise with a household member between wider horizons and the familiar home scene.

One year ago today:
I'd better have a baby soon, all my eggs are rotting!

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