Actually, His Material Was Kind Of Anemic
Sure, Elizabeth Dole did a pretty passable biker babe impersonation during her “Tonight Show” guest shot last Monday.
But she’s not the only one in the family with a sense of humor, as her hubby, Bob Dole, proved on Conan O’Brien’s “Late Night” back in February 1994.
In case you don’t recall, Dole was preceded by a brief appearance from a corpulent “streaker” in a nude body suit. When O’Brien mock-apologized, Dole deadpanned: “That’s all right. It happens in the Senate a lot, too.”
And asked about his reputation as a “hatchet man,” he noted his wife was head of the Red Cross at the time.
“I give a lot of blood,” Dole explained. “That makes you a little grumpy now and then.”
Loose talk
Deejay Don Imus, on his craft (in People magazine): “I think people on the phone are more candid, more conversational. Like Al D’Amato, who says hideous things, then spends the next week trying to explain what he meant.”
When Kilpatrick cast, she always took debate
Shana Alexander turns 71 today.
And who was the winner? Take your pick
Conservative P.J. O’Rourke, on his short-lived role as liberal columnist Molly Ivins’ debate “partner” on “60 Minutes” (in TV Guide): “At a taping, you sit alone on a hard chair in the middle of a room staring at bright lights for an hour while behind you a dozen people experience technical difficulties. Meanwhile, there is a single thought in your head: ‘Put a digit in a nostril and be on somebody’s blooper tape forever.”’
They are trained to stay at arm’s length
Liberal humorist Al Franken (Ariana Huffington’s sparring partner on Comedy Central), on CNN’s coverage of Dole’s stumble at a California campaign rally (also in TV Guide): “Watching Bob Dole fly off the stage again and again wasn’t just entertaining, it also gave us an opportunity to see which members of the press helped break his fall and which ones honored their journalistic duty to remain detached observers.”
Suppose his shrink charges by the word?
Former Clinton campaign adviser Dick Morris told CNN’s Wolf Blitzer that working on his memoirs (140,000 words in 25 days) has been a form of therapy following his hooker escapades: “As a damaged, flawed and in many ways weak individual, to have gone through this and to have let this happen, I needed that period of introspection not just with a psychiatrist but with my computer, too.”
Well, he always wanted to be a play boy
And speaking of sex scandals, the 78th Street Theater Lab in Washington, D.C., is presenting “The Packwood Diaries,” a 90-minute theatrical performance that combines readings from the diaries of disgraced Senator Bob Packwood, R-Ore., excerpts from political speeches and snatches of newspaper stories.
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