Craig Kilborn: My Couch Is Too Small for 135 Candidates

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As host of "The Late Late Show" on CBS, I like to think I have the best job in the world. But every once in a while, I'm jolted out of my myopic little Xanadu.

Last Wednesday night, 10 minutes before we were to go on the air, a group of CBS lawyers demanded that we cut that night's comedy segment - a satire of a speech by Gov. Gray Davis, Arnold Schwarzenegger's first political advertisement and the campaign of the porn actress (she's been downgraded from porn star) Mary Carey, all of which included images of the candidates.

This was shocking. First, because the lawyers finally conceded that our show contains comedy; second, because it was the first time I'd heard that the Federal Communication Commission's equal time rule - which requires radio and television stations to grant equal time to all candidates - might apply to our show.

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