http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-leno12mar12.storyGag on Jackson Gags Is Loosened
By Steve Chawkins
Times Staff Writer
March 12, 2005
<snip>The "Tonight Show" host was so happy that he told 25 Jackson jokes in his Friday night monologue, including a litany of bankruptcy gags such as: "Michael is so broke … for plastic surgery he went to 'Nose Crafters!' "
On Thursday night, comedian Drew Carey did the honors. "Michael Jackson showed up to court late today wearing his pajama bottoms," Carey told the audience. "You know what? You find the kid wearing the pajama top and we have another court case on our hands!"
Carey sympathized with the back pain that landed Jackson in the emergency room: "Michael arrived at court looking stiff and awkward and had difficulty moving," he said. "Hey, maybe he really is white."
When the show started, Leno was filmed arriving at the NBC parking lot a la Jackson at the Santa Maria courthouse — descending from a chauffeured black SUV, with burly bodyguards and an aide shading him under an umbrella.
Wearing SpongeBob SquarePants pajamas and floppy house slippers, he declined to comment when asked for one by a breathless "reporter" — again staying within the strictest interpretation of Melville's gag order.
The night before, the orange-haired comic Carrot Top was Leno's surrogate.
"You know when it's bedtime at Michael Jackson's house?" he asked. "When the big hand's on the little hand."
On Tuesday, Roseanne Barr delved into the possibility that defense lawyers would have Jackson testify.
"They don't really want him to," she said, "but doctors believe it's the only way they can get his nose to grow back."
<snip>"I guess they got Michael Jackson on that new law," Leno told his audience last year. "Three tykes and you're out."
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