Some people just can’t take a joke. I should know. I write them for a living, well long enough to keep me in the bar an extra hour on weekends…as long as I’m drinking water…and if you consider IHOP a bar. But some people can’t take a joke, and they take it too far like this woman…
(FROM THE RECORDER) Back in January, Marilyn Drake’s photo was featured alongside a serious front page story in the New York Times. In February and March, talk show host Jay Leno made the same picture the butt of his jokes on “The Tonight Show.”
In April, Drake went after the comedian in San Francisco Superior Court, filing a lawsuit that accuses Leno of defaming her with a joke in one of his “headlines” segments, in which he delivers one-liners playing off real news stories or advertisements.
In Drake’s case, she claims that Leno’s comments suggested that she engaged in bestiality, and opened her up to ridicule for her ovum donation.
Dear God? Beatiality? Ovum donation? Could it be that she got herself confused in one of Jay Leno’s umpteenth Madonna jokes? No, this was the joke in question from Leno’s “Headlines” segment…
Judging by still photos and quotes displayed on the show’s Web site, it appears Leno’s shtick went something like this: First, he made fun of a quote in a news story called “What to get the dog that has (almost) everything,” about a prosthetic testicle product for neutered canines.
Not long afterward in the show, he displayed the New York Times story with the photo of Drake, who happened to be pictured sitting on a couch alongside a dog, under the headline, “Are you my sperm donor? Few clinics offer answers.”
Judging by the quotes on the show’s Web site, Leno then gave voice to the woman in the photo and the dog, and in a play on his previous joke, said, “Are you my sperm donor? No! I have fake testicles! How could I be your sperm donor?!”
So the woman claims that because of this “joke,” now everyone in America thinks she has sex with animals and wants to produce a mutant dog-human hybrid with her eggs. Are we sure she wasn’t watching “Jerry Springer?”
I firmly believe the right to bring disagreements and wrong-doings to court are what makes this country great, but lawsuits like these really “Fleetwood” my “Mac.” America, stop taking everything everyone says so literally and stop being so humorless about every little thing that goes on in your neck of the woods. You know what will happen if we do? We’ll become a nation of utterly humorless simpletons who couldn’t understand a decent joke if we were giving it a piggyback ride, and Rob Schneider will keep making movies until the end of time.
4 responses so far ↓
1 Rob Bennell // May 22, 2006 at 8:28 am
I think she should sue the manufacturer of the plastic dog testicles. They really are to blame for the whole thing. I love to receive spam. For example. So when people send spam to me at thewebdentist@aol.com I feel as though I have plastic testicles instead of just tattoos on my legs.
Jay Leno just doesn’t understand the pain he brings others with his huge jaw. He needs to see a new age dentist immediatlely. even sooner than immediatlely. Or whatever.
I’ve never met a like I couldn’t man.
2 Cary Meback // May 22, 2006 at 8:32 am
Antacids will cure huge jaw or plastic testicles or even ovum donation remorse (ODR) which is a prevalent problem amoung the Fubsy people of South San Francisco (SSF)
When I leap across the Bridge of Faith or bridge down the Leap of Faith or faithlessly saunter down the Slough of Despond, I feel like Ed Meese must have being a meese-kite, as he was.
Tears cost Ed Muskie his job as president, but W. never cries. He just kills our children for his own vanity’s sake.
3 Me // Jun 8, 2006 at 12:07 am
It’s much more simple. Get real! People sue for MONEY in this
society, not for the lack of humor or because they feel insulted. And they would likely have
sex with animals if paid enough.
4 richard barnhart // Jun 24, 2006 at 9:52 pm
sueing is 99% of the time all about greed, from oppertunist
and lazy individuals who rather gain moneys, when they havent earned
it; i hate lawsuits i have only seen one lawsuit that was woth it
and i have seen many, it is never about sensitivity or politically correct terms, it is about how can i screw you out of some of your stuff i want for my own without having earn like you did.
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