Olympic jabs from the late-night crowd
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The late-night talk show hosts took a few shots at the Beijing Games on Tuesday night.
CBS’ ’Late Show with David Letterman’:
Do you have Olympic fever? Everybody in the Olympics is worried about the air quality in China, a lot of smog. I have friends over there who tell me that the air in China looks like the inside of Willie Nelson’s tour bus. They had a practice today in Beijing for the Olympics. A javelin thrower -– this is the honest to God’s truth -– he threw the javelin up into the air and it stuck.
NBC’s ‘The Tonight Show with Jay Leno’:
Are you all excited about the upcoming Summer Olympics? What’s that one sport they do, that rhythmic gymnastics with that ribbon thing? Is this really a sport? Didn’t that used to be called playing with a cat? China says they’re doing everything they can to help clean up air pollution before the Olympics and they’re taking this very seriously. In fact, they have got every 6-year-old in the country working 24 hours a day. In fact, Beijing skies are so polluted that Chinese authorities are planning emergency measures for the Olympics. For example, protesters will now only be run over with hybrid tanks.’