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Late night TV and Lance: best jokes

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"According to the CDC, over 128 million flu vaccines have been administered this year," Jay Leno said on "The Tonight Show With Jay Leno." "That's almost as many injections as Lance Armstrong has gotten in his entire career." And Armstrong's confession, he noted, "came as a shock to as many as a dozen people."

Armstrong's sit-down with Winfrey "lasted close to three hours," Jimmy Fallon quipped on "Late Night With Jimmy Fallon." "So it's sort of like a regular interview but, you know, on steroids."
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And Jimmy Kimmel joked on "Jimmy Kimmel Live" that "inside sources say [Armstrong] refused to come clean about the doping at first, but then he caved when Oprah promised him a panini maker."

Kimmel then outsourced the rest of his Armstrong zingers to a mock call center in India. "We've done a lot of Lance Armstrong jokes over the years, and it's hard to come up with new stuff," Kimmel said before turning his monologue over to the outsourced material:

"Why did Lance Armstrong go on the Oprah Winfrey show? Because he thought he'd have a ball."

"What is the secret of Lance Armstrong's success? He always stays positive."
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As for "The Daily Show," it weighed in on Armstrong in a segment called "Mr. Fibb."

"I believed in you Lance Armstrong," host Jon Stewart said, feigning outrage. "I shelled out a dollar for a rubber bracelet I have somewhere in my house. ... Well I think we all owe cancer an apology."
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The "Late Show With David Letterman," meanwhile, dedicated its "Top Ten" list on Tuesday to the other revelations from Armstrong's Winfrey interview:

10. Artificially enhanced his cycling shorts

9. Still never leaves the house without several vials of clean urine

8. Owns Texas real estate known as "Rancho Decepto"

7. Took steroids to work up the strength to admit taking steroids

6. Once had an inappropriate relationship with an air hose

5. Also has tattoo of Rex Ryan's wife

4. Has given up on making the baseball Hall of Fame

3. United States Postal Service paid him in stamps

2. Started erotic website, "Tour-De-Pants"

1. Admitted to doping just to get on "Oprah"
 
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From Reddit, http://www.reddit.com/r/funny/comments/16q03f/greg_from_work_said_photoshopping_lance_armstrong/

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Parrot23 said:
http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/lookout/...183707465.html

"According to the CDC, over 128 million flu vaccines have been administered this year," Jay Leno said on "The Tonight Show With Jay Leno." "That's almost as many injections as Lance Armstrong has gotten in his entire career." And Armstrong's confession, he noted, "came as a shock to as many as a dozen people."

Armstrong's sit-down with Winfrey "lasted close to three hours," Jimmy Fallon quipped on "Late Night With Jimmy Fallon." "So it's sort of like a regular interview but, you know, on steroids."
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And Jimmy Kimmel joked on "Jimmy Kimmel Live" that "inside sources say [Armstrong] refused to come clean about the doping at first, but then he caved when Oprah promised him a panini maker."

Kimmel then outsourced the rest of his Armstrong zingers to a mock call center in India. "We've done a lot of Lance Armstrong jokes over the years, and it's hard to come up with new stuff," Kimmel said before turning his monologue over to the outsourced material:

"Why did Lance Armstrong go on the Oprah Winfrey show? Because he thought he'd have a ball."

"What is the secret of Lance Armstrong's success? He always stays positive."
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As for "The Daily Show," it weighed in on Armstrong in a segment called "Mr. Fibb."

"I believed in you Lance Armstrong," host Jon Stewart said, feigning outrage. "I shelled out a dollar for a rubber bracelet I have somewhere in my house. ... Well I think we all owe cancer an apology."
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The "Late Show With David Letterman," meanwhile, dedicated its "Top Ten" list on Tuesday to the other revelations from Armstrong's Winfrey interview:

10. Artificially enhanced his cycling shorts

9. Still never leaves the house without several vials of clean urine

8. Owns Texas real estate known as "Rancho Decepto"

7. Took steroids to work up the strength to admit taking steroids

6. Once had an inappropriate relationship with an air hose

5. Also has tattoo of Rex Ryan's wife

4. Has given up on making the baseball Hall of Fame

3. United States Postal Service paid him in stamps

2. Started erotic website, "Tour-De-Pants"

1. Admitted to doping just to get on "Oprah"

While I suspected it would come to this years ago it's still like watching a slow motion car wreck....in a weirdly funny way. I never thought it would be funny but maybe that's the relieved feeling kicking in.
Oprah, Letterman...justice is being served and it tastes like good beer, not Michelob.
 
Mar 13, 2009
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has anyone tried the Michelob Schadenfreude? thinking of popping the top on one in the fridge.

little hoppy, little yeasty, very bitter, but delicious!
 
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This is a bit harsh, really. Nobody deserves to be the **** of jokes on Late Night TV.

I'd rather Lance was just held in contempt/treated as an irrelevant person than continuing to bring him attention.
 
Aug 18, 2012
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Pantani_lives said:
From several months ago:

Buzz Aldrin is now officially the first man on the moon. Armstrong was disqualified.

Nick777 said:
Wow.. from untouchable to a punchline in a couple of years.

He misread the cards a couple of years back...

Agreed, this seems to be the biggest Hero to zero case I can remember.

The quote in the OP about only 12 people believing he was innocent seems off.

There seemed to be a huge change in the way Steve Jobs was discussed soon after he died, once he couldn't control his own PR but not on the same scale as this.
 
Alphabet said:
This is a bit harsh, really. Nobody deserves to be the **** of jokes on Late Night TV.

I'd rather Lance was just held in contempt/treated as an irrelevant person than continuing to bring him attention.



Are you being serious here? You can't be.....after all the bullying, threats, lawsuits, etc etc this man has done to others to prop up his inflated(now fraudulent) ego and life and there are STILL Lance apologists and those who feel sorry for him? unreal.


NOBODY DESERVES to have been on the receiving end of all the things Wonderboy has done to others. That trumps any late night jokes about a guy who brought it all on himself. Pardon me for not feeling sorry for Wonderboy, I'm truely shocked anyone still does feel bad for him. The old saying " you reap what you sow" comes into play here.
 
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Alphabet said:
I'd rather Lance was just held in contempt/treated as an irrelevant person than continuing to bring him attention.

exactly! if only it would happen..................trouble is lance is hell
bent on being 'somebody'

sadly he will continue.....................a joke
 
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86TDFWinner said:
Are you being serious here? You can't be.....after all the bullying, threats, lawsuits, etc etc this man has done to others to prop up his inflated(now fraudulent) ego and life and there are STILL Lance apologists and those who feel sorry for him? unreal.


NOBODY DESERVES to have been on the receiving end of all the things Wonderboy has done to others. That trumps any late night jokes about a guy who brought it all on himself. Pardon me for not feeling sorry for Wonderboy, I'm truely shocked anyone still does feel bad for him. The old saying " you reap what you sow" comes into play here.

I'm no apologist, I quite dislike Lance and I'm glad his world is unravelling.

But being made fun of by slack-jawed idiots on Late Night TV for cheap laughs crosses a line for me, personally, on acceptable levels of 'karma'.