Jay Leno apologizes

Jay Leno apologizes to offended viewer
Joke about Cheney hunting accident bothered a friend of shooting victim

Jay Leno knows that comedy means sometimes having to say you're
sorry.

After Leno's "Tonight Show" aired a sketch that compared Vice
President Dick Cheney's hunting accident to a 2003 videotaped
shooting outside a Los Angeles courthouse, he received a letter of
complaint from a viewer.

Wendy Brogin, a friend of shooting victim Gerald Curry, wrote to Leno
condemning the recent sketch as offensive and asking him to "do the
right thing relative to this matter."

Within days, Leno responded with a phone call that greatly impressed
Brogin, the Daily News of Los Angeles reported Tuesday.

"He said, 'Hello, Wendy, this is Jay Leno'," she said.
"'I'm calling about the letter you wrote and I want to apologize.
I just want to let you know we make mistakes sometimes and we don't
mean to hurt people."'

It's not unusual for Leno to make such calls, an NBC spokeswoman said
Tuesday.

In February, he contacted Thomas B. Mudd of Saginaw, Mich., to
apologize for a mistake he made in talking about Mudd's
great-grandfather, Dr. Samuel Mudd, who set John Wilkes Booth's
broken leg after Booth assassinated President Lincoln.

Curry, an attorney whose shooting has been fodder for several Leno
jokes, said he appreciated the call to Brogin but bears no ill will
toward the "Tonight" host.

"I like Leno, so it doesn't bother me," Curry said. "I don't
take it personally, so I wasn't upset with him. He's just making
fun, but I think this says a lot about him, that he'd take the time
to apologize."

Taylor...

Aw, Jay Leno shouldn't have pussied-out. Tsk.