@JayLeno: @TheGenesisPrize has been called the Jewish Nobel Prize. Wait, I thought Nobel Prize was the Jewish Prize? pic.twitter.com/O2FaVkswVn
— Arsen Ostrovsky (@Ostrov_A) May 22, 2014
Retired from late-night, but not retired from presidential comedy.
Former “Tonight Show” host Jay Leno made his first trip to Israel this week to host a ceremony honoring former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg. He used his emcee duties to continue some of his classic political humor, poking fun at the president and Secretary of State John Kerry, among others.
“Obama has declared the month of May Jewish American Heritage Month. He is calling it an opportunity to renew our ‘unbreakable bond with the nation of Israel.’ And he knows it’s unbreakable because he’s been trying to break it for the last five years,” Israeli media, including Haaretz and The Jerusalem Post, reported.
Leno also had a crack about Kerry’s standing in Israel.
“According to the Central Bureau of Statistics, here in Israel the most popular boys name is Noam. Noam is the most popular boy’s name in the country. The least popular boys name? John Kerry.”
The ceremony, which took place Thursday night local time in Jerusalem, awarded Bloomberg as the inaugural Genesis Prize Laureate, whose goal “is to inspire unity throughout the global Jewish community.”
(h/t POLITICO, The Hollywood Reporter)
