Dana Carvey + Jay Leno = Heartbreakingly Unfunny

EW offered this endorsement of Dana Carvey's recent appearance on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno. I was intrigued by the promise of a really good Barack Obama impression—and Carvey's is a lot better than Fred Armisen's, which isn't saying much—but everything else in Carvey's appearance is downright dreadful. Anybody want to see Carvey's Jimmy Stewart impression? His atrocious George Lopez?

More evidence of why Jay Leno's TONIGHT SHOW is vile:

CARVEY: "I think Barack Obama might be too smart to be president..."

[Jay Leno's audience begins wildly hooting and applauding.]

CARVEY: "He should be a professor or something..."

It's a non-joke. It's a preface to a joke. And all these Jay Leno loving nincompoops that they truck in as the studio audience go bonkers at the mere implication that Barack Obama shouldn't be president.

"Too smart to be president"?? How does that make ANY sense? How is it preferable to have an imbecile running the country? Has Fox News so brainwashed these people, so demonized the idea of the "intellectual", that a large swath of Jay-Leno-adoring troglodytes genuinely believe that the Leader of the Free World ought to be DUMBER? Someone who wouldn't make them feel quite so inferior?

Make it stop.