Jay's booboo

Christiane Amanpour was on The Tonight Show last night.

It was amusing to watch a man who's supposedly at home on the stage and at making fun of the world being overshadowed and made to look rather a little foolish by CNN's brilliant chief international correspondent.

Don't get me wrong. I love Jay Leno to bits. Still, it felt a little uncomfortable watching my favorite late night talk show host struggling a little with the questions. At one point during the interview, he was supposed to segue into asking Amanpour about the current relations between the US and Iran, wherein he asked "you were born in Iraq, right?" and Amanpour corrected him, "Iran. I was born in Iran." He appeared a little thrown off and it made this viewer wonder which country it was which he had really meant to ask Amanpour about. It must have been Iran, but still.

Perhaps he should have stuck to interviewing Heather Locklear, then he could have let Christiane Amanpour take the host's seat. Then she'd have been the one asking him questions and that would have made for far more interesting TV fare.