Rush Limbaugh wasn’t the only broadcaster to make light of his airport delay when authorities in Florida found a bottle of Viagra in his luggage prescribed to someone else. The late-night comics are having a field day with the story. Both Conan O’Brien and Jay Leno joked about the incident on their respective programs last night and this morning. “Airport security found a bottle of Viagra in Rush Limbaugh’s luggage, so they held him up for three hours,” O’Brien said. “Let’s all say the punch line together, shall we? So they held him up for three hours, and then the Viagra held him up for another three hours.”
Leno uncorked at least five jokes about the saga:
* “Well, it’s Tuesday, or as Rush Limbaugh calls it, ‘hump day.’”
* “That was my favorite story, Rush ‘Limp-baugh’ was detained for more than three hours at the Palm Beach airport after officials found a bottle of Viagra in his possession with someone else’s name on it. How ironic is that? The one Republican with a plan to get cheap prescription drugs and they try to arrest him. It doesn’t seem fair.”
* “Airport officials said they first got suspicious when they noticed Rush couldn’t keep his tray table down.”
* “Here’s an interesting fact. Did you know this? Even when Rush Limbaugh is on Viagra, he still ‘leans to the right.’”
* “What is it with Republicans and Viagra? First Bob Dole, he was doing the ads for Viagra. Now they got Rush Limbaugh. Say what you will about Bill Clinton, but the man was always there to answer the call, ladies and gentlemen.”
