Leno lampoons Taoiseach as a ‘drunken moron’

HIS congestion may have cleared but the hangover from the Taoiseach’s ill-advised radio interview the morning after the Fianna Fáil shindig in Galway continues with a devastating lampoon on a top-rated US TV chat show in which he was branded a “drunken moron”.

Host Jay Leno mercilessly mocked Brian Cowen on his late-night Tonight Show, making him the subject of a game in which he invited the audience to view a less-than-complimentary photograph of the Taoiseach and guess what he did for a living.

The options were a bartender, a politician or a comedian, and the audience was urged to shout, whistle and applaud loudly at the answer they believed to be correct. They shouted loudest at the politician option and laughed heartily when Leno confirmed in a mock Irish accent this indeed was “the prime minister of Ireland”. He went on to remark: “It’s so nice to know we’re not the only country with drunken morons.”