Comics cash in on fallen politician

A PROMINENT politician, especially one known for a certain righteousness, is alleged to be a customer of high-priced call girls. For comics, that’s a hanging curveball over the plate.

New York governor Eliot Spitzer has become the butt of jokes faster than, well, faster than it would take a prostitute to ride Amtrak from New York to Washington.

“It’s just mind-blowing that he spent $4,300 on a hooker,” said New York comic Lisa Landry. “It just shows how high the cost of living is in New York. That same hooker would cost $50 in Newark.”

“They’re talking about impeaching Eliot Spitzer if he doesn’t step down,” said David Letterman, “and I’m thinking, ‘Whoa, a Democrat being impeached for extramarital sex. Well, happy days are here again!”

Spitzer, accused of being the prostitution ring’s so-called Client 9, was Topic 1 again with late-night comics this week. “Not surprisingly, clients 1 through 8 were Charlie Sheen,” NBC’s Late Night host Conan O’Brien cracked.

Jay Leno of NBC’s The Tonight Show had a string of Spitzer jokes. “The real ironic thing about this case?” he said. “Today the hooker said that Spitzer was done in a New York minute.”

Politics is the only profession where the wife of a man caught with a prostitute has to stand by his side, said Leno.