Toronto’s Mayor, now stripped of his non-statuatory powers by city council continues to grab international headlines and provide free fodder for late-night comedians.
Why is Rob Ford still the Mayor of my city? When will this circus at city hall end? When will Mayor Ford finally get help for his problem? I keep asking myself the same questions, every time I go online, turn on the TV, listen to the radio, pick up a newspaper, talk to my colleagues.
It must be extra tough being Mayor in a city the size of Toronto, which really should be its own province. And, when you add on vast quantities of booze, a crack pipe, coaching football, maybe a little sex and a lot of public drunkenness, a video rant and god knows what else onto the mayoralty agenda it makes it even tougher. Eventually the addiction, the destructiveness and the lies catch up to you and everything in your private and public life unravels.
In a few months alone, Mayor Rob Ford brought dishonour to public office and our city. His actions continue to embarrass Torontonians and provide still more joke fodder for late night TV comedy. On The Tonight Show, host Jay Leno called the mayor ”God’s gift to comedy” and mocked Ford’s statement to Fox News last week that he one day wanted to become prime minister.
Jay Leno, Jimmy Kimmel, Stephen Colbert, Jon Stewart, Jimmy Fallon, Conan O’Brian and David Letterman continued to mock Ford on their shows this week as they have done since Ford admitted to smoking crack cocaine earlier in November. ^
“I love him, I really do. Every time he’s in public he does something great.” – Jimmy Kimmel
Video clips sourced from YouTube
Late Night – Jimmy Fallon
The Colbert Report – Stephen Colbert
The Late Show – David Letterman
Chris Daughtry Sings “The Ballad of Rob Ford” – Jimmy Kimmel Live
Whoopi Goldberg On Mayor Rob Ford – The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
Ron Burgundy Sings Mayor Rob Ford’s Campaign Song – Conan O’Brian
by John Zeus
Video Source: YouTube
JOHNZEUS.COM 
November 20, 2013
Comedy, Politics, Toronto, Video