Hey, what a big week for high temperatures, aye? First the Miami Heat take the NBA title and then this global warming deal decides to kick into high gear. I don’t know about where you live, but here in the Northeastern United States (i.e. nature’s armpit) it’s been a hot and steamy week. The good news is high temperatures and humidity make for easy joke fodder for the late night shows. Witness the double hit I scored on Thursday’s Late Show (6/22/06) when Dave told not one but two heat related jokes that I wrote for him. He included them in a string of “It was so hot today…” one-liners.

It was so hot today here in New York City the Statue of Liberty was wearing a halter top.

It was so hot today that Angelina Jolie adopted an Eskimo.

Click here to hear them live (format: MP3, size: 270kb) or check em out here.

See, Dave likes to tell jokes that incorporate famous NYC landmarks, like Grant’s Tomb, Madame Tussaud’s Wax Museum, Times Square, etc. So I thought I’d throw one in about the Statue of Liberty. BLAM! Like shooting fish in a barrel.