Short Takes : Jay Leno Makes Calls for GIs

Comedian Jay Leno has been making a lot of phone calls since he got back from an October trip to entertain the troops in Saudi Arabia.

“The soldiers gave me about 200 names of all these parents,” he wrote in the Dec. 24 issue of People magazine.

“I’ve been calling them up and saying, like, ‘I saw Timmy.’ And they go, ‘Where was he? How’s he doing?’ People are so happy that you call; you feel good about it.”