Let the pot shots begin: Tonight Show sets sights on Denver

DenverPost.com – Bill Husted – Columnist

This is how it starts.

Staffers from “The Tonight Show With Jay Leno” are due in town today and Wednesday to shoot fun things to do in Denver during next summer’s Democratic National Convention.

First stop: The Demented Divas Show at Lannie’s Clocktower Cabaret. In covering the drag-queen revue, roving reporter Mo Rocca will interview Nuclia Waste (Denver’s favorite transvestite), Portia Potty, Iona Trailer and Gabbriella Butz’In.

So much for the cow-town image.

Angela Berardino, senior communications director at the Denver Metro Convention & Visitors Bureau, was in touch with the Leno show over many weeks, making recommendations…