But then, the judge asked sweetly: "Will you do me a huge favor, and take the gum out of your mouth?" Embarrassed smile.
A few days earlier, he published a scathing editorial that accused the president of "unwittingly shooting himself in the mouth" while embarrassing his fellow citizens.
Leno had Kanye West scheduled before Kanye opened his big mouth and embarrassed himself again.
Public opinion, represented by our polling madness which tells us what our opinions are, has conveniently spared us any need to think intelligently for ourselves, by giving us an opportunity to accommodate our beliefs to the prevailing nonsense before we open our mouths and embarrass ourselves.
Instead, he fiddled with his specs and put his hand over his mouth when the going got embarrassing - the classic behaviour of a politician with something to hide.
Mr Clark confesses that, as a man in his 40s, he sometimes finds it embarrassing to hold a mobile to his mouth to record a message the way people 20 years younger do.
Try to avoid messy foods, such as spaghetti etc. Make sure you're not shoveling food into your mouth like a pig or chewing with your mouth open and making a mess or anything that really should be embarrassing.
Former Illinois governor Rod Blagojevich's reality TV stint ended unceremoniously: with a baffling display of technological incompetence; with (surprise, surprise) embarrassing mismanagement; and with those two damning words from the mouth of Donald Trump: "You're fired".
I can give the details but the answers sound so ridiculous coming out of my mouth that I get embarrassed.
One might think Nicolas Anelka would want to keep his head down and his mouth shut following his expulsion from the France camp during the country's embarrassing World Cup campaign for insulting the manager, Raymond Domenech.
