Ebony & Ivory

So who's more politically correct, Jay Leno or David Letterman? On the March 25 ''Late Show,'' when Letterman asked writer-actress Amy Sedaris about the previous night's Oscars, she replied, ''Oh, you mean 'Showtime at the Apollo'?'' -- a remark cut from the broadcast. (Reps for ''Late Show'' and Sedaris declined to comment.) But on the same night, Arsenio Hall joked to Leno: ''Oscar is actually a Swahili word that means 'Showtime at the Apollo.''' That comment was aired -- as was an even more eyebrow-raising joke on NBC's ''The Colin Quinn Show'' that night from a white comic identified only as Nick during a mixed-race panel: ''The last time I saw that many black people with gold in their hands, they were running out of the front of the doors of Zales during the L.A. riots.'' (NBC had no comment; Quinn was unavailable.) Guess the Peacock isn't afraid of showing its off-color feathers.