"As Miss America, my goal is to bring peace to the entire world, and then get my own apartment."

Leno’s joke satirizes the stock, idealistic answers associated with beauty-pageant contestants—especially the familiar aspiration to “bring peace to the world.” By pairing that grand, performatively altruistic goal with a mundane personal wish (“get my own apartment”), the line punctures the pageant’s earnest rhetoric and highlights the gap between public virtue-signaling and ordinary private needs. The humor comes from abrupt deflation: world peace is framed as just one item on a to-do list before a very relatable milestone of adulthood and independence. It also comments on how scripted public personas can sound, contrasting lofty platitudes with the candid practicality audiences recognize as real life.