Jay Leno makes his return to the Tonight Show on March 1, but last night was the final telecast of The Jay Leno Show in primetime. He joked about how brief his stint in primetime was:
WHERE WERE YOU THE LAST FIVE MONTHS? THAT’S WHAT I WANT TO KNOW.
THIS IS OUR LAST "JAY LENO SHOW" KEV. THE SHOW WAS SUPPOSED TO LAST TWO YEARS. BUT MY SENTENCE WAS REDUCED TO FIVE MONTHS FOR GOOD BEHAVIOR.
WE WERE ON THE AIR FIVE MONTHS. IT SEEMS LIKE JUST YESTERDAY I WAS TELLING NBC, “THIS IS NOT GOING TO WORK.”
PEOPLE SAY, “WHAT HAS CHANGED THE MOST IN FIVE MONTHS?” I’D HAVE TO SAY HEIDI MONTAG.
FIVE MONTHS! DO YOU REALIZE THAT GUYS ON VIAGRA HAVE HAD ERECTIONS THAT LASTED LONGER THAN THAT?
Ashton Kutcher suggested in the final episode that the whole Leno in primetime experiement and the bruhaha with Conan was just Jay getting "Punk'd."
Ken Tucker of Entertainment Weekly has a nice write-up at http://watching-tv.ew.com/2010/02/09/last-jay-leno-show.
So Leno apparently thinks any sentence containing the words “Heidi Montag” is technically a joke?
So, hmmm… Chuck comes back on March 1. Leno returns to the Tonight Show on March 1. Plenty of potential ratings fun for NBC already on that day.
@ScubaDew: You don’t get it do you? Heidi Montag recently admitted that she was addicted to plastic surgery, thus it would make sense.
I’m tired of Leno complaining. Dude, you won. Stop talking now.
nkinsey- up until yesterday you do know he still had a show to do? If he “stopped talking” it’d be pretty hard to do his job. He couldn’t ignore the controversy, and he couldn’t get on air and gloat about how he “won”
His jokes about “blah blah five months” are entirely unwarranted. What is he losing in this deal? Absolutely nothing. He gets The Tonight Show. However you want to look at it, the guy won. He needs to quit whining like a child.
@AtCat I didn’t laugh because it wasn’t funny, not because I didn’t get it.
Last night’s show was a disappointment. Trump said he was fired, Ashton said he was Punk’d…it was an uninspired hour of television.
How is that any different from any other Leno hour?
Jay- Of course he had a show to do. I’m just saying he needs to stop bitching about his show getting cancelled. Yea, he could/should mention it – but not nonstop. He just doesn’t know when to drop things.
PLUS, this isn’t helping his image by constantly complaining (even in “joke” form), when everyone knows he’s going back to his favorite spot.
unwarranted cry-baby.
sure, leno told NBC it wouldn’t work… but they made him do it, so what could he have done? he just follows orders.
Jose- They didn’t MAKE him do anything. He could have walked away. His Tonight Show contract was coming to an end. He could have done what he wanted. He could have gone to ABC or FOX. HE chose to stick with NBC. HE chose to do the 10p show.
@nkinsey The story, according to Leno, was that after the Tonight Show, he asked to be released from his contract and NBC said no. We all recognize that he could have fought it, but he claims that he was being a company man. He’s claiming the same thing with this mess – that he and NBC have a contract and that he’s just following orders.
We all know that Leno could have walked away. They broke his contract multiple times. But that doesn’t change the fact that Leno keeps using “NBC wouldn’t let me out” as an explanation for his decisions.
@nkinsey
Totally agree. Jay keeps whining about he got “fired” twice and how his primetime show didn’t last but 5 months, etc., etc. Seriously, someone tell Lame-o to shut the F*** up. He won. He got what he wanted. He whined enough and they put him back at 11:35 p.m. So why are you still harping about getting “fired”, especially when he was never fired to begin with.
Why are you people saying him “winning” (I use quotes because no one won here) means he should stop talking? Losing justifies you to cry about things?
Kevin- Your two sentences make perfect sense. However, Jay is combining them. He’s crying about winning.
Moxy- You are right. That IS the story – Leno’s story. Once your contract is up, you can do whatever you want. NBC can’t MAKE you stay after it’s up. That’s why his story is crap. They didn’t hold his wife and cars hostage. He wanted a show, NBC didn’t want him to go to ABC/FOX since he was still #1, so they threw money at him with the idea of a 10p show. He took it. Had he WANTED to, he could have said “thanks, but no thanks.”
Bottom line: NBC didn’t MAKE him do anything. His contract was done, he could do what he wanted to. So he stayed. HIS choice.