Jay Leno: disheveled
I found this delightful picture of Mr. Leno over at the Adam Carolla Podcast and I got a huge laugh out of it. I could probably think of a hundred captions for the picture. Here are a few.
-That Subway sandwich was meant for Conan O'Brien.
-What, no Doritos with that sandwich, Jay.
-Are you taking Jared's job at Subway too?
-I guess the 10 PM time slot really did a number on him.
-This picture is funnier than any joke Jay has made in the last ten years.
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You know I've been covering this story heavily... but man, I've been holding back a lot of nuggets.
It looks like no matter what Conan did, he was screwed. If he was kicking Dave's ass every week by a heavy margin, his contract still made him more expendable than Jay Leno (40 million vs. a reported 150 million that Jay would get paid if NBC took his Primetime series off the air early).
Tom Shales had suggested that Jay intentionally took a dive in Prime Time before that 150 million dollar figure came out. Leno would have either gotten a huge chunk of that above settlement or he'd get The Tonight Show back given that contract.
And there is a story going around that there is a club in LA that Leno works on Sunday nights just to tune up his monologue material and he still demands that they pay him the door... which is about 2K a week. He has been driving there in a quarter of a million dollar car.
What's interesting is hearing some of Stern's people and Stern bash Leno before everyone realized what a asshole he really was. I also read that Stuttering John and Stern have had a major falling out because of Leno.
I hadn't heard about the Club thing, but it sounds about right. I just wish his demo would see that he's not that funny or interesting. But, you can't tell the old crowd that.
BTW, here's something funny, my old Grandmother doesn't watch Jay Leno, she watches Letterman. I Always get a kick out of that because old people generally hate Letterman.
My mother thinks Letterman should have gotten the Tonight Show in 1992.
He should have, and I need to pick up that Late Shift book that I'm sure has gotten popular again.
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