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Tonight is Jay Leno’s second final night as host of The Tonight Show on NBC. Instead of revisiting what happened the first time around, Funny or Die looks forward to what happens next. What would Leno do after wrapping production on tonight’s Tonight Show? Where would he go? What would …
As Jay Leno prepares to say goodbye for a second and final — no, this time, he and NBC really mean it! — to The Tonight Show, Leno sat down with 60 Minutes for an extended interview and profile. And by extended, I mean, we get to see his wife, …
Judd Apatow appeared on Thursday’s Tonight Show with Jay Leno to promote Anchorman 2, but host and guest also took a couple of minutes to make it a Throwback Thursday. Way back 30 years, to 1983. When Apatow was in high school and interviewing dozens of comedians for his self-produced …
Here’s something you don’t see, well, pretty much ever. Cameron Esposito made her late-night and network TV debut Tuesday night on Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson. The show already promised to be a doozy since Jay Leno was Ferguson’s other guest. What made this show extra special and unique …
“Jay, why is it when you’re not working, you’re always dressed like you’re on death row at Shawshank?” — Natasha Leggero, roasting Jay Leno on The Tonight Show, Aug. 28, 2013 Leggero is part of the Comedy Central Roast of James Franco, premiering Labor Day. Roll the clip. Speaking of …
In case you missed it last night, Jimmy Fallon invited Howard Stern on his Late Night show last night, and Stern immediately went into Fallon with advice and suggestions for making his show better in February 2014 when he moves up an hour and takes over The Tonight Show. “I …
The way media outlets and comedy nerds make such a big deal about who’s hosting late-night TV talk shows, you’d sometimes like to be reminded that most everyone else doesn’t think much about it. But what about the kids, you ask? It’s past their bedtimes, so late-night TV shouldn’t even …
The calendar may have read April 1 when Jay Leno opened his Tonight Show monologue with an April Fool’s crack about his relationship with his employers at NBC, but after midnight, ’twas April 2 when Leno gave Jimmy Fallon the most seamless transition possible in video and in song, dueting …
Of course, Jimmy Kimmel has opinions about the latest chapter that is the ongoing saga of NBC screwing around with The Tonight Show with Jay Leno. Kimmel has impersonated Leno for an entire episode of his own late-night show, ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel Live, which just moved up a half-hour in …
Twenty-one years ago, NBC announced an orderly transition for The Tonight Show, handing over the hosting reins from icon Johnny Carson to his permanent guest host, Jay Leno. Carson’s own favorite, Late Night host David Letterman, bolted to CBS. In 2004, NBC vowed to do better, and announced an orderly …
