[Leaning Right]

I still occasionally catch myself thinking, "I wonder who's on Leno tonight." I'll turn on the Tonight Show, watch for a minute, get disgusted, then turn it off.

[Vermont Lt]

I like comedy. And I even like political comedy.

But the stuff that is on now is not even clever, let alone funny. If it was funny, I would still be watching.

[posterchild]

I haven’t seen late night tv in many years, but I recall a time when Leno’s jokes all seemed to revolve around: george bush has the mind of an infant, Jennifer Lopez has a big butt, and british people have bad teeth. I only sat through it to get to monday night’s headlines.

Sometime (2000-2008) his writers went on strike and he was funny again! The writers came back eventually and the monologue went to crap again.

[rjsimmon]

Leno was a great addition to “Last Man Standing”. One episode even poked fun at his tour on the Tonight Show.

[moovova]

Johnny Carson will never be replaced.

[Ciaphas Cain]

Carson’s monologues rarely mentioned the President at all regardless of who it was. And if Carson did mention the President he never went more than three jokes about it per night. That was his limit for every topic. Leno pretty much followed that same formula. It certainly kept their monologues fresh and appealing to most Americans watching them.

[usconservative]

I used to like Jimmy Fallon, then he got political like Kimmel and that asswipe on CBS (don't know his name, don't care to ...) and I just had to turn it off.

My TV may get turned on once or twice a week for a movie or something and that's about it. Otherwise it's just a big 55" curved TV that occupies space on a wall and does nothing else useful.

[FLT-bird]

The problem with the late night “comedy” shows - including SNL - and the reason I don’t watch any more is that they’re not funny. It’s all just really bitter jibes made exclusively by Leftists exclusively directed at anybody who is not a Northeastern/Left Coast Leftist. That’s simply not worth watching.

[Paleo Pete]

Never did like Leno, even when he was just one of Carson’s guests and occasionally filled in when Carson was on vacation. When Carson retired, they had 3 people taking turns hosting the show while they picked which one to use, Leno, Arsenio Hall and one other I can’t remember. Either would have been better than Leno...he was never a good comedian to begin with.

Carson was basically irreplaceable. He cracked jokes about literally everybody, including Presidents, but it was never malicious, always just good fun and that was obvious. And he did it with them sitting right there beside him, usually laughing as hard as anyone else. Today it’s all nasty, malicious insults disguised as comedy. You could watch Carson every night, and never figure out his politics, I wouldn’t even try to guess which direction he would vote.

I saw Carson with governors, Presidents, corporate CEOs, actors, and the biggest names in Hollyweird too, always funny, never disrespectful, and usually had them laughing at themselves. Well, except for Zsa Zsa Gabor and her cat...he got sued over that one...

Also highly intelligent and very well informed. Carson would research everyone who appeared on his show, read 3 newspapers every morning, and surprised his guests when they realized he actually knew what he was talking about. One of the quickest wits on TV, he could throw out one liners and have you rolling off the couch laughing all night, and never get anywhere close to the vicious, insulting garbage we see now.

I haven’t watched late night TV at all since he retired, except for Letterman a little here and there, pretty good but not even in the ball park with Carson, he was king of late night TV.

[Chauncey Gardiner]

Staying up and watching the Leno monologue and perhaps his first guest was a routine in our house. We gave the new guys a chance, but they are crap. The extra half hour of sleep is nice and we won’t be going back.

[SamAdams76]

I still don't know whether Johnny Carson was a liberal or a conservative (or something in between).

Yet he outclassed today's crop of "comedians" night after night - for decades.

[budj]

"...now the president is with a porn star. Where do you go with that? How do you get more outrageous than that?..."

Well, Jay, how about "the president is a rapist?"

Leno showed a picture of an elephant getting hosed and made a joke about Linda Tripp, a victim of the clinton trash machine when she simply told the truth.

Jacka$$ jay could be a 1st class a$$hole, too.

[Retired Chemist]

I haven’t watched late night TV since Jay Left. I watched his show every night.

[lodi90]

Leno takes not so subtle shots at POTUS in every article like this I read. I’m done with him.

[jimmygrace]

Late night is no longer funny as much as it is mean. Even the libs don’t watch it to laugh, they watch it to get their fix of meanness and hate. Insult half your potential audience and you will fail.

[llevrok]

I'll turn on the Tonight Show, watch for a minute, get disgusted, then turn it off.

We watch the 11 o'clock news. The late night shows come on at 23.35. At 23.34 we switch to one of the non late night show channels so Xfinity does not show that we watch (support) any of the three late night shows

Yeah, I know it's a very small thing. But I also don't find any of the three stooge's comedy funny.