Posted on 01/28/2014 6:08:19 PM PST by rickmichaels
great post
I feel like Rip Van Winkle. I haven’t watched late night TV in many years.
I just remember Leno as possibly the best standup comic ever. And he did it through hard work. He wasn’t very good in the 70s, but by the mid 80s, he perfected the craft.
I was disappointed that he & Letterman even wanted the 11:30 slot. I thought they were too cool for that. Boy, was I naïve.
Lopez is a hack and a terrible person in real life. He’s the guy other comedians make jokes about, not Leno. Some leftie nobody at some Canadian paper wants to smear leno, but it’s a little late.
“———Kimmel said, “Listen, Jay, Conan and I have children. All you have to take care of is cars. We have lives to lead here. “
This infuriates me. Just because Leno has no kids he has no life??? Kimmel is an ass.
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Leno was/is funny
I will miss his show, pretty sure he’ll be just fine
Leno is a gear head, his first love his car collection - how nice is that?
I always enjoy stepping over a critic to collect my trophy or big check.
He wasn't a Johnny Carson...but he was good.
Conan’s ratings were in the tank. It had nothing to do with Jay Leno wanting his show back.....even if he did. It’s always about ratings...and Leno got them, period.
It's Leno's own fault for going off the reservation and making fun of Obama. Three hundred years ago you lost your head for making fun of the king. Now you just get smeared by the MSM.
All these lefty critics fell out of love with Leno when he started telling jokes about Obama and ridiculing Obamacare. Jimmy Fallon is a lefty toad who will lick lefty feet to get the love.
I must be good with you because I don’t think punkass
George Lefty Lopez is worth two dead flies.
I haven’t met Leno myself, but I know a few people who have (I’m an SCCA member, we provide volunteer support for pro-level races, and Jay’s a regular at the Monterey Motorsports Reunion). Pretty much all of them thought he was a pretty good fellow.
He is one of the few celebs I envy, mostly because he’s a car guy like me and has the wherewithal to indulge that interest. :)
I’ve never understood Leno’s constant disparagement of fat people. He ain’t the thinnest guy I ever saw. I haven’t really been interested in any late night host since Carson stepped down. Carson was truly one of a kind.
I suspect that all these guys hate Leno because he’s not politically correct 24/7 like they are. Once in a while he’ll make a joke about Obama or some other Democrat.
That's really kind of a disgusting low blow.
The only funny thing about The George Lopez Show, was his mother.
Letterman always had a bitter side to his comedy, and Leno didn't. As a successor to Carson, NBC wanted to continue the legacy of sweetness and light-hearted comedy as people were drifting off to sleep, and that wasn't Letterman.
The irony is, this article aside, that I think that Leno as a person is much nicer than Carson was off-camera. Carson was reported to be a very nasty drunk, who got mean. The closer you were to Carson, the meaner he was to you when he got drunk. Which was often.
I don't recall hearing things like that about Leno. These few specific feuds excepted.
-PJ
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