Posted on 12/28/2024 2:20:49 PM PST by The_Media_never_lie
Bill Maher confronted Jay Leno, 74, with a “conspiracy theory” that the former Tonight Show host’s spate of accidents in recent years were the result of a gambling addiction gone wrong.
“It’s a conspiracy theory since you’ve had three accidents that you actually have gambling debts and are being beaten up by the mob,” Maher told Leno, who laughed off the suggestion as he appeared on the Club Random podcast.
“I love the idea that the mob would drive to Greenberg, Pennsylvania, wait outside the Hampton Inn on a kind of sleety, rainy day to throw me down a hill,” Leno joked, referring to the most recent accident—which left him with a bruised face and sporting an eyepatch after he says he rolled down a steep hill and hit his eye on a rock.
Before that, Leno suffered multiple injuries related to maintaining his classic car collection, including one in which he set his face on fire and another that resulted in multiple broken bones.
All of this led to speculation that Leno, whose net worth is estimated to be north of $450 million, was the victim of loan sharks to whom he owed money.
After Maher explained that no one thinks the mob threw him down a hill, but rather that he is coming up with elaborate “cover stories” for his bad luck. However, Leno calmly assured him that all of his injuries have perfectly reasonable explanations.
The comedian went on to recount that his Tonight Show predecessor Johnny Carson did actually run afoul of organized crime after he was caught “hitting on” a pair of mob girlfriends.
“They put a hit out on Carson. So Carson stops The Tonight Show for the week. He just goes, he leaves, because this is real,”
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There is no such thing as the mob, and if there was they would never take a hit out on someone.
How does one roll down a hill and their eye suddenly at the end of the tumble, comes in contact with a rock?
Less plausible than getting pummelled by exercise equipment!
He jokes, but it DEFINITELY sounds like a tranny queer white antifa mafia strong arming him.
They don’t want his cars! They want GRANOLA
Greensburg, PA. Idiot reporter.
Per a related article: Leno told the outlet that he had been staying at a Hampton Inn about 30 miles outside of Pittsburgh on Saturday night. He fell down the 60-foot hill when he was walking from the hotel to a nearby restaurant for dinner...Leno said he tried to take a shortcut down the hill, which “didn’t look that steep.” He said when he fell, hit a bunch of rocks.
It is bizarre. If true, it must be some gambling debt.
He’s 74 and rich. He can stay anywhere he wants.
There was a thread here earlier about seniors falling.
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4286786/posts
Show Business is a huge Hall of Mirrors. Very little is real and the real is hard to see due to all the “reflections”.
I agree!!!
Obviously.
Right, because Leno’s $400 million net worth can’t cover a few million in gabling debts
Why are people stupid?
Better question, why would a guy worth $450 million be doing a show at the Palace Theater seating less than 1,400 in Greensburg, PA?
For a small town the Palace is a big deal but this guy plays the big joints in Vegas, NY, Chicago, I don't get it.
Some performers prefer the intimacy of smaller venues
The boys wouldn’t let it get so far out of hand before collecting or stopping giving.
They don’t need the publicity of beating such a well known figure.
AND TRUST ME..they don’t hurt you three times.
By the third time, you are surrounded by a bunch of fish nipping at you.
They don’t gave near the power they once did, though Sicilians coming over since 9/11kept the FBI busy has strengthened them.
Those Sicilians are as violent as any ms 13 member..
Harry Reid was BLINDED in one during this. And chose not to sue the exercise machine company, just laughing it off. Who does that if it was defective equipment? BLINDED IN ONE OF HIS EYES. Message sent to him and received?
Jay Leno even does Christmas Partys, I met him at this one:
https://youtu.be/w0uKWhBxqdY?feature=shared
He’s hilarious in person and super nice guy.
Typical Maher BS...
Nothing a communist says can be credible...
Yeah, it's bizarre alright, unless he's a millionaire who's also a total skinflint, but that's highly unlikely.
Very plausible to roll down a hill and hit a rock. When I was a college kid a had a fall while skiing. At the end of my tumble, my face slammed into an exposed tree stump. There was a sharp stick protruding from the stump. It hit me between my eyes and punctured the bridge of my nose.
Missed one eye or the other by a few millimeters.
Could just as easily have been a pointy rock.
Very plausible to roll down a hill and hit a rock. When I was a college kid a had a fall while skiing. At the end of my tumble, my face slammed into an exposed tree stump. There was a sharp stick protruding from the stump. It hit me between my eyes and punctured the bridge of my nose.
Missed one eye or the other by a few millimeters.
Could just as easily have been a pointy rock.
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How very fortunate; could have been far worse.
Every time I hear the name Bill Maher I think of the National Inquirer he’s like a shock jock always fishing for a story for a pay check.
Jerry Rivers winks
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