Jay Leno

MSNBC's Rachel Maddow appeared on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno last night, her first late night talk show since taking over the 9pmET hour and, as Leno said, "doubling the ratings." Leno took a shot at picking her political affiliation. "I would guess liberal, but the Sarah Palin glasses c...

By Kate LK/Flynet Fresh off the birth of his son Brendan Joseph, 3 ½ weeks, and now on the road to promote his upcoming movie, Max Payne, actor Mark Wahlberg sat down with Jay Leno on the Tonight Show last night to talk parenting and sibling rivalry. Though Mark was attentive as... LK/Flynet

By rocco@cvwine.com (Rocco Loosbrock) Salsa has now passed ketchup as America's Favorite Condiment. Isn't that amazing? You know it's bad when even our vegetables are starting to lose their jobs to Mexico. ? - Jay Leno, The Tonight Show

By Ryan Cormier(noreply@blogger.com) The Tonight Show with Jay Leno" just used footage of Joe Biden at the Charcoal Pit in Fairfax this week for a Biden/Palin joke:

By The Huffington Post News Editors Democratic vice presidential nominee Sen. Joe Biden is set to join Jay Leno on "The Tonight Show," Obama-Biden spokesman David Wade tells CNN. This will be Biden's first late-night talk show appearance since being named to the number two spot on the Democratic ticket. Beau Biden, Biden's s...

 CT - I think Jay Leno was the first TV show we were on and we played 'Reasons Why.' The first time we got a bus -- there's all these firsts that are just so ...

  Canada - One August member, Linda Kidder, has travelled the world with a kd Lang tour and appeared on the David Letterman and Jay Leno TV shows. ...

 IL - to successful tours headlining with Mochrie as well as with the Improv All-Stars and he also appears regularly on NBC's "The Tonight Show with Jay Leno. ...

EVANESCENCE singer Amy Lee will perform "Sally's Song", her contribution to the recently released CD collection "Nightmare Revisited", on the October 13 episode of NBC-TV's "The Tonight Show with Jay Leno".

Mackey will be a guest on 'Conan O'Brien' subscription), AK - He's appearing on the show, which airs after "The Tonight Show with Jay Leno," mainly to plug Discovery Channel's new TV series about the Iditarod Trail ...

 AZ - As if that's not enough, on one of his recent appearances on “The Tonight Show with Jay Leno,” he received a standing ovation, the first comedian in 10 ...

By By Keith Martin While most Americans identify Jay Leno with his night job, as the wise-cracking host of ''The Tonight Show,'' those in the old-car fraternity consider him a genuine enthusiast with a deep, hands-on love for the hobby.

 UK - Craig will feature as a guest on the popular "Tonight Show with Jay Leno" on NBC on Friday 17th October 2008, according to Tivo. ...

  United States - 10:35 pm The Tonight Show With Jay Leno: Actor Mark Wahlberg; TV show host Rachel Maddow; Rachel Yamagata performs. 11:37 pm Late Night With Conan O'Brien: ...

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Jay Leno, despite going out of his way to say that he's totally neurtral on politics, could barely control himself, personally taking offense at Dennis Miller's humorous observations. "What about that inteview with Katie Couric?" Jay asked like an indignant child. What kind of response...

By STV So Jay Leno must have said no to that primetime variety show NBC had in mind for him, because Defamer HQ opened for business this morning with flocks of winged monkeys dropping pamphlets promoting Rosie's Variety Show, Rosie O'Donnell's live, hour-long mash of song, dance, comedy and te...

Equally important is the fact that Leno would embrace what has kept Jerry Seinfeld for example from saying yes, and that is the notion that if you do well, the Academy is going to ask you back year after year. The New Rochelle, New York native is already the hardest working man in talk show busi...

By Missy Bauer Griffin During a Monday night appearance on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, actor Russell Crowe said that a recent six-month stay in Australia with wife Danielle Spencer and their two sons Charles 'Charlie,' 4 ½, and Tennyson, 2, yielded some long sought-after "manly man" time for...

By rambodoc Financial experts are saying we are entering a new chapter in the American economy. I believe it’s Chapter 11. (Jay Leno) We’re learning more about John McCain — he has 13 cars. And he can’t remember where he parked any of them. (David Letterman)

By rambodoc You know John McCain, the running mate of Sarah Palin? (David Letterman) California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger recently said that in the 1970s he smoked marijuana. Apparently, Arnold got so stoned that you could understand every word he was saying. (Conan O'Brien)

By Kyle Buchanan At least McCain's team will always have the hospitable Tonight Show with Jay Leno as a safe haven — though only until next year! New host Conan O'Brien may seem inoffensive enough, but we hear that NBC already has their censor button ready... MAD ABOUT LETTERMAN [NY Post]

By John Koblin Also in the October/November issue of Radar, Ana Marie Cox interviews John McCain about his favorite TV shows. (Good two months for them!) Mr. McCain, who David Letterman excoriated last night for bailing on his show, said that he really likes the late night talk show host in the article whi...

By rambodoc If you watched TV last weekend, you know that ABC’s Charlie Gibson did something John McCain has never done — interviewed Sarah Palin. (Jay Leno) John McCain’s crew is calling the Tina Fey portrayal of Sarah Palin on “Saturday Night Live” sexist. However they felt Amy Poehler’s cackling, j...

According to TV Barn, now that the Arizona Senator has chosen a running mate, she's fair game, too, beginning with most of the political jokes Leno made during Monday's monologue: TV Barn found the same pattern in other recent Leno monologues leading it to conclude:

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Good luck finding a full video of last night's John McCain encounter with Jay Leno but we do have a brief clip - in which the Presumptive Nom jokes about Leno's possibility as his veep choice because "you may not have a job around that time." Leno: "That sounds like five houses."

By Gillian Reagan Jay Leno got all Andy Kaufman at a press conference yesterday, showing up in a bald cap and a pasted-on goatee as a fake reporter. He asked when the host will say his final monologue on the Tonight Show and be replaced by Conan O'Brien. Co-chairman Marc Graboff then announced that Mr. Leno's las...

By Tempo The Tonight Show" continues to be the most dominant late-night institution in television history.  Since it first premiered on September 27, 1954 with Steve Allen, "The Tonight Show" has had just four permanent hosts, including Leno.  Allen, host of the then titled "Tonight," eventual...

By Seth Maybe it came out of concerns over his tepidly reviewed performance at Just For Laughs, where the straight-faced-challenged former SNL star delivered on the audience's darkest fears with groaner ditties like "You Spit When You Talk" and "Car Wash For Peace." In any case, the strange tal...

NBC on Monday will announce the exact timetable for Jay Leno to hand over the host's chair on "The Tonight Show" to Conan O'Brien, several people with knowledge of the plan said over the weekend. It's very likely Mr. Leno will host his final "Tonight Show" in late May or early June, according t...

By now you may have heard the big news out here in BH - that Jay Leno told USA Today that he is done with NBC next year. Done, as in: No primetime specials, no special ambassadorship, no syndicated series for some division of NBCUniversal, no guest-hosting job on "Access Hollywood"...

Jay Leno on President Bush (Surprising) Jay Leno wrote this; it's the Jay Leno we don't often see.... I.. Perhaps you are one of the 70 percent of Americans who own a home. So why then the flat-out discontentment in the minds of 69 percent of Americans? Jay Leno

NBC made it official today: Jimmy Fallon will become the third host of “Late Night” in June 2009, setting in motion the high-stakes late-night shift that will send Conan O’Brien to Jay Leno’s desk on “The Tonight Show” and a new studio on the NBC Universal lot in Los Angeles next year. The New...

By Seth NBC executives, including the chief executive of NBC Universal, Jeff Zucker, have reaffirmed their commitment to Mr. O'Brien. And if they did change their minds, they would owe Mr. O'Brien a penalty payment: an estimated $45 million.

ABC, Fox, Sony Want Leno After ‘Tonight’ (New York Times) ABC and Fox have each contacted Jay Leno through intermediaries to indicate their interest in “The Tonight Show” host after he’s succeeded by Conan O’Brien next year, the New York Times reports. Sony Pictures Television has also a...

‘24’, ‘Heroes’ Won’t Return This Season Fox’s “24,” NBC’s “Heroes” and CBS’ “Cane” are among the series that won’t return this season because storylines were disrupted by the Writers Guild of America strike, Daily Variety reports. Shows such as CBS’ “Shark” and “The New Adventures of Ol...

The Story Behind a Late-Night Brawl  United States - Feb 5, 2008 By JACQUES STEINBERG Forgive those television viewers who might have drifted off for a few minutes at the end of “The Tonight Show With Jay Leno” on NBC on ...

The return of network late-night talk shows during the TV writers strike provided a ratings bounce for most of the competitors, with NBC’s “The Tonight Show With Jay Leno” and “Late Night With Conan O’Brien” scoring wins in their time slots, according to early Nielsen ratings numbers. Th...

Late Night TV Returns With, Without Writers David Letterman, Jay Leno, Conan O’Brien, Jimmy Kimmel and Craig Ferguson returned to the airwaves last night, Daily Variety reports. Mr. Letterman, however, had the advantage of returning with his writers after his production company, Worl...

NBC late-night hosts Jay Leno and Conan O’Brien will return to the air without writers after two months of a strike-induced break, the network announced Monday morning. “The Tonight Show With Jay Leno” and “Late Night With Conan O’Brien” will resume production and the first episode will...

This trumps NBC's announcement coming Monday that Jay Leno and Conan O'Brien will be returning by January 7th. Presumably, ABC's Jimmy Kimmel won't be far behind. "A major announcement will be made by more than one network on Monday," an insider noted. But Jay and Conan, who are just hired ha...

Colbie Caillat, who performs on 'The Tonight Show with Jay Leno' on Monday; Okkervil River, who perform on 'Late Night with Conan O'Brien' on Tuesday; Collective Soul, who perform on 'The Tonight Show with Jay Leno' on Friday. Ozomatli, who perform on 'Late Night with Conan O'Brien' on We...

I really, really wish that I lived in a fantasy world where Heidi Klum has finally had enough, walks over to the Beckhams house and tells them, "You're OUT! Auf Wiedersehen," smartly turns on her heel and leaves. Oh wait, I kind of do. It's called Hollywood.

By Jeanne American Idol’s, Katharine McPhee stopped by The Tonight Show with Jay Leno July 27th. She performed “Love Story” but it was super energetic and there was a dance sequence in the middle. Here’s the video:   Tags: katharine mcphee love story, katharine mcphee love story video, katherine mc...

By Arieanna The Deuce Bigelow star appeared on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno last night in drag as Lohan. The 21-year-old actress canceled her appearance with Leno after her bust early yesterday morning for allegedly driving under the influence.

Silverchair, What Went Wrong On Leno?  Australia - most successful bands this year and for the last decade put on what would have to be their worst performance ever on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno. ...

Go ahead, light a fire under this Pitt physics teacher Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, PA - Late next week, he is scheduled to appear on "The Tonight Show with Jay Leno" to play with sulfur hexafluoride, a heavy inert gas. "When you breathe it, ...

Shia Labeouf appeared on the Tonight Show with Jay Leno this evening to plug the upcoming Transformers Movie. The interview started with some small talk about the movie, and eventually moved onto Shia presenting 2 Leader Class Prime ...

By Lynn Here’sa very funny video of Ross “The Intern” Mathews talking to Jay Leno about how he lost so much weight. It’s fun because he also talks to Ant and some of the other celebrities on the show too. Enjoy! Ross-Celebrity Fit Club Tonight ...

Utahn, 90, to kick up heels on 'Leno'  UT - May 3, 2007 And that is how Jane Petty of Provo landed an appearance tonight on "The Tonight Show with Jay Leno." Jane Petty performs at Weber State University in 2003 ... 90-year-old Utah woman a big hit on 'Tonight Show' Deseret News