Jay Leno

By Ed Martin Thinking ahead to the New Year, I hope we don't have to wait that long for NBC to do something about its nightly hour of dead air, The Jay Leno Show. I'm on record as saying that the idea of a nightly talk and variety show with Leno as host is not necessarily a bad idea - but when I said that I was under...

By The Huffington Post News Team The altercation was another example of West's notoriously testy temper, but also the first time his actions had turned physical rather than verbal. He verbally assailed President George W. Bush over the government's response to Hurricane Katrina, and lashed out at awards shows when he d...

By Catie Lazarus If The Jay Leno Show cut work for dramatic actors, The Goof Wife has brought more opportunity for New York based dramatic actors. The fourth episode features Martha Plimpton, who guest stars as a pregnant executive with a bloated defense of her corporation, Cross National Freight. She und...

By Ed Martin As I watched Tina Fey promote the season premiere of 30 Rock Wednesday on CBS' Late Show with David Letterman and Thursday on ABC's The... As I watched Tina Fey promote the season premiere of 30 Rock Wednesday on CBS' Late Show with David Letterman and Thursday on ABC's The View I couldn't help b...

By The Huffington Post News Team Glee creator Ryan Murphy says he gets why NBC asked Macy's to pull the cast of his Fox show out of its Thanksgiving Day parade:... Glee creator Ryan Murphy says he gets why NBC asked Macy's to pull the cast of his Fox show out of its Thanksgiving Day parade: "I completely understand NBC's positio...

By Nicole Williams Who woulda thunk that nightmare wife Kate Gosselin would come out of her ugly mess of a divorce as the good guy? In a desperate attempt to save TLC ratings and rebrand her image as mildly likable, the reality mom just might have taken a step in the right direction with her spoof video on Jay Len...

By David Latt It was reported that Wells' was told by NBC that the show was canceled because when compared with a news program like Dateline, the show cost too much. More importantly, NBC couldn't air it. Jay Leno killed Southland but whether NBC is the better for that remains to be seen.

By Ed Martin This was supposed to be the autumn of NBC's talk-show success, with low-cost episodes of The Jay Leno Show energizing the network's failing primetime fortunes... This was supposed to be the autumn of NBC's talk-show success, with low-cost episodes of The Jay Leno Show energizing the netwo...

By Qanta Ahmed Most of all this event speaks to the national culture of Sleep Machismo a phrase which captures American workaholism as a disordered belief system, almost uniquely American. Imagine a performer so desperate for sleep he resorts to anesthetic sedation and yet so pressured to perform he w...

By The Huffington Post News Team Steve Carrell has lived in LA for a few years now but he didn't have his first traumatic experience there until recently, when his 8-year-old... Steve Carrell has lived in LA for a few years now but he didn't have his first traumatic experience there until recently, when his 8-year-old daught...

By Shelly Palmer Tivo is reporting that approximately 46% of viewers are watching The Jay Leno Show after its initial air date. While the number may seem high, it has actually decreased from when NBC was airing different content during the 10 pm time slot. While the amount of people watching NBC timeshifted...

By Jessica Amason The Emmys, sort of This year's Emmy's didn't stand a chance against Kanyegate '09, but did show a decent Web presence thanks to Sarah Silverman's facial hair. Emmy host, Neil Patrick Harris, also proved that making fun of the internet is totally hot on the internet.

By Rachel Sklar Fast forward a year. Tonight SNL premieres its 35th season (well, if you don't count the last two Thursdays). Times are tougher than ever for network television — Tivo is king, appointment television is scarcer than ever, Jay Leno has brought comedy to 10 pm. Okay, maybe not that last thing. Th...

By Michael Moore My new film going to make some of you angry; but it's going to give most of you a new sense of hope that we are going to turn around the sick and twisted mess made by the last president. Oh, and you're going to have a good laugh too. Friends, Good Morning America (where they let me talk about Disney em...

By Mike Ragogna With the new DVD release The Fine Friends Are Here!, Dan Zanes and Friends present colorful music and images that are not just for children,... With the new DVD release The Fine Friends Are Here!, Dan Zanes and Friends present colorful music and images that are not just for children, but also f...

By Henry Jenkins Television may be in the hands of a different kind of network -- Facebook or Twitter rather than ABC or Fox. In a world shaped by social networks, if it doesn't spread, it's dead. As the news media focused on Jay Leno's relocation into a regular five night a week prime time spot, the veteran Toni...

By Greg Mitchell Back when I was a youngster, "TV series" (then on only three networks) meant a full run of originals from September to June, often 39... Back when I was a youngster, "TV series" (then on only three networks) meant a full run of originals from September to June, often 39 in number. Now we get little...

By Charles Warner I watched Jay Leno's prime time debut Monday night and learned: 1) Don't watch Jay Leno's new prime time show; it's dull and overly scripted.... I watched Jay Leno's prime time debut Monday night and learned: 1) Don't watch Jay Leno's new prime time show; it's dull and overly scripted. 2) Don't w...

By Tallulah Morehead Is Scrubs still on the air? Why? Does Scrubs have a public option? How about a Scrubs death panel? Sigourney's dad, Sylvester "Pat" Weaver, created The Tonight Show. I expect him any time now to rise from his grave, and strangle Jay Leno.

By Rabbi Irwin Kula Kanye West - a master of the public image - did not need to apologize to his fans. He did not hurt his fans. He hurt Taylor Swift and embarrassed himself with his lack of impulse control and his rudeness. The public woke up the morning after and those who even thought about it may have felt embarras...

By Charles Warner So, I left the News 4 newscast not with a smile from the silly kicker but with loathing for politicians - a nice lead into the "Tonight Show" with Conan O'Brien. His opening monologue was funnier than Jay Leno's earlier and he looked a lot more at ease than Jay did. No wonder, he didn't have to liv...

By Charles Warner I then remembered that Jay Leno was making his prime time debut at 10:00 p.m. on NBC, so I quickly switched to Channel 4. I caught Jay introducing his first guest, Jerry Seinfeld. I haven't watched Jay Leno's "Tonight" show in over 15 years and the last time I watched a prime time regularly schedu...

By Lisa Napoli T. felt compelled to take out the computer to search a bit more, with no luck, no answers. Then he wanted to show me the Kanye apology I had slept through on Leno the night before. We'd both seen clips during the day but he wanted to "watch it together." And while we were at it, Taylor Swift on The View....

By Spencer Green MONDAY SATURDAY NBC - If NBC Gave a Shit About Saturday, Jay Leno Would Be On At This Hour, Too, And He Would Be Just Fine With it CNN - We Broadcast Anyone Anywhere With Anything To Say About Michael Jackson While Any Vestiges of Credibility or Relevance Go Down the Toilet Along With the Rest o...

By Ed Martin But I'm still a long way from satisfied. Critics who complain that The Jay Leno Show is too much like The Tonight Show with Jay Leno are wrongheaded. The new Leno needs to be more like the old Tonight before O'Brien and his crew steamrolled over it.

By Lisa Napoli Words I don't believe I have uttered before: "I am going home to watch TV." I left dinner with friends in Santa Monica so I could be in place for the start of Leno. Words I don't believe I have uttered before: "I am going home to watch TV." I left dinner with friends in Santa Monica so I could be in plac...

By Rabbi Jennifer Krause Joe Wilson has apologized to the President. He has been forgiven by the President. And yet he continues to be wholly unapologetic when not on the phone with Rahm Emanuel or whomever else picks up the White House mea culpa hot-line. Furthermore, reports say that Wilson's outburst has garnere...

By Michael Moore Last night Jay Leno premiered his new prime time show on NBC. His in-studio guest was Jerry Seinfeld. Tonight (Tuesday), for his second show, his guest is... me! I know -- that's crazy. My friends are taking bets on the exact hour today the executives at G.E. will call and pull the plug on this insanit...

By Ray Hanania For all the pre-publicity, the Jay Leno Show is still the same Jay Leno Show. It just has a different name. Jay Leno didn't just move from his 10:30 slot (Central) to the 9 PM slot. His move is challenging husband-wife spats over who dominates the TV remote control all across America's heartlan...

By The Huffington Post News Team Then Kanye got into an altercation with Taylor's mom, who "tore into him" backstage. Kanye told Jay Leno last night that he wanted to apologize to Taylor in person and she she said would meet with him, but "he has not personally reached to out or anything."

By Shelly Palmer Jay Leno made his return to NBC last night at 10pm. While Leno's return to TV has been much hyped, the show faces tough competition, especially in its debut, where it was up against Monday Night Football. In addition, Leno will have to compete with popular series like CSI and other big budget n...

By The Huffington Post News Team Leno was quick to reference the West incident with one of his first monologue jokes Monday, saying President Barack Obama had invited West and the 19-year-old Swift for a "root beer summit." A corporate partner of MTV jumped to take advantage of it. Comedy Central, like MTV owned by Viacom I...

By Glynnis MacNicol On Saturday, Obama sought to follow up Wednesday's address with a health care plan rally in Minneapolis. Saturday was also known to some 70,000 rambunctious sign-wavers as 9/12, and it was that outburst of sign wavers, marching around Washington, who dominated both the cablers and the n...

By James Warren Jay Leno Is the Future of Television. Seriously!" is the Sept. 14 Time cover story, though it might have been, "NBC Sure Hopes Jay Leno is the Future of Television." James Poniewozik takes the comic's switch to prime time and argues that the major broadcast networks had best learn how to get sm...

By Shelly Palmer Jay Leno's first guest on his new show will be NBC mainstay Jerry Seinfeld. The debut of The Jay Leno Show will also feature a rare performance by Jay-z, Kanye West and Rihanna. NBC is hoping that Leno's 10pm show will be as successful as Leno's tenure at The Tonight Show was for the network.

By David Steele Or Daffy Duck? "Daffy was not only black. He also thought the American health-care system was very, very deth-picable.'' Granted, we're talking about the American cartoon version, and again we may just have a failure to communicate. But the Felix I grew up knowing wasn't getting by on luck. M...

By John Waters Leslie Van Houten has served more time than any Nazi war criminal who was not sentenced to death at Nuremberg. She has served more time that any of the Nazi defendants who were sentenced to life in prison except for Hitler's deputy, Rudolph Hess, who died in his fortieth year in prison (the ex...

By John Waters Excerpted from the book Role Models by John Waters, to be published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux in 2010. Role Models is a self- portrait told through intimate literary profiles of his favorite personalities; some famous, some unknown, some criminal, some alarmingly middle of the road.

By John Waters On our first visit, Leslie, who looked then, and still does, very much like actress Hilary Swank, explained that she had no interest in being in Rolling Stone because of what she had done. She was ashamed of it, not proud, and hoped that one day the terrible notoriety would fade. Little did eit...

By John Waters Even before the Manson Family had been caught, "The Dreamlanders", my gang of actors, took credit for the Tate/La Bianca crimes in a $5,000-budgeted movie entitled Multiple Maniacs which I wrote, directed and shot in Baltimore in the fall of 1969. Divine's character tortures David Loch...

By John Wellington Ennis The President did not respond to specific questions about the fact that both Jay Leno's Tonight Show and My Name is Earl were already off the air when they were referenced in the Entourage season premiere, a show once revered for its up-to-the minute cache.

By Bill Mann As usual, Entourage bristles with Hollywood-insider stuff and good comedy writing (something no doubt appreciated by POTUS); starlets wanting a piece of Vince; and, of course, the volcanic Ari. If Piven's agent character isn't the most entertaining character on any TV series, I don't...

By James Sims Perhaps "American Idol" host, Ryan Seacrest, will start feeling generous and donate some of his bloated income. Turns out the former afternoon radio jockey could soon become "one of the highest-paid reality hosts on television," according to the Hollywood Reporter. I doubt FOX will be p...

By Arianna Huffington Was it "a nice case of symbiosis" when I called on Tim Geithner to resign, writing that "it was painful to watch Obama... go on Jay Leno and say that Geithner is doing an 'outstanding job,'" and that "Obama's assessment had more than a whiff of Bush telling Brownie he was 'doing a heck of a job'"?

By Vanessa Richmond She's also clearly shallow and vengeful. Dozens of comedians made jokes about her daughters over the last year. Like Jay Leno who made 15 jokes about Palin by mid-March, to Conan O'Brien's 20. Saturday Night Live and plenty of other shows ripped her daughters, to no response from the Palin cr...

By Lee Stranahan Leno didn't get angry. He seemed genuinely perplexed. He asked how Conan O'Brien was able to air the "Masturbating Bear" routines that aired about 45 minutes later. For four and a half years, Jay Leno was a guy I saw at work. I was a staff artist for the entertainment news show Access Hollywood, w...

By Richard Greene The Tonight Show Media commentators like Steve Adubato and others who suggest that the President needs to stay away from humor and shows like The Tonight Show need to go back to media training school. President Obama was a total star on that show and reinforced, over and over, his authentic...

By Andy Ostroy DANCING WITH THE STARS: Ok, Obama's not the smoothest dude on two feet, but neither is Steve Wozniak. Obama and Edyta. Now that's cool.... QUEER EYE FOR THE STRAIGHT GUY: Just to see Barack and Carson Kressley go clothes shopping together....

By Shelly Palmer President Barack Obama made a special appearance on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno last night. Obama used the platform to pitch a change in economic ethics and values, much of it centered on the recent AIG bonuses scandal. President Obama is the first President in office to be a guest on the fa...