Jay Leno

Oprah Winfrey’s best birthday present: Everyone’s talking about Jay Leno interview

source: The TV Guy

Leno revealed that he “told a little white lie” in 2004 when he said he’d retire after leaving “The Tonight Show” and that he was “devastated” when NBC asked him to give up that program to make way for Conan O’Brien. Got it: Jay Leno, still a gunfighter.

Published Fri, Jan 29

Leno refuses to admit to Oprah that he's culpable in Conan mess

source: TV Squad

When you look at the surface, it seemed like Jay Leno was quite revealing during his interview with Oprah Winfrey today. He said that he was "devastated" when NBC came to him in 2004 and told him that they wanted to give Conan O'Brien The Tonight Show. He claimed he was "embarrassed" by what he c...

Published Thu, Jan 28

Leno Talks To Oprah

source: Gothamist

Jay Leno is doing some damage control after his role in the Great Late Night War of 2010. He went on Oprah today to talk about taking back the The Tonight Show from Conan O'Brien, saying he doesn't regret anything, because the decisions made weren't his. He told the daytime host, "Anything the...

Published Thu, Jan 28

NBC takes down last Tonight Show blog post

source: TV Squad

Tonight Show staffer (with Conan, anyway) Aaron Bleyaert kept a blog and a Twitter account for the show since Conan took over last year. Of course, Jay Leno is coming back so he's no longer going to be doing the blog and wrote his last blog post when Conan's run on the show ended recently. NBC, ho...

Published Thu, Jan 28

Jay Leno: I Felt Really Bad for Conan

source: Television

Leno recalls to Oprah that in 2004 he was asked to relinquish his job as "Tonight Show" host over to O'Brien in order to prevent him from going to another network. At the time, Leno was No. 1 in his time slot. He says of the decision, "It broke my heart. ... I was devastated."

Published Thu, Jan 28

Jay Leno to Oprah Winfrey: ‘This whole thing was a huge mess’

source: The TV Guy

Conan O’Brien left NBC last week rather than see “The Tonight Show” pushed backed to 12:05 a.m. to make way for a half-hour Leno show that would have started at 11:35 p.m. So Leno  returns March 1 to “The Tonight Show,” the show he never wanted to leave. Can Leno be No. 1 again?

Published Thu, Jan 28

Jay Leno hosting White House Correspondents Dinner

source: TV Squad

Soon-to-be former Jay Leno Show host Jay Leno has been tapped by the White House to host the annual White House Correspondents Dinner. Please don't tell me that Conan O'Brien wasn't available. And besides, I thought O'Brien and President Obama were friends?

Published Wed, Jan 27

Jay Leno Letting Things 'Cool Down' Before Talking to Conan O'Brien

source: Television

ET has the latest... Jay Leno is opening up for the first time since the late-night fiasco with Conan O'Brien began. In an all-new interview, airing on "The Oprah Winfrey Show" on Thursday, Leno says despite all of the back-and-forth ribbing he and Conan did, it was just a part of the job.

Published Wed, Jan 27