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Jay Leno

  • Blogs

    January 23, 2012

    Jay Leno's Sikh-Temple-as-Mitt-Romney's-Summer-House Joke Enrages Some in Indian Religious Community

    Oh no he didn't. Jay Leno is in hot water this week after a quip about Mitt Romney's summer house was accompanied by a photo of the Sikhs' sacred Golden Temple in India, a grand palace indeed. Romney's real summer home, or at least one of them, is right here in Southern California, and isn't half ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 1, 2011

    Conan O'Brien ('s Writing Staff) Kicks Off Everything Is Festival at Cinefamily

    The kids you made fun of in high school: All grown up, and richer than you.​ When you hear the name Conan O'Brien, you probably picture the man who single-handedly rallied America's youth against Jay Leno, revenge after Leno took back the Tonight Show gig that, only nine months earlier, he'd l ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 18, 2011

    Arnold Love Child Jokes: Jay Leno vs. Conan [Video]

    NBCJay Leno gave it to his pal.​Arnold Schwarzenegger's revelation that he fathered a child out of wedlock 10 or so years ago was a present to America's L.A.-based late-night talk shows. In fact the muscle-man actor has been giving steadily to the cause of monologia since 2003, when he elbowe ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 28, 2011

    Best Vinegar That Doubles As A Cocktail Ingredient: Global Gardens' Black Currant

    J. GarbeeStraight Up Works...​Global Gardens is one of those food businesses suffering from an unfortunate name. Not Jay Leno Late Night worthy, but more a product of unnecessary self-inflicted assumptions. That corporate-sounding title evokes visions of a Pier 1 Imports empire rather than the ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 16, 2010

    John Tyner Was Right To Walk Away From TSA Airport Groping: Air Travel Security Measures Are Out-Of-Hand

    At LAX, do you allow yourself to be groped?​America, we've gone too far. It's been nearly 10 years since 9/11, and it's time reassess how twisted we'll make our freedoms in order to make us think we're somehow safer. Southern California resident John Tyner put the issue front-and-center over ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 9, 2010

    Conan O'Brien Whooped Both Jay Leno And Jon Stewart On Cable TV Last Night -- But Can He Make The Magic Last?

    TBSSomewhere between poverty and basic cable​Hot damn, Conan. We knew the comeback would be big, but that was some next-level shit. America's favorite middle-aged carrot set the record for the most-watched show in cable-TV history last night: His brand-new 11 p.m. slot on TBS roped in a baffl ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 8, 2010

    Will You Watch 'Conan' At 11 Tonight, Or Stick With Jon Stewart?

    Pulse2Back up off my slot, Stewart​All the bleeding gingerhearts on Team Coco finally lay down their arms tonight. After 10 months following "The Legally Prohibited from Being Funny on Television Tour," Conan O'Brien fans will gather J.Bieb-style outside the Warner Bros. studios in Burbank, w ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 27, 2010

    Diplo Attacked By Lil Jon, Eaten By Crocodiles [Reenactment]

    Diplo Attacked By Little Jon, Eaten By Crocodiles [Reenactment]

  • Blogs

    October 18, 2010

    A Spooky Season For Jay Leno As Ghost From Conan O'Brien's Past Kicks His Ass In Ratings

    NBCDead Conan is kicking live Jay Leno's butt.​This is a true Halloween treat: The ghost of Conan O'Brien's late-night show is beating Jay Leno's Tonight Show numbers. Talk about being beaten by a dead horse. The Wrap reports that O'Brien's short time in NBC's 11:30 p.m. slot in summer, 2009 ... More >>

  • Calendar

    October 7, 2010

    BEST ICE PICK OF THE WEEK

    NBCDead Conan is kicking live Jay Leno's butt.​This is a true Halloween treat: The ghost of Conan O'Brien's late-night show is beating Jay Leno's Tonight Show numbers. Talk about being beaten by a dead horse. The Wrap reports that O'Brien's short time in NBC's 11:30 p.m. slot in summer, 2009 ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 19, 2010

    Courtney Dearest: Courtney Love Celebrates Frances Bean Cobain's 18th Birthday by Publicly Berating Her on Twitter

    Mamma Mia: One of Courtney Love's sad, sad tweets on Frances' birthday​Living with a very possibly mentally ill relative is never fun, even if one says one will never talk to them again and spends a lot of time on the East Side, hanging out at Wacko and the Echo, while said insane relative tou ... More >>

  • Calendar

    July 15, 2010

    THERE'S A NEW FLEA IN TOWN

    Mamma Mia: One of Courtney Love's sad, sad tweets on Frances' birthday​Living with a very possibly mentally ill relative is never fun, even if one says one will never talk to them again and spends a lot of time on the East Side, hanging out at Wacko and the Echo, while said insane relative tou ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 14, 2010

    Jay Leno Makes Ribs Mayor, L.A. Council Over Arizona Boycott

    ​During his Tonight Show monologue Thursday, Jay Leno made fun of the Los Angeles City Council's vote to boycott Arizona over the state's controversial immigration law. "The council vote wasn't even close," he said. "The council voted trece to uno." Then Leno aimed his chin at Mayor Antonio ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 4, 2010

    NBC's Latest Cooking Show: Caterers Who Are Spies!

    Catering usually means insanely long hours, mediocre pay, a big pile of worn-out cooking clogs, and -- unless you work for Wolfgang Puck Catering -- very little glamor. But who needs real life when you've got NBC. Jay Leno's home network has just picked up a new series from J.J. Abrams called Underc ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 7, 2010

    Slash Punks Jay Leno, Wears 'Team Coco' Pin On Air

    TMZ and other reputable news outlets noticed that former Guns n Roses guitarist Slash totally punked Jay Leno last night by wearing a "Team Coco" pin on the air. Here's the evidence: NBC (through TMZ)​

  • Blogs

    January 27, 2010

    Today In WTF: NBC Buys A Show From Conan

    NBC​As the world watched the biggest break-up since (possibly) Brad and Angelina unfold in slow-motion this month, it would be reasonable to think that the blood between late-night host Conan O'Brien and NBC would be as bad as it gets. The network paid him and his staff nearly $45 million to w ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 19, 2010

    Conan Versus Leno Is A Generational Battle That NBC Will Lose

    Mike Mitchell.​Adult Swim, the nighttime version of the Cartoon Network, has been airing a short promo between commercials that states "Adult Swim Is For Conan." It has also created a tongue-in-cheek spot offering the soon-to-be-ex Tonight Show host a gig. The pronouncements point to a defini ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 15, 2010

    Conan Getting $30 Million To Walk Away, According To Report

    ​Sharon Waxman's The Wrap is reporting that NBC will pay Conan O'Brien to walk away from The Tonight Show and his contract dispute with NBC. Waxman states that NBC executives, including CEO Jeff Zucker, held an all-night negotiating session Thursday to help come to the deal. O'Brien had rejec ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 14, 2010

    Leno Headed Back To Old, Hour-Long Stomping Grounds Late-Night

    NBCJay Leno.​Jay Leno has struck a deal to get his late-night hour back at 11:35 p.m. on NBC, a move that indicates Conan O'Brien is definitely off the line-up at NBC, according to a report at TMZ. The site states that Leno had been guaranteed an hour under his Jay Leno Show contract for the ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 13, 2010

    Defamer Calls For NBC Chief Zucker's Head Over Conan Fiasco

    NBCJeff Zucker.​There was a time when publications, mostly of the dead-tree variety, would call for heads of leaders, mostly of the political kind. But in this info-stream era, everyone's an armchair studio chief, and every public figure -- not just the one you voted for -- is game. It was on ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 12, 2010

    Conan O'Brien Says No To Later Time Slot At NBC, Wants Network To Reconsider Late-Night Moves

    NBCConan O'Brien.​Tonight Show host Conan O'Brien rejected NBC's proposal to have his Tonight Show start a half hour later as a result of the resurrection of a Jay Leno late-night program to start at 11:35 p.m., calling the the proposed move "destruction" of the franchise. In a widely distribu ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 12, 2010

    Rumor Mill: NBC Looking For Guest Host For Tuesday's 'Tonight Show'

    NBCConan O'Brien.​Rumors are circulating in Hollywood that NBC is scrambling to find a guest host to fill in for Conan O'Brien on Tuesday's Tonight Show. Earlier today O'Brien issued a statement rejecting NBC's proposal to move his show to 12:05 a.m. to make room for a renewed late-night progr ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 11, 2010

    Leno Prime-Time Show Done; NBC To Go Back To 'Scripted' TV

    NBCJay Leno.​NBC over the weekend copped to its retirement of the short-lived Jay Leno Show at 10 p.m. weeknights, officially announcing that its hoped-for lineup shuffle was a proposal that would have Leno and Tonight Show host Conan O'Brien squeeze into late-night together at 11:35 p.m. and ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 8, 2010

    Leno Going Back To Late Night, States Report

    What will become of Conan?​The rumors about the demise of the prime-time Jay Leno Show on NBC and his move back to an 11:35 p.m. time slot are true, at least according to Variety, which reports "insiders" are confirming the shuffle. What's not clear, then, is what would happen to Conan O'Brie ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 7, 2010

    NBC Says Leno Show To Be Tweaked; Denies Rumors Of Its Demise

    ​NBC is denying a report that its prime-time talk experiment, the Jay Leno Show, is being canceled, but the network indicated that it will be tweaked. A website called FTV on Thursday published a report saying Leno would be dropped, and the author of the report told KNX 1070 Newsradio that th ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 28, 2009

    Squid Ink Top 10: Foodie Typos

    Haste makes waste. It can also make very entertaining typos. It takes a keen eye (or a Jay Leno Show intern) to spot the exceptional gem on a takeout menu or expose the unintentional comedy amongst rambling food metaphors. So we scoured the Internet and Twitter for great examples of food-related t ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 5, 2009

    Animal Rights Group Targets 'The Jay Leno Show'

    Those pesky, and controversial, animal rights activists at People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) will dress up as chickens and attempt to protest a taping of The Jay Leno Show tomorrow in Burbank, City News Service reports. Talk show host Jay Leno​PETA's peeved at Leno for shilling fo ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 14, 2009

    Food Fight at Condé Nast: The Sketchy Future of Bon Appétit and Gourmet

    Gordon Ramsay does a cooking demo​Readers of food magazines often like to pit Condé Nast's two culinary powerhouses, Gourmet and Bon Appétit, against each other. Like Letterman and Leno, one is based in New York (Gourmet), the other here in Los Angeles (Bon Appétit). Gourmet has historicall ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 12, 2009

    NBC Wanted Leno Out Earlier

    One of the bigger ironies surrounding Jay Leno's primetime debut Monday is that NBC, he says, wanted him out as host of The Tonight Show even earlier than planned. In today's New York Times, the comic says the network approached him in 2004 with a plan to replace him as the late-night show's host i ... More >>

  • News

    September 10, 2009

    The Writers Guild Cleared Jay Leno, but Now Must Indict Itself

    One of the bigger ironies surrounding Jay Leno's primetime debut Monday is that NBC, he says, wanted him out as host of The Tonight Show even earlier than planned. In today's New York Times, the comic says the network approached him in 2004 with a plan to replace him as the late-night show's host i ... More >>

  • News

    July 16, 2009

    LATE-NIGHT TALK SHOW WARS

    Letterman, O'Brien and Leno do reality-TV battle.

  • Blogs

    April 28, 2009

    Morning Sixpack: A News Roundup

    Eyesore or Landmark? The Century Plaza Hotel and its fate are a bone of contention between city preservationists enamored with its curving, Jet Age architecture, and the hotel's owner, who wants to raze it and raise a mixed-use development in its stead. L.A. TimesNo YouthTube for L.A. Times The city ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 24, 2009

    Today in Photographs: January 24, 1978

    Comedians mug in front of the Comedy Store West, on Westwood Boulevard. Left to right: Store owner/director Mitzi Shore, Jay Leno, Billy Braver and Ed Bluestone. (Photo: LAPL Herald-Examiner Collection)

  • News

    December 11, 2008

    Is Leno Ready for Prime Time?

    The over-the-hill NBC hack should have shuffled off to ABC

  • Calendar

    November 6, 2008

    Max Alexander: Who Is He Kidney?

    The over-the-hill NBC hack should have shuffled off to ABC

  • News

    July 24, 2008

    Dark Knight, Late-Night Wars and More: What a Bunch of Jokers:

    But for some in Hollywood, the joke's on them

  • News

    November 29, 2007

    Strike Fix

    Highlights from Nikki Finke’s Deadline Hollywood Daily

  • Music

    June 2, 2005

    The Psychic Hipster’s Pop 10

    Highlights from Nikki Finke’s Deadline Hollywood Daily

  • Music

    March 31, 2005

    Snake Bites

    Highlights from Nikki Finke’s Deadline Hollywood Daily

  • News

    December 23, 2004

    Hollywood Overheard

    Another year, another round of ridiculous remarks

  • News

    September 30, 2004

    Letters

    Another year, another round of ridiculous remarks

  • News

    September 23, 2004

    Letters

    Another year, another round of ridiculous remarks

  • News

    September 23, 2004

    Conan steps up, Leno steps down, in 2009

    'It’s a testament to Jay and to his class,' a Leno insider tells NIKKI FINKE

  • News

    September 16, 2004

    Does Mr. Middle-of-the-Road Lean Left?

    Jay Leno talks about the tragedy and comedy of politics

  • News

    May 13, 2004

    Letters

    Jay Leno talks about the tragedy and comedy of politics

  • News

    January 1, 2004

    Hollywood OVERHEARD

    Jay Leno talks about the tragedy and comedy of politics

  • News

    December 25, 2003

    Strange Memes and Nascent Trends

    Jay Leno talks about the tragedy and comedy of politics

  • Columns

    November 20, 2003

    Scaredy-Cats

    Jay Leno talks about the tragedy and comedy of politics

  • News

    November 6, 2003

    Letters

    Jay Leno talks about the tragedy and comedy of politics

  • News

    October 9, 2003

    The Right Comic

    Jay Leno’s embrace of Arnold

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