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Kim Jung Un Clowned on Ashley Madison Billboard Near LAX: Anyone Offended?

Conservative radio talk-show hosts John & Ken aren't the only people in town who think making fun of Asians is okay. The cheaters'-dating website Ashley Madison today announced it has erected a billboard near LAX that punks Korean dictator Kim Jung Un and his portly, vertically challenged appearanc ... More >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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

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

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 >>

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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 >>

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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 >>

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 >>

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)​

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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

LATE-NIGHT TALK SHOW WARS

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

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 >>

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)

Is Leno Ready for Prime Time?

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

Max Alexander: Who Is He Kidney?

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

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

Strike Fix

Highlights from Nikki Finke’s Deadline Hollywood Daily

The Psychic Hipster’s Pop 10

Snake Bites

Hollywood Overheard

Another year, another round of ridiculous remarks

Letters

Letters

Conan steps up, Leno steps down, in 2009

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

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

Jay Leno talks about the tragedy and comedy of politics

Letters

Strange Memes and Nascent Trends

Scaredy-Cats

Letters

The Right Comic

Jay Leno’s embrace of Arnold