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In a piece of video that is going around, Joy Behar captured an intimate moment with Jay Leno backstage after appearing on his show, where she finally broke her legendary silence and asked Jay to weigh in on what happened with this winter’s Late Night Wars. Oh good. Yes. Joy Behar just happened to have a camera crew backstage, and Jay happened to be there, and the time just seemed so right. He didn’t WANT to get into it, he was wearing his Cool Down Denim, but Joy asked the questions and it would have been rude not to answer. Besides, if there is one thing that America has not had the opportunity to hear yet, it is Jay Leno’s insanely self-serving and delusional side of the story. Ugh. Jay Leno, as always, needs to shut up. From the NYDN:
“Conan got screwed and I got screwed,” Leno told HLN and “View” host Joy Behar after her appearance on his show. “This is TV. The reason [this] business pays a lot of money is, when you get screwed you have something left over.”
“I don’t quite get why I get beat up over it,” Leno told Behar. “I know people don’t really understand sort of how this business works. It’s all numbers. You know, the affiliates wanted us back, so we came back.”
Woof. It’s bad enough that this is still even a thing, and that Jay Leno can’t be a grown up and just keep his mouth shut, but that he has to be so condescending about it? JAY LENO, IT’S 2010, WE KNOW HOW THE ENTERTAINMENT INDUSTRY WORKS. AND ALSO THAT IS NOT WHAT THIS IS ABOUT, AT THE VERY LEAST IT IS MORE COMPLICATED THAN A SIMPLE ISSUE OF SUCCESS VS. NON-SUCCESS. Jerk. Maybe Jay Leno should stop trying to explain how showbiz works and start looking up what the word “screwed” means. And shame on Joy Behar, and shame on Oprah, and shame on everyone who keeps pretending like Jay Leno is some kind of battered victim in this who just needs an opportunity for America to see what a wonderful, charming, INNOCENT man he is. Get real, Joy Behar. He is a greedy, vindictive, denim-clad ego nightmare. Great, now I’m all riled up again. LENOOOOOOOOO!
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I wish this really was “an intimate moment” between Leno and Joy.
Yuck. Do they even make denim contraceptives?
Yes. They are called pleated jhorts.
Pride and self-worth personified:
“So What, Who Cares?”
That’s one of my favorite SNL characters. Wish they would bring back the Kristin Wig character who reviews movies on the weekend update. “I give this movie a WHAAAAA??”
Plus I think Jenny Slate is pretty.
I never intended this.
-Levi Strauss
“On approaching the other it has lost its own self, since it finds itself as another being; secondly, it has thereby sublated that other, for this primitive consciousness does not regard the other as essentially real but sees its own self in the other.”
-Hegel
No, really, this is relevant.
OK this is how badly I need a cup of coffee: I read that as attributed to Levi-Strauss.
You’re not the only one.
I don’t know what this has to do with denim or Jay Leno, but this BLEW MY MIND. Thank you!
“WHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOAAAAAA CONSCIOUSNESS WHOAAAAAAAAAA” – Napoleon Complex
I was in San Diego last weekend visiting family and we spent a lot of time talking about the plans for my wedding. I hate the look of formal, traditional tuxes so I was thinking about finding more casual suits for my groomsmen. This presents two problems: a) you can’t really rent casual suits, and b) suits are freaking expensive.
So I was expressing this dilemma to my mother and my sister while my father sat by silently, feigning interest and occasionally staring off into space. Suddenly, a look of some grand realization swept across his face.
“Hey! I’ve got an idea!” He relishes in the dramatic anticipation, perhaps a few moments too long. “What about… denim jackets!”
No, dad. I’m not having my groomsmen wear denim jackets at my wedding.
By combining a denim shirt and jeans, you could pay homage to many regions–not just Texas, where I once naively believed such a “tuxedo” as yokel-slagging-off device originated. Your wedding could be so much more than a celebration of love, That One. SO MUCH MORE.
Hey look, it’s James Franco.
Guys, let’s not focus that BOTH Leno and Conan were victims here! Yes, Leno ended up exactly where he wanted and Conan got left out in the cold, but they’re both victims of a cruel, cruel system.
Ugh, it’s like he started noticing Nicholas Sparks stealing his place as a famous douchebag, and wanted to reclaim it as quickly as possible.
Your username gives this image an appropriate context.
“Remarking that he was late for lunch with Nicholas Sparks, Leno abruptly left the lot, only to be screwed again by some orphans who dented his Deusenberg when he ran them over.”
Oops:
Then again:
WAT? That is NOT ENOUGH of Jay Leno smells like poo! Pranksmen, unite!
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Jay Leno!
Nicholas Sparks!
Wishful Headline: Leno/Sparks Controversy
“Leno, I read him…. what’s with this guy?” – Nicky Sparks
“Sparks, I respect him, but he just doesn’t understand how entertainment works.”- Jay
That could be substituted for this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y9KyBdPeKHg
If the victimization of Jay Leno isn’t enough to get the stilted civil rights movement back on track, I don’t know what will. Martin Luther King Jr. had a dream, and that dream involved an overgrown chin-baby in denim whining about how fair it is that he gets enough money to buy a hangar-full of expensive cars (or, let’s face it, enough money to feed a third-world country for a decade) because the showbiz industry might screw you over. A dream indeed.
You can tell it’s a intimate conversation by the way he casually cuffed his sleeves. Barf!
Can’t Justin Bieber buy the Tonight Show, too?
He would, but it’s probably on past about 98% of his fanbase’s bed time.
In Bieber’s world, the kids make the adults have a bedtime! The trick is, the adults really like going to bed early.
Screwed = Guy without a job
Sounds like he doesn’t know how the entertainment industry works either. Jay, the affiliates did not want you back. They wanted your horrendous 10pm show gone.
“Looks who’s talking ‘Denim Dan’!”
Ok, how many pairs of pajama jeans do you think Jay Leno owns? Or is he the mastermind behind the product? INQUIRING MINDS!
“April Fool’s everyone knows only I got screwed.” – the Denimed Crusader
Yes Jay, nurses and policemen are very screwed if they lose their pension. But they just go after violent and dangerous criminals and get shot at and stick various tubes and liquids in people so they can, you know, live. You on the other hand entertain anywhere from 6-15 octogenarians on a nightly basis, making you much more important and deserving of some extra scratch in the event that you, ahem, get screwed. You make me so fucking angry, Jay. You don’t even know.
Joy who?
How did you get screwed, Jay Leno? HOWDYOUGETSCREWEDHOWDYOUGETSCREWEDHOWSDYOUGETSCREWED?
That’s what I feel like right now. Bees all over my head.
Absolutely. How can he rationalize in his big stupid head how he in any way got “screwed” is unfathomable.
Gabe, you’re my Oprah. Seriously. And since everyone else’s Oprah is on Jay Leno’s side, the fact that My Oprah (TM) is still indie, still sticking it to the man, still calling out the members of this strange, egomaniacal entertainment industry Wicker Man cult (we’ll all be guilty, and we’re doing it for nothing!) as he sees them, makes me feel like maybe I’m NOT a 47 year old man yet. Or that if I am at least I’m still full of the impotent rage of a late twenty-something with embarrassingly little security in this life.
“Gabe, you’re my Oprah.” needs to be the new cool compliment.
I think Jay Leno also has a hangar full of denim. Right next to his hangar full of antique cars. Every day, he blows through the first hangar and selects which denim to wear, then he moseys over to his hangar full of antique cars, which then explodes into a ball of flames with the white-hot intensity of a thousand fiery suns, fuelled by the Internet’s pure and righteous anger. Oh wait. That’s just my sweet, sweet dream.
Flames, flames on the side of my face.
Addendum;
I’m disappointed in you Joy Behar, and I didn’t think that was possible.
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