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The Tonight Show with Jay Leno: With Jay Leno, Kevin Eubanks, Edd Hall, John Melendez. Jay Leno takes over the Tonight Show with interview, sketches, and plenty of laughs.
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- 1992-05-25
- Comedy, Music, Talk-Show
- 62
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- TV14
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- Hugh Grant Is Sorry. Aired: July 10, 1995. After his highly publicized arrest for being caught with a prostitute, the British actor makes his first public appearance on the show, and Leno famously asks, ''What the hell were you thinking?''
- Barack Obama Interview. Aired: March 19, 2009. Obama becomes the first sitting president to appear on a late-night talk show, but causes a small stir when he compares his bowling skills to something out of the Special Olympics.
- Bobcat Goldthwait Gets Fired Up. Aired: May 6, 1994. The antic comedian ignites the guest chair, later claiming that he was avenging the cancellation of The Arsenio Hall Show.
- The Dancing Itos. Aired: March 2, 1995. Leno found endless fodder in the O.J. Simpson trial, eventually turning it into a recurring musical number with a kick line of Judge Lance Itos.
S1.E45 ∙ Howard Stern/Lyle Lovett/Anne-Marie Johnson. Fri, Jul 24, 1992. Radio personality Howard Stern, musical guest Lyle Lovett and His Large Band, actress Anne-Marie Johnson. Also: "Movie Posters".
- Bobcat Goldthwait Lights A Chair on Fire
- Hugh Grant Talks About Lewd Conduct Bust
- Howard Stern Makes A Scene
- Angie Harmon Gets Engaged
- Leno Goes Unplugged
- Katie Couric Takes Over
- Paul Newman Races Leno in A Go-Kart
- Colin Farrell’s “First Stalker” Crashes The Set
- Barack Obama Makes History
- George W. Bush Paints A Picture of Leno
In his 1994 appearance on the show, comedian Bobcat Goldthwait took a lighter to one of the guest chairs on the Tonight Show set. He was later given a fine of $3,888 after he pleaded no contest to a charge of recklessly causing a fire, according to the Los Angeles Times. (And as you can see here, the moment made it into an episode of The Larry Sand...
Hugh Grant’s 1995 Tonight Showappearance came soon after the actor was caught in a compromising position with a sex worker and arrested for lewd conduct. So, of course, Leno had to ask, “What the hell were you thinking?” In his stammering response, Grant replied, “I think you know in life, pretty much, what’s a good thing to do and what’s a bad thi...
Leno actually stormed off the Tonight Show set during a 1995 taping, after shock jock Howard Stern fondled and had his toes sucked by his two female companions on the show, as the Orlando Sentinelreported at the time. At the end of the episode, Leno asked critics Roger Ebert and Gene Siskel, the other guests booked for that show, to come back on a ...
Law & Order and Rizzoli & Isles star Angie Harmonwas shocked in 2000 when her beau at the time, New York Giants player Jason Sehorn, came out on set to propose to her, with fellow guest Elton John watching on. “Look at that ring.” Leno quipped, as Sehorn brandished a sparkler. “Even Elton is jealous.” The couple has since divorced.
For one episode in 2001, The Tonight Showput the (metaphorical) spotlight on California’s energy crisis, with Leno turning off the studio lights and hosting the chat-fest by the light of candles and flashlights.
In a ratings ploy, NBC had Katie Couric and Jay Leno switch places in 2003, with her hosting The Tonight Show and him co-anchoring Today. And it worked: Couric’s Tonight Show episode earned the late-night show its biggest audience in three years. “It was an outstanding stunt — and she charmed the audience,” former NBC entertainment chief Warren Lit...
Not only was Paul Newman the Oscar-winning star of films like Cool Hand Luke, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, and The Sting, he was also a famed auto racing enthusiast. And Leno, who shares the need for speed, challenged the actor to a go-kart race around the studio in a 2005 episode.
As Colin Farrell promoted his film Miami Vice on The Tonight Show in 2006, a female audience member confronted him on stage. The actor led the woman off stage, asked the camera crew to stop filming, and later told the audience that the woman was his “first stalker,” according to eyewitness accounts cited by People.
In 2009, Barack Obama made the first appearance by a sitting U.S. president on a late-night TV talk show when he joined Leno on The Tonight Show. The historic interview, however, generated a bit of controversywhen the then-POTUS said his bad bowling score was “like the Special Olympics or something,” a joke for which he later apologized.
Speaking of U.S. presidents, Obama’s Oval Office predecessor George W. Bush joined Leno on The Tonight Showin 2013 and even gave the host a portrait of Leno that he had painted. “I can’t make fun of him now!” Leno joked.
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The Tonight Show with Jay Leno · Season 20 - Plex. After Johnny Carson 's retirement from the show, Jay Leno stepped in as his permanent replacement. The format of the show has remained largely unchanged, consisting primarily of an opening humorous monologue, followed by several celebrity interviews, comedy sketches and musical numbers. More.
