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The Tonight Show with Jay Leno 

| Comedy, Music, Talk-Show | TV Series (1992–2014)
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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 ... See full summary »

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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. Written by Jean-Marc Rocher <[email protected]>

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The The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (1962)'s previous host, Johnny Carson, never once appeared on successor Jay Leno's show. Carson did, however, appear twice on rival late night talk show Late Show with David Letterman (1993) (in a walk-on appearance soon after Letterman's show debuted, and later in a filmed sketch). In the years following Carson's "Tonight Show" retirement, he reportedly contributed jokes to Letterman's monologues from time to time. See more »

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Jay Leno: [during "Headlines", imitating in southern accent ] Well, looook, here's some suuure fine winder cleaner!
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Tonite
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Q: You are writing about Late night comedy hosts as though Arsenio Hall is not in the room. You even mention Conon O'brian in the same sentence as Johnny Carson. Are you crazy!
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14 April 1999 | by (Taunton, Massachusetts) – See all my reviews

Do you know how all the young basketball players sing about how they want to "Be like Mike." After watching Jay Leno and having dreams of being a comedian, I want to "be like Jay" one day. Not only is his show hilarious, Jay is a hard worker. I can't remember the last time I saw a repeat.

His opening monolouge is great. I can be guaranteed of laughing out loud at least once every show. Jay carries so much class and pride on his show(unlike some other bad host, whose name is David Letterman).
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