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Continuing its uninterrupted streak of uncreativity, all The Jay Leno Show could come up with for its final taping tonight was this hackneyed bit of NBC cross-promotion: to have Donald Trump tell the host via satellite, “You’re fired!” Oh barf.
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I only wish he was. What a waste of space he is.
Why does Jay insist on playing the victim? He makes himself look so pathetic.
Remember when NBC actually was known for their comedies?
Those were good times. Hmmm…those were pre-Zucker days. Hmmmm….
ugh r u serious?
lame
Donald Trump is such a blowhard, it’s amazing his house of cards has stood so long. I’ve never seen ANYone be able to create the facade that “The Donald” has out of so much NOTHING. He’s leveraged to so many lenders that it would take a government bailout to keep him afloat if any one actually tried to collect.
I gotta admit, though. He does bring the tourists to town. For some reason folks from the flyover states actually buy his schtick.
The bit was as lame as expected. Double barf.
I love Jay Leno! Welcome back Jay! Its sad the 10 o’clock show didn’t work but atleast that UNFUNNY Conan is gone! Haleluja!
If only he could fire Zucker.
Who probably came up with this dud of an idea.
People ask why Jay Leno is blamed for this nonsense. He had five years to find another job while he had a number one show on the air. Oh, he was under contract for another year. Then, do something else for a year. He had to employ his people. No he didn’t. They can move to another network with him or find other jobs. Conan’s people are out of work. He doesn’t care about them. His excuses bother me. Anyway, people like that are best left alone. Team Coco for life.
Funniest part is Jay probably talked over Donald and it was all awkward and terrible like all their satellite skits.
Ugh.
I thought the “You’re fired” bit was at least a little funny. I mean, come on, Leno has been screwed over twice by NBC. Maybe it is his fault for staying around to be screwed over, but he is not the bad guy here. He is an easy target because he stays in the spotlight, but that is his job and he does it well.
Is anyone surprised they did this? The Jay Leno Show has been nonstop consistant – consistantly unfunny, to be more specific – so why would that trend change now?
It’s kind of like when Mayor Guilliani (not sure if I spelled that right) went on SNL for their first show after September 11th. He made a great speech about the strength of people. After which, Lorne looked at him and asked, “Now can we be funny?” The mayor looked at him and said, “Why start now?”
So I ask anyone who is shocked by the lame-o Leno/Trump thing: Why would that show start being funny NOW?
This is exactly the kind of “comedy” we can look foward to on the Tonght Show.
Jay IS the victim. It was MANAGEMENT only decision. Jay is NOT a waste of space! He will do fine going back to his original time.
Linda, that’s what you said about the 10 p.m. show. “Jay will do fine.” Remember? You were wrong then, and you’re wrong now. Leno drew an audience in the old days not because he was funny but because of the perception that he’s a nice, decent, honest guy. Most THINKING PEOPLE now know that’s all bullshit.
Now, about the Trump skit, and all the other crap “comedy” on The Jay Leno Show. Who writes this garbage? Are these professional comedy writers? No way.
When will all of this come crashing down on Zucker’s head. So far, he seems to be a man of Teflon — he seems to be auditioning for a new super heroe called Zeflon!
Pathetic attempt at comedy. What an a-hole.
Apparently George Clooney and Anna Kendrick weren’t available.
I would say NBC still has great comedies. The 4 that they have on Thursday are all really good. I think Community is the weakest of the 4 but they are still all above average. The Parenthood looks like a really funny show too. Hopefully without this wasted space at 10 pm, it might make room for some other good new shows. I can’t believe Jay and Trump did the “You’re fired!” thing again- lol.
What’s even more “innovative” in his show is the fact that he had Ashton Kutcher come on the show and say that his whole show was a skit on “Punk’d”. Wow, who writes this stuff?!?!
“You’re fired” ? Is it still 2004?
It was one minute of the whole show. Monologue wasn’t bad, Ashton Kutcher and Bob Costas were good guests. We all know the show wasn’t good, Jay knows it. Is there anything bad happening anywhere else on TV besides NBC? All this repetitive venom is getting old. Hate only hurts yourself.
Oh there’s plenty of bad stuff happening anywhere else on TV besides NBC. It’s just that few of them are spectacularly stupid ideas that everyone knows won’t work, like doing a talk show five nights a week in prime time, and they keep occurring under a president who’s managed to keep his network in fourth place ever since the last episode of “Friends” in 2004. For those of us with a sense of history and respect about the network’s heritage – in essence, pretty much everyone except Jeff Zucker and his suck-up underlings – it’s outrageous and disgusting for this to be happening for the network that pioneered broadcasting more than 80 years. That’s we keep harping about this stuff – and the fact Zucker should’ve been fired years ago, like 99% of other bosses who would fail at their jobs like he has.
“Ya Fired!” Ha! I get it…classic.
I know curiosity will get the best of most people and they’ll tune in to Jay’s first night back on The Tonight Show – just to see how he handles it. PLEASE RESIST THE URGE. Obviously, sites like this one will show clips of the “brilliance” the next day. Catch it there.
Send NBC the message that their removal of scripted TV is what sabotaged “The Tonight Show with Conan O’Brien” and that all their “solution” did was create a much larger mess down the road. Who is going to replace Jay next time? Jimmy Fallon? Conan’s audience would have grown as Jay’s did back in 1992. Now we’re going to be stuck with a long period of trial and error, before settling on “The Tonight Show with Nick Cannon.”
I predict that in no time Jay will regain his lead over Letterman and it will be business as usual at 11:35. America will forgive him, and Conan (One Cup of Coffee) O’Brien will be forgotten by the Tonight Show audience. Hopefully he will reinvent and reemerge in a new gig somewhere, but in the Tonight Show legacy he’ll always be the Pete Best to Steve, Jack, Johnny and Jay. Man, that’s gotta hurt!
If you want to use a Beatles analogy a more accurate one would be that Jay is Yoko to John, Paul, George and Ringo, a master manipulator looking to undermine a perceived rival (John to Yoko, Conan to Jay) and do everything in his/her power to bring the rival down.
The difference between the two? Yoko is more talented than Jay, and tells better jokes.
Wrongo, Wrong-O. Your Yoko riff is convoluted and nonsensical. Pete Best is the prime example of a guy who had the winning lottery ticket in his hand only to have it snatched away.
I’m sure that Conan will make a come back and regain his old audience somewhere but nothing will be as sweet as owning the Tonight Show host duties. It would be like losing the the New York Yankees in a card game and getting the Milwaukee Brewers instead.