Jay Leno Collection on Letterman, Part 2 of 3: 1984-1986

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Jay Leno appeared on Late Night forty-one times, forty as a guest and one in a taped cameo. Here are all of his appearances, plus other related videos scattered within.
A few clips were edited together from different sources. For one video (January 6, 1983), I chose the E! broadcast, as it's the only source in my collection that didn't mute "Hostess Twinkies."
The collection is in three parts:
Part 1: Clips #1 to 14 -- • Jay Leno Collection on...
Part 2: Clips #15 to 28 -- here
Part 3: Clips #29 to 50 -- • Jay Leno Collection on...
Part 3 begins with Jay's first Tonight Show as guest-host in 1986. It foreshadowed shifting tectonic plates between Jay, Dave, Dave's then-current network, and CBS.
Before all that, though, there's a reason Jay appeared so often on Late Night, especially up that first guest-host milestone: he was damn funny, and Dave's laughter was genuine. There's much here to analyze their evolving relationship.
Part 1:
1. April 15, 1982: Jay guest appearance #1 (stand-up #1 and home base chat)
2. June 4, 1982: Jay #2
3. June 30, 1982: Jay #3 (introduced by Harve Mann)
4. October 11, 1982: Jay #4
5. November 10, 1982: Jay #5
6. January 6, 1983: Jay #6
7. February 2, 1983: Jay #7
8. April 5, 1983: Jay #8
9. July 7, 1983: Jay #9
10. September 6, 1983: Jay #10
11. October 4, 1983: Jay #11
12. January 12, 1984: Jay #12
13. March 13, 1984: Jay #13
14. May 14, 1984: Jay #14
Part 2:
15. August 16, 1984: Jay #15
16. September 26, 1984: Jay #16
17. January 9, 1985: Jay #17
18. March 21, 1985: Jay #18
19. April 24, 1985: Jay #19
20. August 21, 1985: #20
21. October 10, 1985: Jay #21
22. November 19, 1985: Jay #22
23. January 9, 1986: Jay #23
24. January 30, 1986: Jay #24
25. March 25, 1986: Jay #25 (w/Seth Green, then 12 years old)
26. May 28, 1986: Jay #26
27. June 18, 1986: Chris Elliott's Jay Leno impression #1
28. August 19, 1986: Jay #27
Part 3:
29. September 9, 1986: Jay's first Tonight Show as guest-host, monologue
30. October 2, 1986: Chris Elliott's Jay Leno impression #2
31. October 14, 1986: Jay #28 (w/Chris Elliott)
32. November 1, 1986: Dave cameos on Jay's television special
32. December 16, 1986: Jay #29
33. February 7, 1987: Jay #30 (stand-up #2 for 5th anniversary)
34. May 13, 1987 (taped April 13): Jay #31
35. September 29, 1987: Jay #32
36. November 24, 1987: Jay #33 (with 3 kids: Jocelyn Argento, Kristin Symons, and Brian Wilde)
37. February 11, 1988: same Condom Week joke setup with different punchlines, Jay guest-hosting The Tonight Show, followed by Dave an hour later
38. March 4, 1988: Jay #34
39. July 7, 1988: Jay #35
40. May 4, 1989: Jay #36 (in Chicago)
41. August 16, 1989: Jay #37
42. October 11, 1990: Leno guests on Donahue, excerpts
43. October 11, 1990: Leno guests on Live at Five
44. October 11, 1990: Jay #38
45. November 2, 1990: Jay's taped Viewer Mail cameo, taped October 11, 1990
46. June 6, 1991: Dave congratulates Jay for succeeding Johnny Carson as Tonight Show host
47. December 12, 1991: Jay #39
48. May 7, 1992: Jay #40 (Jay becomes Tonight Show host in two weeks)
49. January 14, 1993: Jay, now Tonight Show host, remarks on Dave's decision to leave his then-current network for CBS
50. June 25, 1993: Jay wishes Dave well before the upcoming final Late Night

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@terrydefoor453 Год назад

These memories would have disappeared forever for me except for your compilations. Thanks Don!

@user-td6yv6lr7p 3 месяца назад

Thanks for putting this on here, never would have seen them otherwise, Jay certainly has changed in some ways.

@cynthiahusband106 7 дней назад

God I love Jay Leno his comebacks are quick intelligent and funny as hell, love him.

@roxannelittle8142 3 года назад

Don, you've no idea how much I appreciate this. Thanks a million!

@lillianfraijo6621 2 года назад

Thanks for showing this. I used to love these two together back in the day.

@tjkinsella1111 2 года назад

Thank you again Sir Don. Wanted to again (at the Thanksgiving holiday) thank you a thousand times over for sharing your very hard, very accomplished, and so very very very much appreciated library of Letterman. As much as some of us (sometimes) can't stand Sir Jay, the stuff with him and Dave gives all of us a reminder of 2 very talented friends making each other (and the audience) truly laugh.

@dongiller 2 года назад

Thanks! I might re-up Part 3 this week.

@everettsykes1774 3 года назад

Thx for the great work compiling these! I needed a few laughs.

@Augustmeurer 2 года назад

Thank you so much for all your hard work putting these up

@GTseven 2 года назад

We are seeing Jay Leno at the top of his game here. Thanks Dan for preserving these outstanding moments in comedy and TV history!

@dongiller 2 года назад

Dan, Don… Thanks!

@davidfranksis8127 2 года назад

Ppp p

@mikearenas4605 2 года назад

Dave is the friend you go to for advice and jay is the friend you hang with to forget your problems.

@SLAWDOGUSBRAND Год назад

Mos def!! Lol! Best ever!

@LizaFan 11 месяцев назад

Fuck no to both of these statements.

@teresaf991 3 года назад

Man you are the greatest. Anyone can just upload a video to you tube but the work you put into putting these together and not cutting out too much is really appreciated.

@mr.seanster Год назад

Jay Leno was really good. Dave and Jay had really good chemistry. Love to see them have a special together. Netflix special with the two of them would be epic.

@misslovechild22 Год назад

YES TO THIS

@inrainbowman Год назад

sounds gay to me

@leaffinite3828 Год назад

Somethin makes me think it wouldnt happen

@cindywhitaker2821 3 года назад

Sure am enjoying these clips. Thank you!

@fettesteil1401 2 года назад

The difference between Leno and letterman is that letterman seems genuine and Leno is an act.

@bugzy_9198 2 года назад

I proffered Leni over Letterman. Unfortunately today we don't have those options just a bunch of garbage pushing an agenda. Miss the good old days. I'd take the top 10 over what we have today.

@marypatton1122 2 года назад

Yes but it is a genuine act Leno has.

@Tommah1000 2 года назад

Agree. The natural setting of a conversation where the interviewer sits behind an office desk facing the same direction as the interviewee demands genuine!

@ohthehumanity6774 2 года назад

And? He's worth $450 million today. Oh. It's an "act." No good. LOL

@warntheidiotmasses7114 2 года назад

Leno isn't even funny. It's like he's trying to do some crappy act.

@judithcunningham3014 5 лет назад

this was so funny to watch, and brought back some great memories---loved Letterman and Leno together---thank you for putting this on You Tube--well done

@MagnumMike44 5 лет назад

Great video! I've always liked Jay Leno and it's good to see him with David Letterman before he became the Tonight Show host.

@kellywatts248 3 года назад

I really appreciate all the work it took to gather all these amazing clips, and then organize them in such a professional way. How are you ?

@tubbytuba1 5 лет назад

Don...thank you for putting all these up here....who has the foresight to record every minute of every show in the universe, and then, over 30 years later, present it to an appreciative audience? Bravo, man! I have a new appreciation for Leno...such a consistently funny guy...and interesting to see the interplay between him and Letterman, and realize how they worked so well together, and seemed to genuinely like each other...and then...

@dongiller 5 лет назад

Thanks! I certainly had no clue these tapes would have some value decades later. Or that there'd be the technology available to get them out there.

@BigWickEnergy_ 4 года назад

And then what?

@escaton74 2 года назад

@@BigWickEnergy_ history

@eemoogee160 2 года назад

@@BigWickEnergy_ they had a long public feud

@jonathanchang7742 2 года назад

really? is it just me but i sense some early stages of animosity between the two. very subtle and easy to miss. but there are several points in several interviews where i can feel the tension. but the lights are on, the camera is rolling, and the show must go on. so they're always laughing, always smiling. but i see it. meh, or maybe i dont

@crashburn3292 3 года назад

Long before Jay found his Levi shirt.

@derrikferguson3219 3 года назад

Jay comes on and starts doing a monologue.

@rockyevans1584 2 года назад

Yeah he's about as one note as they come

@thegoodthebadandtheugly579 2 года назад

That’s why he got the job and Letterman never managed to do one until the end of his career.. which was much earlier before he retired..

@rockyevans1584 2 года назад

@@thegoodthebadandtheugly579 good for him, cant understand how anyone ever watched him

@thegoodthebadandtheugly579 2 года назад

@@rockyevans1584 letterman? Yeah, me too..

@rockyevans1584 2 года назад

@@thegoodthebadandtheugly579 i didnt say i was a letterman fan or hater, but i guess leno fans lack some sort of crucial brain function. That makes sense to me

@jimharkins6257 3 года назад

No interview - Just Jay doing his act. Very 80s.

@birdmantd 2 года назад

Same thing when Carson had guys like Dangerfield on. It benefited both. Raised Leno's profile. And Dave can take the segment off as opposed to booking some random celebrity who may or may not be entertaining.

@mikepetitti 2 года назад

First, @Don Giller - great work putting these together. Awesome stuff. Second, I always thought this was Leno and Letterman at their respective peaks AND as genuine friends. Both were very, very funny before the late night succession war.

@CJIG22 Год назад

Sadly, the qualified teacher mentioned in 45:10, Christa McAuliffe didn't make it back down.

@ventisale1 2 года назад

wow.... so incredibly interesting to watch this compilation (thanks for pulling it together) You can read so much into Dave's reactions to Jay... He is completely appreciative of his sense of humour, clearly, but also clearly put off by the whiff of arrogance that Jay projects.... Fast forward a few decades and the debacle of replacing the host of the Night Show and whatever relationship they had seems to have gone completely off the rails.

@js2010ish Год назад

Yeah the jokes aren't far from Dave's sense of humor, but sound so hollow coming from Jay

@notreya 10 месяцев назад

sorry to reply so late but this is so true. you can kinda tell that even with most of these that were pre the tonight show war, letterman always only kinda "put up" with jay because even he has to laugh at how funny he was. But yeah everytime letterman just has no time for jay trying to promote 30 shows in 5 seconds and just tries to get through it all quick. you can also see the feeling is mutual with sometimes jay wasting time and stuff. really interesting

@last7509 3 месяца назад

he could smell that jay was using him. but for one if you have a comedian on you need him to go ballistic like jay. and this is how it works in that business. you're always looking to up end the other guys.

@gleroyTullySAEHEYKID 6 лет назад

Subbed and liked. Giller, thanks for your hard work and dedicated archiving skills.

@dongiller 6 лет назад

Thanks!

@briansounalath 3 года назад

I fell asleep and all these Jay Leno on Letterman videos kept playing. I kept waking up and being like, "woah young Jay Leno and he's kinda edgy." Real talk, I never knew he was this funny! His own talk show really softened him up.

@kellywatts248 3 года назад

Jay is actually bomb. How are you ?

@briansounalath 3 года назад

@@kellywatts248 pretty good thanks. too bad he got himself canceled years ago

@jeneraljax29 2 года назад

I think it's different when you have to write new jokes every single night.

@johnsjohnson448 Год назад

Dave's cackle added to the laughs of Jay's great observational comedy. Pure gold. Just like Don's work and great clip choices. Thanks for sharing.

@soniaperusse2223 3 года назад

Fabulous...Thank you!

@RD3D-1 5 лет назад

48:21 That 7-11 store thing had me in tears. One of his best moments.

@petejameyson8775 3 года назад

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@DeedeeandtheBeebee 2 года назад

Man its gold

@whatdoiput807 2 года назад

The junkies eating mallomars part is a George Carlin bit from at least 7 years earlier. "Can't get them in the store, they line up at the truck for the mallomars." Fuck Jay Leno.

@johnarnold893 2 года назад

@@whatdoiput807 ahhhh, boo hoo for you. If you hate him so much why did you watch this?

@whatdoiput807 2 года назад

@@johnarnold893 because I like letterman cap'n. And fuck Jay Leno.

@misisipimike8020 3 года назад

Loved seeing the WDSU TV 6 New Orleans logo pop up. That’s the channel I watched Letterman on as a kid. Videotaped from the night before of course....

@JosephChecke 3 года назад

There really seemed to be a brotherly vibe between them in these days, with Dave genuinely enjoying his younger "brother", and letting Jay do his thing. Dave usually limits himself to teasing, but friendly comments. I'm enjoying this video more than I thought I would.

@chonconnor6144 3 года назад

It sort of informs the late night wars and why they were so personal. As someone only old enough to know 90s Leno and Letterman, I had no idea how regularly Leno appeared on Late Nite.

@scoobydo6643 2 года назад

They both lived together in L.A.just getting started in the business.

@sidobeef Год назад

#25 at 2:01:56 is hillarious. Laughed out loud. The man was a total joke machine and clearly had worked to make every appearance memorable.

@katherinehunter9526 2 года назад

Hearing Jay Praise the Cosby Show back then was interesting to hear in 2022. I wondering what he would be saying about Bill now? I also cringed when he dissed NASA putting a Teacher into space, considering what happened to that flight! May that crew rest in Peace after being so violently taken on that fateful voyage, whilst millions of people witnessed that unspeakable tragedy. 🙏 Thanks for sharing these old shows with Leno "Mr.Comedy "on the Letterman show! Bwahahah.🥳 O3.18.22

@last7509 3 месяца назад

but did you see bill do anything? and that teacher is alive and well by the way

@katherinehunter9526 3 месяца назад

@@last7509 Oh and Earth is Flat Too! Bwahahah! Riiiight! Can I interest you in buying some Swamp Land in North Canada! Give over, last! 🤯🧠💥

@Mario_N64 4 года назад

Damn, Leno had an amazing comeback for audience groaning at around 1:02:00... Imagine the amount of heckling he had to endure when he was younger. He did work his ass off.

@SandraLovesRoses 3 года назад

"Damn? Amazing?" He didn't even say whether he had a comeback to the actual audience in the past of which he was speaking.

@SandraLovesRoses 3 года назад

That's because he isn't all that funny.

@Mario_N64 3 года назад

@@SandraLovesRoses He became a hack in the late 80s, but early in the Letterman show he was genuinely funny.

@Mario_N64 3 года назад

@@SandraLovesRoses He referred to that gasping or groaning as childish stuff you did in elementary school. That was the joke.

@johnarnold893 2 года назад

@@SandraLovesRoses boo hoo for you.

@rhondaavery7766 2 года назад

thank you for the video.

@LyghtWaves 3 года назад

In that first part it feels like Jay is interviewing Letterman lmao "Ya seen this movie?" "Ya following the olympics?"

@brycemcneil4404 2 года назад

It's because of Leno's Letterman appearances that I still frequently open a conversation (jokingly of course) with "Have we seen this? Have we seen this?..."

@last7509 3 месяца назад

he was auditioning for his job. and dave kind of senses this

@maitrikpatel6536 3 года назад

I really appreciate all the work it took to gather all of these clips, and then organize them in such a professional way. Your editing skills make this a pleasant journey down memory lane.

@billyb6001 2 года назад

It's just shows how unfunny Jay was from the beginning.

@phishphan49 2 года назад

@@billyb6001 you're not wrong but cheers to the effort it took to compile the clips proving it. This fake laugh we see refined in these clips lasted Dave a career of not always the best guests every night... Jay sucks, but it's really nice to have an archive that demonstrates it so well, thanks to the uploader for the work.

@antonvangrendel 2 года назад

Great editing, yes, but too bad Leno blows goats. Always has. Always will.

@HearBobbyRoar 2 года назад

Oh do you? That makes me feel so much better about humanity when one person jokes about the future. Way to go. Especially when your analysis comes 25 years after the prophecy. Good job.

@walthutton5058 2 года назад

@@HearBobbyRoar G-

@dennispearson9287 2 года назад

This Phenomenal Compilation Allowed Me To Binge On Continuous JOY 😂!!!...

@nightsh1ft13 2 года назад

The sheer look of disdain on Letterman’s face is awesome

@brichards9293 9 месяцев назад

Letterman let Leno come on every month, they were really close during this time,

@bwilson774 2 года назад

having been born in the late 80's it's always weird seeing clips of young touring comedian Jay Leno

@mattkaustickomments 2 года назад

19:18 Dave spittin straight facts. He was trying to tell us way back when.

@jonathanbrown7250 2 года назад

His interns can't say they weren't warned

@calmbreeze9575 2 года назад

He almost busted his ass in that motorcycle entrance 😂

@joshportnoy8102 3 года назад

If Dave ever has Jay on My Next Guest, the internet would explode

@prmaninla 5 лет назад

1:10:40 "there's something really suspicious about these soft cookies..." you can hear dave starting to laugh... cracks me up every time.

@ChuckKahn 2 года назад

1:11:11 Jay frequently parodied corporate ruthlessness back in the 80’s but that aspect of his humour disappeared when he softened all the edges to become a more corporate friendly Tonight Show host / Doritos shill. It’s funny all these comments from Jay haters working backwards from the premise that Tonight Show Jay was never funny and pointing to this collection of Jay in his 80’s comedic prime as evidence.

@bdre5555 3 года назад

I remember watching Jay Leno do stand-up on Carson fairly often, and he was absolutely hysterical

@fishsquishguy1833 2 года назад

I actually forgot how great Leno was back then! Thanks for putting this together!

@gregwatson8219 2 года назад

The legends

@maynardferguson9599 3 года назад

It's a pleasure to welcome, Mr. Next Tonight Show host!!!!

@bluray2012ify 6 лет назад

Best video clip ever!!

@bdre5555 3 года назад

Love how Jay sits down and basically does a monologue

@tubor70 6 лет назад

There was almost nothing better on TV when Jay would come on. Dave would let him just rip and Jay was young, hungry and sharp. These appearances helped him get the guest hosting job on the Tonight Show after Garry Shandling walked away from it.

@finnibertlunchiken7792 6 лет назад

Thomas Hill I didnt know Garry Shandling was in line to take the show. He was always a great host. Never saw him on Letterman.

@kanealson5200 6 лет назад

Neither did I know that. Shandling would have been great.

@all4Hisgloryalone2Tim215 3 года назад

Im sorry but Jay as a comic is not funny.His shtick is not natural. He tries way too hard and is just not funny.

@fattiemcfats9783 3 года назад

@@all4Hisgloryalone2Tim215 Exactly

@roscoejones4515 3 года назад

Don must not have those shows, because these suck. Leno's equating volume with humor. In later years Dave would not have fake-laughed like he did here. Ugh.

@thielees 3 года назад

Leno demonstrates his “sit-down comedy” technique here

@billyb6001 2 года назад

I laughed even though I'm very angry that I don't get this joke

@thenoodler 4 года назад

Comes out and goes immediately into his schtick.

@darsure3006 3 года назад

This is a really astute observation and kind of speaks to the type of worker he was. Not really funny, just a worker. I love when Dave calls him out on the tired old 'they were walking out' joke. Dave knows.

@maitrikpatel6536 3 года назад

48:21 That 7-11 store thing had me in tears. One of his best moments.

@tdawg719 3 года назад

Dudes not funny at all. Not tact or awareness

@johntully8176 3 года назад

I only made it to 2minutes

@garylobo348 3 года назад

I despise Leno. I love Letterman. There, I said it!

@mrgreenjeans1794 9 месяцев назад

Forgot just how funny and sharp Jay was as a standup. No waste oxygen. Leno adlib among the best. Dave plays the perfect straightman and let's Leno run with his bit. RU-vid post of Jimmy Walker from Good Times who had a role with a management company involved with both Leno and Letterman. He details how Dave made room for Jay as a semi regular guest, pitched Leno for the Tonight Show Monday hosting gig, rebuffed by Carson so Letterman flew to California making a personal pitch to Carson to hire Leno. Had no idea Letterman and Leno were that close. A shame how it fell apart years later.

@honuman39 2 года назад

Leno really was a funny sharp polished act back then. The problem is that he comes across only as an act. It makes sense to me now that he knew how to game the system to be successful but it also seems clear that he was incapable of being genuine. It would've been interesting to see him stop the shtick and just have a conversation with Letterman. Dave's band was super tight.

@Creapture 2 года назад

his car show is about as genuine as it gets too

@Ditka-89 2 года назад

I agree, it would be nice to see Jay talk without being “on”. God knows how those two, each with their own unique maladaptations and personality defects, converse with one another behind closed doors. Weird to think they were great friends prior to the late show fallout.

@js2010ish 2 года назад

Yes a good word for it is "hack"

@Ditka-89 2 года назад

@@js2010ish some of the best comedians of all time have said how annoying it is that so many people view Leno as a hack, when in reality he’s one of the best stand up comedians to ever live. If you havnt seen his actual standup in a club, then you don’t actually know how funny Leno is. The crap you see on the tonight show and tv is not Leno’s best material-he doesn’t do his best, or even his good material, when he does tv. Letterman, Norm Macdonald, and many other “comedians comedians” will be the first to say he’s one of the funniest comics to ever live

@phishphan49 2 года назад

@@Creapture it still feel like he's putting on an act. I've never seen leno display convincing human emotion and it's unnerving.

@MonoverSusstereo 2 года назад

I love both of these guys

@capablemachine 2 месяца назад

Jay never did a comedy special but these appearances one after another are our substitute.

@dongiller 2 месяца назад

He did a few, actually.

@Yourmomgoestocolledge 2 года назад

Hes literally doing a monolog. No wonder he got the tonight show. He came out, sat down and went right into it.

@dongiller 2 года назад

As did practically every other comic doing panel.

@therationalcenter667 3 года назад

Leno was such a powerhouse and I've always thought Letterman had the best late night show. The two together is a gold mine. Leno and Norm Macdonald are my two favorite guests.

@ryansproviero 2 года назад

RIP Norm

@johnsimon9455 2 года назад

Well said

@steveconn 2 года назад

If Norm overdid his humor, Norm underdid his (lazy and insipid).

@philipmcritchie7309 3 года назад

man I'm from the Uk and never seen any of these before. Jay is the absolute bomb !!!

@MichelleUS66 Месяц назад

In the first couple of segments here, Jay goes on about evil twins in TV shows (as seen on Knight Rider, Magnum P.I., etc.). Two years after this, Jay had a late-night special called “The Jay Leno Show” (shown in SNL’s time-slot). Dave was a guest on the show, and he immediately got shot down after walking out and greeting Jay. The killer - shown for a split second in the flash from the gun - was Jay Leno wearing a fake mustache (with the caption “evil twin”). [Earlier in the special, Jay suggested that people record the show on their VCRs as things “will happen fast”. I did as instructed, so I’ve known about Jay’s evil twin killing Dave since 1986. It’s nice to finally learn where that gag had come from.]

@bsusak09 2 года назад

Jay is the uncle you desperately want to shut up at Christmas dinner.

@bhonest-gb5zg 7 месяцев назад

But enjoy and 😂 anyway

@incaguaya 2 года назад

You can see how Jay was auditioning to take Dave's job even in these early clips

@winonafrog 7 месяцев назад

😅

@-Gunnarsson- 17 дней назад

Welcome to another episode of. Building Jay Lenos garage.

@mikegerardi7213 2 года назад

Loooong before the hatred began. Thanks for the upload!

@ShrimplyPibblesA- 4 года назад

It's so apparent looking back that Jay was so envious of David and never missed an opportunity to kick his legs out from underneath him throwing shade to steal his spotlight

@tomlyons7891 3 года назад

No, Dave was always envious and intimidated by Leno.

@JasonBeam7 2 года назад

@@tomlyons7891 in what reality?

@edwardcollins539 5 лет назад

It's great to see Jay before he did the Tonight show and had to dummy down for the money controllers.

@darsure3006 3 года назад

@Brandon S He did standup while doing the tonight show? Um WHEN? He was doing a five-night-a-week show...when the fuck would he have time to tour? Citation needed.

@mrpostnorts5259 3 года назад

@@darsure3006 Every weekend and during his vacation time, I saw him twice during that time.

@PatchworkUSA 2 месяца назад

I don’t understand why people have a problem with Jay, a comedian, coming on the show and doing his comedy act. Instead of standing in front of a microphone doing his act, he does it sitting next to Dave. What exactly is it that you guys think he is not doing? He was paid to appear on the show and do his act as other comedians did.

@That60sGuy 8 месяцев назад

Woooooweeeee!!! Funny as all get out. I saw Leno here in Memphis in '83. He was definitely at the top of his game back then.

@Chrisdrumz 2 года назад

1:07:30 "Celestial Funeral Pyre". When I first saw this and Leno said that it stuck with me. Always wanted to start a band and name it that.

@RaulGroom 2 года назад

It's interesting how personal humor is. I watched this entire video and never laughed once, yet Leno has made millions of people laugh for years. Viva la difference!

@cockanus297 2 года назад

@CitiZEN CAT Leno sucks lol

@veritasmagnum668 2 года назад

Yes I was thinking that as well.

@cactusdragon3553 2 года назад

If you didn't like it why watch the whole thing?

@barryallen871 2 года назад

He maid millions from having a milquetoast Tonight Show for like twenty years, not from his comedy. Although this was far funnier than any of that... you just don't get the references.

@RaulGroom 2 года назад

@@barryallen871 lol im 45 I lived through all of this i just don't find Leno funny

@timfeleppa3156 5 лет назад

Thanks Don!

@Scottie404 2 года назад

Like Bob Hope, Leno basically did his comedy routine instead of carrying on an interesting, amusing conversation.

@editingmatters 2 года назад

You're right but Leno was so quick back then that some of it was made up on the spot - as a response to Dave - but it's so sharp and witty that it sounds like it was lifted from a routine.

@repomang 2 года назад

Much like Rodney dangerfield

@meyman9 2 года назад

All the old comedians did bits from their standup back then.

@nancyphillips7847 2 года назад

So much like Robin Williams

@rondobson1828 3 года назад

Not that you would know it from his decades hosting the Tonight Show, but Jay Leno is one of the funniest comedians of all time.

@atrulson 3 года назад

I suppose someone can be a funny comedian but not be a funny person. Letterman was a lousy comedian, but a very funny person.

@richcrane2661 3 года назад

@J T ok jus like to go for thz,e,,,

@Dsmurf2201 3 года назад

Of all time?!

@billwatkins9202 3 года назад

@J T c

@sooper1000 3 года назад

Vvv

@paulmcginn5146 3 года назад

my america. these boys are so quick. their thoughts are mine, just so conscise and lightning quick. remarkable wonderful people. and paul shaeffer playing joe walsh. how cool is that

@christopherramon-reid9841 5 лет назад

As a side dish in Letterman, Leno was GREAT!

@StreamlineCarry 3 года назад

The energy and talent Jay expresses in these clips shows why Bill Hicks was so mad at him for selling out. He had great material busting on the psycho corporations that were (and are) screwing this country sideways.

@everettsykes1774 3 года назад

I would love to see Hicks and Leno on the same venue.

@erichaynes7502 3 года назад

You're absolutely right!

@jameshightower4665 3 года назад

Hicks isnt funny

@PlugInRides 2 года назад

But Jay also shows that side that Dave grew to hate. Leno is not really interacting, or trying to play off Dave. Leno basically treats Dave like he is any generic talk show host, and Jay is just doing his monologue. In the end, Leno is off in his own world, and Letterman is nothing more to him than a prop. Compare this to any number of comedians Carson had on The Tonight Show. They played off each other, While Johnny was to often happy to play straight man, it was a collaborative effort. When Bill Hicks was on Letterman, you felt the same synergy. With Leno, it feels like Dave is irrelevant, like they were never friends, and Jay would be doing the same act on any show.

@7beers 2 года назад

@@PlugInRides agree 100 percent

@foxygrandpa1899 2 года назад

It's funny looking back on these now and knowing just how much Leno wanted that job and the lengths he went to get it

@dentonfender6492 Год назад

Loved Leno, Carlin, and David Letterman, especially loved the 80's, the pinnacle of the American Democratic Republic. Been gradually going down hill ever since. Thanks for putting these old shows on. I worked so much back then, I did not see many of these late night shows. Had to get my sleep, and missed the greats. Now I'm making up for lost time.

@js2010ish Год назад

Ah yes the Iran Contra AIDS and crack era, such a simpler time 🙏🏼

@scottb1621 3 года назад

Damn RU-vid recommendations. Its painful watching this after the best of Norm on Letterman

@seabound1350 3 года назад

Jay Leno is the best guest David Letterman ever had. Its just outstanding ❤️🙏

@jmo6603 2 года назад

Agreed. The Teri Garr and Norm McDonald stuff Don put up is good stuff as well. 👍

@DrPepperZZZ 2 года назад

Cool video of Dave uncomfortably trying to interview Jay during his stand up act.

@dongiller 2 года назад

_Every_ comic did their stand-up act while at home base.

@DrPepperZZZ 2 года назад

@@dongiller wait, so Letterman's show is Leno's home base? I've seen comedians conversate during an interview instead of just perform.

@dongiller 2 года назад

@@DrPepperZZZ “Home base” here means sitting in a guest chair. Practically every comic who panels (another word for “home base”) essentially does their act. Leno was no exception, nor did he stand out for doing what everyone else did.

@MrGarysugarman Месяц назад

@@dongiller Jay had a chemistry with Dave similar to Rickles with Carson. I don't remember seeing other comics on Late Night doing that, nor others on Carson. And I love the "just perform" attempted snub. I guess they'd be satisfied if Dave did a Barbara Walters with Jay in hopes of bringing a tear or two to his eyes.

@michaellawrence5492 2 года назад

Jay Leno in as he lives today has proved he realized in 1985 where America was heading when discovered this clip 2021, Wow!

@eigobike3929 3 года назад

I flew once with Nadia Comenic. Nobody was walking out. They were amazed.

@webexpertcharlie 3 года назад

Jay was considered by his peers to be the master of stand up comedy in the Eighties. Once he got the Tonight Show, his act was considered to be “watered down” for middle America.

@Dulcimerist 3 года назад

Yeah, once the "stuffed shirts" at NBC got involved in Leno's work, he just gave up and decided to phone it in every night.

@redacted2275 3 года назад

Unfortunately Leno, together with Jon Stewart, opened the gates for all talk show hosts of today, mediocre at best. That doesn't mean they were bad, they were excelent in what they did, it's what came after that sucks. (Conan doesn't count, he is not from this generation of talk show hosts). Leno does stand up comedy to this day, I think. The guy loves what he does, no doubt about it. :)

@jeneraljax29 2 года назад

@@Dulcimerist wouldn't ever say he phoned it in at all

@Dulcimerist 2 года назад

@@jeneraljax29 Watch his later season monologues, where he'd often let out a sigh after a joke and say "what else" and then go on to the next joke. Just reading them off the cue cards like they were tedious hoops to jump through.

@jeneraljax29 2 года назад

@@Dulcimerist i mean, if you want to pick and choose specific episodes or a time frame that's fine but you can't say he phoned it in every night of his tonight show tenure.

@marypatton1122 2 года назад

I didn't know ANYONE knew how to use the automatic VCR timer! Jay can explain it to his 70 year old mom? HE IS A GENIUS!!

@samuelnazario7412 3 месяца назад

You can sense the hidden rivalry between them. It’s so subtle you have to see it in hindsight.

@grahamrobins7411 2 года назад

1:08:52 love hearing Dave’s authentic laugh

@NevadaBoss 5 лет назад

Amazing how funny Leno was in the 80s..saw him live back then & he did 2solid hours of the best standup I've ever seen..such a waste that he went to vanilla 'talk show' guy route. These are great posts..thks.

@katlynklassen809 2 года назад

He still has shows like that. Just his tv personality was blando. He has comedy for every room

@Cesar-pq2ck 9 месяцев назад

Leno was made to be a host! His presence is unmovable. I’ve seen him twice in the past three years and he never disappoints!

@FredHerrman 3 года назад

Great performance. 👍🏼

@east5871 3 года назад

So far what I’m seeing is Leno winning The Tonight Show gig over Letterman right under Letterman’s nose.

@east5871 3 года назад

Alexander Martin Good point. How many times did Jimmy Fallon appear on letterman‘s show?

@Mekrabb 3 года назад

It is 100% obvious why NBC did what they did after watching these. And the ratings throughout proved it.

@jbetnar 2 года назад

@@Mekrabb Leno was a better ass kisser.

@RS-ni3lj 2 года назад

Leno wanted it more, he was a shrewd and ruthless operator behind the scenes.

@rocknroller77 5 лет назад

Jay on "One Day At A Time" and "Alice." Love him

@FaithfulServant316 Год назад

Leno's head & face is a funny looking dude lmao😂

@jimlaforte1755 2 года назад

Jay had an edge and made great observations. What's more, Dave always knew how to sit back and when to step in.

@randonceccoli8428 5 лет назад

I like Jay Leno but this is like a job interview. "Have You read this, have you heard about this". The guys the best at what he does but total robot - inability/unwillingness to genuinely connect thats why this "interview" is basically a Leno monologue. Jay Leno was the inspiration for Jimmy from South Park and they nailed it. Something real is going on and he tells a joke and says wow what a terrific audience and goes in to another joke.

@toscodav 5 лет назад

Imagine that. A monologue from a comedian. So you don't feel a connection with Jay but you like him??? This is comedy not sensitivity training at a fat camp. Leno at his absolute best.

@TheAmazingMrMcFlyy 4 года назад

I have to say I almost admire that sense of showmanship and professionalism with Leno, he pulls it off, he's holding court, no one in comedy today is a real showman like this, they try to relate to the audience too much and when I go to comedy clubs most people don't even really have material, they just do crowd work which is lazy and almost cringe sometimes. This guy is a pro, he could go up on stage today and still kill with observational comedy,

@doddsino 3 года назад

Everything you criticized Leno for, I could easily apply to any of the big mainstream comedians from the 80's. This was the style... Seinfeld had a very similar setup for a very very long time.

@misisipimike8020 3 года назад

It’s what comedians did. Watch Rodney Dangerfield clips.

@jbetnar 2 года назад

@@doddsino Seinfeld never changed either.

@IPlayOneOnT.V. 5 лет назад

About 34:45 Letterman and Leno talked about comedian Emo Phillips. The first time I ever heard him I was listening to my local, regional radio station while driving home from work, and I laughed so hard I almost crashed my car into the boulevard.