Jimmy Kimmel Sucker-Punched Jay Leno | Letterman 

@@holderbee7811 He just hosted the Oscars for the third time so I'm not sure what your definition of "wants to be famous" is

@@holderbee7811you, me and a few million other people seem to know of his fame lol

Who cares?

What a pal!

Yes, (like Dave) I don't think Kimmel ever got over *NBC* choosing Jay to replace Carson.

Leno kind of punked Kimmel. Leno was in talks to go to 11:30pm on ABC and Kimmel was prepared to move his show to 12:30pm but Leno never called back, lol. Leno on ABC would have been amazing for Kimmel's career but he seems to have done well regardless.

@@browsertab Jay should've called to tell Kimmel the deal had fallen thorough. That just would've been good manners (like Conan should've consulted Jay before signing that *NBC* deal that was deciding his retirement date). Still, if that's the worst thing Kimmel personally has on Jay Leno, then yes, (just as you said) he seems to have done well regardless. I don't think Jay's faux pas ruined Kimmel's life.

@@browsertab If somebody doesn't call you back... does that mean you can't call them and ask for an update? Time to grow up.

Yup, Dave's bitterness is legendary.

@@gallery7596 It's his sense of fair play. Plus he had direct experience with the Carson-Leno hand off when he should have got the Tonight Show.

It's been said by more than one of Dave's colleagues at *NBC* that it was his failure to maintain a cordial and cohesive relationship with the very people who were choosing Carson's replacement that cost him "The Tonight Show." That's on Dave.

​@@wintercameLetterman got passed up for the Tonight Show?? This is the first I'm hearing about this. 🤷

Leno is smart as hell. But I would trust him to ever die.

That grammar is a little faulty.

Haha yeah , how many children request to have a David Letterman-themed birthday party like Jimmy instead of Star Wars?

Do you work for the SPACE FORCE?

Why not? He's partially responsible.

What if I told you that this person who has replied to you (@Gallery) is actually a notorious tr011? Just search "Leno vs Conan" and click the first 5 videos that come up on RU-vid. I will bet my salary that you'll find @Gallery's anti-Conan comments under ALL of those videos. This person has no life to live, so they spend all their time hating on conan online. I was able to trace @Gallery's comment history back to 9 years. He has been doing this for 9 years. THe same old talking points that defend Leno and demonize conan, the same old lies. Relentless. I've noticed this sick person's comments on like 12 videos so far. He is a tr011 through and through. Just thought you should know who you're talking to. 9 years, dude.

Never going to come back.

An era I swear

@@GetALifeMileyI know man. What a time to be

​@@GetALifeMileyLate Night as a format was inherently dependant on appointment TV, which just doesn't exist anymore with how the internet evolved since people can watch at any time of day. Late Night probably won't exist in another 5-10 years from now. But hey, don't cry because it's gone, smile because it happened.

But he is partly to blame.

@@gallery7596 This ought to be funny. Try to explain that.

@@alphanerd7221 The person you replied to has been obsessively defending Leno's actions under dozens of anti-Leno videos here on youtube. I was able to trace @Gallery's comment history back to 9 years. 9 years this man has spent polishing Leno's dirtied public image. You can look for him yourself under other anti-Leno videos. He'll be there. He'll be there to defend Leno's non-existent honour.. it's kinda amazing

⁠@@dirtybirdy1212 he would take part of your sentence…not the whole thing, part of it and would respond to that to back up what every narrative he was spewing. and when you would call him out of that. he would continue to do it while claiming he wasn’t. and he would give like pages in his responses. and i’m thinking i know most people like myself have done their research. i read The Late Shift and The War With Late Night. i’d give him quotes from the books and he’d try to disprove them. like bro, you got a hard on for the man, we get it.

@@markjackson6431 dude. You used the phrase "he would..." In your comment and it's inaccurate because it implies that he is healthier now and he has stopped this behaviour. But he still hasn't stopped 😅 10 years later, he is still doing this to this day. Can you imagine living his "life"?

I watch Kimmel's show. Terrific monologue. But, I don't agree with what he said. Conan went after Jay's job, not the other way round.

@@gallery7596 that's not how things happened at all

@@dokterclaw1083 Really? Please enlighten us as to what you think happened.... with detail.

@@dokterclaw1083 Read *"The War For Late Night: When Leno Went Early & Television Went Insane" by Bill Carter.*

Respect! Please, that man deserves zero respect.

The Architect of all that's been great about this show.

Glow up?

@@senorfish2503 an improvement in his appearance

He's almost unrecognizable, he lost weight, fixed his hair, grew a beard, maybe got a lid lift. He's downright good looking.

@@wintercame Still rather weaselesque ..

@@ocan1033 Eye of the beholder.

Too many trips to Epstein Island.

​@@RoyRodgers-pw4gm lmao okay Aaron rodgers

eww scientologist

I almost did until Jay said it was OK not to. what a nice guy

@@Jack-rk7jc He's a real sweetheart, isn't he?

Please ladies and gentlemen, don't blame Conan.

I blame Lonnie Donegan, if anybody.

I hope you’re not thinking about blaming Conan

Nah, I think Conan is the preferred heir by Letterman

@@aniruddh3258 How many times did Letterman appear on any of his shows? I believe the answer is once - in 1994, when O'Brien was staring cancellation right in the eye. By contrast he's been on Kimmel numerous times. Again, not overt, but evident.

Nah Dave hates when people grovel over him.

@@mactheknife7049 Dave appeared many times on LNwCOB especially when Conan's main competitor at that time on 12:30 AM timeslot was Tom Snyder's TLLSwTS.

@@aniruddh3258 Not even close. Heir? He could not have care less about anything concerning an heir. I guarantee that. He showed up to Conan’s Late Night show because it was struggling and well, he created the show. He has showed up to Mayer’s Late Night as well because well, he created the show. Jimmy Kimmel’s show is the only one he does without an obligation. It’s going to be 8 years in May since he retired and he has yet to go on Colbert’s Late Show.

Actually Dave set the stage for Kimmel's lame 'political' humor. In the old days he'd take a swing at both Clinton and Bush then throw TVs off the roof. But in his later years he became a standard, vacuous Hollywood lefty. "Woke up" and had climate change pundits on in place of stupid pet tricks. And was always bitter toward Leno for taking the Tonight Show from him (in his mind.)

Oof

He's a tool.

WHO the hell are you "RIPing"??!!

2010

Jay Lenos alt account ^^

Hahaha he literally just hosted the oscars sunday

Hopefully not. Cry baby lib patsy

Funny Jimmy is no more, сuскed Jimmy is still around thou

unfortunately he got slapped by will smith yesterday for his oscar jokes and passed away from second hand embarrassment :(

One can only wish.

Well I am

Might have something to do with his sucking.

Naf lemmik a ton M'i

Your loss

Jay is about as popular as stage 4 cancer.

@@mastermill79 With Team Coco maybe, but (as Conan proved), they represent a minority.

is he tho

Nah, he never recovered from the PR debacle. He became unlikable.

@@wintercame According to you. Did you take a national survey or are you just saying that because you don't like Leno? I'm betting it's the latter.

Never experienced that myself.

His political commentary is spot on

They get him to host the Oscars because he's not entertaining?

There's Team CoCo, too, but they can't admit that Conan contributed to his own failure.

Agreed. I loved Letterman when I was young but he grew bitter and overtly political (like Kimmel et al.) I didn't even like Leno's Tonight Show (though he was very funny coming up as a comedian.) But he seems like a way more genuine person than the bitter has-beens taking swipes at him, and he never plays that game.

@@gallery7596 again you're over-generalizing and launching ad hominem attacks on us all. And we're the bad guys?

It's way more than half a dozen and you're completely ignoring a few million people who hate leno's guts. When was the last time you've a video essay here on youtube that defends Leno and attacks conan? Never. Because there aren't any. Every single video essay and deep dive into the Leno vs Conan feud comes to the inevitable conclusion that conan was in the right.

Obviously these guys keep it tonight show as prestigious and want to be a part of that lineage. Conan watched how NBC did Dave Letterman and wanted to make sure it didn't happen to him. Yet in the end what happened to Conan was even worse lol

@@jamesmiller5331 Yes, Conan thought a 40 million dollar penalty written into his contract would prevent *NBC* from backing out on their deal with him. Of course, what Conan really needed to get was a time slot protection clause as that would've stopped them from trying to move Conan to 12:05am. It was really strange that even after the way they mistreated both Jay and Dave, Conan thought *NBC* couldn't do the same thing to him.

@@gallery7596 yeah I finally got ahold of the book on the subjects by Bill Carter I've owned the hardback copy of The Late Shift for a long time but recently listened to the audio version of part 2. I'm not sure why the subject fascinates me so much

@@jamesmiller5331 Carter's an excellent historian of what went down behind the scenes. And considering the anger that the whole Conan thing in particular continues to inspire, it's clear this subject fascinates a great many people.

@@jamesmiller5331 What if I told you that this person who has replied to you (@Gallery) is actually a notorious tr011? Just search "Leno vs Conan" and click the first 5 videos that come up on RU-vid. I will bet my salary that you'll find @Gallery's anti-Conan comments under ALL of those videos. This person has no life to live, so they spend all their time hating on conan online. I was able to trace @Gallery's comment history back to 9 years. He has been doing this for 9 years. THe same old talking points that defend Leno and demonize conan, the same old lies. Relentless. I've noticed this sick person's comments on like 12 videos so far. He is a tr011 through and through. 9 years of this, dude.

Your surprised that Jimmy tells political jokes ? Just about every late-night talkshow makes/made political jokes.

@@brucelee4996 I'm surprised that he's doing full monologues about politics now. He used to tell jokes about everything. Now, he and all of the other current late night guys (except for Andy Cohen) are all narrow when it comes to doing monologues and shows.

Letterman was never afraid to call out politicians.

@@teeveeparty At least he didn't talk about them all the time.

@@KungEMuller Full monologues of political jokes? You just let on you don't watch his monologues. Nice job. 😂

😂😂😂

He used to be about 20 years ago

this was 12 years before 2022 lmao learn to read

Try reading OADs.

You thought this was an interview from this year we’re watching?

Yes, his "but that's not how mommy said it" line was cringing. Hard to imagine Spielberg appreciated it.

@@gallery7596 Did you just say "cringing" instead of "cringey" ... comedy isn't meant to be appreciated by everyone, my Spergie friend