Comments on: Warriors of Standup Comedy: Team Leno – The Early Days or The Chin Begins

By: Oliver Karratti

Oliver Karratti — Fri, 21 May 2010 06:53:48 +0000

Jay Leno meets Letterman…how cool would that be?

By: Rocket Llama HQ - » Warriors of Standup Comedy: Team Leno – The Early Days or The Chin Begins

Fri, 14 May 2010 17:56:03 +0000

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By: AtomicGeekDowns

AtomicGeekDowns — Fri, 14 May 2010 10:00:45 +0000

What a GREAT story, even more proof of just how much of an ass Jay and his team are.
This is one movie I would never download, this filmaker deserves a ton of success for sticking with it and getting the true story out there.

By: Cheesehead1976

Cheesehead1976 — Fri, 14 May 2010 09:21:44 +0000

One last thing- Jay Leno had his ‘diss’ of Conan wherein the attempted Time Square bomber is that he was on “Team CoCo” ??

Really? That is the best they could come up with?? That’s just irritating, like a rash on the ass of late night.

Is that what “Leno” is Italian for? ‘Late Night Rash’?

Hmmmmm

By: Cheesehead1976

Cheesehead1976 — Fri, 14 May 2010 09:18:40 +0000

I wish Jay Leno would get new writers, personally. The ones he has pretty much have a framework for jokes and they’ll be damned if they’re going to shy away from it.

I liken his monologues to the “Mad Libs” of jokes.

By: Cheesehead1976

Cheesehead1976 — Fri, 14 May 2010 09:15:25 +0000

Kevin Pollak (on his awesome Chat Show) summed it up nicely recently. (On May 2, 2010 to be exact.) “Jay Leno made a business decision 20 years ago to stop being funny…”

All I can say is: I agree.

By: Cheesehead1976

Cheesehead1976 — Fri, 14 May 2010 09:13:28 +0000

Jay Leno is a comic GENIUS in the same way I am the King of Siam.

By: MarQ

MarQ — Fri, 14 May 2010 08:10:18 +0000

I think Leno has a lot f writers behind him now – he still does stand-up in Vegas on occasion, but I would assume it would be much of the same.

By: Roy Blumenthal

Roy Blumenthal — Fri, 14 May 2010 05:34:37 +0000

What’s pissing me off about this story is how unnecessary it is for Leno to guard his re-use of material.

I’ve got a book of Bill Hicks transcripts. The bloke is screamingly funny, no matter how many times I hear his stuff. And the transcripts show that his material did NOT change! He honed that material, and got it polished to perfection.

If Hicks could proudly own his old material, why the hell can’t Leno? Is he *ashamed* of the repetition? Is it some sort of dirty secret that he re-uses his own stuff?

By: Alex T

Alex T — Fri, 14 May 2010 05:20:03 +0000

I agree with Roy…Leno could have worked out something with Savidge. He could have bought the show back and then killed it. It just shows again that Leno steps on whoever he has and doesn’t care as long as he can achieve what he wants…even when he’s already rich and successful. What a tool.

By: Roy Blumenthal

Roy Blumenthal — Fri, 14 May 2010 04:22:58 +0000

Leno *should have* simply said to Savidge, ‘Dude… I recycle jokes. And I would prefer it if you remove my 25-min segment from the vid. I’ve written some new and exclusive material for the vid, and I’d like to re-shoot. Come… Let’s make each other famous.’

Instead, he did the bully thing. He led with his jaw, and nailed a young innnocent in the process. Yikes.

On Oprah, he said that he makes his living off being a standup comic. And his tv work is basically just income he sticks into a fund. I reckon if people know how much of a heavy he is, he’s gunna have to rely on that fund soon.

By: Casey

Casey — Fri, 14 May 2010 03:44:36 +0000

I had no idea about any of this but it sounds really interesting. Leno IS scary to children….and not funny. #teamconan