Again? Jay Leno Tells Joke Suspiciously Similar To Red Eye‘s Greg Gutfeld’s

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by Frances Martel | 12:22 pm, June 11th, 2011

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Looks like the Red Eye time machine was working overtime this week, as yet another Jay Leno joke from the future somehow ended up on the May 31st edition of the show. This time, Leno’s program made a joke about Anthony Weiner ending up hosting a CNN show a week after Greg Gutfeld did– and the resemblance after Leno seemed to have pulled a joke from Andy Levy two weeks ago certainly raises eyebrows.

Below the text of Leno’s joke, followed by Gutfeld’s the week before:

More and more people are calling for Anthony Weiner to resign, but it’s not all bad news. Eliot Spitzer said if Weiner does resign, he could join him on his show, and they could call it Weiner/Spitzer.

You know what? I think he should resign. CNN will give him a job, it’ll be Spitzer/Weiner, but it actually could work!

This isn’t the first time Leno is accused of stealing jokes– not even the first time the Red Eye crew seem to find their jokes had strayed onto Leno’s program. So of course the only logical explanation Levy could find is that Gutfeld had misused the show’s time machine to go back in time and steal the jokes from Leno, hoping to filch much of the good will Leno has acquired in the comedy world for himself. Gutfeld apologized for “besmirching his great name,” so hopefully now that Levy is onto him, Gutfeld will refrain from using his powers of time travel for evil and not good, and will work on his own jokes instead of stealing from Jay Leno, who surely has never been accused of doing such a thing.

Last night’s Red Eye paranormal mea culpa via Fox News below:

Andy Levy, Anthony Weiner, eliot spitzer, fox news, greg gutfeld, Jay Leno, NBC, red eye

WillP

Can you say BUSTED? What a bad show. This is not the forte of Ailes and the other former GOP operatives who run Fox News. Fox should just stick to right wing political commentary.
Dem4Ever

Seemingly similar jokes are told by all the late night comedians from time to time. How many different ways can people tell a weiner joke anyway?
writer

I always watch shows I don’t like, so I can complain about how bad they are.
http://www.swissarmyjew.com Keeva

Why is anyone surprised? Leno stole an entire TV show from Conan. Stealing jokes just seems to fit right in.

WillP said:
an you say BUSTED? What a bad show.

Have you actually watched Red Eye? It is usually good and pretty funny.
Jaurez

WillP said:
Can you say BUSTED? What a bad show. This is not the forte of Ailes and the other former GOP operatives who run Fox News. Fox should just stick to right wing political commentary.

None too bright much?
dummy123

Could there be a more obvious joke?
Is it remotely possible that there were 50 comedians telling this same joke at the same time?
OxyCon

Actually Norbit made that joke here, to which I added the name of the new CNN show “WeinerSpitzel 360″, so I think Leno owes us a royalty check!
perceptorii

Will those guys at RedEye ever learn to not use FoxNews’ futuristic technology for their own selfish ends? Actually, that joke is just obvious enough that it is actually plausible that Gutfeld somehow thought up the same joke a few days before Leno did.
andybuildz

Jaywalking was a bit Leno ripped off from Howard Stern under another name…among several other bits he stole from Stern…Leno’s an A#1 douchebucket.
LOGICandREASON

Once is Happenstance, Twice is Coincidence, The third time would be a huge disgrace for Leno stealing jokes
dummy123

andybuildz said:
Jaywalking was a bit Leno ripped off from Howard Stern under another name…among several other bits he stole from Stern…Leno’s an A#1 douchebucket.

Howard stole from Imus & Steve Dahl.
Howard invented inventing obvious bits that other people did before him.
Thelonious Funk

Is this why Leno isn’t funny?
J Baustian

Thelonious Funk said:
seemed to have pulled a joke

For some reason, the best writers don’t like to work for Leno. He used to be funny, but now he’s not. He was never great, but he was at least comfortably amusing.

I rarely watch Jimmy Kimmel or Jimmy Fallon, but if I do then I usually find them amusing. I hate Letterman and I have lost all interest in Leno.
MadCharles

The way Fox pays it’s no wonder Greg has a sideline job writing for Leno.
TucsonTerpFan

Love “Red Eye”! Wish they would put it on before the second brodcast of Bill’s repeat. That midnight show (West coast) is on too late for many…I can only wonder if anybody watches the 3 a.m. broadcast live. Most DVD it.

It’s still a great show. It must cost little to produce, but it’s worth whatever the cost to Fox.
ModerateMan

WillP said:
Can you say BUSTED? What a bad show. This is not the forte of Ailes and the other former GOP operatives who run Fox News. Fox should just stick to right wing political commentary.

Somebody wonder over here from Media Matters?
The Voice of Reason

To be fair I made that joke before Greg. I might have even done it here on Mediaite. Did Greg copy me?

Also Red Eye made the joke about Weiner doing the sex scandal thing wrong by not having sex; before Bill Maher. These arn’t rare things to think of based on the surrounding circumstances.
Simba

I have DVR’d RedEye for years. If you have watched them long enough, you’d understand that this is a joke. Just like the “subliminal” pop-up messages. Last night’s pop-up had Andy with mask saying “Obey Him” .

They love to mess with the “winners” of Media Matters alot, also.
batsombennett77@gmail.com

All artists steal material.
felixw

Leno should steal from MSNBC instead. Their ENTIRE evening line-up is a joke.
Michael_T

Gawd Leno, if you’re going to steal (as Howard Stern claims you have a long history of), at least be a little more selective.

I know “what’s funny” is subjective, but I must say that neither venison was particularly funny.

Silly? Yes.

Funny? No way.
LAPhil

There’s one thing which makes me suspicious about Red Eye’s apparent claim that Jay Leno has been stealing their jokes. The first time this happened, Red Eye claimed that Leno’s joke about how now that the Supreme Court was forcing the state of California to release 30,000 plus prisoners, the Oakland Raiders would be able to sell more tickets to their home games was originally their own, and they showed a tape which apparently proved it. There’s one problem: the joke was never aired on “Red Eye” in the first place. I know because I still had my DVR recording of that show and I played it back, never hearing the joke. I can’t speak for the second incident, because I had already deleted the recording of the Red Eye show, so I couldn’t go back and check for the joke. It’s possible that the joke in the first incident had been edited out of the original taping, but how would Leno and his staff had seen it if that were the case?