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Did Jay Leno Steal A Joke From Red Eye’s Andy Levy?

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NBC’s late night comic Jay Leno got some unflattering attention from Fox’s overnight Red Eye crew, who suggested one of Leno’s jokes sounded awfully familiar. The show’s Andy Levy began by airing a delightfully amusing clip from Leno, from May 26:

LENO: Bad news for the state of California. The Supreme Court will force the state to release something like 46,000 convicts because of prison overcrowding. But the good news – it looks like the Oakland Raiders will have more season ticket holders. Yeah, so the stadium will be packed.

And then, Levy shared his own joke from two nights earlier:

LEVY: Supreme Court orders tens of thousands of California prisoners released. This actually might help the Raiders start selling out their home games again.

Explanation? Obvious, isn’t it? Time travel. “Look, what’s the point of having a time machine if you’re not going to travel to the future, steal jokes from Jay Leno, then travel back to tell them on Red Eye,” confessed Levy.

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  • Big Eddie

    Bill Schultz looks like the culprit .

    For everything .

    Ever seen this guy ?

  • notsofast

    Everyone steals from everyone. Ask Robin Williams.

  • Barack Must Go

    I guess that solves the missing sandwiches in the ” green room ‘ fridge mystery too…

  • Arkansas Steve

    Jay Leno has been steadily “diminishing” himself with his snarly jokes at the expense of people who don’t deserve them. His originality is gone. He’s substituting a little glitz, but has basically decided (apparently) to just hang in as long as possible.

    Compared to the old Jay, his show just stinks now.

  • GreyGoose

    Just a coincidence. When one wants to make a joke about comparing a bunch of criminals/hoodlums to something, i’m sure those Raider fan freaks outmatically pop up in your head.

    Its like using me beloved Detroit Lions in a joke about perpetual losers. The two go hand-in-hand

  • Barack Must Go

    Arkansas Steve said:
    Jay Leno has been steadily “diminishing” himself with his snarly jokes at the expense of people who don’t deserve them. His originality is gone. He’s substituting a little glitz, but has basically decided (apparently) to just hang in as long as possible.

    Compared to the old Jay, his show just stinks now.

    In other words, time for Leno to move the act to Vegas.

  • Universaltruth

    And this story is of interest to whom?

  • felixw

    Jay Leno should have stolen his gags from Eliot Spitzer. Since no one watches Spitzer, no one would have noticed.

  • tatboy

    Pretty generic joke.

  • tiredoftherunaround

    I’ll take Levy over Leno. He’s much funnier and not so beholden to NBC.

  • tiredoftherunaround

    Arkansas Steve said:
    Jay Leno has been steadily “diminishing” himself with his snarly jokes at the expense of people who don’t deserve them. His originality is gone. He’s substituting a little glitz, but has basically decided (apparently) to just hang in as long as possible.

    Compared to the old Jay, his show just stinks now.

    Agree. He’s just not the same. Snarky is a good word.

  • tiredoftherunaround

    EDIT: Snarly is a good word.

  • Girth Brick

    Red Eye has jokes?

    I thought it was just filler for meth-addled Bush rednecks to watch before Fox and Freaks at 6am.

  • Barack Must Go

    Girth Brick said:
    Red Eye has jokes?

    I thought it was just filler for meth-addled Bush rednecks to watch before Fox and Freaks at 6am.

    How does your horse put up with you?

  • BarneyFranken

    GreyGoose said:
    Just a coincidence. When one wants to make a joke about comparing a bunch of criminals/hoodlums to something, i’m sure those Raider fan freaks outmatically pop up in your head. Its like using me beloved Detroit Lions in a joke about perpetual losers. The two go hand-in-hand

    I dont know if I agree that its a coincidence, because Leno’s wording and delivery was more clumsy. Clumsy enough to be intentionally worded differently from how it was originally told on red eye.

    If this were just a coincidence, I think you would have seen a more direct punch line.

    One of Leno’s writers must have heard the joke, felt it was right up Jay’s alley, and slightly reworded it. They must have figured no one watches red eye anyway.

    whoops.

  • Nature Freak

    Comedians stealing material has been going on since there were comedians. Leno still has a long way to go to be at the joke “borrowing” level of Dane Cook, Carlos Mencia and especially Milton Berle. And yes Jay is angrier than he use to be, which probably reflects American society as a whole at the moment.

  • mtjade4

    I’ve never heard of this RedEye show before but if another comedian steals your joke, that’s a compliment.
    This must be the show’s first “joke steal”.

  • tatboy

    Girth Brick said:
    Red Eye has jokes? I thought it was just filler for meth-addled Bush rednecks to watch before Fox and Freaks at 6am.

    You are not stable…

  • mtjade4

    Ok, just watched Red Eye. Guys, seriously don’t get mad at Leno. He’s paying you a compliment! Take it!

    ‘Cos, after watching Red Eye, there aren’t too many jokes to be stolen. Know what I mean?

  • tiredoftherunaround

    Girth Brick said:
    Red Eye has jokes?

    I thought it was just filler for meth-addled Bush rednecks to watch before Fox and Freaks at 6am.

    LOL! I have to stifle a laugh whenever I see a grown man with a pacifier in his mouth making what sounds to him as erudite statements about anything. Sorry. It’s just a first reaction whenever I see your avatar.

  • tiredoftherunaround

    Girth Brick said:
    Red Eye has jokes?

    I thought it was just filler for meth-addled Bush rednecks to watch before Fox and Freaks at 6am.

    BTW, Red-Eye comes on here at the same time as Leno. ?? And, Letterman. (ugh!)

    Red-Eye’s humor is quicker and newer than either of the two, with both libs and conservatives. Take out the binki and give it a look. Maybe, it will be a substitute.

  • Sam M.

    It’s technically impossible to steal a “joke” from red eye.

  • MadCharles

    Jay stopped writing his jokes long ago. He probably has a staff of thirty joke lefty joke writers. During the Bush years he probably had a staff of sixty.

  • Jerps

    Joke stealing was just one reason why Howard Stern said he won’t go on Leno anymore.

  • Sam M.

    It’s still technically impossible to “steal” a joke from red eye. It is a well known fact that conservatives and various and sundry tea-bagging morons lack the humor gene. This is a scientific fact.

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  • The Voice of Reason

    Sam M. said:
    It’s still technically impossible to “steal” a joke from red eye. It is a well known fact that conservatives and various and sundry tea-bagging morons lack the humor gene. This is a scientific fact.

    Its also a fact that sheep, and idealist fanboys can’t recognize good humor with their selective, one-track minds. Only when if panders to their fascist identification on the political spectrum they find it funny. I think it might be a mental disorder or something.

  • Nationman

    I just wonder if that was supposed to be a joke in the first place. Raiders jokes? really?

  • Universaltruth

    LiberalsAreIgnorant said:
    New World Order Exposed!

    Joe McCarthy lives!

  • JasonMays

    Girth Brick said:
    Red Eye has jokes? I thought it was just filler for meth-addled Bush rednecks to watch before Fox and Freaks at 6am.

    RedEye is alot better than an hour of two leftwing hacks reading jokes other liberals jotted down for them while a bunch of pothead morons clap like trained seals.

  • http://constitutionallibertarian.co.cc DavidKramer

    JasonMays said:
    RedEye is alot better than an hour of two leftwing hacks reading jokes other liberals jotted down for them while a bunch of pothead morons clap like trained seals.

    Why are you making fun of the seals? I like seals, me and them go clubbing all the time.

  • BarneyFranken

    Sam M. said:
    It’s still technically impossible to “steal” a joke from red eye. It is a well known fact that conservatives and various and sundry tea-bagging morons lack the humor gene. This is a scientific fact.

    The funniest actor of our era, Leslie Nielsen, was a conservative. Case closed. You sir, are not only a moron, but you’re a bigoted one. Lacking a humor gene? That sounds like something a racist would say.

  • puck30

    Any oldtime comedian will tell you that a joke told today is an old joke retold from yesterday. They will also tell you the really good jokes should have some truth in them.

    With the talk about Raiders Fans it makes me remember this Jim Rome classic.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R0-CFoi_zuo

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  • RowdyHoward

    Wow, there’s a lot of dead air on that show…sounds about right for Leno…Hacks steal jokes from hacks.

  • Kitsune

    RowdyHoward said:
    Wow, there’s a lot of dead air on that show…sounds about right for Leno…Hacks steal jokes from hacks.

    Yes, because if you take 5 people and have them as a panel, they OBVIOUSLY should be tossing back and forth overwrought dialogue so rapidly that you almost can’t even make out what they’re saying, just like on an Aaron Sorkin show!

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    Sam M. said:
    It’s still technically impossible to “steal” a joke from red eye. It is a well known fact that conservatives and various and sundry tea-bagging morons lack the humor gene. This is a scientific fact.

    your comment is all at once ironic, due to your own failed attempt at humor, and pathetically bitter…

  • MauiSun

    I am a regular Leno fan, and I sometimes think of a joke that he can use. (There is no way to send it in.) When he then “uses” it, I just think it must have been an obvious line, not that he stole it from me.

  • BarneyFranken

    Leno is still funnier than Letterman, who has been mailing it in the past decade.

    Seriously, I think Letterman actually thinks of ways to be unfunny, just to see if his audience will still laugh.

    The sad part is, they always do.

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