Jay Leno Explains The Letterman Promo: “A Good Joke Is A Good Joke”
The most buzzed about commercial during the CBS broadcast of the Super Bowl? The 15 second promo for Late Night with David Letterman that featured David Letterman, Oprah and Jay Leno. Almost immediately upon airing the spot, one could almost hear the viewing audience ask collectively “how did that happen?” We learned a bit from the NY Times last night, and tonight we heard from Leno, who shared his side of the story.
6 comments
TeaPartyAmerican says: Nice to see… Good for you Leno
mcf1757 says: Jay Leno is a good guy! Love David Letterman!!!
ndanielson says: mcf1757 says:
February 8, 2010 at 11:59 pm
Jay Leno is a good guy! Love David Letterman!!!
oh, yeah. Upstanding adulterer sleazeballs are such the people to adore. You love Letterman??? Let me guess, you voted for…Obama. You people suck more than you can even conceive of sucking.
Rachel Sklar says: Now Jay Leno owes Letterman. And that’s the only reason I can think of for Letterman to have done this.
Or – OR – maybe he thought it was funny! You know, like all the “real” news stories have said! Seriously, the first Dave/Oprah spot should have taught all of us that nothing’s impossible.
dhg says: Rachel,you don’t get it.Leno is a comedian.so is Letterman.they did this because it was a great fun joke that would bring the exact reactions it brought,nothing more or less.These two guys are career comedians,it is their lives,their single most important motivation,the laugh.
You are a journalist.Your drive to bring the public news and information,to be the one that delivers the biggest scoop,the most important of all stories is the same type of drive as Leno and Letterman’s.
My disappointment is in Dave right now.Unlike Jay he said next to nothing on his show about the spot.Dave needs to be slightly human and acknowledge this as Jay did but he chose to shrug it off and that’s unfortunate.Frankly he made me look forward to Jay’s return.
I like both as hosts and usually decide to watch the show with guests I most want to see but Dave can come across as mean or cold sometimes and that get’s a bit old.
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