Jay Leno Injuries

[Caroline13]

I thought I posted about Leno's burns to face while working on one of his cars.

Now I'm reading about Leno's latest injuries....Is he trying to leave the world.

https://www.kare11.com/article/news/...0broken%20ribs.

[Hawkee]

Ever since he became talk show king for NBC Jay Leno had always wished to expand his horizons beyond talk shows and when he quit The Tonight Show he got what he wanted by focusing on his other hobby which is cars and that's why he had Jay Leno's Garage on CNBC. And now that he has gotten another injury from his motorcycle crash I think Jay Leno thinks that he should retire or move on to greener pastures because when you look at it Jay just recovered from his burn accident and now that this injury happened to him he should think about retiring from TV shows and focus on other things because I think Jay seems to have bad luck on his side and there just might be a way to cure Jay Leno of bad luck. But thank goodness he's gonna be alright
Bestie

[jets4life]

Originally Posted by LaBestia

Ever since he became talk show king for NBC Jay Leno had always wished to expand his horizons beyond talk shows and when he quit The Tonight Show he got what he wanted by focusing on his other hobby which is cars and that's why he had Jay Leno's Garage on CNBC. And now that he has gotten another injury from his motorcycle crash I think Jay Leno thinks that he should retire or move on to greener pastures because when you look at it Jay just recovered from his burn accident and now that this injury happened to him he should think about retiring from TV shows and focus on other things because I think Jay seems to have bad luck on his side and there just might be a way to cure Jay Leno of bad luck. But thank goodness he's gonna be alright
Bestie

Leno never "quit" the Tonight Show. He was forced out. After screwing over Carson, Letterman, and Conan, the public backlash was so severe that NBC forced him out in 2014. Leno was notorious for doing unscrupulous things to keep his spot as host of the Tonight Show. If Leno was injured, I would not call it bad luck, but rather "karma."

[Yong Fang]

Originally Posted by jets4life

Leno never "quit" the Tonight Show. He was forced out. After screwing over Carson, Letterman, and Conan, the public backlash was so severe that NBC forced him out in 2014. Leno was notorious for doing unscrupulous things to keep his spot as host of the Tonight Show. If Leno was injured, I would not call it bad luck, but rather "karma."

How did Leno "screw over" anybody? Carson retired and wanted Letterman, but the network owned the show and chose Leno over Letterman. Letterman moves over to CBS. Letterman was always critical of NBC and maybe this was a factor in not choosing him for Tonight.

Conan wasnt pulling in the ratings. NBC wanted Leno back and Leno wanted to come back. So Conan leaves and has his own show on TBS which doesnt require the ratings NBC did.

Carson died incredibly wealthy, Letterman is incredibly wealthy and I'm sure Conan is also.

[jets4life]

Originally Posted by Yong Fang

How did Leno "screw over" anybody? Carson retired and wanted Letterman, but the network owned the show and chose Leno over Letterman. Letterman moves over to CBS. Letterman was always critical of NBC and maybe this was a factor in not choosing him for Tonight.

Conan wasnt pulling in the ratings. NBC wanted Leno back and Leno wanted to come back. So Conan leaves and has his own show on TBS which doesnt require the ratings NBC did.

Carson died incredibly wealthy, Letterman is incredibly wealthy and I'm sure Conan is also.

There are several books written about Jay Leno undermining Carson, Letterman, and Conan.

With Conan especially, it was one of the biggest stories in 2010.

Leno would constantly go to NBC executives and manipulate the situation, since he knew Carson was going to retire soon, and his chosen successor was David Letterman. So Leno and his agents kept suggesting he would leave to a competing network unless he got the Tonight Show. Not only that, but by 1990, he was in executives ears, suggesting Carson was becoming senile, and even hid in a closet during meetings between executives, to gain an advantage.

He pretty much gave NBC an ultimatum: either Carson is forced into retirement in 1992, or he leaves to compete with Carson in his final year or two. NBC buckled and gave Leno the Tonight Show, ignoring Carson's insistence that Letterman succeed him. Carson never spoke to Leno again, and never appeared on the Tonight Show.

Meanwhile Letterman jumps to CBS, and his show becomes a ratings hit. Carson helped with Letterman's show several times. Conan meanwhile replaced Letterman on the Late Show in 1993.

The Leno screwjob on Conan is so well known and written about, that to just Google it would render hundreds of results, so you will have to find out yourself. It's far too long to explain, but nearly every single late night talk show host hated Leno, and most never spoke to him again after he double crossed Conan (who legitimately happens to be one of the nicest guys in the industry).

Howard Stern, David Letterman, and Jimmy Kimmel were especially outraged, and took every opportunity to slam Leno for his manipulative ways. At the end of the 2010 Olympics when Leno took back the Tonight Show, his image had took such a beating, that people viewed him differently. It never went away, and by 2014, NBC pretty much forced him to give his show to Jimmy Fallon, since they made the mistake of not being stern enough with Leno when Conan was going to take over in 2009.

[jets4life]

Originally Posted by Yong Fang

Conan wasnt pulling in the ratings. NBC wanted Leno back and Leno wanted to come back. So Conan leaves and has his own show on TBS which doesnt require the ratings NBC did.

Conan's ratings were sub-par due to LENO. Jay Leno (for unknown reasons) was given a 30 minute show leading into Conan's Tonight Show. The problem with this was Leno's show was so horrible that it drove viewers away in mass, compared to Leno who had much better rated shows to lead into his Tonight Show.

So in other words, Conan was at a huge disadvantage, trying to recoup the viewers that had changed stations. The network was so pissed at Leno, that they cancelled his show. Conan still had the show, but they were going to move it to a later timeslot, which would have began at 12:05 AM eastern.

Conan refused (and I believe it may have been in his contract to do the 11:35 PM starting timeslot, arguing that the show would no longer be the Tonight Show, since it technically started the next day. NBC, realising that Conan was not going to budge, was forced to payout Conan in excess of $45 million dollars in severance just to get him to leave. Leno then asked to replace Conan, and the network approved.

As a result, several NBC executives lost their job at how poorly the situation was handled (ironically, the Letterman departure was handled nearly as bad).

NBC NEVER wanted Leno back. Why would they want him back? His new show bombed, and the only reason he was brought back, was that Conan left. Who else was there to replace Conan at the time? Daffy Duck? It's even rumoured that Leno was deliberately tanking his show, to make Conan look bad, so he had leverage if the network ever decided to pull the plug on Conan.

Anyway, Leno's reign as host ended in 2014. Nobody remembers him as anything but a "safe" Tonight Show host. In fairness, he's better than Fallon, but then again so were Letterman, Conan, and Carson.

[icecream]

May Jay not have any more injuries like this, be more careful! His haters can suck it, I just put the one from this thread on my ignore list, don't need to see the garbage they post.

[biffbronson]

I'm of the opinion that very old vintage autos are just too dangerous to fool with -- they belong on museum floors, etc. We don't need to see a 1907 car motoring along, it's something that should be preserved/restored, but that doesn't extend to firing up its motor. (And how could some of these old heaps pass emissions standards, it's a loophole.)

This is what caught Jay on at least one occasion. Simple technology that was dangerous in its time and has continued to be unsafe by modern standards. In Jay's case, he suffered severe burns from a steam engine. Give the antique cars a rest.

[jets4life]

Originally Posted by icecream

May Jay not have any more injuries like this, be more careful! His haters can suck it, I just put the one from this thread on my ignore list, don't need to see the garbage they post.

People who announce they are blocking/ignoring someone in public never do.