Leno On Oprah: An Exercise In Pointlessness

January 28th, 2010 admin

The Oprah interview of Jay Leno interview wasn’t quite chuck-the-remote-while-cursing angering by any means (I reserve this lengthy adjective exclusively for sporting events and racist puppetry), but the show was upsetting in a more banal fashion, consisting essentially of just repeated information we already knew and repeated Leno self-justifications that he’d clearly prepared, all sprinkled with a small but disturbing series of egregious quotes. Skipping a lengthy recap or more rehashing of the facts we already know, let’s go through some of the Leno quotes that bothered me. Perhaps the most ridiculous statement in the entire hour occurred when Oprah mentions that, in response to Leno’s repeated claims that he wanted to stay on the air to keep his staff working, that the 10 pm Jay Leno Show essentially …


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