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The Tonight Show with Jay Leno

  • TV Series
  • 1992–2014
  • TV-14
  • 1h 2m
IMDb RATING
5.3/10
11K
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Jay Leno in The Tonight Show with Jay Leno (1992)
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Jay Leno takes over the Tonight Show with interview, sketches, and plenty of laughs.Jay Leno takes over the Tonight Show with interview, sketches, and plenty of laughs.Jay Leno takes over the Tonight Show with interview, sketches, and plenty of laughs.

  • Stars
    • Jay Leno
    • Kevin Eubanks
    • Edd Hall
  • See production info at IMDbPro
  • IMDb RATING
    5.3/10
    11K
    YOUR RATING
    • Stars
      • Jay Leno
      • Kevin Eubanks
      • Edd Hall
    • 88User reviews
    • 1Critic review
  • See production info at IMDbPro
    • Won 4 Primetime Emmys
      • 7 wins & 43 nominations total

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    • Self - Host…
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    Branford Marsalis Quartet
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    Branford Marsalis
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    Robert Covarrubias
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    Ross Mathews
    Ross Mathews
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    Terry Bradshaw
    Terry Bradshaw
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    Marvin 'Smitty' Smith
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    Jim Norton
    Jim Norton
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    Bill Maher
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    • Trivia
      On September 27, 2004, the 50th anniversary of The Tonight Show's debut, NBC announced that Conan O'Brien would take over the show in 2009. Leno was still leading the late-night ratings, but O'Brien was promised the show, so that he would not leave NBC. NBC did not want to lose Leno either, and created The Jay Leno Show (2009), the first nightly network primetime talk show. In 2010, due to poor ratings for both O'Brien and Leno's shows, NBC wanted to move Leno's show into O'Brien's timeslot, with O'Brien's "Tonight Show" airing at 12:05 a.m. O'Brien publicly announced that he would rather leave the show than allow that to happen. NBC and O'Brien reached a settlement to allow him to leave the show seven months into his tenure. Leno returned to "The Tonight Show" in March 2010.
    • Quotes

      [about Supreme Court nominee Harriet Miers]

      Jay Leno: She called Bush "the most brilliant man I ever met." This is a woman we're hiring for her *judgment*?

    • Connections
      Edited into Playboy: The Best of Pamela Anderson (1995)
    • Soundtracks
      Tonite
      (uncredited)

      Composed by Branford Marsalis

      (1992-2009)

    User reviews88

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    Nowhere near as good as Letterman or O'brien

    Of the 3 late night talk shows,Leno's is definitely the worst.The problem is,he rarely comes up with any jokes himself,unlike Letterman and O'brien,who have the rare gift of being able to think of things to add to their material on the spot eg-the monologues and it actually be funnier than their given lines.Leno,however simply does not have this ability,and it is the writers you admire and not the host,which shouldn't be the case,as the most important thing is to love the host.

    Another thing the show suffers from is that it feels more like a comedy show than a talk show.There are far too many unfunny comedy sketches and obviously set up occurences for it to have the unpredictable feel of Letterman,which thrives on its spontinaity.It tries much too hard for laughs.A very annoying and unnecesarry part of the show is the black band member(I can't remember his name)that is really only there to let out huge and put on sounding laughs at everything Jay says and to be the butt of a lot of Jay's jokes.

    I don't hate the show,I mean if there's nothing else on,I'll watch it but it comes nowhere near its two competing talk shows.
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    • Jul 22, 2000
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    • Release date
      • May 25, 1992 (United States)
    • Country of origin
      • United States
    • Official sites
      • Official Facebook
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    • Language
      • English
    • Also known as
      • Veče sa Džejem Lenoom
    • Filming locations
      • Studio 11, NBC Studios - 3000 W. Alameda Avenue, Burbank, California, USA(Studio)
    • Production companies
      • Big Dog Productions
      • Nelson Page Entertainment
      • Nerd Corps Productions V.1 Inc.
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    • Runtime
      1 hour 2 minutes
    • Color
      • Color
    • Sound mix
      • Stereo
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.33 : 1
      • 1.78 : 1

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