Why jay leno fired

USA Today reported :. Leno would have remained at Tonight as long as NBC would have him. As you can see, there appeared to be no bad blood between the two comedians. Fallon and Leno regularly did bits about the adjustment, and news stories cited a statement in which Leno, 62 at the time, explicitly congratulated his year-old successor.

That evidence, again, discredited the theory that he was forced out because of his past comments about Obama. But we have somebody very good, very talented. But this makes perfect sense to me. I understand this.

This time [with Fallon], I was asked. In other words, he said he was asked to give up the mic; he accepted that request, and he understood why NBC executives chose Fallon to replace him. As of this writing, we have not received responses. In sum, the viral Facebook post exhibited the hallmarks of a baseless conspiracy theory. But until we hear back from representatives for Obama, NBC, or Leno to explicitly debunk its assertions, we cannot authoritatively rate this claim with a traditional Snopes rating.

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Contributors Become a Contributor. You did. But not for Jay — I want to get on Dave. Your great success is called The Big Chin Theory. You folks have been just incredibly loyal and — this is tricky. Secondly, this has been the greatest 22 years of my life. I got to meet presidents and astronauts and movie stars.

He thanked the crew, the writers and the producers who, he said, have made him look and sound better than he actually is. The second year, I lost my dad. Then my brother died. After that I was pretty much out of family, and the folks here became my family.

Consequently, when they went through rough times, I tried to be there for them.