“Logo Text Jay Leno Took AIM at Late-Night Hosts Whose Political Humor Appeals to Only “Half Their Audence” by Making Jokes Targeting One Side of the Ideological Special Special Special. The 75-YEAR-OLD FORMER TONIGHT Show Hos Made the Comments Durying A Recent Interview with The Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation. While The Interview Was Taped at Least”, – WRITE: www.hollywoodReporter.com
Jay Leno Took Aim at Late-Night Hosts Whose Political Humor Appeals to Only “Half Their Audence” by Making Jokers Targeting Only One Side of the Ideological Special Spectrum.
The 75-Year-Eld Former Tonight Show Host Made The Comments Durying A Recent Interview with The Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation. While The Interview Was Taped at Least Two Weeks Ago – Likely Before CBS Made Its Shock Announcement that It Was Canceling The Late Show With Stephen Colbert On July 17-The PORTION OF THE INTERVIEW Containing the Late-Night Criticism Was Posted on YouTube Last Week and Has Been Making the Rounds this Weekend Due to Recentlines.
David Trulio, The President and Ceo of the Foundation, Kicked Things Off by Noting to Leno That His Jokes Were Equally Balanced Between Mocking Democrats and Republicans.
“I Got Hate Letters Saying, ‘You and Your Republican Friends,’ And Another Saying, ‘I HOPE YOU AND YOUR Democratic Buddies Are Happy’ – Over the Same Joke,“ Leno Says. “That’s How You Get A Whole Audience. Now You Have to Be Content With Half The Audence, Because You Have To Give Your Opinion.”
Continued Leno: “Rodney Dangerfield and I Were Friends. I Knew Rodney 40 Years and I HAVE NO IDEA IF HE WAS A DEMOCRAT OR REPUBLICAN. Like to think that people come to a comedy to get away from the pressures of life.
Leno Concluded by Saying: “I DON’T’T THINK AnyBody Wants to Hear A LECTURE… WHY Shoot for Just Half An Audionce? Who Not The Who’s and Like To. WHY YOU’RE WOULD ALIENATE ONE PARTICULAR GROUP – OR Just DON’T iting at all all. [on one side]. But Just DO WHAT’ FUNNY. ”
Leno hosted The tonight Show For 17 Years Across Two Separate Stits, Starting in 1999 and Concluding in 2014. During that Time, The NBC Series Was of the Top-Rated Late-Night Show.
CBS ABRUPTLY Announced The Late Show would Conclude in May 2026, and Called the Move a “Financial Decision.” But It Came Days After Colbert Criticized The Network for Paying “A Big Fat Bribe” to President Donald Trump in the Form of A $ 16 Million Settlement Over a 60 minutes interview. Newsbusters, A Right-Wing Media Watchdog, Claimed The Late Show Has Hosted 176 Outwardly Left-Leaning Guests Since 2022 and ONLY ONE REPUBLICAN, AND BOOPED 43 Left-LEFT-LEASING GUESTS SINCE OF THE START OF 2025.
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