…The Tonight Show, except 90 minutes earlier.
Excuse me, my editor is asking me to write something else about Jay Leno’s new show. Well, there are some differences:
Other than that, The Jay Leno Show is The Tonight Show, except 90 minutes earlier. Which is disappointing.
Now, I’m not looking for this show to fail so NBC can air repeats of Your Fat Momma’s Millionaire Husband Wants to Date a Biggest Loser Bachelorette. However, I have my worries after Jay’s first show. After telling us for three whole months that this would be a totally different show that would change the way television operated, Jay came out and pretty much did what he had done for the last 17 years. The opening monologue, though a bit shorter, was the same. The comedy segments, though a bit longer, were the same, and he did “Headlines,” though it was at the end of the show and not in the beginning. So, in other words, the only big differences between his show and The Tonight Show was that the segments were shorter/longer in length and were done in a different order.
This is not what we were looking for. We were looking for more comedy, a monologue that was more stand-up than standard (something along the lines of Craig Ferguson), and less chat. Nevertheless, there was a lot of sameness in this show and the one Jay used to do. Not even Jay’s statement of remaining topical, since he aired live each night, had much merit. Jay was just as topical when he did The Tonight Show; it’s not like those shows were recorded two weeks in advance!
I’m going to give Jay the benefit of the doubt here. He may want to flesh out the viewing audience a bit to see what will and won’t fly. That’s only going to work for a few weeks. After that, if he doesn’t change, we could be looking at a disaster bigger than Emeril Lagasse’s sitcom. Get to work, Mr. Leno!
Clacked by Richard Keller 
on Sep 15, 2009 @ 15:00 EST5EDT
OMG, I totally forgot that Emeril had a sitcom… My parents loved it.
I had to go in and add the hyperlink to that gem… lest we forget!
Did anyone really think this would be any different than his Tnight Show?
If i were him I would do some mini sitcoms in the episode or something.
I am wondering if I am the only one looking at my watch over and over during the odd-singing-movie-guy-sings-to-the-girl-at-the-car wash segment. Wow – that was so incredibly overdone they almost lost me. I hung in just for headlines, but now I can’t even remember what they were!
If this was a regular series, it would last about 4 episodes…
The show did get 18.42 million viewers, I think that is the most viewers NBC has gotten since Friends.
I gave up on it. It was just torture to watch. That singer guy was funny in The Hangover cause he was only focused on for less than a minute. Any longer its just annoying and the 5 minutes (or more) he was on proved it.
I didnt expect much to be different. I was OK with it until the Car Wash Singer segment. Started out cute, but it went on for WAY too long and frankly killed any light mood the show had (even if it was the same ol’, same ol’).
That is when I hit the FF on the DVR for practically the rest of the show until Headlines. The Jerry Seinfeld segment was awkward and with Oprah – It wasnt funny or entertaining.
This site has an editor?