It's called a Habsburg jaw. The result of centuries of european royal inbreeding. It's not his fault. I believe Jay had a bit of it sawed off. But we all look better when we make a billion dollars.
@@DouglasRichardson-er4kyJay didn't even need the Tonight show. He was one of the most successful touring comedians around. Who could turn down that Tonight show money though?
I live close to where Jay lives now and I heard from others that he frequents the local chili cheese Hot Dog joint quite often. I think he’s even the same guy today that we see here inspite of his fame and fortune.
🙋🏼♂️ once a gearhead always one I had a motorcycle addiction growing up also old VWs I made to 51 🎅🏼 somehow tomorrow I drive a Prius w 175k on it now I swear I used to be cool 😎👍🏻 The new electric VW Bus 🚐 has my attention they should do a camper model from the factory driver's seat a toilet 🚽 w a curtain system for semi containment lol 😉
I watched this live when it first aired. Then a couple of years later I saw Jay at an outdoor British Motorcycle event in Worcester Mass where he was alone and looking at parts. I approached him and said Hello Beemer. He smiled and replied, "nah, not me.". Shook my hand and I left him alone. interesting to see this again almost 40 years later.
My dad's only 18 years older than me and swears one of the best comedians on the live LA club circuit around this time in the early 80's was Leno. It boggled my mind because i only really knew him as a talk show host. He saw some greats at these smaller venues and swears Jay always killed it live. He's not a huge fan now but goes to show you he was a killer on stage back then.
I saw him live maybe 4 years ago in south Florida. It was alright. No side splitting laughs or anything, just chuckles. But seeing him young here I can envision him being pretty great back in the day.
Mmm. Yeah. I saw Jay on stage in 1987. He was great! And here he’s great. Dave and Jay were just good for each other until they weren’t. This is a great clip not only for its content but also for a glimpse into how it once was in their halcyon days.
He was the comedians' comedian. Seinfeld and many others looked up to him as a mentor and idol. He worked very hard. And he was very well recognised too, as a great club comic in those days so you're Dad is spot on correct.
@@kouroshhariri8124 I found him much funnier than Carson when Leno became the only guest host on "The Tonight Show" in 1988. He spent the next 3 1/2 years hosting every Monday night and once a week each month and he was great. It made sense to me that NBC picked him over Letterman for the 11:30pm slot. But then he started as the permanent host and just got lame.
Yeah he knocked dave out of his spot for the tonight show a few years after this, then "retired" and gave the show to conan then came back and took it from him
NBC didn’t want to keep Dave. Then when Conan had five years left ,NBC forced Jay to announce he would retire in five years even though Jay didn’t want to. Five years pass by and Craig Ferguson was beating Conan. NBC panicked. Conan took over and was flopping. They asked Jay to come back and do a show to lead into Conan (with the news break between shows), so it would boost Conan. Then Conan’s producers heard about the show offer to Jay and demanded Jay only have one guest so that guests wouldn’t chose Jay’s prime time show over a 11:35 pm show. Jay said he’d do the show but demanded NBC pay his staff for the entire year if it got cancelled. Jay’s prime time show didn’t work. It didn’t help Conan either. Conan was a bomb. Loyalty has nothing to do with business. The only reason networks make their shows is to make money. Jay was number one every year other than Dave’s first year on CBS. Knock Jay all you want but you don’t know the real story.
I'd say it's more than a concidence that they played the Ghostbusters theme for Jay's entrance considering Jay auditioned for Louis in the first Ghostbusters movie.
tbh to watch this interview alone you'd agree with the decision... one has way more charisma. Both have great comedy chops, though David is funnier imo... and prob a better dude. Though Jay seems like a good guy too, just don't like how he did my boy Conan
Jay is short for James, from his Scots Mum? He never quite had the energy for the show business bull-shitting manner. Who does? 'Putting it on' takes a toll, especially from a reserved Scot.
Back when Leno was funny, actually one of the funniest standups going. When he got the mega deal for the Tonight Show he became Homogenized Jay, doing his best to please the corporation. Sort of like what happens when a good craft beer is acquired by Anheuser Busch.
Jay looks so fresh, like he's having so much fun. Hosting a TV show must be like being elected President; you come out the other side looking not quite like you did going in.
Yes, if Carson had left around year 25, his replacement would doubtlessly have been Dave. However, because he continued to phone it in for another half decade while relying heavily on guest hosts like Garry Shandling and, of course, Jay Leno, when he finally announced his retirement the question of who should replace Johnny was no longer obvious.
They were such good friends Letterman gave Leno a chance had him on a lot. ( well , yeah ratings would go up) sad when Carson retired , the whole world wanted that Carson spot hence the conflict between Letterman , who I think the job would go to him, instead Leno was given the spot. But you could tell Leno and Letterman were good friends and Letterman clearly enjoyed Leno, made Letterman laugh a lot which was charming. To bad it all didn’t work out where everyone could be friends.
@@dizzotizzo69 I was about to say, watching this interview I can sense that Dave isn’t too fond of Jay That could be my bias, with the benefit of hindsight and knowing Dave had resentment for Jay later on.. but he has gone on record saying he never liked Jay
You can clearly see the contrasting comedic styles here. Leno is a workaholic and str8 rehearsed standup while letterman is a laidback situational improve. Jay doesn’t like to adlib while Dave loves it.
Wow. As a lifelong letterman fan I can actually see how Leno can appeal to normal folks. Leno feels like a regular guy here and Letterman feels a little out of touch. Keep in mind, I’m not saying Leno is funny, or funnier than Letterman, or a better host. But in this clip they both seem like regular guys and Leno seems more relatable and working class than I’ve ever seen him before.
At any age, Jay Leno always looks like a caricature of Jay Leno.
Wasn't there a McDonald character like him
Michael McDonald
Best comment about Jay Leno…EVER! 😂😂😂😂
Dave doesn't take his eyes of that chin. It is truly prodigious.
Jay Leno is very gently funny today. 40 years ago he was respectfully funny. That's the class that comes from a good upbringing.
Hearing someone call Jay Leno a young man is crazy.
I like how Letterman calls him that even though he’s only three years older than Leno.
I know right...ohhhhh the old days were so good
This is Almost 40 years old. Time Flies..
So do flies.
Of all the comedians I’ve ever seen, he’s one of them.
Good one, Don. Now drop your pants and fire a rocket
Funny funny
@@nucksfordacupGood one. Now give him a cookie and he'll go away.
You havent seen many LOL
I'll do you one better. Of all the comments ive ever seen, this one is the most unoriginal 👏
Oh my God Jay used to be a half moon!!!
Jay Leno has literally the largest chin i have ever seen on a human being.
It has it's own postal code.
that's a pointed observation.
He also probably has 10,000,000x your $$
@@dizzotizzo69 You'd think he use some of that $$$ to fix his freakish chin, though...
@@dingdongdickweed6288 It's what he was born with. Live with what you have and don't change for anything or anyone.
It's called a Habsburg jaw. The result of centuries of european royal inbreeding. It's not his fault. I believe Jay had a bit of it sawed off. But we all look better when we make a billion dollars.
The early Chandler Bing character has many of the same mannerisms as this guy.
dang how did 40 years just zoom by at light speed it is making my mind short circuit
I met Jay at a bike meet a few years ago, He walked up and started talking to us!
😂This guy does the best Leno impression I've ever seen!🤣‼️
I almost forgot that Jay and Dave were once young men.
Aw jeez, I liked them so much when they were friends
They played the same 🐀 🕳️ clubs then struck it rich chatting on TV lol
@@DouglasRichardson-er4kyJay didn't even need the Tonight show. He was one of the most successful touring comedians around. Who could turn down that Tonight show money though?
Elvis Leno
Chris Eliot’s Leno is spot on.
Very interesting seeing Jay Leno go over cars and bikes before he got the big money
I live close to where Jay lives now and I heard from others that he frequents the local chili cheese Hot Dog joint quite often. I think he’s even the same guy today that we see here inspite of his fame and fortune.
He's always loved them
Couldn’t even afford a Guzzi at that point. Crazy.
🙋🏼♂️ once a gearhead always one I had a motorcycle addiction growing up also old VWs I made to 51 🎅🏼 somehow tomorrow I drive a Prius w 175k on it now I swear I used to be cool 😎👍🏻 The new electric VW Bus 🚐 has my attention they should do a camper model from the factory driver's seat a toilet 🚽 w a curtain system for semi containment lol 😉
Jay Leno not only a standup comedian but has a side hustle as a 1980's Elvis impersonator
Can't believe I'm older now than both of them in this clip
What a great era before we started hating each other like we do now. Everyone's a victim nowadays
I watched this live when it first aired. Then a couple of years later I saw Jay at an outdoor British Motorcycle event in Worcester Mass where he was alone and looking at parts. I approached him and said Hello Beemer. He smiled and replied, "nah, not me.". Shook my hand and I left him alone. interesting to see this again almost 40 years later.
that’s cool
Maybe he just didn't like your stench.
@@SacDaddy420 Did you vote yourself up? Cute.
That’s a pretty dumb line.
@@dinofx35You would know.
I bet even back then, he was as driving something cool!
Jays a “people’s champ”, and a real car guy!
0:05 Dave calling Jay a young man.. Jay is only 3 years younger than Dave.
My dad's only 18 years older than me and swears one of the best comedians on the live LA club circuit around this time in the early 80's was Leno. It boggled my mind because i only really knew him as a talk show host. He saw some greats at these smaller venues and swears Jay always killed it live. He's not a huge fan now but goes to show you he was a killer on stage back then.
I saw him live maybe 4 years ago in south Florida. It was alright. No side splitting laughs or anything, just chuckles. But seeing him young here I can envision him being pretty great back in the day.
Mmm. Yeah. I saw Jay on stage in 1987. He was great! And here he’s great. Dave and Jay were just good for each other until they weren’t. This is a great clip not only for its content but also for a glimpse into how it once was in their halcyon days.
He was the comedians' comedian. Seinfeld and many others looked up to him as a mentor and idol. He worked very hard. And he was very well recognised too, as a great club comic in those days so you're Dad is spot on correct.
Back when Jay didn't have one of every motorcycle and car! 😂
GREAT clip. This is how you do late night. Not one divisive convo/bit in the whole interview
Yeah nothing like reading a porno on air.
I was there. Met him in the hallway.
Wow, Leno was funny!
He was before he got the tonight show
@@kouroshhariri8124 he was the HOST on the tonight show. he's at least as funny as conan.
@@jameshudson169 Nah. He was never as funny as Conan.
@@dingdongdickweed6288 jay leno is 10x as slightly amusig as conan!
@@kouroshhariri8124 I found him much funnier than Carson when Leno became the only guest host on "The Tonight Show" in 1988. He spent the next 3 1/2 years hosting every Monday night and once a week each month and he was great. It made sense to me that NBC picked him over Letterman for the 11:30pm slot. But then he started as the permanent host and just got lame.
Without Letterman, we wouldn't have Leno of today.
No wonder Jay is where he is today. He was full of talent!!!
"Where he is" you mean his portrait on the Count Chocula box?
Yeah he knocked dave out of his spot for the tonight show a few years after this, then "retired" and gave the show to conan then came back and took it from him
Seriously?? The eternally UNFUNNY Jay Leno??
You’re a decade or two off, but you’ve got the spirit.
NBC didn’t want to keep Dave. Then when Conan had five years left ,NBC forced Jay to announce he would retire in five years even though Jay didn’t want to. Five years pass by and Craig Ferguson was beating Conan. NBC panicked. Conan took over and was flopping. They asked Jay to come back and do a show to lead into Conan (with the news break between shows), so it would boost Conan. Then Conan’s producers heard about the show offer to Jay and demanded Jay only have one guest so that guests wouldn’t chose Jay’s prime time show over a 11:35 pm show. Jay said he’d do the show but demanded NBC pay his staff for the entire year if it got cancelled. Jay’s prime time show didn’t work. It didn’t help Conan either. Conan was a bomb. Loyalty has nothing to do with business. The only reason networks make their shows is to make money. Jay was number one every year other than Dave’s first year on CBS. Knock Jay all you want but you don’t know the real story.
Damn, young Jay Leno reminds me a lot of Doug DeMuro.
Yup, he does. I call DeMuro, Discount Jay Leno.
The actress playing the evil twin on Magnum PI was Sharon Stone.
Not true.
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I'd say it's more than a concidence that they played the Ghostbusters theme for Jay's entrance considering Jay auditioned for Louis in the first Ghostbusters movie.
It was new drug 😂
"new drug". By Huey Lewis..
@@adamr8628I'm not sure which one it is. I do know Lewis sued Ray Parker Jr for ripping him off for "Ghostbusters" and won.
Jays a good talker for sure
I just found Jay is responsible for the mass spread of the term beemer. Not bad...
He turned out to be a back stabber and not a very funny person.
Howard speaks on it
The early 80’s. Those Amex commercials, I remember them. I was 12 in 84, so many things in this clip that brings up memories of the time
The 80s were great. I barely remember the end of them, as I was so young, but those were great times!
Like two young bucks, interesting to watch these two joust.
Is it me or from certain angles could Jay be Fred Savage's Dad?
Or Jim Carrey in Me and Irene.
Back in the day when they were friends 😂
Voices never change...
Wow, young Leno definitely had a Clooney thing going on (or did Clooney have a Leno thing going on?)
The loops on my pants hold my belt up... Who's the real hero?
@@savethisforlater Well that gives new meaning to the term non sequitur.
Why did Jay roll up his sleeves in a blazer? 😂
80s
It was a style in the 80s, Disco/New Wave/Miami Vice etc....
That was a thing around 1980, maybe earlier...cannot remember for sure.
I was probably 6 yrs old when this came out. I love Jay even more now after seeing this. . Thanks for the video.
How can you remember anything when u was 6? I cant even remember what i had for breakfast today!!
@@Dreamformeable Lol. Idk Maybe I was 7 just some memories stick with you I guess..
Letterman and Norm MacDonald made for a good show,I was never big on Leno though.
I was never big on Letterman. Wasn’t funny to me. Leno, on the other hand, ….
@@demisxexactly. Agreed. Letterman also got mean over time…
Just don't blame Conan
Conaw
What a force.. you could see how an executive thought this guy would be a perfect host
if that was the case why did Letterman have to vouch for him to get the guest hosting gig when Carson and the executives were apprehensive?
@@markjackson6431 well you still need help.. but you still need to showcase the charisma and vibrancy to be a good host.
Is that George Clooney with a fake chin on? 😂😂😂
I bet if Dave hadn't asked him a single question, he still wouldn't have shut up for the whole interview.
_Every_ standup comic spends his or her time at panel with more stand-up material. Jay is no exception.
@@dongiller I guess that's true. Dave did the same with Carson. It's just I'm always hoping to hear a real conversation, rather than rehearsed lines.
Cocaine is a helluva drug.
@@KubakaiserAgreed
It’s weird how his voice sounds even higher here than I’ve ever remembered it.
Is Jay Leno a descendant of Habsburg?
Super clip thank you thank you...
The way it should have been.
Both of them….So Young.
I watched all these when I was in college when they aired, I forgot Jay used to be skinny.
Never realized that Jay had a big lisp when he talks. Guess as he aged it went away or they taught him speech therapy before his show....
It never completely went away, to the delight of impersonators everywhere.
yeah man that's the first thing people do when impersonating him, a high voice with a small lisp
Love jay. I was born in ‘84. And to see the pace he has is great. I got to see him live just after his accident and he put a show on! My fav
The chin looks pointier with less fat pads.
Two legends !! ❤
Funny that a few years later, Lay Leno would get the Johnny Carson spot, and David Letterman would leave NBC in protest.
tbh to watch this interview alone you'd agree with the decision... one has way more charisma. Both have great comedy chops, though David is funnier imo... and prob a better dude. Though Jay seems like a good guy too, just don't like how he did my boy Conan
His head is a crescent moon 🌙
Jay is short for James, from his Scots Mum? He never quite had the energy for the show business bull-shitting manner. Who does? 'Putting it on' takes a toll, especially from a reserved Scot.
I actually thought "Viva Late Night " was a real movie. lol
The laughs before the tears.
The" Hapsburg Jaw" on full display.
Reminds me of Josh Peck a little here.
Also George Clooney with a much, much, much larger chin!!!!!
Back when Leno was funny, actually one of the funniest standups going. When he got the mega deal for the Tonight Show he became Homogenized Jay, doing his best to please the corporation. Sort of like what happens when a good craft beer is acquired by Anheuser Busch.
Jay looks so fresh, like he's having so much fun. Hosting a TV show must be like being elected President; you come out the other side looking not quite like you did going in.
Man Leno on a roll 😂
Man, I’ve just never thought Jay was funny. I don’t dislike him , but just never found him to be funny.
When Leno was the funniest stand up of his age. He could never do these jokes as Tonight Show host where joke writers dumbed him down for the masses.
6:20 Jay eventually got to making the kind of money Dave did...
Astute observation
That was just two years after David started his show. Carson had eight more years before he retired and the two here were suddenly in conflict.
Yes, if Carson had left around year 25, his replacement would doubtlessly have been Dave. However, because he continued to phone it in for another half decade while relying heavily on guest hosts like Garry Shandling and, of course, Jay Leno, when he finally announced his retirement the question of who should replace Johnny was no longer obvious.
They were such good friends Letterman gave Leno a chance had him on a lot. ( well , yeah ratings would go up) sad when Carson retired , the whole world wanted that Carson spot hence the conflict between Letterman , who I think the job would go to him, instead Leno was given the spot. But you could tell Leno and Letterman were good friends and Letterman clearly enjoyed Leno, made Letterman laugh a lot which was charming. To bad it all didn’t work out where everyone could be friends.
@@cynthiahusband106 You don't know the real story. They were at each other's throats.
@@dizzotizzo69 I was about to say, watching this interview I can sense that Dave isn’t too fond of Jay
That could be my bias, with the benefit of hindsight and knowing Dave had resentment for Jay later on.. but he has gone on record saying he never liked Jay
You can clearly see the contrasting comedic styles here. Leno is a workaholic and str8 rehearsed standup while letterman is a laidback situational improve. Jay doesn’t like to adlib while Dave loves it.
Wow. As a lifelong letterman fan I can actually see how Leno can appeal to normal folks.
Leno feels like a regular guy here and Letterman feels a little out of touch.
Keep in mind, I’m not saying Leno is funny, or funnier than Letterman, or a better host. But in this clip they both seem like regular guys and Leno seems more relatable and working class than I’ve ever seen him before.
Jay's appearances on Dave always white-hot.
Ah, the old "ghostbuster" himself, Jay Leno.
Great Wall of Chin
Why was the Ghostbusters theme playing when he walked in?
Jeez, he really was funny
It's hard to believe that Jay was on Letterman so many times and was so damn funny then went on to be so horribly unfunny on his own show. Sad.
God love him but is Jay on the spectrum? Can't really have a convo, can only do his act.
A young Doug Demuro
Who would have thought that Leno would eventually replace Carson instead of Letterman.
Dad jokes galore 😂 well not then...Jay and Dave on latenight getting racy
leno is annoying
I was 4 days old
So, you don't remember most of this show?
Leno got some money after this.
Late night will never be the draw it used to be--way too much competition with the likes of Netflix, Amazon, etc
and the transition to politics turned off a lot of people. They used to joke a bit about politicians, but they didn't obsess on it...
Who was the actor insulting Dave in Viva Late Night? He looks familiar.
Love Jay. But that chin is mesmerizing.
If Leno was an emperor he could found a chin dynasty.
Reminds me of the evil guy from lazy town
I miss the good ole days
Jay Leno couldn't mop the floor after Dave
Thank you for sharing. Great footage from the good old days. Love Leno and Letterman. Two great legends
love that chin , all the comic elements in the right place
He was a bit chunky even back then ... but cool as always
Buzz Lightyear to the rescue
Leno just commands the laughs. So smooth, just cynical enough, even Letterman is in stiches.
I completely agree.