{"id":140200,"date":"2025-04-27T04:07:57","date_gmt":"2025-04-27T04:07:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/27\/jay-leno-doesnt-think-he-and-david-letterman-will-ever-get-along\/"},"modified":"2025-04-27T04:07:57","modified_gmt":"2025-04-27T04:07:57","slug":"jay-leno-doesnt-suppose-he-and-david-letterman-will-ever-get-alongside","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/27\/jay-leno-doesnt-suppose-he-and-david-letterman-will-ever-get-alongside\/","title":{"rendered":"Jay Leno doesn\u2019t suppose he and David Letterman will ever get alongside"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>The rivalry between Jay Leno and David Letterman is without doubt one of the most storied in all of leisure historical past. But for individuals who forgot (hey, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.joblo.com\/robin-williams-cheered-up-conan-obrien\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Leno has since screwed over Conan<\/a>, so issues are likely to get misplaced within the shuffle), right here\u2019s the speedrun: Johnny Carson was retiring from <em>The Tonight Show<\/em>, Letterman was jockeyed to take it, Leno acquired it as a substitute, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.joblo.com\/david-letterman-to-return-to-the-late-show-as-a-guest\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Letterman jumped to CBS<\/a>, the 2 instantly competed with one another for 15+ years. OK, now that we\u2019re caught up, we have now to marvel: has the mud settled? Not solely, because it appears like the 2 won&#8217;t ever make headlines by shaking arms.<\/p>\n<p>Jay Leno just lately appeared on <em>In Depth with Graham Bensinger<\/em> (through <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2025\/04\/jay-leno-david-letterman-reunion-awkward-1236375720\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Deadline<\/a>), the place the subject of <em>The Tonight Show<\/em> and David Letterman was introduced up. And whereas Leno stated he would sit down with Letterman, he\u2019s not satisfied it&#8217;s going to ever occur. <mark style=\"background-color:#ffffff\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-red-color\">\u201cOh, yeah. I would like to do that. I think I have no problem with it\u2026I think Dave might be awkward.\u201d<\/mark><\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed aligncenter is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\">\n<p><div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"8OLmmU9FW3o\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"WTF Happened to DAVID LETTERMAN?\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/8OLmmU9FW3o?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<p>Leno did recall the time that he swung by Letterman\u2019s home on an impromptu drop-in with a buddy. <mark style=\"background-color:#ffffff\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-red-color\">\u201cIt was the most awkward. Dave\u2019s like, \u2018Huh? Oh, uh, yeah. Uh, come on in.\u2019 And we\u2019re like, \u2018Oh, this is a mistake\u2026It was just so awkward\u2026\u2018So, uh, you want a glass of orange juice?\u2019 \u2018No, I\u2019m OK. Yeah. We gotta get going.\u2019 It was just so awkward\u2026because you really, you have nothing else in common other than comedy really. Dave\u2019s a sports guy. I\u2019m not a sports guy\u2026But I mean, believe me, if they want to do something, I would do it. But I\u2019m not gonna\u2026I tend to get my hand bitten when I instigate those kind of things.\u201d<\/mark> Yeah, school soccer is the one distinction between you and Dave\u2026Sure, Jay.<\/p>\n<p>Jay Leno and David Letterman would find yourself teaming up in 2010 for a Super Bowl industrial, which was reportedly Letterman\u2019s thought. But exterior of that, there\u2019s actually no cause for the 2 to reconcile. Likewise, Conan O\u2019Brien \u2013 who had <em>The Tonight Show<\/em> extra instantly stolen from him from Leno \u2013 has no real interest in ever sitting down with the host.<\/p>\n<p>What do you suppose? Is a Leno\/Letterman reunion price it?<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] The rivalry between Jay Leno and David Letterman is without doubt one of the most storied in all of leisure historical past. But for individuals who forgot (hey, Leno has since screwed over Conan, so issues are likely to get misplaced within the shuffle), right here\u2019s the speedrun: Johnny Carson was retiring from The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":140203,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[461,219,5377,9718,9719],"class_list":{"0":"post-140200","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-hollywood","8":"tag-david","9":"tag-doesnt","10":"tag-jay","11":"tag-leno","12":"tag-letterman"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140200","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=140200"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140200\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/140203"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=140200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=140200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}