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Jay Leno

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“Well, I have the kind of cause people might be surprised that I got there earlier late. They're surprised I got there at all. Wouldn't you show up in a 1906 Stanley steamer and it's on fire? People like, oh my God. Your car's on fire. Yeah, I know it's supposed to be. If you carry open flaming.”
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“I don't have any fries, but it has nothing to do with the cars. The cars are excellent. For the longest time you had to buy two Monday hours before you're allowed to buy the car. So I just never took part in that.”
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“Model T is kind of fun. I guess I don't drive that much. Probably the Mustang, that's pretty good. Actually, Tesla would have to go to the airport.”
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“Probably the infotainment system. I have my 51 Hudson. I reach out and I press a button, I get a station. I don't have to stop and look at it. Are you happy with this thing? Yes. Would you make this lecture again? Yes. Others have made this lecture. Would you continue? Yes, I would. Would you pick your language? English is good. Thank you.”
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“And when you realize you've just watched all three Godfather movies in a row without one commercial, suddenly seeing Jake from State Farm again, you know, okay, enough with this guy. To me, that's the thing that's really hurt late night. It's not necessarily what people say, it's the fact that people go, oh God, another commercial. You just read through.”
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“To me, I think it's just the nature of television. It changes. It goes from one thing to another. I mean, it's like going from CD players to cassettes to CDs. It's just another format that you can use. So the thing that really kills late night is the incessant number of commercials. After 11.30, you can run... Like nine minutes at 12 o'clock. Some crazy.”
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“Well, I mean, when you could turn on streaming, And see Harrison Ford talk for half an hour saying whatever you want unscripted, or you could watch him do a seven minute segment on a talk show. What are you going to do”
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“Well, yeah, yeah. Again, I don't like this new thing of comics criticizing other comics. It's just, we're comedians, okay? I believe in free speech. I shouldn't have to say any more than that. And I will defend it to the end. But, you know, and how about when he said this? Again, whatever, I don't have to agree with it. It's like the Nazis marching in Skokie. Okay, they have the right to do that. I don't agree with it. What does he like to see someone punch them in the face? Yes, but I don't want that to be police doing it if some angry Jewish guy wants to cross it. Well, okay, it's fine with me. You know, I might even cheer mom, but no, again, I think it's America.”
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“The comedians have to watch Well, apparently they don't have to watch what they say because he's back on TV. Okay, I mean, you either believe in free speech or you don't, you know. Free speech, it only becomes annoying when it says something you don't like. Other than that, it's fine. That's really the only problem. And there's always something somebody doesn't like, whether it's banning books or Hak Finn or whatever it might be. So to me, I always support street. I mean, I support Jimmy as a comedian, but also just the whole premise. You don't have to agree with him to realize, I mean, I had people that tore me apart every day, but they had the right to do it. I didn't like what they said, but I agree with their right to say it if they chose.”
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“Well, we used to get quoted every day in the New York Times. We try to make fun of both sides. Yeah, that's the way we did it. That's not the way everybody else does it, but that's okay.”
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“And I mean, I've told this story, but I have the same idiot friends I had in eighth grade. So I'm telling them I had Barack Obama on the show and he gave me his phone number. Nah, uh-huh. Nuh, uh-huh. You don't get it. You said now. All right, let's call him up. I go, it surprised the United States. I'm not going to call them up. You don't have it. So I take out my phone book and I cover the phone and I go, see what it says here? Barack Obama, President of the United States? His phone number was right here. I said, all right, all right, I'll call him. You want me to call him? I'll call. It's like three o'clock. I figure, okay, what can go wrong? Hello, Brock here. Mr. President, yeah, JLONA. What can you do, VJ? I'm just here with some of my friends. Louis just number J. Click.”
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“And then he announced he was running for president. So I called him up and said, want to come on the show? Oh, cool. Thank you so much. He rented a car, drove himself to the show, walks out, goes, Jay, my name's Brock Hussein Obama. I'm really president of the United States. I said, okay, black guy from Chicago named Hussein. I said, you know, you shouldn't even have to campaign. I just think you're a shoe-in with that. And, you know, he got the joke and he laughed. He was very funny. And we got to be friends. And so next time he came out of the show, I asked him, it was the first time a sitting president ever did. And the whole parking lot was tented. So a satellite could not see where he came in.”
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“No, interviewed Reagan. I had dinner with Reagan at the White House a couple of times, but he wasn't ever on the show. Barack Obama was the first sitting president ever to do the show. Barack Obama. Hillary had the nomination locked up”
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“Yes, yes, because if you have low seism, you never assume you're the smartest person in the room. I assume I'm the dumbest person in the room. Let me look around and see what the other people are doing here. And that's what you do. You know, I have so many friends that do TV shows, and they really think, I want to change these lights in the lighting director who's been in the business 40 years. I don't think, no, wait, I want to change. Well, no, I don't want to just let the lighting director do his job. You know, the fun thing about the tonight show was when I did it, anybody could pull a cord and stop the train because I don't like this. I don't think this is funny. Did it get to be annoying sometimes? But everybody felt they had a say in what was going on. They felt like they were part of the whole system. This idea that, you know, do not make eye contact with the star and just all that kind of nonsense. So to me, that was always the key to being successful.”
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“Through a driving along and we're talking, and the two kids start doing this to each other, poking each other, and she turns around. I told you kids and she's whacking the crap out of him. Mr. Lun was nice enough to take us a ride in his car, and you kids can't be here. And the three of them are just laughing. I mean, they're just falling down the line. And she's not holding back. I mean, she's really hitting them, but she's laughing while she's hitting them, you know. And it was just so funny. It was just so funny. She lived to be 106. And every time I get in a car, it makes me laugh because it was just so fun to see these two old men. And they all look the same age. She's 96 74. And she just whacking the crap out of me. Hilarious.”
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“She calls me about 2000, I guess, three, four. Oh, my husband died like 20 years ago. We got this car. I say, I already have a 5,300. Will you come look at it? Okay, so I got to look at it. She's 94. No hearing and no glasses, Rachel. Would you give me $5,000 for it? Okay, so I bought it. I take it back in my garage. It takes about a year and a half. We get it all finished. Let me see if she's still alive. I called her up. Hello. Oh, what's Jaylen off? The car's all finished. You want to go for a ride? She said, okay, now she's 96. And she says, can I bring the kids? I said, yeah, bring the kids. So I get there. And the kids have got a blindfold. And the kids are 74 and 72. And they're blindfolded, right? And she's like touching the car. Oh, the paint feels so smooth. Oh, it used to be so rough. Well, take the blind. Oh, she starts crying. We want to go first. Let's go for Raj. So the kids get in the back, right?”
2025-12-26 · Masters in Business · Jay Leno on the Future of Late Night & Car Collecting · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I buy the story as much as I buy the car. Really? Yeah. I mean, to me, the fun, you know, I had a lady call me. 94 years old, and she and her husband bought a 51 Hudson Hornet in New Jersey. They drove it to California with their two kids. He bought a gas station. He ran that for the next thirty years. He died sometime in the early nineties.”
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“Yeah, I mean, I paid more than a fair price because I don't flick cars. I don't sell cars. So to me, this way, nobody goes, you don't want any of that.”
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“Well, the most recent one was a 1963 Jaguar XKE. The guy bought it in 62, started drinking about 66, 67 Became a hoarder, just had trash piled on top of it. When he died, the family called me, they said, I was right across the street. My uncles had some kind of car. We didn't know what it was. And it was a jaguar. And I said, and this is really the best way. I said, look, Google it, find out what's it worth. Find out what they're worth, and let me know, and I'll pay you that. And that's what I seem.”
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“On 44th and 9th, it was Dikesley Lumber Yard right across the way. From the alley where I slept a couple of nights, I could see Dyk's lumberyard. I always had that in my mind. Hookers would come in and just horrible. Terrible. They just hear terrible sounds. It's horrible. I said, really? This is my life. This is what it is now. Everything better than that was gravy.”
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“No, I never thought that. No, I would sleep in the alleys in New York and it was the most depressing. It was one of those alleys where guys would come with hookers and I'd be in the back just hiding behind some trash cans and they were doing what I think. Really, this is my life now. I mean, it was like the most horrible”
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“Everything I lived on the money I made as a comedian. Then when I When the show ended, oh, I opened this little pass book. Oh, look at this. It's quite a bit of money here. This is good”
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“So consequently, I don't really understand it. All I know is I work and my money relaxes. That's my thing. I don't want my money out working for me because it's going to screw up somewhere. I don't want. Whenever I hear, and there's minimal risk, and I hear the word risk. Minimals, that means they're going to lose something. No, I don't. I always had, even as a kid, I worked at Wilmington Ford. I worked at McDonald's, whichever job made the most I banked and the other money was my”
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“I said, okay, what is above? What is above number? I mean, it just made me laugh. And even they realized how stupid I said, what do you mean? How can you have what's the just tell me? Somebody tell me what just made me laugh.”
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“On television, you rely on 175 other people Really can't do this show without all the elements to it. And when you go out on the road, you're by yourself. You rise or fall trickly on your own ability. And I like that. You get all the blame, but you also get all the glory. And I like that. Plus, it's piecemeal, right joke, tell joke, get checked, boom, next show. Nobody says, you know, the jokes you told two months ago, they're not working out. Come back. You got to come back and do the show again. You don't have to do that. On TV you get there so many irons in the fire and whatnot, and you're dealing with, you know. My favorite TV line of all time when NBC was letting me go, I said, you know, I've been number one for 22 years, well, for 18, 18 of the 23 years. And they said, we want what's above number one.”
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“Yeah, keep it moving. You know, when you watch Rodney, Rodney, I was a big fan of Rodney Dangerfield. And it was the economy of words. It's getting the funniest words you can in the shortest amount of time. You know, Rodney had jokes I loved. I walked back to stretch joint. It said, topless and bottomless. I went in. There was nobody there. I mean, it's a funny joke. I mean, because I didn't waste your time. It wasn't a three-minute setup. One of his favorite jokes. It's so stupid. My doctor wanted a semen sample, a stool sample, and a urine sample. So I gave my underpants I mean, okay, but it's quick, boom, boom, boom. You're not wasting people's time.”
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“I think I like to think so. You want to have a joke every six to nine seconds. It's a bit like spinning plates in the Selivan show. And then you want to keep it going, you know? So, you want to make sure that the people you're not wasting people's time when people say, how are you all doing? Am I from Boston? Boston, yeah. Okay, that's not comedy. You've wasted 40 seconds. Get ready.”
2025-12-26 · Masters in Business · Jay Leno on the Future of Late Night & Car Collecting · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Look, I use my electric car during the week. I mean, sitting on the freeway, a 1966 Hemi, 426, it gets three miles per gallon. It doesn't really make a lot of sense. You're not going fast. You're just annoying people and poisoning the atmosphere. So you take your electric car. Then on the weekends, if there's a car rally, you drive your Mustang or whatever car you have to the rally and you sit around and you tell Liza Bella to other people and they tell you lies about their car. You know, it's a sort of a little bit of interaction.”
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2025-12-26 · Masters in Business · Jay Leno on the Future of Late Night & Car Collecting · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah, yeah, I seen them as somewhat similar. I mean, I like things that need me. My cars need me because I need to do certain things to make sure they run correctly. Electric cars kind of run no matter who the master is. It's about that screen door after a while, you learn it has to be shut a certain way and normal people can't do it, but you know that if you lift it and turn it just a quarter of an inch, oh, it'll click”
2025-12-26 · Masters in Business · Jay Leno on the Future of Late Night & Car Collecting · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, it's interesting. You know, watch making and automotive things have a lot in common because they're both extremely mechanical. Most watch people don't really like electric watches the same way they don't like quartz watches. Quart watches are obviously the most accurate you can get, but there don't appear to have a soul to them. With these kind of things, when you turn or hear the... It's a sort of the watch needs you. If you don't wind it, it won't run. So there's a human element that needs to be attached to the watch to get it to the run.”
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“Well, first they tell me what it is they're looking for. You know, I mean, obviously our cars, Mustangs, Camaros, things of this nature, any sort of two-seater sports car. Yeah, there's plenty of choices out there. You don't need me for that.”
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“I mean, the trick is well, if it speaks to everybody, then you have a corolla. The best cause, some people love it, some people hate it. Anything that gets emotion going is probably going to work on some level. I remember talking to Bob Letz about this when the Viper came out and said, a lot of people think it looks like a cartoon car. It's a bit overexaggerated. He goes, we're not trying to sell it to them. We're trying to sell it to the people think it looks good. And there's enough of them out there, you know.”
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“Flow, yeah, now everything is sort of computer design. You have all these sort of weird angles and things like that. But the best looking cars have both masculine and feminine, like an XKE. I don't know any women that don't find jaguars attractive. Even women that don't know anything about cars, because it has a feminine element to it, but then it has the rear haunches. And so it has a masculine. So it's a little bit of both to it A lot of cars look too brutal. You know, Lamborghuti Kuntash. Those look like guy cars You drive when the girls go, How old are you? Boy toy. You pull them a jag, you're like, ooh, I like that guy.”
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“Oh, what is age Waller wasn't thought when it first came out? It's two different. I mean, shapes evolve. I mean, cars used to change just for the sake of change Now they change mostly because of aerodynamics and efficiency and things of that nature. I mean, a Prius is about an efficient shape as you can get, but it's not, it's attractive enough, but it's not striking. It doesn't take your breath away the way some Ferraris, by Pinophrine or whatever. You know, back in the 20s, 30s, 40s, 50s. Things were drawn by hand, so there's a”
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“They are. I try to enjoy some suspicious things happen in Germany even in the 30s to the middle 40s. I tend to avoid those for obvious reasons. But the early ones I love, yeah.”
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“Close to tenth as much. Yeah, it costs a tenth, or sometimes almost as much. I mean, Ferraris go for, I think the last Ferrari sold for $75 million. I mean, it's pretty crazy.”
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“That very art deco, you know, it's only in recent years cars have seen as kinetic artwork. It used to be just an old car. But now people are looking at them, and I mean, if I have a painting this for $100 million, it's something that rolls down the road, looks pretty, has a practical element to it.”
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“You have some of the best cars in the world here. This is quite an event you are. And inevitably you see something you've never seen before or never even heard of. All countries are working on automobiles in different. You had cars from Czechoslovakia. The people on the other side of the mountains never heard of, you know, like Atatra, very unusual car. Most Americans never seen one, but it's very popular in Czechoslovakia, what was then Czechoslovakia at the time. So yeah, so it's a fascinating hobby. And the nice thing about it is it's no more than really 150 years old. If you like Egyptology, well, now you've got to go back 6,000 years and stand in hot sun and dig in the sand with cars. I have to go back a few years”
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“Fantasy that your accountant says to you. No, no, no. I have a garage. I have friends with cameras. I'm on TV already. This seems like a fairly natural transition. So why don't you take the TV hobby and put it on TV? And this way you try to monetize as much as you can. I did it for nothing for the first time. 15 years. Really? Yeah. You know, just because I enjoy doing it, it was fun. Just opens up another, you know, you should have something I'm not a particularly interesting person.”
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“So that's what I enjoy. So, you're a little bicoastal, you're in LA, but you also have a place here in Newport. I do have a place, and I also have a house in Andover, Massachusetts, where I grew up in. Do you keep any cars out here as well? No, I don't because of the weather. So what do you drive when? I'm one of these people Really? Such my car. So if my car was on another coast, oh, that would be horrible. Like we go out to eat. If I can't see the restaurant from my table, we're not eating here, honey. That's it. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So I'm curious how Leno's garage came about. I have this.”
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“That's fine Problem, man. You can still get to the bathroom. Look, but that's old newspapers. You have motorcycles and cars, something a little more reasonable. And your parents did the same thing. Right. How do you decide of the 214 cars which one are you gonna take that? Okay, that's a first world problem. Very much so. People don't want to hear a rich guy go, how do I do something? I just can't decide. Have Jeeves do it. I mean, whatever I'm working on, if I do want to change a day, it takes 18 months. You have to look at it that way. So whatever you just worked on is, oh, let me drive it home to see if it's okay”
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“You know, you're a kid, you're playing with it after school, you know, that kind of thing. Yeah, it took me a couple of years to learn how to do it. Yeah, I guess self-taught would be the fair way to say it. So 34 Ford is the gateway drug. At what point did you realize this is more than a hobby? This became something of a passion. Well, successful of cars. Perhaps this is more than, yeah. Yeah. Well, how many cars is too many? At what point do you need help just being? Well, I have 214 on the road now, plus the motorcycles. You see, I watch the show hoarders and go,”
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“What'd you pay for that? $350, which was a lot of money in 1965. But I had been working at McDonald's and I'd save some money, and we dragged it back to my house, and I took a couple of years to get it running, and I got my license, and I drove it every day to school. Self-taught mechanic? What do you mean you took a couple of years to get it? Self-taught. Yeah, I mean, just...”
2025-12-26 · Masters in Business · Jay Leno on the Future of Late Night & Car Collecting · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Influences when you were growing up? Oh, Robert Klein, George Carlin, Richard Pryor, primarily Klein, because Klein was like me, middle class white kid. You know, most comedians at that time tend to be grew up during the Depression. Henny Youngman, all those kind of guys, you know, kids today with the long hair, you know, all that kind of stuff. And then along comes Robert Klein, and once again, George Carlin, Richard Pryor, Bill Cosby before the recent turn of events. Those were my influences. So since we're at the Audrey Concourse and Motor Week, let's talk a little bit about cars. Good transition, right? Your first car was a 34-ford stock. What'd you do to it? I saw my dad and I were driving past the tip-top miniature golf in North Reading, Massachusetts. It was parked at the shell station with a sale sign. I went and I bought it.”
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“Boyle Robin's men in oil. And I put my hand up and I said, You know why he did that to Tuck? And she said, no, why? Because he was a friar. Okay. Okay. And then she does one of these, that's not funny. Just stop. Oh, she's kind of laughing, you know. But the real kicker was later in the day, I'm walking past the teacher's lounge. Leno, come here. What did you say about Freya Chuck? I went, oh, she told my joke in the teacher's lounge. And I said, well, I said he was a Freych. Oh, that's very funny thing. I went, oh, that's pretty good. And I thought, and when you're a kid, people that you tend to remember things that get a laugh. A little bit of attention. Yeah, you put them in your mind. It makes a little indentation, you know. So that was always something I enjoyed doing. I always remembered it. But again, I never thought I could make a living doing it. Who were your community?”
2025-12-26 · Masters in Business · Jay Leno on the Future of Late Night & Car Collecting · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“You know, I had very good teachers. When I was in high school, I had a English teacher, Mrs. Hawks, and being dyslexic, I was not the best student. And she said, oh, I see making jokes in class and so, do you ever think of writing comedy? I said, well, I never thought it'd be a job. Oh, you should think, oh, yes, I said, I'll tell you, why don't you, maybe instead of writing a paper for the final, you give a talk, you know. And I said, okay, and I tried to put some kid style jokes in. And it was the first time in my life I actually enjoyed doing homework. Oh, maybe I can make a living doing this. But it's a kid, you know, I think people as a comedian, you tend to remember things that are funny, things that get a reaction, you know. I was in the fourth grade and Mrs. Allen was my teacher. And I always remember this. She was telling us about Robin Hood and how cruel the sheriff of Nottingham was.”
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“Well, when you grew up in a little rural town, you don't think of comedy as a job, you know. The neighbor is, you know, Kathy's boy wants to be a comedian. He'll grow out of that. Don't worry, Kathy. That kind of, you know, people just, it didn't seem like a viable. You know, you go to Hollywood and you meet kids who want to be lighting directors or customers because they know people that did that. But when you're an Andor, it's like, what?”
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