17 years have come and gone and with them a roster of celebrities, politicians (including President Barack Obama), exotic animals (not to be mistaken with politicians) and just regular folk (with unusual talents) from coast to coast have graced the Tonight Show stage entertaining us night after night.An emotional Jay Leno gracefully passed the torch to Conan O'Brien last night who begins his hosting duties on June 1st.
The evening (as expected) was filled with a walk down memory lane. One that could not be complete without mentioning his previous successor Johnny Carson whom he paid homage to. Hey, the man spent 30-years behind that desk!
Leno (like all late-night talk show hosts) always enjoyed using current events (and the people behind them) as a basis for his nightly monologues which is what made him such an enormous success. Whether you loved him or hated him, he'd use material that most people thought about but didn't have the courage to say (let alone on national television) and he got a laugh out of it. Thank God for the Michael Jackson's, George W's, and the O.J. Simpson's eh!
It wouldn't be a final farewell without thanking everyone who worked on the show and of course the viewers for their continued support throughout the years. Guess that makes Jay the 'King of Late-Night TV' doesn't it? Sorry David Letterman. Your 'Top 10-List' doesn't cut it here. We're not worthy! We're not worthy!
But if you think you've seen the last of the silver-haired devil Leno think again. He'll be back in the fall hosting a weekly pre-late-night-show-show (yeah, I dare you to say that 10 times fast!) at 10 p.m. this time. Even good ol' Kevin Eubanks and the Tonight Show Band will be back.
So if you change the channel in September and think you've had a deja vu. You really haven't. Yes, folks the 'Jay Walking' lives on....just a little earlier.
Saturday, May 30, 2009
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