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A Comprehensive List of the Ways Jay Leno's First Post-Writers'-Strike Monologue Differed From His Last Writerless Monologue

  • 2/14/08 at 09:25 AM

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1. He could blame writers when jokes bombed, or even when he misspoke, as when he called Barack Obama "Osama."

2. His monologue was almost two minutes shorter.

Is it possible that the only thing writers do on the Tonight Show is edit Jay?

Earlier: Recorded for Posterity: Jay Leno's Final Writerless Monologue

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