On Mon, Aug 6, 2012 at 1:12 PM, PGage <[email protected]> wrote: > > I can't recall the last time I saw Leno do stand-up outside of the Tonight > Show. He does not host award shows, which is one way we might see that on > TV, and I have not gone to one of the 100 or so nights/year he apparently > does his act around town. I happened to be in Las Vegas for a few days in > July and saw he was at, I think, Ceasars. I considered it enough to actually > inquire about getting tickets, which I probably could have done, but just > couldn't make myself do it. I did used to love Leno's comedy when he guested > with Dave, and would like to think he still has enough of that quality to > make his non-Tonight Show stuff entertaining. > > What has always been clear is that Jay Leno always comes across as a better > human being when you see him in any venue other than the Tonight Show (or, > in the case of that horrid Oprah interview, when he is not defending himself > about the Tonight Show).
I saw him at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas in the spring of 1996. He did only one topical joke, about OJ, and this was six months after the verdict so the reference was not too stale. The rest of his act was well polished and it could have been ten or twenty years old. I remember the act as being done very competently with no material to get excited about. -- TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en
