Jay Leno


Tribune wire report
12:57 p.m. CDT, June 18, 2014

Jay Leno will receive this year's Mark Twain Prize for American Humor from the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, the center announced on Wednesday.

Leno, who ended a 22-year run as the host of NBC's "Tonight Show" in February, will receive the award during a gala performance at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., on Oct. 19.

The Kennedy Center created the award in 1998 to recognize comedians who have had "an impact on American society" similar to that of Mark Twain, the 19th-century satirist and author of novels including "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn".

"What an honor!" Leno, 64, said in a statement in which he jokingly pretended to confuse Twain with the British novelist Charles Dickens. "I'm a big fan of Mark Twain's. In fact, 'A Tale of Two Cities' is one of my favorite books!"

Previous winners of the award include entertainers Billy Crystal, Tina Fey, Whoopi Goldberg and Lily Tomlin.

Leno, who lives in Los Angeles, began his career touring clubs as a stand-up comedian, and continued to hit the road even after he helped make the "Tonight Show" the highest-rated late-night show on television for nearly two decades. The show is now hosted by Jimmy Fallon.

Reuters

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favrefan said:"Chris Coghlan isn't gonna pay your rent, Jimmy."

He's more deserving of the award than Tina Fey.

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Power is always in the hands of the masses of men. What oppresses the masses is their own ignorance, their own short-sighted selfishness.
- Henry George

that makes my head hurt thinking about it.

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Reality is your friend, not your enemy. -- Seacrest

I can't think of anything Jay ever did that made me laugh besides Jaywalking and having viewers send in
misprints and funny things from the newspaper.

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Flew too close to the sun on wings of pastrami

He was funniest during the Clinton admin...

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The whole Juice trial was also a highlight for his career.


Turn in your passport & board the next flight out to China, pinko.

She's just not remotely as funny as people would have you believe. If she didn't have a clam, she'd be about as famous as Dat Phan.

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Power is always in the hands of the masses of men. What oppresses the masses is their own ignorance, their own short-sighted selfishness.
- Henry George

That reference was almost in Dennis Miller territory for it's obscurity. Didn't that guy finish 4th in an early season of "Last Comic Standing"?

In regards to this Mark Twain award,judging by past recipients it must be run by leftwing Hillary supporters. The Leno nomination must be a sign the group was taken over by Tea Party people.

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favrefan said:"Chris Coghlan isn't gonna pay your rent, Jimmy."

30 Rock was fantastic. That begs the question of weather she would have ever gotten the show produced without the clam. She oversaw one of the least funny eras of SNL. Mean Girls is 120 minutes of hotness pretending to be a movie. She didn't distinguish herself at SNL other than Sarah Palin.

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O judgment! Thou art fled to brutish beasts,
And men have lost their reason.

Leno never took one on the chin.

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Be well

GO BEARS!!!

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"All crowds boycotting football games shouldn't care who sings or takes a knee because they aren't watching." - Nas