The first mistake I made was missing the MTV awards Sunday night. Next, I conveniently ignored the news shows on Monday. So by the time Leno kicked off in his new time slot last night I might have been the only person in the world who hadn't seen or heard about the Kanye West-Taylor Swift event. And that made it even harder to laugh at Jay's jokes, or to understand what was really going on.
But I'm not here to review Leno. (I will, however, share this commentary by Mary McNamara of the L.A. Times.) You can click here for the full review:
It's not a good sign when the Bud Light commercial is funnier than the comedy show it interrupts.
Sixteen minutes into the new "The Jay Leno Show," it was difficult not to panic. This is the future of television? This wasn't even a good rendition of television past...
Which is why this strange, shallow puddle of comedy is so difficult to accept. With all eyes on Leno, this is the best he, and his writers, and the struggling network could come up with? A "Cheaters" parody in which the joke is that he and bandleader Kevin Eubanks are having an affair? Edgy stuff for Jay, perhaps, and brave of any middle-aged man to appear on TV in argyle, but honestly, NBC. Has it come to this?
As for the music: At least Jay was hip enough to have Rihanna, Jay-Z and Kanye as the featured entertainment. Springsteen or the Stones would've been so, you know, old school...
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