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Leno Website Previews 'Terrible Jokes'

Staffers are dour, jokes are just plain bad

By Evann Gastaldo,  Newser Staff

Posted Jul 23, 2009 12:18 PM CDT

(Newser) – The days of thejaylenoshow.com being a funny site—back when it was owned by a stubborn realtor refusing “to budge in the face of increasingly desperate corporate pressure” from NBC—are over. Sadly, the URL now belongs to The Jay Leno Show, writes Seth Abramovitch for Movieline. Though ostensibly a comedic destination, it boasts content "reminiscent of a health insurance website.”

Some options for visitors wanting to learn more about NBC’s “hacky-comedy cavalcade”? You can “‘Meet Bryan’—a ‘backstage correspondent’ who looks like he’s just been informed of an illness not covered by his HMO”—or be introduced to band member Vicki, “looking even more morose than Bryan,” Abramovitch writes. Or you can get a preview of Leno’s jokes, which explains the staffers’ apparent dismay: “Be strong Bryan, Vicki, and the rest.”

Jay Leno performs at the ShakesBEER Kegger fundraiser event in Malibu, Calif. on Saturday, May 23, 2009.
Jay Leno performs at the ShakesBEER Kegger fundraiser event in Malibu, Calif. on Saturday, May 23, 2009.   (AP Photo/Dan Steinberg)
Jay Leno reacts as he tells a story during an interview at the Palace in the Detroit suburb of Auburn Hills, Mich., Tuesday, April 7, 2009.
Jay Leno reacts as he tells a story during an interview at the Palace in the Detroit suburb of Auburn Hills, Mich., Tuesday, April 7, 2009.   (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio)
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Self-loathing festers inside you like a cancer, after being made to repeatedly fake-laugh at your boss’s terrible jokes convincingly enough to keep your job another day. Our hearts and prayers are with them.
- Seth Abramovitch

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COMMENTS
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memphibian
Jul 24, 2009 3:24 AM CDT
One joke about a republican, then one about a democrat. But they don't do funny stuff so you hafta keep going back to Bill Clinton. yawn.
metalworldorder
Jul 23, 2009 10:28 AM CDT
Conan's leagues ahead of Leno. While I like Leno, he seems like the kinda guy who's funny at a party or with a group of friends. Not on television though.
Timinator2K
Jul 23, 2009 7:13 AM CDT
Looking forward to watching you again, Jay! Conan may be funny...someday.
 

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