Jimmy Kimmel vs. Jay Leno


The feud between Jlate-night hosts immy Kimmel and Jay Leno is alive and well, if March 16′s episode of The Late Show is any guide. Kimmel was a guest on the show, and he and David Letterman talked about how much they had enjoyed Leno’s recent woes. “I would like to keep it going, you had him, we were drowning him, and then you threw him a lifesaver during the Super Bowl,” Kimmel told Letterman, referring to the commercial where Letterman, Leno, and Oprah Winfrey appeared together. Letterman, meanwhile, told Kimmel that he had “enjoyed your participation in the Jay Leno scandal.”

Kimmel has been relentless in attacking Leno on the air ever since Leno’s successful campaign to squeeze Conan O’Brien out of the chair at The Tonight Show. Kimmel has done his own show dressed as Leno (with gray wig and artificial chin) and bashed Leno to his face while a guest on the ill-fated Jay Leno Show. The latter event led Leno to complain in an interview with Winfrey that he felt he had been “sucker-punched” by Kimmel. Kimmel then dismissed Leno as “a tattletale,” and added, “Watch out, Oprah, don’t think he won’t take your show next.”

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