Jay Leno on attainable reunion with David Letterman
Jay Leno may simply be able to park the previous and trip right into a reunion with David Letterman—awkward silences and all. The legendary late-night host not too long ago opened up in regards to the thought of reuniting along with his longtime rival-turned-cultural-footnote throughout an look on In Depth with Graham Bensinger.
And spoiler alert, he’s not opposed.
“Oh, yeah. I would like to do that. I think I have no problem with it,” Leno mentioned when requested if he’d be sport for a sit-down with Letterman. “I think Dave might be awkward.”
Leno’s not throwing shade—he’s simply calling it like he sees it.
“He’s a quirky guy,” Leno added, earlier than shortly clarifying, “I don’t mean that in a bad way.” Jay even admitted he’s no stranger to quirks himself, “But opposite sides of the coin.”
In true Leno style, he rolled out a narrative to again it up—this one that includes bikes, a shock go to, and an entire lot of orange juice pressure. He recalled the time he and fellow comedian Wil Shriner determined to pop in on Letterman at his Malibu dwelling.
It didn’t go fairly as deliberate.
“‘We’ll just surprise him at his house.’ It was the most awkward. Dave’s like, ‘Huh? Oh, uh, yeah. Uh, come on in.’ And we’re like, ‘Oh, this is a mistake,’” Leno shared.
“It was just so awkward,” he continued. “‘So, uh, you want a glass of orange juice?’ ‘No, I’m OK. Yeah. We gotta get going.’” Jay chalked it as much as their completely different pursuits, noting, “You really, you have nothing else in common other than comedy really. Dave’s a sports guy. I’m not a sports guy…”
Nonetheless, regardless of their variations—and, let’s be trustworthy, a number of late-night scars—Leno insists he’s down if the celebs, and schedules, align.
“But I mean, believe me, if they want to do something, I would do it,” he mentioned. “But I’m not gonna… I tend to get my hand bitten when I instigate those kind of things.”
Their famously sophisticated relationship dates again to the early ‘90s when Leno was chosen over Letterman to succeed Johnny Carson on The Tonight Present, a twist that impressed the 1996 HBO movie The Late Shift.
Greater than three a long time later, it appears to be like like Leno could be prepared for a sequel—ideally one with fewer awkward home calls and no shock juice presents.
