The Jay Leno Show

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Season 1
  • Network: NBC
  • Series Premiere Date: Sep 14, 2009
User Score
3.6

Generally unfavorable reviews- based on 60 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 17 out of 60
  2. Mixed: 5 out of 60
  3. Negative: 38 out of 60

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  1. PatS
    Oct 21, 2009
    2
    Too much degradation of women. Is Jay trying to pull in a male audience between 13-Stupid years old?
  2. ScubyDo
    Oct 2, 2009
    3
    It's the same old show with the addition that whoever runs the audio board is doing a crappy job. The levels are all over the place. To hear Jay speak I have to turn up the volume and to keep from going more deaf, have to turn down the volume from the alleged laughing.
  3. Kyle
    Oct 24, 2009
    1
    Bizarre/absurd humor for the 65-80 demographic! Jay Leno is horribly unfunny... So glad NBC is reaping what it sewed.
  4. MikeR
    Dec 7, 2009
    2
    Equal doses of bland, trite, and irritating. I'm not sure why exactly Jay is back (not that he ever left) with the same tired, faux-inoffensive comedy that he's always dished out. Move on Jay, please move on.
  5. bobp.
    Sep 15, 2009
    0
    Not funny or interesting.
  6. BrianF.
    Sep 15, 2009
    3
    Same boring Jay, same boring material. His standup is above average, but his interviewing skills are the worst on TV.
  7. RickB
    Sep 16, 2009
    3
    Watched the last 2 nights...unfortunately it's not very impressive. Choppy format without a comfortable flow to the program. Hate the seating arrangement. The "10 at 10" segment was marginally funny. Jay, you can do better!
  8. SallyB
    Sep 19, 2009
    3
    I didn't like the format of equal time spots to every segment, and most of his pretaped segments were less than funny. Jay has to stop yelling at his audience after every segment about who and what is coming up next. He sounds like an infomercial guy selling his product.
  9. Fantasy
    Dec 15, 2009
    2
    I love Jay but this reworked show is simply awful. He doesn't stand a chance. The King of Late Night TV has been reduced to a 2nd stringer at a time and place where the show does not belong. I feel sorry for Jay.
  10. JordamJ
    Sep 15, 2009
    2
    His jokes are all the same, take a current event compare it or relate it to a item that was recently in the news. But even though he's talentless he's fair to his guests.
  11. TomM.
    Sep 24, 2009
    3
    Ok so we get Leno on earlier and even more tame than he was on the Tonight Show. This is awful television. I find myself listening to the radio more and more since pablum like this and reality shows have taken over the networks.
  12. YoursTruly
    Apr 18, 2014
    0
    He's just so unfunny. He is just so unbelievably unfunny. Why is he on television? This show gets a zero. Not a one...a zero. It has zero quality. Its is refuse.
  13. Stahl
    Mar 28, 2014
    0
    Don't invite Jay to a party, he obviously doesn't know when to pack it in and leave. Conan's helming of the Tonight Show never made it off shore due to Leno's abysmal lead-in...

Awards & Rankings

92
#92 Best TV Season of 2009
42
#42 Most Discussed TV Season of 2009

Critic Reviews

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Metascore
48

Mixed or average reviews - based on 23 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 2 out of 23
  2. Mixed: 21 out of 23
  3. Negative: 0 out of 23
  1. Boston Globe
    Reviewed by: Matthew Gilbert
    50
    The boilerplate talk format was reminiscent not only of Leno’s “Tonight Show,’’ but of almost every other late-night talker on the air right now.
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  2. Los Angeles Times
    Reviewed by: Mary McNamara
    40
    [This] 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?
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  3. Newsday
    Reviewed by: Verne Gay
    50
    That's a lot of pressure, even for Iron Jay, and maybe why Night One felt like a work in progress--terribly rough in spots, not bad in others.
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