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Jay Leno Bravely Leaves Hairpiece At Home To Confront His NBC Executioners [Awkwardness]
Gawker: defamer —
... As many have noted already, the stunt was almost identical to one pulled by Jimmy Kimmel last week, differentiated only by the fact that Kimmel's succeeded in making the reporters present laugh, as opposed to just feeling kind of awkward, filling the bloated silence that followed every wounded query by shifting their gazes downward and flipping haphazardly through their notepads. That said, no amount of bald wigs or NFL analogies can appear to save Leno now: The epic late shift is underway. We now merely await inevitable ABC casualty Martin Bashir to try his own riff on the ...
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NBC execs offer details on Jay Leno, Amy Poehler's non-'Office' spinoff
hollywoodinsider.ew.com 7/22/2008 — Jay Leno copied a routine from Jimmy Kimmel at the TCA Press Tour gathering in Beverly Hills Monday by disguising himself as a reporter and posing questions about late night to the NBC brass. ( Last week, Kimmel did a similar thing at the ABC portion ...
Transcript: Leno Posing As "Ala Kimmel"
deadlinehollywooddaily.com 7/22/2008 — Here's a transcript made by IFmagazine.com of Jay Leno posing as TCA reporter "Ala Kimmel" and pretending to grill Ben Silverman and Marc Graboff, the co-chairmen of NBC Entertainment and Universal Media Studios, about his exit from The Tonight Show. ...
The Office Spinoff Lives! Plus More from NBC
buzzsugar.com 7/22/2008 — It's the last day of sessions here at the TCA press tour , and it's NBC's turn to hawk its wares. Just a few minutes ago, NBC Entertainment Co-Chairman Ben Silverman took the stage to clarify a few things about the Office spinoff ( and not-spinoff), ...
The Late Shift
webstersismybitch.com 7/22/2008 — The Late Shift (Expression) Refers to the political wrangling involved in the late-night talk show wars, originating from a book from the same title about the 1992 late night wars after Johnny Carson retired. So, the late shift is heating up ...
Sarah Smiles —
Extra 7/22/2008
Sarah Silverman's longtime pal, actor John Hamm, says the comedienne is moving on with her life after the sudden split with Jimmy Kimmel, telling People magazine , "She's doing great."
Hamm, a star of the hit series "Mad Men," said of the ...