Nothing much to get excited about, as The Jay Leno Show sadly wrapped up one of the biggest mistakes in television network history with a low-key finale that, coming on a Tuesday with zero promotion, remained off the radar for a lot of TV fans, probably just the way NBC wanted it.
"Five months," said Leno in his monologue opening the final show. "Guys on Viagra had erections that lasted longer than that."
Other hilarity:
"Seems like just yesterday I was telling NBC this was not gonna work."
"My sentence was reduced to five months for good behavior."
Leno, who will return after the Olympics in March at 11:35 p.m. as Tonight Show host, did a segment looking back on his primetime failure, with supposedly funny changes, including a desperate stop at the botttom of the humor garbage pail, appearing in his underpants. Donald Trump turned up via satellite to say, "You're fired." Precious star Gabourey Sidibe gave a cute interview.
Retired NFL star quarterback Kurt Warner made a surprise appearance, then burned off a few minutes playing catch with Ashton Kutcher, as a producer sprayed the young actor with a hose.
Kutcher, executive producer of MTV's celebrity practical joke extravaganza Punk'd, kidded that the show was all a punk. "I'm glad it's over," Jay told him. Aren't we all?
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