Jay Leno has left The Tonight Show for a new prime time series, but that was not about to stop Howard Stern from making his feelings about him known.
In summation, the shock jock ripped Leno during his appearance on last night’s Late Show and vowed to help David Letterman take down Conan O’Brien.
“We gotta beat this Conan. For God sakes, how are you feeling that Jay left late-night television and now we got a new guy we gotta compete with?” the admittedly disgruntled, bitter old man Stern asked an amused Letterman.
“And I wanna say something to this audience about loyalty … Dave put me on national television many, many years ago before I was known. And I have stuck with Dave … I didn’t like Jay. I never liked Jay. I can’t stand Jay.”
No arguments here – or from the studio audience that greeted the 55-year-old radio host’s scathing, somewhat odd comments with big applause!
And Stern, who later talked about other important topics, such as his wedding to Beth Ostrosky, wasn’t finished with Leno there by any means.
“Let me say something. I never seen anybody who behaves like a robot like this guy,” he continued. “I watched his final show. He says goodbye to The Tonight Show. He says goodbye reading it off a teleprompter for cryin’ out loud.”
“Where’s the emotion, and where’s the humanity?”
Stern recounted his one and only appearance on The Tonight Show, when he “showed up with two lesbians,” which naturally turned off Leno:
“He’s shocked. He walks off his own show. I knew it wouldn’t last.”