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Jay Reno It looks back at the infamous incident that sparked his long-standing feud with Jimmy Kimmel.
While appearing in the 2010 “The Jay Leno Show,” Kimmel took repeated shots at Reno in the infamous “The Tonight Show” catastrophe involving Conan O’Brien.
On Wednesday’s episode of “In Deluce With Graham Bensinger,” Leno, 64, shared his regrets about his camera encounter with Kimmel, 57, and revealed why he decided not to cut the comedian’s jab from the final broadcast.
“When Kimmel came to my show and humiliated me with his own show, I let it happen. I didn’t edit it,” recalled Leno.
Jay Reno recalls the incident that sparked a feud with Jimmy Kimmel. (Getty)
He continued, “It was my mistake, I trusted someone. I went. And it’s okay, I mean we could have edited it from the show.
Jay Reno, his wife Mavis, relies on faith to overcome the difficulties of life.
“Why didn’t you do that?” asked Bensinger, 38.
“Because that happened,” explained Reno. “It’s true – it happened. It’s my mistake. That’s how you learn.”
When Bensinger questioned whether Reno’s decision was “mistake” because the interaction was made for “good TV” comedian He said he didn’t look at it from that point of view.
“It’s not a good TV for me, because it really started everything that continues to this day,” he said. “But it’s okay, it’s okay. He’s a cartoon – you do what you have to do. I mean, I’ve never done it, but it’s okay. It’s okay. That’s it.”
Reno recalled that in 2010 Kimmel “humiliated me with my own show.” (Justin Lubin/NBCU Photo Bank)
The 2010 incident with Leno and Kimmel stemmed from a widely publicized conflict over plans to succeed NBC’s hit late-night show The Tonight Show.
In 2009, Reno agreed to resign as host of “The Tonight Show,” and O’Brien was able to take over. In return, Reno was given his own primetime talk show, “The Jay Leno Show.”
When both shows struggled with ratings, NBC proposed returning Reno’s show to a late night and pushing “Tonight’s Show with Conan O’Brien” into a later time slot. O’Brien refused I left the network Leno is back to hosting “The Tonight Show.”
The big failure led to a huge backlash against Reno and NBC. A supporter of O’Brien, Kimmel made headlines to appear on Leno’s talk show a year later, during which he called out the hosts for his role in the controversy.
Kimmel joked when Leno asked Kimmel about the best prank he’d ever pulled.
Kimmel took a shot at Reno on O’Brien’s nasty departure from “The Tonight Show.” (Kevin Winter/Getty Images)
Earlier this week, Kimmel addressed her feud with Leno on an episode of “Jimmy Kimmel Live.”
On Wednesday, the comedian teased a guest Ben Affleck The actor walks the stage and says, “You have that expression on your face that you sometimes have when I meet you, you say, “What is he going to do? Is he going to do something?”
“I’m not going to do anything,” he added to Affleck. And I had to stay there. ”
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“Believe it or not, I didn’t follow the nuances of your gossip history,” Affleck told him.
“No, you just dropped a hand-held bullet on us,” Kimmel said.
Affleck witnessed the pair’s unpleasant exchange, saying, “This is painful enough. What’s strange? Is it strange? Have you been in each other for decades?”
Kimmel joked about his feud with Ben Affleck. (Randy Holmes/Disney via Getty Images)
The two comedians have been making Barb public for many years since the 2010 incident, but Kimmel revealed in 2017 what they had They repaired their cleft.
The late night host said Hollywood Reporter It was the birth of his young son that broke the silence between the two men.
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“Jay and I made peace. After my son had surgery, he called me and was very kind.”
Kimmel’s son William John (now 8) was born from a heart defect requiring emergency surgery.
In 2017, Kimmel said the two men had repaired the rift. (nbcuniversal via Paul Drink Water/NBCU Photobank/Getty Images)
Looking back, Kimmel said his rivalry was rooted in his love for David Letterman. Letterman wanted to take over hosting “The Tonight Show” after Johnny Carson left in 1993, but when Leno took the role in place, he left NBC to CBS.
“You need to remember how much you like me David Letterman. When all that happened, I was just a fan, I’m reading Bill Carter’s book [1994’s The Late Shift: Letterman, Leno, and the Network Battle for the Night.] And then there was a villain and a hero, Dave was a hero and Jay was a villain. I started with a negative attitude about it. I sometimes insert myself into situations where there is no business inserting myself. ”
However, Kimmel said he softened his attitude towards Reno following the call of heart.
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“You can’t argue [Leno’s] Success and his longevity. When I was in high school or college, he was one of my favourite manga. ”
