“When I got The Tonight Show, I hired the best producer I could, the best director, who I thought were the best writers… When they would tell me the show sucked, I would go, ‘Why’d it suck?’ And they’d tell me why it sucked.
My theory was anybody can pull the cord and stop the train. I remember one time we had a guy in the basement who I didn’t know. I had done at the time a transgender joke, and I heard this guy was really hurt about it. So I go down to see him and he explained the situation.
I said you’ll never hear another transgender joke from me again. He was so taken by the fact that he could bring this show to a screeching halt because of his one complaint. [He] turned out to be the greatest lighting guy or sound guy, whatever he did, that we had.”— Jay Leno during an appearance on Bill Maher’s Club Random podcast. If only Bill could wrap his head around the concept now…
humble charlie
jay was transformed
MacAdvisor
What Leno can never fix is his being a scab during the 2007-2008 writers strike. He’s a member of the union, crossed the picket line, and sold out his fellow union brothers. I have never watched him sense and never will.
Tallskin
Getting laws changed and forcing your way into female spaces doesn’t prove to the world you’re a woman. It proves male power, privilege and entitlement.
Kangol2
So what about transmen? You’ve conspicuously erased them.
Cam
Even though you rememoved the phony picture off this account you’re still just one of the right wing troll screenames that has a freaky obsession with trans people.
As always, your trolling is sad and weak.
Jami Stardust
why are you here? You obviously know nothing about trans people, an you don’t want to know. Gender is in the brain and you would know that if you checked out any scientific studies about brain sex.
Tallskin
“why are you here? You obviously know nothing about trans people, an you don’t want to know. Gender is in the brain and you would know that if you checked out any scientific studies about brain sex.”
The word you’re searching for but can’t find, cos your vocabulary is limited, is “pseudo science”
Mack
Just another screen name for a right wing bigot.
LumpyPillows
Tallskin, I’m not sure how your thought that was the right point. While I may agree with you on trans women in women’s sports, we should not be mean-spirited or cruel. Many jokes made trans people out to be things and were cruel. That’s the point here.
Tallskin
Mummy, where do trans women come from?
Well, darling, when a man loves himself very very much ……
Den
Good lord! Sad to see a buffoon such as you. Too stupid to even realize you are humiliating yourself.
Mister P
Hey tall skin you might want to educate yourself more about the topic of transgenderism. It is very easy to mis represent something we don’t understand.
Tallskin
i understand Transgenderism all too well
look up autogynephilia
humble charlie
it was a joke. get a sense of humor.
inbama
It’s a little known fact that Jay included his preferred pronouns in his email signature as far back as 1967.
Diplomat
Not true. Let’s keep disinformation out of the conversation. You people are already in enough hot water.
LumpyPillows
I’m hoping that was an attempt at humor.
Creamsicle
Is he also going to admit that he made Monica Lewinsky jokes for entirely too long?
AmberLeMay
“[He] turned out to be the greatest lighting guy or sound guy, whatever he did, that we had.” So great Leno couldn’t remember what he did?
It was his constant OJ jokes that did me in. Two people were tragically killed and all he saw was a punchline.
still_onthemark
That line is (unintentionally) funnier than 90% of the jokes Jay has told since the ’80s.
smittoons
Thank you! His not even being able to remember the job the guy did on his own damned show says as much about Leno as his attempt to humble brag.
monty clift
What was the trans joke, I would like to hear it, and if he’s talking about a “trans guy” presumably it was a female who made the complaint?
still_onthemark
Are ANY jokes about transpeople acceptable? They sure seem to be the touchiest folks around. It’s as if one questionable joke by Bill Maher is automatically going to cause several hundred transpeople to commit suicide? Should professional comedians avoid the subject entirely? Lenny Bruce and George Carlin would not regard that as a healthy approach.
Social media makes it a lot easier to firebomb and “destroy” a liberal who agrees with you 99% – and is willing to learn about the other 1% – instead of doing anything in the real world about the actual right-wingers & fascists & real-life Nazis who don’t give a sh*t and really do hate transpeople and will keep on making really BAD trans jokes.
Kangol2
I imagine if a trans person is joking about himself/herself/themself or about other trans people, it’s OK. No? But someone who isn’t trans but is taking cheap shots, as usually happens, is a different issue.
Winsocki
Trans people just have to make jokes about those who joke about them…. Fight Back Fools. I mean Trump and his family can be joked about ad infinitum…. I have no anwers except do not listen or give a time a day to people you think are horrible comics. I never listened to Ford Fairliane and Sam Kinison …or others I can’t stand. I do not watch FOX News….. If you don’t pay my mortgage I pay no mind to your ramblings.
Cam
It isn’t that trans people don’t have a sense of humor, far from it, but why should anybody be quiet if somebody is attacking them, being a bigot, etc…?
inbama
@Cam
True. Blair White has a great sense of humor.
Cam
Jay blew his story up by claiming the guy was the greatest at…..something Jay couldn’t remember him doing. LOL!
IvanPH
A lot of queer kids and teens in the 90s and 2000s were bullied and harassed because of the homophobic and transphobic jokes of this guy for several years in his talk shows. This guy should forever be canceled.
Tallskin
Hmmm, how interesting you seem incapable of using the terms Gay and Lesbian
Trans didn’t exist 20 years ago
LumpyPillows
Canceled forever? Just stop.
Diplomat
Tall,
True. I believe trans and non b came about due to GMOs laced into the US food supply in 1985ish forward. Girls started having periods at 8 years old and on and on.
There is alot on Google about this.
Diplomat
Tall,
PS
True. I believe trans and non b came about and/or became accentuated due to GMOs laced into the US food supply in 1985ish forward. Girls started having periods at 8 years old and on and on.
There is alot on Google about this.
inbama
@Diplomat
If the spike in nonbinary girls were due to eating crops sprayed with Roundup, it would occur in childhood rather than affecting girls with no history of dysphoria suddenly embracing “non-binaryism” in high school.
This is why many people studying the phenomena see it a social contagion. Every girl feeling rejected by her peers in the real world can find legions of supporters on Reddit and TikTok promising a happy future once you nullify your gender. And once she goes for it, adopts the “they/them” pronouns she may find herself a “hero” in school instead of a social reject.
Den
Hey Tallidiot, trans people have been around forever. your sad little imagination is not reality. There are instances of men living as women, and women living as men throughout history. What do you suppose they were, child?
And Christine Jorgensen, who was born in 1926 as one of the first people to go public about her gender reassignment surgery and had a successful career as a singer, actress and recording artist.
She was widely accepted because there were few people as stupid as you back then, and those that were knew their place.
“Trans didn’t exist 20 years ago”…Jeeze what an idiot you are! What idiots all you right winger are!!
Diplomat
Inbama,
Round Up is a weed killer, not a GMO (genetically modified organism). Foods such as wheat grains and veggies are subject to being GMOs. Not sure where you were going with your statement.
inbama
@Diplomat
Roundup is implicated in endocrine disruption and fetal malformation.
Tallskin
Hey Tallidiot, trans people have been around forever. your sad little imagination is not reality. There are instances of men living as women, and women living as men throughout history. What do you suppose they were, child? – GIVE ME EXAMPLES. SURE THERE HAVE BEEN SEXUAL KINKSTERS DRESSING AS WOMEN, AUTOGYNIPHILES. BUT MEN ARE DIRTY BUGGERS
And Christine Jorgensen, who was born in 1926 as one of the first people to go public about her gender reassignment surgery and had a successful career as a singer, actress and recording artist.
_ONLY ONE EXAMPLE? I CAN NAME YOU MANY MANY GAYS AND LESBIANS THROUGHOUT HISTORY AND YOU GIVE ME ONE EXAMPLE!
She was widely accepted because there were few people as stupid as you back then, and those that were knew their place.
– ACCORDING TO WIKIPEDIA HE WAS A FREAK SHOW THAT PEOPLE TURNED OUT TO GAWK AT
“Trans didn’t exist 20 years ago”…Jeeze what an idiot you are! What idiots all you right winger are!! –
I am a socialist. I and many others don’t accept that blokes dressing up as women in order to fulfill a sexual kink is something progressives should support. Sure dress how you want, sleep with who you want, but it’s not a thing for socialists to support
Diplomat
Inbama,
I have only heard of round up causing cancer though I’m sure that’s not the only result.
However, as far as I can tell, it has not been linked to causing trans or non binary in people like GMOs have.
Mister P
Maybe you should look it up and keep reading even though you found the part you like.
JRamonMc
Jay Leno is a stand up guy. More power to him for learning so quickly from a production crew member and befriending him.
johncp56
to rich to care, he got cought lol