colleagues at nbc. what are we going to do about jay leno? i was really worried that the show was not going to make it. let me ask you a question here. when prisoners watch shows like cops, do you think they root for the criminal? come on, get over the fence. oh, man. on the worst day of the tonight show, and the worst, horrible conditions, you re still writing jokes and you re laughing. and i said, all right. let s see what we have to do to bring this thing out of the hole. jay has this ability to plow forward, like nobody i ve ever seen. i have to hand it to jay leno, that he is the one who said we re going to we are going to win this thing, and i m going to work harder. at that point, helen kushnick had been fired. and we promoted ebby vicars as another example of a woman behind the scenes who, really, is the formative person in a show. jay and i have, in common,