and i can remember sitting with jay. and and writers. and we were, all, just kind of like looking at the tv screen, just stunned. 9/11 is such a shock to to country, that television, itself, could not go back on the air. people were still afraid, at the time. that we weren t going to be able to be funny. after something so horrific had happened. i know, for the first few days, we were wondering whether we would ever do a show, again. the decision to go back on television, after 9/11, was extremely difficult. no one knew what to do.
as you know, the hollywood community was shocked to learn that this type of thing was going on. jay kills it, the whole show. well, i mean, obviously, you know, so many bad things about it. so i don t know where to begin. but one of them was that, you know, embarrassment i caused the people i have been working with the last year on this on this film. and when you embarrass tom arnold, that s really at that point, in july, 1995, jay became carson. like, he became the voice of the viewer. and from that day on, jay leno and the tonight show are number one. a late-night crowd is back at nbc. dave hated losing. he became more and more tied up it s a life-size dave letterman doll. look at that beauty right there. isn t that good? there you go.
the fact that we are, both, hard workers. and we will do whatever is in our power to get better. jay s strength was the monologue and joke telling. and jay felt in studio 1 in burbank, the audience was too far away from him. the band was too far away. so we got a new-set design. jay, now, is working closer to the audience. we ve extended the monologue because that s where jay s muscles are. i can t help thinking, fur if you are a peeping tom, right, of all the people you could go after, why pick madonna? what part of this woman haven t you seen, already? jay was rolling. and was like tonight i felt like it was in a club. he was doing standup. jay s show had gotten really good. it was really strong. the people weren t sampling it, yet. and then, there is the night where hugh grant comes on. that night turned the whole tide of late-night television around.
laugh and his vibe is very jovial. but anyone who thinks they can host a late-night show, you are an absolute idiot, because there is so much that goes into it. please, welcome billy crystal. it started out together, as st stand-ups. and now, here we are, he is the host of t the tonight show.. it s been tremendous and i just want to say i m going to miss you. in jay leno s first-few months, people didn t like him. they thought he was out of his element. you know, from beginning of vietnam the vietnam war until today, our military used more explosive than than were used in lethal weapon 1, 2, and 3, combined. all three, combined. sometimes, there was nothing to laugh at. and he d look at me and he would say, thanks for that one. i did wonder, at times, if i had made a mistake. fighting for and believing in jay. one out of every three men is
afraid of long-term commitment. if you ask me, i think, one out of every three tv networks is afraid of jay started with this huge pressure, a lot of nerves. behind the scenes, it was dramatic. jay s manager, helen kushnick, was the executive producer. to say helen was not collaborative is an understatement. that was war. and now, that his trial is over, suicide dr. jack kevorkian says he is going to get a brand new car. says he is sick and tired driving that old fvan of his. it is nothing but a death trap. the early years of the tonight show with jay, it was pretty scary for those of us who had kids and families in houses. i m here. okay, yes! there was a story, every day, in the trades. will in canbc dump leno? will leno be replaced? where will dave go? don t mind me. i m just a temp.