Jay Leno reveals why he allowed Jimmy Kimel to humiliate it on his own show

Jay Leno Looking back at the sad famous incident that caused him a long hostility with Jimmy Kimmel.

Appearing in Jay Leno’s show in 2010, Kimmeme was repeatedly shot at Leno over the notorious “Decacle” Tonight Show involving Conan O’Brien.

On Wednesday, at the episode of “In the depths of Graham Bansenger”, 64, he shared his regrets about the meeting with the 57-year-old Kimmel camera, and showed why he decided not to cut his comedian from the final broadcast.

“When Kimmeme came to my show and humiliated me on my own show, I allowed it. I didn’t edit it,” Leno reminded.

Jay Leno recalled the incident that caused his hostility with Jimmy Kimmel. (Getti)

He continued: “It was my mistake, I trusted someone. I went,” Oh, I was wrong. Ok, I have to pay the price. “And that’s okay, it’s great.

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“Because it happened,” Leno explained. “It’s real – it’s happened. It’s my mistake. That’s how you study.”

If Bansenger questioned whether the decision was Leno “mistake” because interaction for “good TV”, comic He said he didn’t see it in this light.

“It is not good for me because it started everything that goes on to this day,” he said. “But that’s okay, it’s all right. He’s a commissioner – you do what you need to do. I mean, I wouldn’t do it, but it’s okay. That’s good. That’s what is.”

Leno reminded that Kimmeme “humiliated me on his own show” in 2010. (Justin Lyubin/NBCU Photo Bank)

The 2010 incident with Leno and Kimmel followed from a widely promoted conflict over the continuity plan on the NBC hit show at the end of the night “The Tonight Show”.

In 2009, Leno agreed to leave the post of leading “The Tonight Show” so that O’Brien could take over. In return, Leno received his own current “PrimeTime” “Jay Leno’s show”.

When both shows fought in ratings, NBC suggested moving the Leno exhibition back to late night and pushing “Tonight Show with Conan O’Brien” to a later time. O’Brien refused and left the network While Leno returned to the hosting “The Tonight Show”.

The debacle has led to a great reaction against Leno and NBC. Kimmeme, who was a supporter of O’Brien, made his headlines for his speech in the current Leno a year later, during which he called on the master for his role in the dispute.

When Leno asked Kimel about the best prank, which he was pulling, Kimmel joking: “I told the guy that I was going to speak with you in five years, and then when I came for five years, I gave him to him, and then I returned him almost instantly.”

Kimmeme made shots at Leno over the dirty departure O’Brien from “The Tonight Show”. (Kevin Winter/Getti Image)

Earlier this week, Kimmeme also addressed his hostility from Leno during the Jimmy Kimmel episode.

On Wednesday the comedian teased the guest Ben Affleck When the actor walked on the stage, saying: “You have a look at your face that you sometimes have when I see you where you look like:” What will he do? He will do something? “

“I’m not going to do anything,” he assured before adding, “it won’t be like when I came to you for Christmas and I go to the door, and then Jay Leno follows me, and then we both talk to you and you go,” Oh, both of you have something to do with each other? “And then I had to stay there.”

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“Believe it or not, I did not hold the nuance of your gossip,” Afflek told him.

“No, you just threw a grenade at us,” Kimmeme said.

The offlek recalled that the uncomfortable exchange of the couple witnessed, remembering: “It was:” It hurts enough. What’s amazing? Is the strange?

Kimmeme joked about hostility with Ben Afflek. (Randy Holmes/Disney via Getty Images)

While the two comedics have publicly traded barbs over the years after the 2010 incident, Kimmeme in 2017 showed that they had corrected his gap.

Told the presenter of the late evening Hollywood reporter What was the birth of her baby’s son, who broke the silence between two men.

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“Jay and I concluded peace. After my son started acting, he called me and he was very good.”

Kimmel’s son, William John, who is now 8 years old, was born with a heart defect that demanded an emergency surgery.

In 2017, Kimmeme stated that two had corrected his gap. (Paul Drinkwater/NBCU Photo Bank/NBCUniversal via Getty Images)

Looking back, Kimmeme said that rivalry was rooted in his love for David’s Letterman. The letterman hoped to take over the hosting “The Tonight Show” after Johnny Carson’s departure in 1993, but he left NBC for CBS when Leno was sent to the role.

“You have to remember how much I love David Letteman. When it all happened, I was just a fan, reading Bill Carter (“Late 1994”: Letteman, Leno and Battle at night.) And there was a villain and a hero, and Dave was a hero and Jay was a villain. I started with a negative feeling about it. I sometimes insert myself in a situation I have no business that is inserted. “

However, Kimmeme said he had softened his position on Leno after a friendly phone call.

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“You can’t argue with success (Leno) and his longevity. I will say when I was in high school and at college, he was one of my favorite comics.”