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Jay Leno reveals why he let Jimmy Kimmel humiliate him on his own show
Apr 27, 2025
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Jay Leno is looking back at the infamous incident that sparked his long-running feud with Jimmy Kimmel.
While appearing on “The Jay Leno Show” in 2010, Kimmel repeatedly took shots at Leno over the notorious “Tonight Show” debacle involving Conan O’Brien.
On Wednesday’s episode of “In Depth With Graham Bensinger,” Leno, 64, shared his regrets over the on-camera encounter with Kimmel, 57, and revealed why he decided not to cut the comedian’s jabs at him from the final broadcast.
“When Kimmel came on my show and humiliated me on my own show, I let it happen. I didn’t edit it,” Leno recalled.
He continued, “It was my mistake, I trusted somebody. I went, ‘Ah, I made a mistake. OK, I should pay the price.’ And it’s fine, it’s fine. I mean, we could have edited it out of the show.
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“Why didn’t you?” Bensinger, 38, asked.
“Because it happened,” Leno explained. “It’s real — it happened. It’s my mistake. That’s how you learn.”
When Bensinger questioned if Leno’s decision was a “mistake” because the interaction made for “good TV,” the comedian said he didn’t view it in that light.
“It’s not good TV for me because it started a whole thing that continues to this day, really,” he said. “But it’s okay, it’s alright. He’s a comic — you do what you gotta do. I mean, I wouldn’t have done it, but that’s okay. That’s alright. It is what it is.”
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