As luck would have it, Leno had his big career break on The Tonight Show 15 years before he started hosting it. He performed standup comedy on a 1977 Tonight Show episode and soon became a staple in ...

Jay Leno candidly shared the emotional toll of caring for his wife, Mavis, who has advanced dementia. 'She wants to be ...

Jay Leno has opened up about his wife, Mavis Leno's severe dementia, including her diagnosis, her day-to-day challenges of ...

Jay Leno, as affably efficient backstage as he is in front of the camera, avoids waxing poetic about his 22-year "Tonight Show" run that draws to a close Thursday. Instead, he relies on numbers to ...

In its statement today making official the fait accompli it at first denied—that Jimmy Fallon will take over the Tonight Show from Jay Leno next year—NBC noted that this was not the first time it ...

Legendary late-night host of NBC’s “The Tonight Show” Jay Leno said he no longer discusses politics in his stand-up comedy ...