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Apparently Jay Leno will be headlining the White House Correspondent's Dinner. Apparently they got tired of people paying attention to the event.

I don't understand why people seem to be confusing Jay Leno with Johnny Carson. Carson was smart, funny, engaging, enteraining. If you could have arranged years ago to get Carson to return to the Tonight Show, now that would have been something. But Carson was smart enough and humble enough to step off the stage in his prime.

Leno? He never had a prime, just a show that represented an alternative for people who didn't find Letterman entertaining, which happened to be more than a few. When he moved to 10pm, every other alternative to Leno was a better alternative. Nobody watched his prime time show for a reason. Who destroys a network for someone so painfully dull, and who compunds the mistake, the way NBC is doing? Damn, give me the 10 pm hour or the 11:30 hour, and I'll bring you better ratings for a lot less.

I don't have any gripe with the guy personally, but he's just not all that. I am not sure why anyone would waste an otherwise good hour. That's what the internet is for.