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Vendaval -> "Leno gets set to leave the `most wonderful job'" (5/29/2009 11:52:07 AM)
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The end of an era in late night TV.
"Leno gets set to leave the `most wonderful job'"
By Lynn Elber, AP Television writer, Friday, May 29th
"He will have posted an impressive 17 years as "Tonight" host, but well short of Carson's three decades that ended with his retirement in May 1992. Leno debuted as "Tonight" host a few days later.
He leaves the show atop the late-night ratings, his run abbreviated by NBC's decision five years ago to create a succession plan that gives "Tonight" to Conan O'Brien.
On the eve of his final two shows, Leno strikes an unsentimental tone. But he knows what he's leaving behind as he moves to a new, untested 10 p.m. EDT daily prime-time show for NBC this fall.
"Will I miss it? Yes, terribly. It's the most wonderful job ever in show business," he said of "Tonight," which started in 1954 with Steve Allen as host.
Unlike the solitary road life of a typical standup comedian, telling jokes to an audience of maybe 100 or so, Leno said, he had the chance to make millions of viewers laugh — and then go home each night to his wife."
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090529/ap_on_en_tv/us_tv_jay_leno
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