Example sentences for: leno

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  • Critics scoff at two new late-night talk shows, hosted by black stand-up comics, as poor replicas of the early '90s hit The Arsenio Hall Show . Vibe , produced by Quincy Jones, and Keenen , made by the creator of the comedy series In Living Color , are pronounced "indistinguishable" (James Collins, Time ) and "hard to stay awake through" (Howard Rosenberg, the Los Angles Times ). The main gripes are that the programs stick to a "banal" (Caryn James, the New York Times ) talk show formula and have even less bite than David Letterman's or Jay Leno's network show.

  • I saw him on one of these millennium shows flicking the Hollywood-sign fireworks with Jay Leno, which seemed pretty goofy.

  • Where the filmmakers are most comfortable is back in the studio, so they throw in Jay Leno, RuPaul, and a panel of repugnant pundits--Harry Shearer, Michael Moore, George Plimpton, and Arianna Huffington--to discuss the "Ed phenomenon."

  • Riordan's term is up shortly, though, and, if he can lick statewide animosity toward L.A., he might be the Republicans' best hope for beating Davis, or Boxer, or Leno.

  • What social historians of the future may find most notable about Leno's joke is not what it says about popular perceptions of Bill Clinton's sex life, but what it says about the language of air travel, and how its sui-generis vocabulary ("seat pocket," "ground personnel," "emergency flotation"), its stilted constructions ("We are now ready to pre-board those passengers who ..."


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