I just adore Jay Leno. He’s such a hard worker and such a nice guy. And this story is especially heartwarming. Jay Leno is doing a free comedy show in Ohio, a state that’s been hit particularly hard by the economic crisis.
More than 2,000 people picked up tickets Monday to next month’s free comedy show by Jay Leno, who is bringing his act to southwest Ohio as a morale booster.
People in shorts, sunhats and baseball caps sat in lawn chairs or on the ground to form lines that stretched out from four entrances to the Roberts Centre, where Leno will hold his Comedy Stimulus show May 10.
Penny Tapp, 57, of Highland, arrived about 7 a.m. Monday, more than four hours before the distribution of 4,000 tickets began.
Tapp, who lost her freight delivery job in November, said Leno has a big heart for doing the show.
“It’s like stretching your arms out and hugging the community and saying ‘It’s going to be OK,'” said Tapp, who began to choke up with emotion. “I think it’s tremendously important.”
I just LOVE being able to write a story about something like this. It’s refreshing to see a celebrity do a good deed that doesn’t also reek of being a publicity stunt.
And if you like this story, you should read about the mystery donor who’s been giving millions of dollars to women-run colleges all over the country while remaining completely anonymous to everyone. Another fantastic and heart-warming story (even though I’m secretly pretty sure it’s Bernie Madoff).
He also did a free show in Detroit at the Palace of Auburn Hills.
Two free shows.
I won’t deny his character. I’ve never doubted that he’s a good man. But damnit, I do not find him to be the least bit funny. Never have.
And does anyone know how his health is? Wasn’t he hospitalized last week for something?
yknow,
i really think jay leno is awesome and funny,
but everytime i see his chin,
i feel like smacking him.
it’s not that i have anything against him,
but i have an uncle who was awful
that looks exactly like that.
he stole our grandmothers money! D:
who steals from old people?
Worst Interviewer ever … and not funny at all …
Leno’s a massive petrol-head. I just found out the other week that the mechanic across the road from my office has a one of a kind motorcycle that runs on jet fuel. (Can’t hear a thing when it’s running.) Relevence is that it’s part owned by… Jay Leno! Yay!
It is pretty classy. If he was just looking for a tax charity write-off he would have just given cash instead.
I still don’t find him funny though.
He is a bore! He’s always been a bore. His jokes are trite and just because he got sick doesn’t (shouldn’t) make him all of a sudden cute and irresistable. Sick or not, his jokes are hardly funny.
jay leno is awful, the worst, he steals ideas from other shows and ruin’s them on his awful show, he is unwatchable, no talent, he steals cars from dieing old people, he is a scum bag and not human