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love it and we'll give you an award for it. carson: and so it has come to this. fallon: i thought that johnny carson came with the tv set. leno: what the hell were you thinking? ray: dave was the new johnny, for me. letterman: i'm not exactly a computer. slow down. meyers: it felt... edgy before i was probably old enough to appreciate what edgy was. man: you better be as good as letterman. o'brien: i'll give it a shot. o'brien: my heart dropped through my butt. it exited my butt. stewart: holy [beep] [beep]. noah: this is madness. absolute madness. kimmel: it makes every hair on my b...

Emotional darkness, and transformed it into comedy. >> something terrible happens, these guys still have to come on that night and do a show. unless it's just something off the charts terrible. >> and i can remember sitting with jay and writers, and we were all just kind of like looking at the tv screen just stunned. >> 9/11 is such a shock to the country that television itself could not go back on the air. >> people were so afraid at the time that we weren't going to be able to be funny.

Million viewers watching that night, we had over 10 million. >> let me start with question number one. [ laughter ] >> everyone wanted to know, what is hugh grant going to say? >> what the hell were you thinking? [ laughter ] [ rim shot ] >> oh my god, you couldn't have said it better. >> as you know, the hollywood community was shocked to learn that this type of thing was going on. >> jay kills it. the whole show. >> well, i mean, obviously very -- so many bad things about it, i don't know where to begin. but one of them was, you know, the embarrassment i caused the people have been working w...

At that point, helen kushnick had been fired. >> we brought in debbie vickers. >> i didn't and i have in common we are hard workers and we'll do whatever is in our power to get better. jay's strength was the monologue and joke telling. >> jay felt in studio 1 in burbank, the audience was too far away from him, the band was too far away. so we got a new set design. >> jay now is working closer to the audience. we've extended the monologue because that's where jay's muscles are. >> i can't help thinking, if you're a peeping tom, right? of all the people you could go after, why pick madonna? what...

It's very hip to be on the internet right now. >> i ask you to join me and the president in working for fundamental change in america's health care system. >> if it doesn't fit, you must acquit. >> british heartthrob hugh grant was arrested early this morning in hollywood for allegedly picking up a prostitute on sunset boulevard. >> the most important element of hugh grant showing up on "the tonight show" with jay leno was that he showed up. >> we all assumed he would cancel the appearance. >> jay anticipated that. and jay called hugh grant. and said, i think ultimately, this story goes away i...