Jay Leno Took A 50% Pay Cut

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By Nads | Friday, September 7, 2012 | 8:53 am | 8 Comments
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Jay Leno agreed to take a 50% pay cut and has extended his Tonight Show contract until 2014. Poor Jay is now only making $15 million as opposed to $30 million, but his pay cut did cut down the show’s budget by 20%. I know that not only the network benefited, but so did the staff…and let’s not forget it kept Jay on-air for another two years…so everybody wins!

NBC‘s entertainment chief, Robert Greenblatt said, “All we did was bring it back down to pre-prime-time levels.” So basically, NBC is just trying to clean up their mess from when they took Jay to primetime. I wonder how much longer they’ll keep Jay. I’m sure Jay will stay as long as they’ll have him. Two years seems like a long time away, but it’s going to be here before we know it…and I’ll probably still be here blogging about it. :-)

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Although comedy is her profession, Nadine has accomplished a lot in her young age. She is a national champion black belt, a world-class soccer player, and an avid snowboarder. She started playing soccer at the age of 4, and continued playing through college where she majored in Biology, but quickly realized her destiny was to tell jokes, not to wear a lab coat. So she decided to be funny while finishing her Bachelors Degree in biology and continued on to get her M.B.A. Nadine’s comedy style is much like her athleticism, fearless. She’s made her way up the comedy ladder very quickly, and has become a club favorite at many of the country’s top comedy clubs, including the Improv chain. Performing in the Boston Comedy Festival and being noted as the “one of the youngest and brightest up and comers” and traveling to the Middle East to entertain the troops are just a few of her notable accomplishments. These days Nadine splits time between the stage, a radio studio, her computer blogging, and a television studio. Nadine’s TV, Radio, Writing credits include: national commercials, talking head roles on E! Entertainment, Showtime’s Hot Tamales Live, The Skinny: Fat Free News, The Sunny Side of The Truth: Real World Hollywood, TVgasm, Zazreport, Daddy’s Girls, Jerseylicious, celebrity interviews on Mania TV, a weekly half-hour television show that syndicates to colleges across the country for National Lampoon and a nightly radio show on XM Satellite Radio.

8 Comments

  1. 1
    Enrique's Mole
    Posted September 7, 2012 at 9:23 am

    How will he ever survive on just $15 mill a year?! I know I can barely do it…

  2. 2
    labowner
    Posted September 7, 2012 at 9:41 am

    It’s the TV money he doesn’t touch right? Man is set of life 10x over and good for him. I do recall he slept in his car in the beginning.

  3. 3
    crankyguy crankyguy
    Posted September 7, 2012 at 9:54 am

    @labowner, I forget what he does with his Tonight Show salary. He stashes it away somewhere, I think, and lives off the money from other appearances and activities.

  4. 4
    Gypsy Gypsy
    Posted September 7, 2012 at 12:44 pm

    Another Masshole.

  5. 5
    notwithoutmytv
    Posted September 8, 2012 at 11:04 am

    I certainly hope you are still here to blog it, Nads! You are flipit are my anchor in a crazy, tumultuous world of unwelcome hope and change.

    Cutting Leno’s pay by 50% seems appropriate, considering that he’s 50% less funny than any of his talk show comic competitors.

  6. 6
    Chicken Lips
    Posted September 9, 2012 at 9:48 am

    @notwithoutmytv – I think you are being generous in how funny you think he is. I would say 75% less funny.

  7. 7
    NotWithoutMyTV NotwithoutmyTV
    Posted September 9, 2012 at 11:40 am

    Well, SOMEBODY’S watching him. I think it must be a different generation. A kinder, simpler generation. One that needs Leno to repeat every other punchline to somehow reinforce the funny.

  8. 8
    JudgyWudgy
    Posted September 17, 2012 at 2:04 pm

    Meh, I’d rather watch Leno than I-Laugh-At-My-Own-Jokes-To-Let-You-Know-How-Funny-I-Am-Fallon.

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