Jay Leno says the trouble with late-night nowadays is “it’s all depressing Trump stuff”

The Hollywood Reporter

“And they all do a great job,” the former Tonight Show host tells The Hollywood Reporter. “Seth Meyers is a great writer; Jimmy Kimmel” — whom he made peace with last year — “does a good job; Jimmy Fallon does a great job. I like Stephen Colbert, Trevor Noah (on Comedy Central) and Samantha Bee (on TBS). The trouble is that there's such negativity now. When I did the show, Bush was dumb and Clinton was horny and it was human problems. Now it's all anti-women, anti-LGBT, anti-Muslim, anti-Mexican, anti-Salvadorian; it's such a negative thing. God bless all the late-night hosts, they make it funny, but ultimately, it's depressing. You don't really watch late-night TV to get away from reality anymore; now it's more in your face. You laugh but then you go to bed going, ‘Oh man, the world is really pretty rough.’ And it's not, it's one man that causes all these problems!” When asked if he would be willing to do a talk show-like series like David Letterman is doing for Netflix, Leno says, "not really. I like what I'm doing. To me, I like talking to regular people and seeing what I can draw out of them. I'm sure Dave will be excellent, he always does a good show."