Incredible monologue. Jay showed why he is a legend here.

Rare to see a subdued Jay Leno. All hosts when they returned after 9/11 did a good job in ensuring their first show back was pitched perfectly.

Man... what a legend. I've watched Leno since before I was a teenager (and I'm 41 now) and this is the first time I've seen this. After watching hours upon hours of Leno joking around about literally everything and then watching him be somber ... he's such a good guy

The type of unity America had after 9/11 went away after the 2003 Iraq War and America will never be unified again like it was on 9/11. We have become so divided as a society that there is no going back.

@ryanyoung9202

Жыл бұрын

☝️YUP

@mountaindew3201

Жыл бұрын

Well if you voted for George W Bush twice, your also part of the fucking problem

@fhowland

Жыл бұрын

agreed. I was 18… the difference between now and then is incredible

@PaulvonOberstein

Жыл бұрын

Having a credible external threat is a great way to bolster internal unity, but the terrorists were no Nazi Germany or Soviet Union. The Iraq War was a grossly misguided bust, and Afghanistan lost its importance after Osama was killed. The only really credible threat we have now is China and China has done a good job sowing internal dissension within the U.S. The threat posed by Putin has become much less credible with how poorly Putin's invasion of Ukraine has gone for Russia, and proxy wars in which U.S. lives are directly at stake aren't really good for bolstering national unity to begin with. Plus, the internal problems of the U.S. that have grown exponentially since 2021 -- inflation, economic instability, rising fuel costs -- are souring people on spending money on foreign wars where U.S. interests are unclear.

@jkadoodle

Жыл бұрын

“We don’t have democrats or republicans anymore. We have Americans”. Damn I wish that was still true. It’s 2023 and the country is as divided as ever to a sickening degree.

Beautiful heartfelt monologue by Jay. He will be remembered for this monologue long after he’s gone.

There’s an interesting clip on KZread with Musical Director Kevin Eubanks talking about this episode - - and the musical decisions that were made after 9/11. He is a gem, a compassionate and talented American. 🇺🇸 Thank you

Thank you for uploading! Been searching for this for years!

I have been looking for this video very long time

Thank you for posting this. Leno's thoughts, Kevin Eubanks' own thoughts, John McCain, Crosby, Stills and Nash....we needed this at the time, and we still need it. We are ALL Americans, still. We can never forget this happened.

All in all, I always respected Jay Leno as a host. He poked shots at both sides. He never turned his show into something one sided like a Stephen Colbert

@finchborat

11 ай бұрын

Exactly. There's more class in Leno's pinky than in Colbert and Kimmel combined.

Jay Leno was a class act though. What a ludicrous time to try and get onto the world stage again.

From the heart. Incredible!

3:40 as it turns out Anne Heche was pretty crazy..

McCain denouncing Islamophobia only a week after 9/11 shows how sensitive he was.

18:36 "... a lesson to us about trying to occupy Afghanistan" How prescient, yet tragically ironic

Geez I miss John McCain

A couple years ago somebody had uploaded the “Howard Stern 9/11 Retrospective” …it was raw and emotional, but has since been removed

@franknacc1718

2 жыл бұрын

I think others uploaded it

@timtimm9199

2 жыл бұрын

I was listening to Howard that day and it was a heartwrenching day. So different from what was the usual broadcast but a moment in time, historic, being conveyed by a passionate American and New Yorker. Radio history, broadcast history! It needs to be heard.

@christopherholland8435

Жыл бұрын

It's available....and incredible

Everybody at The Tonight Show with Jay Leno were probably scared as hell to be there that night. Just simply being inside that studio for them was a big step. o.o

18:37 and 21 years later we didn’t learn the lesson about occupying Afghanistan

I'm sorry they had to blank out that wonderful "My Country 'Tis Of Thee" at the end. That was one of the finest things I have ever heard from these three amazing men.

@MOJO27272727

Жыл бұрын

kzread.info/dash/bejne/k2uBlth_ZcmcppM.html

@MOJO27272727

Жыл бұрын

I agree. This one has the audio

Seeing Senator McCain come out and be introduced by Leno as decent just keeps me thinking about when the senator passed the word that kept being said over and over by friends and opponents was “decent” Not the “decent” as he was not great but better than average but the decent that he was a genuinely kind person who wouldn’t let rhetoric and emotion get in the way just to win or get ahead. The fact he specifically wanted Obama to perform a eulogy says all I need to know. And of course during this appearance the same is openly apparent.

@deusexmachina2222

3 ай бұрын

I have to admit that sometimes I watch McCains concession speech when I need a pallet cleanser with all the political division these days… If you haven’t seen it you should definitely watch it… He handled it with class and forbid the crowd from booing Obama

Our country united like never before following 9/11. It was incredible seeing American flags on homes and politics stepped aside for a common goal. I fear that if a disaster like this happened today, it would only cause more division in our country. I don't know what it would take to unite our country again like it once was.

Hi. Do you have any more vintage newscasts from your area, or 9/11 clips?

i think both parties should remember and reflect about that horrific day. We sure as hell need them to work together, again.

@finchborat

11 ай бұрын

But one party wants nothing to do with the other and is completely closed minded to the other. And that party currently controls the WH.

I don’t love Leno, but this is one of the most incredible of the late night return monologues. Truly inspiring.

It would be kinda nice if they allowed the entire episode of The Late Show 9/17/01 to stay on without it being pulled down. Guess Dave and Dan's conversation was hitting a bit too close to the mark, as you can only find fragments of the episode on YT. It's too bad, I thought it was literally Dave's finest hour.

I'm not American. May I ask why were the Olympic rings under the NBC logo then?

Senator John McCain was a great man.

#TonightShow #JayLeno #Throwback

@smokejc

Жыл бұрын

good job

I’m a democrat and have always thought McCain should have been president during this time

Where's the SOUND at the end???!!!

I deployed right after 9/11. We were watching Leno and that had someone from every branch on the show. They were doing a game where the men had to to drill and ceremony. The very first one Jay goes "attention!!" Everyone but the Soldier went to attention and he got kicked off!!! We were all screaming about he just won the entire thing because there was no predatory command!! The right way it should have been done was Jay would say "Group! Attention!" There is a predatory command then the command of execution. That still bugs me to this day 🤣🤣

@trevormoses5061

Жыл бұрын

Thank you for your service 🙂

@djbeezy

Жыл бұрын

@@haashemmalik216 Afghanistan twice, Kosovo twice, Kuwait once. I was stationed at Fort Drum, Vicenza Italy, Fort Stewart, Fort Lewis, Wiesbaden Germany, I'm now at Fort McCoy.

The last good republican.

I agreed with Senator McCain back then about most Muslim people are good people and want to live their lives in peace and take care of their families just like the rest of us. In WW2 the US government under FDR gathered up all the Americans of Japanese descent and put the in camps, they called them internment camps but they were still prisoners in prison camps regardless of what they were called. It was a terrible thing to do to Americans only because they looked different. FDR didn’t round up all the Americans of German or Italian decent. Why not? Because they looked like every other American. I only blame the terrorist that caused 9/11 . It’s been 22 years now and anytime I watch a video or even think about what happened that day to the innocent in New York , Washington DC at the Pentagon, on flight 93 in Pennsylvania and all of our soldiers in the subsequent war on terror makes me just as angry and sad as on that clear blue sunny morning in September of 2001. Never forget!

the early 2000s... we werent leftist or right wing, we were just human beings. what happened to us?

And now we are dealing with..The Enemy Within....

John Mccain who wanted the Iraq 🇮🇶 War and later a war with Iran 🇮🇷

Today it's hilarious to think we thought 3 buildings completely disappeared because of some guy in the middle east. lmao.

To show that the Capitol ordeal wasn't in the same class as 9/11, you didn't have Jimmy Fallon and others take a week off during early to mid January 2011. You didn't have the NFL or the NBA push games back a week. The Capitol ordeal was bad. It wasn't 9/11 or Pearl Harbor bad.

Beautiful monologue Jay. Bravo buddy.