Headlines (Jay Leno)
Headlines was a segment that aired weekly on "The Tonight Show with Jay Leno". It also aired on the prime-time spin-off "The Jay Leno Show" and will also be included in some form during Leno's upcoming tenure as host of "You Bet Your Life". The segment usually aired on Monday nights. It was first seen in 1987, when Leno was still a guest host on "The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson", and continued until Jay Leno left "The Tonight Show" in 2014; however, this segment reapearred on TV as part of a new version  of the game show "You Bet Your Life" hosted by Leno in 2021. Viewers submitted newspaper headlines or other articles from all over the world, and the clippings contain either (but not limited to) a misspelled word, juxtaposed image or badly structured sentences that comically (and often in an unintentionally risqué way) completely change the meaning of what the writer intended. Influence. Since the early 1980s, David Letterman had been doing a similar segment called "Small Town News" (albeit on and off) on "The David Letterman Show", "Late Night with David Letterman" and "Late Show with David Letterman". Conan O'Brien  parodied "Headlines" on Late Night with Conan O'Brien in a segment called "Actual Items", which uses advertisements purposefully doctored by the show's prop and writing staffs. Jimmy Fallon includes an updated version called "Screengrabs" (which uses online media), on "The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon". On December 18, 2006, both Letterman and Leno included in their segments an item in "The Dallas Morning News" about Letterman, which included a photograph of Leno. In January 2010, during the replacement of O'Brien as "Tonight Show" host, Letterman ran a fake promo (featuring former "Tonight" announcer Edd Hall) for the return of  Leno to "The Tonight Show", referring to "Headlines" as "the bit [Leno] stole from Letterman's late-night show". Publications. Leno released several compilations of Headlines during the late 1980s and early 1990s: Wil B. Strange includes "personal ads from the book 'Jay Leno's Headlines'" in an issue of "Campus Life".