A Comprehensive List of the Ways Jay Leno’s First Post-Writers’-Strike Monologue Differed From His Last Writerless Monologue

1. He could blame writers when jokes bombed, or even when he misspoke, as when he called Barack Obama “Osama.�

2. His monologue was almost two minutes shorter.

Is it possible that the only thing writers do on the Tonight Show is edit Jay?

Earlier: Recorded for Posterity: Jay Leno’s Final Writerless Monologue