{"id":750056,"date":"2026-06-21T03:28:44","date_gmt":"2026-06-21T03:28:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/750056\/"},"modified":"2026-06-21T03:28:44","modified_gmt":"2026-06-21T03:28:44","slug":"jay-leno-joe-rogan-is-21st-centurys-johnny-carson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/750056\/","title":{"rendered":"Jay Leno: Joe Rogan Is 21st Century&#8217;s Johnny Carson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"storyParagraph\">&#13;<br \/>\n                                        Jay Leno thinks he&#8217;s spotted the new Johnny Carson\u2014and he&#8217;s not on broadcast TV. In a wide-ranging interview with <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2026\/06\/jay-leno-interview-death-of-late-night-youtube-john-oliver-1236957608\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Deadline<\/a>, the former Tonight Show host argues that podcasts, not traditional late-night shows, now own the talk space: <\/p>\n<p>  &#8220;Joe Rogan is the new Johnny Carson,&#8221; he says. &#8220;Yeah, Joe talks to everybody about everything. There&#8217;s no FCC to step in and say what you say and can&#8217;t say, so you really do get an unfiltered idea of what everybody thinks. So yeah, I mean, to me, that&#8217;s what&#8217;s also changed late-night.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p class=\"storyParagraph\">&#13;<br \/>\n                                        In another part of the interview, Leno blames &#8220;too many commercials&#8221; as the primary factor in the decline of late-night shows. The resulting chopped-up programs have lost their conversational feel. &#8220;Why watch that,&#8221; he asks, when viewers can pull up an hour-long, unedited chat with a star online at any time? Read the <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2026\/06\/jay-leno-interview-death-of-late-night-youtube-john-oliver-1236957608\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">full interview<\/a>, in which Leno pushes back on criticism from HBO&#8217;s John Oliver and insists he never said that current hosts are &#8220;doing it wrong.&#8221;&#13;\n                                    <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; Jay Leno thinks he&#8217;s spotted the new Johnny Carson\u2014and he&#8217;s not on broadcast TV. In a wide-ranging&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":750057,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[64,63,134,27523,2765,196796,1591,427,3973],"class_list":["post-750056","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-entertainment","tag-jay-leno","tag-joe-rogan","tag-johnny-carson","tag-podcasts","tag-tv","tag-youtube"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/750056","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=750056"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/750056\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/750057"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=750056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=750056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=750056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}