Jay Leno Net Worth

Do you want to know how much Jay Leno is worth? We have the answer for you! First off, let’s get familiar with the person in question, shall we? He is an actor from American. He was born in unknown, on unknown in to the family of Catherine Muir, Angelo Leno and Patrick Leno. His talents and gifts as an actor soon became apparent and a promising career path was laid out right before him. It is also worth noting that he attended Emerson College, Bentley University and earned the Nicknames of James Douglas Muir Leno , Douchenozzle , James Douglas Muir “Jay” Leno , James “Jay” Leno , Jay throughout his studies and working career. He stands at 5 ft 10 in (1.803 m) in terms of height. Starring in multiple hit movies or TV shows, Jay Leno has earned global recognition as well as amassing a fortune. In his career Jay Leno has earned a lot of money and now has a total Net worth valued at $380 Million.

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Jay Leno grew up in Andover, Massachusetts, and from an early age Jay liked making people laugh and was really good at it, so he was thinking about being a comedian as a teenager. Everyone was amazed by his talent, well except maybe school teachers. Once Jay’s parents got a note from his school teacher: “if Jay spent as much time studying as he does trying to be a comedian, he’d be a big star”. Somehow she was right about Jay Leno – his talent as a comedian really helped to build up his net worth. Jay attended Emerson College, graduating with a BA degree in speech therapy in  1973, after which he moved to Los Angeles expecting to find a satisfying job, and during the 80s Jay appeared in many T V shows as a host and as a guest. Of course, these didn’t make a big investment in Jay’s net worth, but he gained a lot of experience and became recognised around the United States.

Jay’s successful and really serious step to the building of his net worth was in 1992 when he appeared in the famous ‘Tonight Show’ after replacing Johnny Carson, having filled the position several times on a temporary basis during the previous five years, and such was the success of the show that he subsequently signed several .contracts aimed at keeping him at NBC until 2009. Obviously these contracts contributed substantially to his net worth.

Meantime, as an actor Jay Leno made his first noted appearance in 1997 as a carpenter in the movie “Fun with Dick and Jane”, after which he has played in many other movies: “Americathon”, “Polyester”, and “Collision Course” to name a few. He has also become known as a great voice actor who worked on “What’s Up, Hideous Sun Demon”, the Scooby Doo series, “Ice Age: The Meltdown” and many other famous movies. Actually, since 2005 Jay Leno has ‘appeared’ only as voice actor. Of course this work also added to Leno’s net worth.

In 2009 Jay ‘transferred’ to a new show “The Tonight Show”, however, conflict with his former show now hosted by Conan O’Brien, confusion over programming contracts and falling audiences eventually saw Jay Leno resume his former position, in March 2010, which he retained until his own decision to retire in 2014.

Jay now performs over 200 stand-up performances a year around the US, and making guest appearances on many TV talk shows – there is no doubt of his continuing popularity, and rising net worth.

In his personal life, Jay has been married to Mavis since 1980, but decided not to have children, Jay’s dyslexia hasn’t effected him at all, including in driving his stable of cars, reputed to number in the hundreds and counting a Jaguar CX75, Lamborghini Countach, Mercedes Benz SLR, McLaren MP4-12C among many others.

Jay and Mavis are also noted philanthropists, supporting war veterans, education, and gender equality in the US and other countries including Afghanistan.

Structural info

• Full Name: Jay Leno
• Net Worth: $380 Million
• Salary: $15 Million
• Date Of Birth: April 28, 1950
• Place Of Birth: New Rochelle, New York, United States
• Height: 5 ft 10 in (1.803 m)
• Profession: Actor, Television producer, Screenwriter, Voice Actor, Stand-up comedian, Television presenter, Comedian
• Education: Emerson College, Bentley University
• Nationality: American
• Spouse: Mavis Nicholson‎ (m. 1980)
• Parents: Catherine Muir, Angelo Leno
• Siblings: Patrick Leno
• Nicknames: James Douglas Muir Leno , Douchenozzle , James Douglas Muir “Jay” Leno , James “Jay” Leno , Jay
• Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/jayleno
• Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/jayleno
• Instagram: http://instagram.com/nbcjayleno
• IMDB: www.imdb.com/name/nm0005143
• Allmusic: www.allmusic.com/artist/jay-leno-mn0001293210
• Awards: People’s Choice Award for Favorite Late Night Talk Show Host (2006), Primetime Emmy Award (2011, 1995), Emmy Award for Outstanding Variety, Music or Comedy Series (1995)
• Nominations: People’s Choice Award for Favorite Talk Show Host, Primetime Emmy Award for Individual Performance – Variety Or Music Program, TCA Career Achievement Award, WGA Award for Best Comedy/Variety – Music, Awards, Tributes – Specials – Television, Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Short Form Nonfiction…
• Movies: The Flintstones (1994), American Hot Wax (1978), Collision Course (1989), Americathon (1979), Silver Bears (1978), What’s Up, Hideous Sun Demon, Scooby Doo series: Ice Age: The Meltdown
• TV Shows: The Tonight Show With Jay Leno (1992-2014), Jay Leno’s Garage (since 2015), The Jay Leno Show (2009-2010), The Tonight Show, The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson

Quotes

• Happy birthday to Hugh Hefner. He just turned 88. You might remember, a year-and-a-half ago he married his 26-year-old fiancée, Crystal Harris. Or, as she calls it, bed-panning for gold.
• [Advice to young comedians when starting out] Comedy is like going to college, you do it for four years, then you graduate, then you start getting stand up jobs. You have to look at it like any other job, if you went to work for a big company, you would start in the mail room for a year, maybe nine months if you’re exceptional, then you move up.
• If God had wanted us to vote He would have given us candidates.
• Some sad news: President George W. Bush’s lapdog passed away. Gee, I didn’t even know Tony Blair was sick.
• This week, Britney Spears sent out invitations for her marriage to Kevin Federline. But those aren’t really invitations, those are more like season tickets. Once you have one, you get to go to all her weddings until January.
• [on NBC replacing Conan O’Brien with Jay Leno after only seven months of his tenure hosting “The Tonight Show”] — Conan got screwed. I got screwed. This is TV. The reason show business pays a lot of money is so when you get screwed you’ve got something left over.
• Riding a Ducati is like having sex with an aerobics instructor – you know, I’m exhausted and panting and it’s going: ‘Are you done, already?’
• My dad’s idea of a good time is to go to Sears and walk around.
• The best way to ruin a comedy is to throw a lot of money at it.
• People don’t mind if you have a lot of money if they know you’re working for it.
• “You cannot be mad at somebody who makes you laugh…it’s as simple as that.”Woman’s World (7-4-06)
• I see that Mike Tyson has just filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. It marks the first time that Mike Tyson has made it to Chapter 11 in anything.
• [on the now-defunct XFL] “Ratings for the XFL are so low that pretty soon they’ll be able to address the viewers by name.”
• [on the steering for his jet-powered motorcycle] “It’s kinda like square-dancing with a fat lady: the fact that she does it at all is pretty amazing.”
• The Supreme Court has ruled that they cannot have a nativity scene in Washington, D.C. This wasn’t for any religious reasons. They couldn’t find three wise men and a virgin.
• Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day. Teach a man to fish and he will eat for a lifetime. Teach a man to create an artificial shortage of fish and he will eat steak.
• You aren’t famous until my mother has heard of you.
• It is said that life begins when the fetus can exist apart from its mother. By this definition, many people in Hollywood are legally dead.
• The reason there are two senators for each state is so that one can be the designated driver.
• “Seems there’s a big debate going on about whether a new TV commercial for Minute Maid orange juice portrays Popeye and Bluto as gay lovers or just good friends. The commercial shows Popeye and Bluto at the beach and riding a bicycle for two. I don’t think that makes them gay. I think the fact they both find Olive Oyl attractive, that makes them gay.” (From The Tonight Show with Jay Leno (1992), June 4, 2001)
• “In France, they’re having trouble translating a lot of Internet terms into French. In France the law is you have to use French words. For example, there are no French words for surfing the Web, there aren’t any French words for chat session, and there aren’t any French words for hacker. Of course, a lot of other words don’t translate to French either: military victory, deodorant…” (From The Tonight Show with Jay Leno (1992), May 4, 2001)
• “President James Garfield could write in Latin with one hand while writing in Greek with the other. I would give my right arm to be ambidextrous.” (From The Tonight Show with Jay Leno (1992), March 9, 2001)
• “I saw something stupid in the paper today – a new alarm clock that makes no noise. It’s for people who don’t like loud noises. Instead, it slowly hits you with light and gets brighter and brighter until you wake up. I already have one of those…it’s called a window.” (From The Tonight Show with Jay Leno (1992), February 14, 2001)
• “Looks like Darva ‘Who Wants to Marry a Multi-Millionaire?’ Conger (Darva Conger) will pose naked in ‘Playboy’ Magazine. She says the photos will be tastefully done. And who else knows more about taste than a woman who marries a man she just met on Fox?” (From The Tonight Show with Jay Leno (1992), May 8, 2000).
• They always say the Miss America Pageant isn’t a beauty contest, it’s really a scholarship program. If that’s the case, why don’t we just put all the contestants on Jeopardy! (1984) and pick Miss America that way? At least you get the smartest one.
• A new medical study reports that men who eat ten pizzas a week are less likely to develop prostate problems at age 50. That’s because they are usually dead by age 40.
• In Huntington Beach, California, three police instructors lost their jobs after ordering two cadets who were caught smoking to eat cigarette sandwiches as punishment. And of course the tobacco companies are thinking, ‘Cigarette sandwiches – what a great idea.’
• During the infamous O.J. Simpson murder trial: “Actor wannabe Kato Kaelin is very excited about this trial. It’s the first call-back he’s had in two years. ‘Oh, a part! A part! I got another part!'”
• “A historic operation occurred over in Boston. Doctors successfully transplanted tissue from a pig’s brain to a man’s brain — and the man’s brain did not reject it. That pretty much confirms what women have been saying about men” (From The Tonight Show with Jay Leno (1992), April 25, 1995).

Facts

• He is left-handed.
• Mutually agreed with his wife Mavis not to have any children.
• Winner of the 2014 Mark Twain Prize for American Humor, awarded by the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, DC.
• Had a brother, who passed away.
• Release of his book, “If Roast Beef Could Fly”. [2004]
• Release of the book, “The Late Shift: Letterman, Leno and the Network Battle for the Night” by Bill Carter. [1993]
• Release of the book, “The Leno Wit: His Life and Humor” by Jay Walker. [1997]
• Release of the book, “Eddie Krumble is the Clapper” by Dito Montiel. [2007]
• Release of his autobiography, “Leading with My Chin” by Jay with Bill Zehme. [1996]
• Release of his book, “How to Be the Funniest Kid in the Whole Wide World (Or Just in Your Class)”. [2005]
• Inducted into the Sturgis [South Dakota] Motorcycle Hall of Fame in 2002.
• Doesn’t drink coffee, soup or any hot beverages. If it doesn’t have ice in it, he’s generally not interested.
• Wrote jokes for Jimmie Walker’s stand-up act and his series Good Times (1974).
• He owns three Shelby Cars.
• Received Hasty Pudding’s Man of the Year award at Harvard University [February 4, 2011].
• Roomed with Freddie Prinze when both were fledgling entertainers, during which time he taught Prinze how to drive a car.
• Claims that after having seen his idol Elvis Presley perform “Teddy Bear” in the movie Loving You (1957), made him determined, at the tender age of seven, to pursue a career in show business.
• One of the many acts he opened for early in his stand-up career featured Harold Melvin & The Blue Notes.
• Confessed to guest Scarlett Johansson on his show (May 4, 2010) that he is an obsessive hoarder who still has every car magazine purchased since 8th grade. Also revealed that he kept a Soupy Sub Sandwich at the studio sent to him by a lady from Rhose Island in 1993. Johansson was astounded when Leno produced the antique sandwich along with a bottle of ‘brown’ tomato ketchup.
• The final guest on his run of The Tonight Show with Jay Leno (1992) was successor Conan O’Brien and the musical guest was James Taylor.
• The first guest on The Jay Leno Show (2009) was Jerry Seinfeld and the musical segment comprised of an ensemble performance by Jay Z, Rihanna and Kanye West. (West also sat down for a brief unscheduled interview following his controversial 2009 MTV Video Music Awards incident which occurred the day before).
• Barack Obama’s appearance on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno: Episode #17.50 (2009) marked the first TV talk show appearance by a sitting President.
• The Mike Douglas Show (1961) was the first talk show appearance for Jay Leno, which aired on October 19, 1977. Danny Thomas and Teddy Pendergrass were also guests.
• Driver of Pace Car at 83rd Indianapolis 500; May 30, 1999.
• On an episode of The Tonight Show with Jay Leno (1992), he claimed that he got in his first auto accident a mere 81 hours after getting his driver’s license.
• When he was a child, he fell down the stairs. As a result of the accident, his spleen was ripped and had to be removed.
• In 2007, Forbes Magazine estimated his earnings for the year to be $32 million.
• Is famous for his collection of motorcycles, two of which were featured in the movie, Batman & Robin (1997).
• Billy Crystal was his very first guest on Monday May 25, 1992. when Jay took over the late night throne vacated by Johnny Carson on Friday May 22, 1992.
• He has recently started a tradition for his Thanksgiving day shows. Each year on Thanksgiving Day, the entire audience is made up of men and women of the Armed Forces. He is usually the only late-night host to tape a new show on Thanksgiving Day.
• In November 2006, on his show, he ate a vegetable for the first time in 37 years.
• He and his wife were contestants on the couples game show Tattletales (1982) in the early 80s.
• Is a die hard fan of Elvis Presley, Patrick Rondat, and Johnny Cash.
• During the Michael Jackson trial in February of 2005, Jay Leno had been subpoenaed to testify at the trial. Judge Rodney S. Melville issued a “gag order” barring anyone involved in the case from discussing it outside court, and the comedian feared that the order would apply to his monologues on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno (1992). He was allowed to write the jokes but not tell them. To get around this order, Leno called on his fellow comedians to tell the jokes he wrote for him. Some of these people included Brad Garrett, Scott ‘Carrot Top’ Thompson, Roseanne Barr, Dennis Miller, and Drew Carey. They came out and told the jokes while Leno stood beside them on stage. On March 11, 2005, the judge had the gag order lifted. In a statement, he explained, “I am not attempting to prevent anybody from making a living in the normal way that they make their living,” adding that Leno may not talk about the specific things to which he is a witness.
• Although Leno’s The Tonight Show with Jay Leno (1992) predecessor Johnny Carson appeared on rival late night talk show Late Show with David Letterman (1993) twice (in a walk-on stage appearance soon after Letterman’s show debuted, and later in a filmed segment), Carson never once appeared on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno (1992) with his successor. Many, including Leno, took this as a sign that “Johnny likes Dave more” and would have preferred David Letterman to have been his “Tonight Show” replacement.
• He stepped down as host of the The Tonight Show with Jay Leno (1992) in 2009. His replacement was NBC Late Night with Conan O’Brien (1993) host Conan O’Brien.
• Was a writer on the 1970s comedy series Good Times (1974), as was his late night talk show competitor David Letterman.
• Is one of the few owners of the McLaren F1 supercar.
• Attended Bentley College in Waltham, Massachusetts. Dropped out after only one semester.
• Is a “seasoned” Monopoly player; likes to play with real money and the “race car” is his favorite playing piece.
• In May 2003, he hosted NBC’s morning talk show Today (1952). In a May sweeps promotion, “Today” show host Katie Couric, in turn, hosted The Tonight Show with Jay Leno (1992).
• Had guests sign one of his Harley Davidsons (the first being Arnold Schwarzenegger), after which the bike was auctioned off with the money going to help victims of the September 11th attacks.
• Under the teacher’s comments of Jay’s 5th-grade report card read, “If Jay spent as much time studying as he does trying to be a comedian, he’d be a big star.”
• Growing up in Massachusetts, he suffered from dyslexia.
• Jay’s paternal grandparents were Italian. His mother was Scottish (born in Greenock, Scotland).
• A 1972 graduate of Emerson College in Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
• Met his wife while performing at a comedy club in Los Angeles. Mavis was in the audience, and she laughed at all his jokes at the right time.
• His wife, Mavis, is active in the Feminist Majority Foundation which helps raise funds to combat the strict Islamic fundamentalist Taliban regime that requires women to wear head-to-toe shrouds. Her first appearance on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (1962) was March 2, 1977.
• Owns over 170 classic cars and over 150 motorcycles. His very first automobile was a 1934 Ford V-8 truck, which he restored himself at the age of 14.
• Maintaining classic cars and motorcycles is one of Jay’s hobbies.
• He and his wife of many years have no children.
• Raised in Andover, Massachusetts.
• Born at 2:03am-EST.

Trademarks

• White hair with black spot
• High-pitched voice
• His large chin

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