Sure, he sucks. They all suck. The *format* sucks. It's a middlebrow buffet of pablum that only exists so agents and publicists can assure talent that they're aggressively marketing their shitty movie/album/book, and won't get blamed when it flops…I mean I booked you on LENO, we did all we could!

This is the truest take on Leno. Enthusiastic and dedicated mediocrity.
Also, Headlines WAS great. Which doesn't say much about Leno…it really just reflected the inadvertent comedic genius of the American people. But it would never work (was he still doing them?) now that print is dead, everyone's a publisher, and we…