“I mean, I wouldn’t have done it, but that’s okay.”
Jay Lenois taking the blame for the incident that beganhis long-running feudwithJimmy Kimmel.
“When Kimmel came on my show and humiliated me on my own show, I let it happen.
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I didn’t edit it,” Leno told Bensinger.
“It was my mistake, I trusted somebody.
I went, ‘Ah, I made a mistake.
Okay, I should pay the price.’
And it’s fine, it’s fine.
I mean, we could’ve edited it out of the show.”
Bensinger then asked, “Why didn’t you?”
“Because it happened,” Leno replied.
“It’s real it happened.
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It’s my mistake.
That’s how you learn.”
“But it’s okay, it’s alright.
He’s a comic you do what you gotta do.
I mean, I wouldn’t have done it, but that’s okay.
It is what it is.”
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Leno isn’t the only one rehashing the decade-old feud.
“There’s nothing I’m gonna do,” Kimmel began.
and then I had to stay in there."
“No, you just dropped a grenade right on us,” replied Kimmel.
Affleck then recalled their awkward interaction, joking, “It was like, ‘This is painful enough.
Have you guys been insulting each other publicly for decades?”
Indeed, the Leno-Kimmel feud lived on well past that uncomfortable 2010 segment.
Leno later told Oprah Winfrey thathe felt “sucker-punched"by Kimmel’s jokes.
“Jay and I have made peace,” Kimmel said.
“After my son had his operation, he called me and he was very nice.”
Watch Leno’s full appearance on the podcastIn Depth With Graham Bensingerabove.
