Howard Stern Reiterates on Piers Morgan's New Show That Jay Leno is a Thief

HOLLYWOOD REPORTER

Calls him a “crook” who “steals” jokes; “He’s not fit to scrub David Letterman’s feet”

In his interview on CNN’s Piers Morgan Tonight (airing Tuesday), Howard Stern goes after Jay Leno, accusing the NBC Tonight Show host of stealing jokes.

“Jay is insane. And Jay is a crook,” Stern tells Morgan, according to the New York Post. “And the world knows exactly what he’s up to. He steals a tremendous amount of material.

“He’s not fit to scrub David Letterman‘s feet,” he goes on. “I don’t know how he’s beaten David Letterman in the ratings. It’s beyond my comprehension. America must be filled with morons who at night lay in bed — the ones who are watching him, they must be in a coma.”

Stern has long accused Leno of stealing sketch ideas.

In 2009, he said Leno copied his idea of inviting a chicken to predict football wins for the following week.

“This must be a giant ‘Punk’d’ on me,” Stern said at the time. “This guy’s ripped off like ten major things from my show. But the chicken thing we did for years.”

Being a Liberal

Liberals

by John Tully

Monday, January 17, 2011

“But if by a “Liberal” they mean someone who looks ahead and not behind, someone who welcomes new ideas without rigid reactions, someone who cares about the welfare of the people — their health, their housing, their schools, their jobs, their civil rights, and their civil liberties — someone who believes we can break through the stalemate and suspicions that grip us in our policies abroad, if that is what they mean by a “Liberal,” then I’m proud to say I’m a “Liberal.”

John F. Kennedy

Acceptance Speech of the New York

Liberal Party Nomination

September 14, 1960