NBC gave Jay Leno’s show a new name and new time slot, but the guests are still high-profile. The new show has received mixed reviews; however, Leno himself never changes.
In its first week, the guest roster for Jay Leno’s new show has already included A-listers Kanye West, Tom Cruise, Halle Berry, Jerry Seinfeld, Robin Williams and Miley Cyrus.
The show’s format is similar to his Tonight Show stint, a fact several critics have noted. USA Today called his new show a “cut-rate, snooze-inducing, rehashed bore.” Ouch.
“This is the future of television?” Mary McNamara wrote in The Times. “This wasn’t even a good rendition of television past.”
Still, 18.4 million viewers tuned in for the first episode. The guests draw in many viewers, but Leno himself will be the main attraction until he retires.
Part of his appeal is that the 59-year-old comedian never really changes, and is hardly swayed by pop culture trends or media pressures to be preternaturally handsome and young. His hair looks whiter nowadays, but everything else about Leno seems frozen in time.
This includes his famous jutting jaw. In his autobiography Leading With My Chin, Leno pointed out that his unusually shaped face never escaped notice.
He wrote how, in the 1970s, while trying to spark his career, he received negative feedback about his looks and was assured that if he underwent reconstructive surgery to shorten his jaw, he’d get more gigs. The choice, one surgeon said, was up to him.
“I guess I’m still deciding,” he wrote.
Though Leno is comfortable with his chin, plastic surgery can help boost the self esteem of others who are unhappy with their profile, whether they feel their chin is too big, too wide, too “weak,” or not prominent enough. Procedures such as chin implants and surgery to realign the jaw are viable options that can yield remarkable results.
In some cases, the issue has less to do with the physical structure of the chin than with sagging skin brought about by age. Many older patients achieve a redefined chin by undergoing a neck lift or neck liposuction, which tightens excess skin and creates a more defined jawline.
Leno, of course, refused to have surgery and his career continues to thrive, nonetheless. Staying true to himself has long been his recipe for success.
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