Leno to Ryan Phillippe: Give Me Your Gayest Look

April 1st, 2008, 5:43 PM EDT

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Appropriate or inappropriate?

UPDATE: Leno apologized.

“In talking about Ryan’s first role, I realize that what I said came out wrong,” the host of NBC’s Tonight Show said in a statement to PEOPLE. “I certainly didn’t mean any malice. I agree it was a dumb thing to say, and I apologize.”

Posted in Liberaland by Alan

Responses to this post...

  1. Alan, you’re making jokes all the time on H&C and your radio show that are perhaps insensitive…it’s HUMOR. Are fat people supposed to get all pissed off when a fat joke is being made? Thin people? Ugly people? People with frequent bad hair days? We’re too damn sensitive.

    I’m a huge fan of Don Rickles and he’s always cracked insensitive jokes. Humor, as Rickles says, is okay if done in the right spirit. Racism or prejudice isn’t a comment: it’s a belief.

    Isn’t Leno generally liberal? I would imagine he is, and I’d imagine he’s not anti-gay.

    Posted by flap
    April 1st, 2008 at 6:09 pm

  2. I couldn’t get past what a terrible interview it was to have been offended. He did great on the Howard Stern show though.

    Posted by Bones
    April 1st, 2008 at 11:14 pm

  3. So did anyone who’s gay actually complain about this, or, as they like to say on CNN, was this a “preemptive strike” apology?

    Posted by RC from Smithtown
    April 2nd, 2008 at 1:41 am

  4. Alan, are you turning neo-con? First you censor the folks on your site, then you are all worried about what Jay Leno says???

    You’re a fake.

    Posted by postturtle
    April 2nd, 2008 at 2:16 am

  5. I don’t understand why he apologized. In the context of the interview, it made sense – it wasn’t a slam against gays. They were discussing a part Ryan played as a gay character. Obviously a gay character would give a gay look – he wouldn’t give a hetero look, right? Or, well, shit. I dunno. If a gay guy looks at a gay guy, isn’t that a gay look? Jesus. Who cares??? It’s semantics, people. Nothing more. I don’t think Leno is a raving homophobe or anything like that. Goodness.

    Posted by DGs World By Big D
    April 2nd, 2008 at 1:03 pm