Headlines (The Tonight Show)
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"Headlines" is a segment on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno airing weekly. The segment usually airs on Monday, though at times instead of airing on Monday it airs on Tuesday. Viewers submit funny newspaper headlines from all over the United States. They include interesting typos as well as odd photographs and advertisements, poor translations, ads featuring pets dressed up in clothing, stories highlighting "dumb criminals", and amusing pairings of names in wedding announcements. Other items submitted include pages from telephone books, brochures, and food menus.
A segment similar to "Headlines" is the "$.99 Shopping Spree". While arguably more humorous, it is far more rare.
Examples
- A handgun advertisement that was recently shown said, "'Protect your loved ones now' with Looney's Concealed Handgun Courses!"
- "Soup of the day with free crack-" ("ers" is missing)
- "Crocodiles go hungry due to shortage of tourists."
- "Federal Agents Raid Gun Store, Find Weapons"
- Some marriage announcements include the "Long/Short" wedding and the "Hardey/Bouyes" wedding.
- "A Forest Hill woman called police to report that she had a stupid husband"
- An advertisement for a food processor said in the instructions, "Not to be used for any purpose"
- "A man was arrested for assaulting his sister whom he claimed had eaten his cheese doodles."
- Various catalog pages with ridiculous clothes made for dogs and cats which Jay notes as one of his pet peeves. ("Your dog is not gonna wear that stupid hat!")
- A man advertising his truck for sale didn't have a picture, so he submitted a hand-drawn child-like sketch of the truck.
- Police Blotter
- Dumb criminal stories/headlines
- "Thompson's Penis a Sword" - the results of a spacing error made by a Green Bay, Wisconsin paper who intended a headline to read that Tommy Thompson's pen is a sword.
- "Bishop Beaten"
- A photograph is used in two different advertisements (Example, a picture of an elderly couple is used in both an advertisement for a travel agency and a funeral planning service.
- Before and after pictures in which it is obvious that two different individuals/scenes were used (e.g. different genders/races, size of house, etc.)
Tonight Show Headlines Submissions
Mail your Newspaper Headlines Clippings to:
- The Tonight Show With Jay Leno
- Headlines
- 3000 W. Alameda Ave.
- Burbank, CA 91523
External links
- [Archive of "Headlines"]
- [Headline Humor], more headlines (not affiliated with the Tonight Show)
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