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Jay Leno's first night looks a lot like old 'Tonight'
Photo credit: Getty Images | Jay Leno walks on the stage for the debut of 'The Jay Leno Show' on September 14, 2009 in Burbank, California.
The future of television Monday night looked a lot like the past. Sure, fine, he was a couple of pounds thinner, and there appeared to be a tan on that famously unbronzed exterior.
The jokes felt familiar, the monologue, too. Someone, however, might want to alert Universal lot security: The couch was missing.
Otherwise, what was so different between his last gig and this one, besides...
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