Leno Gives Away Prized Car Collection To Delighted Studio Audience

BURBANK, California – Studio audience members were stunned and delighted during a special Sunday taping of The Tonight Show when host Jay Leno told them to look under their seats where each one found a set of keys and the pink slip to one of Leno’s collection of classic automobiles and motorcycles.

“If Oprah can do it, so can I,” said the lantern-jawed comedian. “Frankly, it was time to start downsizing. I had three football field sized warehouses holding the collection, and what with NBC farming me out in a couple of years for What’s-his-name, that kid from Harvard, the Missus was getting on my case about the upkeep.”

Leno said he was keeping his favorite, the 1941 V-12 American-LaFrance fire truck, to use as a daily driver after he retires from The Tonight Show. “The beautiful thing about the American-LaFrance, aside from the fact that it gets close to seven miles to the gallon,” he said, “is that you can just drive over and flatten three celebrity-owned Prius’s when you need a parking space on Rodeo Drive.”



In related news, rival talk show host David Letterman said he was giving serious consideration to giving lucky studio audience members autographed copies from his extensive collection of speeding tickets, also estimated to require three warehouses to store.