By Free Republic | Created at 2024-12-28 22:28:59 | Updated at 2025-01-03 22:54:42
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Bill Maher Confronts Jay Leno With Gambling Debt Rumors
Daily Beast ^ | December 27, 2024 | Matt Wilstein
Posted on 12/28/2024 2:20:49 PM PST by The_Media_never_lie
Bill Maher confronted Jay Leno, 74, with a “conspiracy theory” that the former Tonight Show host’s spate of accidents in recent years were the result of a gambling addiction gone wrong.
“It’s a conspiracy theory since you’ve had three accidents that you actually have gambling debts and are being beaten up by the mob,” Maher told Leno, who laughed off the suggestion as he appeared on the Club Random podcast.
“I love the idea that the mob would drive to Greenberg, Pennsylvania, wait outside the Hampton Inn on a kind of sleety, rainy day to throw me down a hill,” Leno joked, referring to the most recent accident—which left him with a bruised face and sporting an eyepatch after he says he rolled down a steep hill and hit his eye on a rock.
Before that, Leno suffered multiple injuries related to maintaining his classic car collection, including one in which he set his face on fire and another that resulted in multiple broken bones.
All of this led to speculation that Leno, whose net worth is estimated to be north of $450 million, was the victim of loan sharks to whom he owed money.
After Maher explained that no one thinks the mob threw him down a hill, but rather that he is coming up with elaborate “cover stories” for his bad luck. However, Leno calmly assured him that all of his injuries have perfectly reasonable explanations.
The comedian went on to recount that his Tonight Show predecessor Johnny Carson did actually run afoul of organized crime after he was caught “hitting on” a pair of mob girlfriends.
“They put a hit out on Carson. So Carson stops The Tonight Show for the week. He just goes, he leaves, because this is real,”
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Thank you very much and God bless you.
Better to take a fall than get beat up by excercise equipment, like Harry Reid.
There is no such thing as the mob, and if there was they would never take a hit out on someone.
To: The_Media_never_lie
How does one roll down a hill and their eye suddenly at the end of the tumble, comes in contact with a rock?
Less plausible than getting pummelled by exercise equipment!
2 posted on 12/28/2024 2:22:08 PM PST by The_Media_never_lie ( @whoisourPresident)
To: The_Media_never_lie
He jokes, but it DEFINITELY sounds like a tranny queer white antifa mafia strong arming him.
They don’t want his cars! They want GRANOLA
To: The_Media_never_lie
Greensburg, PA. Idiot reporter.
4 posted on 12/28/2024 2:26:37 PM PST by kosciusko51
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