Jay Leno Continues to Maintain That His Fall Outside of a Pennsylvania Hampton Inn Was No Conspiracy
It’s been nearly a month since Jay Leno showed up at a gig with an eye patch and a giant bruise on his face, looking less like the former host of The Tonight Show, and more like an extra from Mad Max: Fury Road.
Leno explained that he had been staying at a Hampton Inn in Greensburg, Pennsylvania between gigs, trekked down a hill to grab some food, but then ended up tripping and falling. Despite this explanation, Leno’s story immediately sparked a number of online conspiracy theories.
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For starters, people were suspicious of the fact that the supposedly loaded TV star was staying in a plain old, run-of-the-mill Hampton Inn. And the bruises, coupled with Leno’s string of recent near-death experiences, led a number of people to suspect that Leno likely owed money to the mob, possibly a severe gambling debt.
Others speculated that the black eye was the result of a secret ritual connected to a private club that, we’re sorry to say, is connected to a theory that involves the Illuminati and QAnon. All because a 74-year-old comedian tripped while trying to get a sandwich.
Leno recently appeared on former Seinfeld writer Spike Feresten’s YouTube show Spike’s Car Radio and was asked point blank about some of these more outlandish theories.
When questioned about his modestly-priced choice of accommodations, Leno said of the Hampton Inn, “It’s a fine hotel.” He also pointed out that he arrived at one o’clock in the morning, and would therefore only be sleeping at the hotel for a few hours. “Why would I pay $1,100 a night?” Leno reasoned.
As for the theory that he owed money to the mafia, Leno wasn’t having any of it. “No, never gambled in my life,” he responded, adding, “I like that the mob would drive to Greensburg, Pennsylvania to meet me on the top of a hill and throw me down the hill.”
The secret ritual theory was also brought up, but Leno never addressed it directly, either because he was hiding something, or he had no idea what it even meant.
Feresten also had Leno walk him through a play-by-play of the fall, using Google Street View as a visual aid. Leno noted that the hill is really “steeper than it looks” on the computer. He then cleared up one of the nagging questions that people have had about his story from the beginning: nobody at the eatery that Leno was seemingly trying to reach, Dino’s Sports Lounge, remembers seeing him there. But Leno was spotted grabbing chicken parm at a restaurant in the opposite direction, which wouldn’t have necessitated traversing the hill at all.
Leno recalled that, after falling down the hill, he was approached by two elderly women who gave him a lift to the restaurant. He was originally headed for Dino’s, but changed his mind when he saw that it was a sports bar, because he wasn’t in the mood for “football talk.”
So there you have it, every question has been answered — except for the question of whether or not Conan O’Brien was anywhere near Greensburg, Pennsylvania that day.
