One of late night’s former TV icon, Jay Leno, rebuked the late-night TV echo chamber saying, no one “wants to hear a lecture.” Get the jokes out, not the political message, Leno said.

“It was fun to me when I got hate letters – ‘Dear Mr. Leno, you and your Republican friends’ and ‘Well, Mr. Leno, I hope you and your Democratic buddies are happy’ – over the same joke,” Jay Leno told Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation CEO David Trulio this week in a video clip posted to Facebook, when asked about studies showing Leno joked about Democrats and Republicans equally in his 22 years on late-night TV.

“And I go, ‘Well, that’s good; that’s how you get a whole audience.'”

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