Kanye West took his guest appearance on Leno as the opportunity to apologize again for his outburst against Taylor Swift at the VMA’s. We believe that Kanye was sincere with his apology and he has been working too hard after his mother’s tragic death. Kanye told Leno he was going to take some time off and try to focus on ways to make himself a better person. ‘Ye needs to work on making himself a better person do some charity work and get back in touch with the people and humanity instead of focusing on who wins at an awards show. Kanye’s behavior was so outrageous that President Barack Obama said off the record during an interview that he acted like a “jackass.”
Watch Kanye’s full apology and live performance with Jay-Z and Rihanna Run This Town on Leno.
You have to hand it to Jay Leno, he certainly had a power-packed premiere for his new prime-time show Monday.
Beyond the announced first guest of Jerry Seinfeld, there was a surprise appearance by Oprah via remote video screen. And then in the big moment, came Kanye West, hot or cold, depending on your point of view, off his controversial MTV Video Music Awards show debacle in which he boorishly interrupted Taylor Swift’s acceptance speech Sunday night.
Everyone was talking about it Monday, and here comes an emotional, seemingly contrite and somewhat confused West to sit down with Leno and say how sorry he was for what he did and how he needed to “take some time off” and figure out “how he wants to live” the rest of the life in the wake of the “pain” he caused.
West was a scheduled guest, but even Leno said on-air that he weasn’t sure whether or not the performer would appear after the criticism he was facing for his MTV actions.
And West did seem rocked by the scorn that had been heaped upon him the last 24 hours. Whether he was authentic or not, it was very good television — you could almost feel the audience hold its breath as West fumbled with his emotions, especially when Leno asked him what his late mother would have thought of his MTV awards show behavior. The segment crackled with energy — enough to make you forget most of the sins that preceded it. And there were sins to try and foget.
And while there were sins to forgive and forget, here’s is the bottom line: You would have to work on it not to have a decent hour of TV with Seinfeld, Oprah, West, Rihanna and Jay-Z — especially with West being at the very center of pop consciousness in the wake of his incredibly rude and even cruel actions toward Swift.
But frontloaded to high heaven or not, it was still a solid premiere.
Now, that bad news: None of the standard building blocks of the show seemed that impressive on their own — so that when you tried to imagine the show without an overload of starpower and star-drama, it didn’t seem that exciting.
The videos used after the opening monolgue were uninspired. One featuring Leno going to a “Cheaters” reality show to see if bandleader Kevin Eubanks was “cheating” on him was lame to the point of being offensive. And for an opening night, Leno’s monologue was nothing to get excited about. And maybe it’s just 50 years of looking at TV couches, but I hate the two blue chairs in which Leno and his guest sit. Even Seinfeld seemed like he couldn’t get comfortable.
A contrite and visibly chastened Kanye West appeared on “The Jay Leno Show” on Monday night (September 14), delivering a third public apology to Taylor Swift, following his onstage outburst at Sunday’s Video Music Awards.
West sat with Leno on his couch before his scheduled musical appearance with Jay-Z and Rihanna to perform “Run This Town.” The rapper’s apology was unplanned, Leno noted. [source]
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