BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. (AP) – Jay Leno couldn’t help himself. Just because he’s no longer doing monologues as host of “The Tonight Show” doesn’t mean he can resist cracking jokes about Donald Trump.
Meeting with TV critics Thursday to discuss his new CNBC car show, Leno took a detour to lampoon the GOP presidential front-runner.
Noting the battle for that nomination between Jeb Bush and Trump, Leno said, “It’s kind of like the race between the tortoise and the bad hair.”
And recalling that a medical problem scored Trump a deferment from military service, Leno offered his own diagnosis: “He had an intrarectal cranial inversion: His head was up his ass.”
Leno reminded reporters that he has two passions in life, comedy and cars. The latter is fueling his new show, “Jay Leno’s Garage,” premiering on CNBC on Oct. 7.