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Jay Leno censored on "Tonight Show" for unusual reason

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On last nights (2/21) special Olympic edition of the "Tonight Show", Jay Leno was bleeped out by NBC censors. But the reason appears to not be bad language or sexual inuendo, but rather to save grief for the operator of a 1-800 phone number.

Jay was talking about someone with the Social Security administration refering people to the 1-800-MEDICARE phone number for something to do with Medicare. Jay then joked that people should call 1-800-YOUR-*******. The stars represent where the bleep came in. He repeated the "number" again and that was also bleeped out.

Given a couple of high-profile incidents a few years ago involving movies featuring fake phone numbers that were real, NBC probably did not want to risk a lawsuit from whomever had the number involved. Unfortunantly, a few bad pranksters calling such featured numbers ruin it for everyone who likes these kind of jokes.
 
> On last nights (2/21) special Olympic edition of the
> "Tonight Show", Jay Leno was bleeped out by NBC censors. But
> the reason appears to not be bad language or sexual inuendo,
> but rather to save grief for the operator of a 1-800 phone
> number.
>
> Jay was talking about someone with the Social Security
> administration refering people to the 1-800-MEDICARE phone
> number for something to do with Medicare. Jay then joked
> that people should call 1-800-YOUR-*******. The stars
> represent where the bleep came in. He repeated the "number"
> again and that was also bleeped out.
>
> Given a couple of high-profile incidents a few years ago
> involving movies featuring fake phone numbers that were
> real, NBC probably did not want to risk a lawsuit from
> whomever had the number involved. Unfortunantly, a few bad
> pranksters calling such featured numbers ruin it for
> everyone who likes these kind of jokes.
>

Are you sure that the bleeps weren't part of the gag? What word were the ***'s supposed to be? If it starts with the letter 'a', you have your answer.
 
> Are you sure that the bleeps weren't part of the gag? What
> word were the ***'s supposed to be? If it starts with the
> letter 'a', you have your answer.
>
Of course, all the offensive letters can be found on the telephone dial, meaning that if the joke went unbleeped, some poor company with the same number would be getting alot of prank calls the following day.
 
Ok guys, really, who cares?

This is a non story, and not unusual at all. John Stewart and Dave Letterman are bleeped all the time. Sorry but I don't think this post was worth the bandwidth.

And while we're on the subject, are we going to write a post every time someone sneezes? I'm seeing posts about people making spelling mistakes on the news, commedians being censored, and the latest scheduling of WWE. People, these are routine things in television. Instead of sitting and taking notes at every little insignificant thing, can we get back to the business of info? What shows are being cancelled? Which shows should be cancelled? I want to read when there's news, or talk about what people should do, not a daily report of TV discrepancies, imo.


> > On last nights (2/21) special Olympic edition of the
> > "Tonight Show", Jay Leno was bleeped out by NBC censors.
> But
> > the reason appears to not be bad language or sexual
> inuendo,
> > but rather to save grief for the operator of a 1-800 phone
>
> > number.
> >
> > Jay was talking about someone with the Social Security
> > administration refering people to the 1-800-MEDICARE phone
>
> > number for something to do with Medicare. Jay then joked
> > that people should call 1-800-YOUR-*******. The stars
> > represent where the bleep came in. He repeated the
> "number"
> > again and that was also bleeped out.
> >
> > Given a couple of high-profile incidents a few years ago
> > involving movies featuring fake phone numbers that were
> > real, NBC probably did not want to risk a lawsuit from
> > whomever had the number involved. Unfortunantly, a few bad
>
> > pranksters calling such featured numbers ruin it for
> > everyone who likes these kind of jokes.
> >
>
> Are you sure that the bleeps weren't part of the gag? What
> word were the ***'s supposed to be? If it starts with the
> letter 'a', you have your answer.
>
 
And I'd Like To Add...

> And while we're on the subject, are we going to write a post
> every time someone sneezes? I'm seeing posts about people
> making spelling mistakes on the news, commedians being
> censored, and the latest scheduling of WWE. People, these
> are routine things in television. Instead of sitting and
> taking notes at every little insignificant thing, can we get
> back to the business of info? What shows are being
> cancelled? Which shows should be cancelled? I want to read
> when there's news, or talk about what people should do, not
> a daily report of TV discrepancies, imo.

And NOT a daily analysis of NBC's prime-time olympics ratings.

OH, that's already been mentioned. ;)
 
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