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Who Is Jay Leno's Wife? All About Mavis Leno
Jay Leno and Mavis Leno's love story started at a comedy club.
The former Tonight Show host met his wife after he performed at the iconic Comedy Store in the '70s. Jay admittedly "wasn't very good at dating" and Mavis didn't think she would ever walk down the aisle. However, that all changed when the pair met.
"I always had this idea that I would never get married," Mavis told PEOPLE in 1987. "But with Jay, I began to realize that this was the first time I was ever with someone where I had a perfect, calm sense of having arrived at my destination."
The couple tied the knot in 1980. Discussing the secret to their long-lasting marriage, Jay joked on PeopleTV, "Not screwing around is a huge key. You can do a lot. You can leave your underwear on the doorknob for the rest of your life if you don't screw around."
All jokes aside, Jay shared, "I always tell guys when they meet a woman, 'Marry your conscience. Marry som
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Jay Leno
American television host and comedian (born 1950)
"Leno" redirects here. For other uses, see Leno (disambiguation).
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| Birth name | James Douglas Muir Leno |
| Born | (1950-04-28) April 28, 1950 (age 74) New Rochelle, New York, U.S. |
| Medium | Stand-up, television, film |
| Education | Emerson College (BA) |
| Years active | 1976–present |
| Genres | Observational comedy, black comedy, surreal humor, insult comedy, deadpan, satire |
| Subject(s) | American culture, American politics, everyday life, pop culture, current events, human behavior |
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James Douglas Muir Leno (LEN-oh; born April 28, 1950)[1] is an American television host, comedian, and writer. After doing stand-up comedy for years, he became the host of NBC's The Tonight Show from 1992 until 2009 when Conan O'Brien took over as host. Beginning in September 2009, Leno started a primetime talk show, The Jay Leno
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Jay Leno began his career in night clubs, where he worked 300 nights a year before hitting it big in 1992 with his own late-night talk show, The Tonight Show with Jay Leno (1992). By that time he had appeared on television, acted in a few films (American Hot Wax (1978)) but hit paydirt with his late-night television appearances (he made a record number of visits to [error]); for several years, he served as Johnny Carson's permanent guest host on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (1962). A big, sweet guy with a very good comedy routine, he vied with David Letterman to inherit Carson's seat when Johnny retired in 1992. His victory was well-publicized, but empty, though he did gain a measure of revenge when his show beat Letterman's for the Emmy in 1995. Though he consistently lost in the ratings to Letterman except on special occasions, like Hugh Grant's first TV appearance after his encounter with Divine Brown, he surged ahead in 1996, as CBS plunged further i