Comment Comedian Jay Leno suffered burns to his face and hands after a gasoline fire in his garage Sunday, according to the Grossman Burn Center in Los Angeles, where he is being treated. “He is in good humor and is touched by all the inquiries about his condition and his wishes,” West Hills Hospital and Medical Center spokeswoman Amy Bennett said in a statement Monday. “He wants to let everyone know that he is doing well and that he is at the ‘best burn center in the United States.’ In a statement, Leno, 72, said he was “okay. I just need a week or two to get back on my feet.” People magazine reported Sunday that Leno canceled an appearance at a financial conference in Las Vegas that night due to a “serious medical emergency.” Financial Brand wrote in an email to attendees that Leno’s family was “unable to give us many details, but there was a very serious medical emergency that is preventing Jay from traveling.” “All we know is that he is alive, so our prayers go out to him and his family tonight,” the email continued, according to People. Following speculation about Leno’s condition, some of which was linked to his earlier candidness that he had high cholesterol, TMZ reported that he had been hospitalized after a fire broke out in his car garage. Leno hosted “The Tonight Show” on NBC from 1992 to 2009 and again from 2010 to 2014 after a flurry of poor ratings for both his next effort, NBC’s “The Jay Leno Show” and rerun of the “Tonight Show” hosted by successor Conan O’Brien. During Leno’s tenure, the show received nine Emmy Award nominations for Outstanding Variety Series. won once, in 2005. After Leno officially retired from “The Tonight Show” in 2014, he began hosting “Jay Leno’s Garage,” an Emmy-winning web series about cars — inspired by his passion — that landed on CNBC in 2015. he said in a press release at the time that the show would be about “anything that rolls, explodes and makes noise” and “will highlight the passion and stories behind the men and women who made the automobile the greatest invention of the 20th century. .” Before receiving the Kennedy Center’s Mark Twain Award for American Humor in 2014, Leno explained to a Post reporter the difference in how he viewed talking cars and hosting a late-night talk show: “I like it because it’s more passion,” he said . . “When you’re talking to Batman on ‘The Tonight Show,’ you’re not really talking to Batman. When you talk to an engineer, you talk to a real engineer.” At the time, Leno owned a total of 92 motorcycles and 130 cars. a US News & World Report article from earlier this year suggested the latter number now exceeds 180. “Jay Leno’s Garage” is still on the air and featured President Biden in its season 7 finale late last month.
