Jay Leno On Letterman Commercial: 'Great To See My Old Friend Again' (VIDEO)

Jay Leno talked about his Super Bowl commerical with David Letterman and Oprah on his primetime show Monday night.

Leno said that Letterman's producer called his producer to share Letterman's idea for a commercial, and he took to the idea right away.

"No matter what animosity there is among comedians, a good joke is a good joke," he said.

Leno said he flew to New York and entered Letterman's studio in heavy disguise. When he shook hands with Letterman — his bitter rival — "whatever happened for the last 18 years disappeared.

"It was great to see my old friend again," he said. "It was wonderful. He was very gracious. We talked about the old days and we told some jokes and it was really good to see him."

Leno added that NBC executives who had gotten word of a secret Letterman taping were afraid Letterman had filmed a promo with President Obama.

"They got a bit of a surprise when they saw it as well," he said.

"I wanna thank Dave for making me a part of his promo," he concluded, earnestly. "Glad to promote his show. When I did his show in the '80s, I promoted his show every night of the week and it was fun to do it again."

Leno will be back on against Letterman on March 1, when he reassumes his post as host of "The Tonight Show."

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Comments

[BadgersBite]

12:10 PM on 02/10/2010

Leno is such a Tool !!

[mutton]

11:50 AM on 02/10/2010

It's telling that Jay's show is the one that needs promotion and yet Letterman is the one who came up with this idea. Jay has always been a follower, not a leader.

[Cloball]

06:49 AM on 02/10/2010

Leno's reading too much into this. I'm sure Letterman still thinks he's a slimeball for what he did to him and CoCo.

[ChrisDWard]

11:03 PM on 02/09/2010

I'm just curious - where were all you Conan supporters when he needed you?????

[terry63]

10:14 PM on 02/09/2010

Yeah Its damage control, The industry should have never allowed this to happen, This will be the end of the tonight show, I like Leno, but I will probably watch Conan instead.

[Christian Troy]

08:15 PM on 02/09/2010

Leno is trying to do damage control. I don't think he realized the public would side with Conan the way it did.

I can't wait for Conan to come back and bury Leno in the ratings. Leno is soooo boring.

[skippy20008]

08:19 PM on 02/09/2010

In light of other people's damage control -- John Edwards, Tiger Woods, Toyota Executives­, Wall Street Robber Barons -- Leno's seems rather trivial...­no?

[BigCheese]

01:44 PM on 02/10/2010

Not to NBC it doesn't.

[LiberalBuzz]

07:33 PM on 02/09/2010

I thought it was pretty funny and very definitely a huge surprise.

I don't think Jay and Dave hate each other...th­ey've both been around too long.

Good ad.

[skippy20008]

07:53 PM on 02/09/2010

Even if they did hate each other, I think a good comedian has to forget about that...and go for the joke. And it was one hell of a joke! Best commercial of the SB by far!

[zeppelinfeld]

06:56 PM on 02/09/2010

So, so tired of this guy.

[JadedAggie]

06:46 PM on 02/09/2010

Meh phony, but w/e. In the end he was smart to accept it because the commercial will almost assuredly benefit him more than Letterman. It was a great joke by Letterman, but he will probably regret the commercial in the end.

[Kevin Ehsani]

06:27 PM on 02/09/2010

LOL... I love Jay! it's good to see him and Dave getting along.

[JohnKevari]

04:55 PM on 02/09/2010

Shame on those like myself who took all of this too seriously.

Jay has class

[nolabels]

04:35 PM on 02/09/2010

Could he be more fake?

[Kreskytim]

03:56 PM on 02/09/2010

Damage control.

[Christian Troy]

08:12 PM on 02/09/2010

My thoughts exactley

[AmandaRuth]

02:54 PM on 02/09/2010

This may well have been a calculated move on Leno's part, but it paid off. My opinion of him, which was not really that much before, has increased dramatical­ly. It was sporting of him to do the ad.

[martinchill]

01:48 AM on 02/11/2010

sporting - yeah, like the backstroke­.

[Orphie]

02:36 PM on 02/09/2010

"The Crawling To Curry Favor Tour of 2010."