Jay Leno Jokes About Accidents At Love Ride Motorcycle Rally, Two Bikers Soon Die

Whether you find Jay Leno's jokes funny on the "Tonight Show," or not, the crack he made at a motorcycle rally on Sunday turned out to be no laughing matter at all.

Leno, an autos maven, spoke before the Love Ride in Glendale, California and made light of the event's impressive safety record, the Los Angeles Times reports.

"Every year, [the organizer] says, 'Drive safe,'" he said. "I'm gonna say, 'Don't drive safe.' I wanna see somebody go down. So it'll be fun. I want it to be in front or behind me and see a whole row of bikes go down. Get drunk, fall off the road. We've all become too damn polite ... we haven't had one incident."

During the ride, two riders in the rally crashed into a truck and were killed.

To his credit, Leno did assist another rider who crashed in the rally, accompanying him to the hospital. The yearly event saw about 2,000 people ride during the half hour circuit.

For more, click over to the LA Times.

Comments

[KangKodosOfQueens]

11:44 AM on 10/31/2011

Dave is classy. He would've joked about the drivers AFTER they died.

[gage1275]

09:07 AM on 10/29/2011

Jay is a comic. He had no way of knowing there would be an accident. Let's be honest, we attend and watch these events hoping there will be some 'action'. If there were no crashes, no one would pay for these events or waste time watching them (air shows, Nascar, bike ralleys, Motorcross....)

[madcityy]

01:17 PM on 10/28/2011

HE HAS BECOME A HOPRSES ASSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS

[TSRVT]

02:04 PM on 10/27/2011

What a stupid article. I'm not a big Leno fan, but really, HuffPo, is this sort of idiotic garbage really necessary? I think not.

[perturbedintexas]

01:24 PM on 10/27/2011

Who is Leno? Johnny Carson's gone? Really?

[IfIonlyknew]

01:17 PM on 10/27/2011

Ok....Lets stone the prophet for pridicting the obvious and acting like he spoke it into existence.
Motorcycle riders will die when they do stupid stuff....That is a fact.

[idonthinkso]

12:16 PM on 10/27/2011

leno's ridiculous comments aside... from what i've read, and i'm a rider, it seems the man and woman were NOT part of the love ride but ahead of it. and tried to pass a truck by riding in between lanes while traffic was moving at a pretty good clip. if those are the facts then it's a tragic rider error. regardless, rip to those who went down and ride safe to the rest.

[Max Shaw]

12:09 PM on 10/27/2011

While hindsight is often 20/20, I'd say his foresight is dead on.

[dylethan]

11:41 AM on 10/27/2011

Put it to rest. All the people saying hateful things about Jay Leno and wishing him bad are guilty of what they accuse him of. It was an unfortunate accident. No one wished for death to result from the competition.

[felshamldy]

06:41 AM on 10/27/2011

Well it wasn't the brightest thing to say, but since comedians all try to be edgy, over the top & outdo one another, they often say offensive things just to get attention. Obviously, Leno didn't want it to happen or CAUSE it to happen. He probably feels guilty enough--let's not pile on.

[Elderleigh]

05:24 AM on 10/27/2011

Where did he say anything about someone dying? Unless he was using some kind of biker lingo, it sounded to me like he was talking about someone taking a spill and seeing several riders have a larger fall like a row of dominoes - more comical Keystone Cops than actively wanting to see death splashed on the pavement - but maybe there was more to the story than was printed aboe?? (Can't get my video to work right now)

[attydallas3]

03:39 AM on 10/27/2011

Too bad Leno didn't crash and burn, but I wouldn't want anything to happen to that beautiful Jag ..

(oh wait - that was a joke)

[Whenyamovin]

02:23 AM on 10/27/2011

Mark this one up to bad timing. Never joke about death, it always has the last laugh.

[bbursky]

04:48 AM on 10/27/2011

And allways will!

[bob0173]

02:14 PM on 10/28/2011

He didn't joke about death though. Did you read what he said? Very innocent and certaintly didn't cause the accidents. Accidents happens,words don't make it so.

[lslimmy2]

02:14 AM on 10/27/2011

what! just a waste berating his simple wannabe joke just talk to me things happen you can't hold innocent people accountable for something they say but never imagined would happen in such a bad way I once said to my friend you ate my pizza & I hope you choke on it he almost did trying to eat it all before I got there for the delivery I was just joking but now I'm afraid to say that again - imagine this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BYsPPkmA4DM

[LarrBerr]

05:13 AM on 10/27/2011

A long time ago, me and some friends/coworkers were hanging around outside our restaurant, joking around. Another coworker drove in and was wearing a suit. One of the others said "Who died" (You know the old joke when you're not used to seeing someone dressed up). "My brother." Turns out his brother had recently died (heart attack at 32). My friend felt awful for saying that, even though of course he didn't know. I don't even think the guy who's brother died was upset (about the joke) or even set back by it. I think he was already so shaken up, that he didn't even realize it was a joke.

[hackitoff]

01:41 AM on 10/27/2011

oops!!!!