Jay Leno Is Recovering From Surgery After a Motorcycle Accident - The New York Times

Television|Jay Leno Is Recovering From Surgery After a Motorcycle Accident

Jay Leno, the erstwhile “Tonight Show” big besides known for his obsession with cars, had country connected Tuesday to repair aggregate breached bones aft a motorcycle mishap successful aboriginal January, helium said successful an interrogation connected Friday.

He seemed to beryllium backmost successful bully spirits: “A 72-year-old antheral driving an 83-year-old motorcycle. What could spell wrong?” helium quipped.

In his latest accident, 2 months aft helium sustained burns portion moving connected cars successful his garage, Mr. Leno said helium was trial riding a 1940 Indian four-cylinder motorcycle connected Jan. 17, erstwhile helium noticed the odor of state coming from the bike.

He turned down a broadside thoroughfare to cheque the motorcycle and was thrown disconnected it aft riding done a ligament helium could not see. The mishap near him with a scar crossed his neck, 2 breached ribs, 2 breached kneecaps and a snapped collarbone that helium had surgically repaired.

“It’s a small painful, but it’s not the extremity of the world,” helium said. “Luckily, I’m lone 72. If I had been an older man, this could person been precise serious.”

Despite the injuries, the comedian insisted during the interrogation that helium was successful bully carnal information and said helium would beryllium recovered capable to enactment this weekend.

His Sunday nighttime amusement astatine the Comedy and Magic Club successful Hermosa Beach, Calif., which helium inactive plans to do, is sold out. He besides has shows scheduled successful Arizona and Ohio successful the coming weeks.

Mr. Leno adjacent cracked a gag astir the crash, writing connected Twitter connected Friday, “I was riding my motorcycle up successful Lake Tahoe and I came astir the country and bam, I crashed into Jeremy Renner’s snowplow.”

The columnist, John Katsilometes, had asked astir his betterment from a gasoline fire astatine his Burbank, Calif., store successful precocious 2022 that near him with superior burns. “That was the archetypal accident,” Mr. Leno replied.

He said successful the Review-Journal interrogation that helium had not wanted to speech publically astir the motorcycle mishap due to the fact that of the wide attraction astir his erstwhile mishap conscionable a mates of months before.

In November, Mr. Leno had surgery aft sustaining what doctors called “significant burns” to his face, thorax and hands portion moving connected 1 of his cars. After that fire, Mr. Leno said successful a connection that helium would “just request a week oregon two” to get backmost connected his feet.

The comedian and car aficionado’s astir caller wounded besides comes amid CNBC’s determination not to renew his show, “Jay Leno’s Garage,” helium said, a programme that since 2015 has showcased his extended automobile postulation alongside personage interviews.

The determination was portion of a larger restructuring astatine CNBC, Mr. Leno said.

“I’d similar to proceed my narration with NBC. So, you know, there’s nary atrocious humor oregon sick feeling, right?” helium said, adding: “I privation them luck successful everything there. We had a bully clip portion we were there.”