I Forged Jay Leno's Signature 2,000 Times

But then, Leno's manager Helen Kushnick personally asked me to. I worked for uberbitch Helen Kushnick in 1989, on Sunset Boulevard in Los Angeles. This week, Jay Leno - or one of his monkeys - lied to the press about who writes what. Jay Leno is a fraud. From the Tribune: When Jay Leno returned to "The Tonight Show" this week, he made light of how he was back to writing his own jokes. But some members of the Writers Guild of America weren't laughing. Responding to complaints by members, the WGA on Friday said it would begin proceedings to determine whether the late-night comedian had violated the guild's strike rules. FULL STORY at IT'S MY MIND... In 1989, most of Leno's monologue jokes were written by individuals who were not members of the Writers Guild. They were funny folks with a talent for quick and topical humor, and I was lucky enough to hang with a couple of them now and then. They would usually fax their material in to the Kushnick office (General Management), but now and then one would walk in with a few sheets of typed comedy material. So, for Leno to say that he is back to writing his own jokes is the biggest joke of all. He has rarely written his own stuff. For those of you who have seen the HBO movie "The Late Shift," you'll know that Helen was often yelling at NBC executive Brandon Tartikoff. It was during that era that I was embedded in the Kushnich offices, watching Helen's husband Gerry die of a grapefruit-sized tumor in his gut. He was a nice guy. She was hell on wheels. But I digress. During my time there, I signed a couple thousand head shot photos of Leno with "his" signature and mailed them off to adoring fans. So a couple of thousand people out there have a Leno photo from 1989 that was signed by me, not Jay Leno.