Howard Stern Jay Leno Feud: NBC Reprimands Stern for Calling Leno "Spineless Maggot," Stern Doesn't Care
Howard Stern admitted that he got reprimanded by NBC for talking badly about their late night host, Jay Leno, and calling him a "spineless maggot," however, the "America's Got Talent" judge could not care less.
"I got sort of a threatening kind of comment from one of the executives. I said ... 'Do not tell me not to talk about Jay Leno, I will talk about Jay Leno for four f*cking hours if you tell me not to," Stern said on his Sirius radio show on Aug. 21. "I was done with Jay Leno, now I'm all fired up again. F*ck Jay. Take my job away from me. Who cares?"
Stern said that he would rather leave his judging post on "America's Got Talent," "than not talk about Jay Leno," Perezhilton.com reported.
When news broke that the "Tonight Show with Jay Leno" had to lay off 20 staffers and that Leno himself offered to take a salary cut to save some of his staffers' jobs, Stern called the host a "spineless maggot," and called him responsible for the layoffs.
"It's all horse s-t. It's bulls-t. It's a smokescreen. Jay Leno is a scumbag. That's what that means. He's a spineless maggot," Stern said. "Jay wanted to cut staff. He's embarrassed to do it. He didn't want to come off as a bad guy. NBC took the hit for him, because they're a corporation ... My bullshit meter is going off all over the place."
The "Tonight Show" layoffs came as a result of NBC-imposed budget cuts on the show, according to E! Online. Stern expressed his true feelings even though he himself is on the NBC payroll.
