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Arsenio Hall and Jay Leno are greater than just comedians.
The pair, who grew to become pals whereas internet hosting competing late-night reveals within the Nineties, as soon as saved an aged couple whose house caught on fireplace, in line with Hall.
“There was a night when I’m at Jay Leno’s house after we come from working at the Comedy Store,” Hall informed NPR’s “Fresh Air” lately.
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“And we’re standing in his yard, and he’s showing me stuff about his yard. He had a new house and a pool. And we see down the street there’s smoke coming from a house.”
He stated Leno requested his spouse to name 911.
Comedian Arsenio Hall stated he and Jay Leno as soon as saved a couple whose house was on fireplace. (Paul Drinkwater/NBCU Photo Bank/NBCUniversal)
“Jay and I run out the front door and sprint to the burning house,” Hall wrote in regards to the incident in his new ebook, “Arsenio: A Memoir,” in line with People.
“He presses the doorbell and I pound on the door. No one answers. In tandem, we kick the door and break it down.”
Hall wrote that they discovered the couple asleep in a again bed room.
“‘You wake them up,’ I say to Jay. ‘They need to see you first, not a random Black guy standing over them,'” the “Arsenio Hall Show” host remembered. “We wake them up and lead them out of their house. A couple of minutes later, sirens wail and firefighters arrive.”
The comic joked with NPR that he didn’t know something in regards to the couple however thought they “might have a different reaction to Jay saying, ‘Hey, it’s Jay Leno, wake up.’ You know?” reasonably than him.
Hall wrote that firefighters saved a lot of the couple’s house.
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Arsenio Hall and Jay Leno in 1990. (Jim Smeal/Ron Galella Collection/Getty Images)
Then, he wrote, the firefighters started to clap for the comedians, making him a bit of uncomfortable with the reward, “but the crazy thought does occur to me, ‘Tonight Jay Leno and I saved two lives.’”
He informed NPR he’d forgotten in regards to the story earlier than he began researching his life for his memoir.
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Hall additionally informed NPR he first met Leno at a Chicago comedy membership, the place Leno informed him he ought to attempt to make it in Los Angeles “because you’ll never know if you have it unless you go out there. You don’t want to be a big fish in a little pond.”
Leno gave him his quantity and informed him to name him when he arrived on the West Coast.
Arsenio Hall, seen right here with Jay Leno in 1999, calls him his “big brother.” (Margaret Norton/NBCU Photo Bank/NBCUniversal)
“So, he was like a big brother figure to me because he was already famous,” Hall informed NPR. “And Jay and I have been to hell and back. We’ve been big brother, little brother. We’ve been competitors dogging each other in the press. And now we’re back to being partners on the road doing an act called Kings of Late Night.”
In an interview on Conan O’Brien’s podcast March 31, Hall described their relationship as “brothers.”
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“And we fought too, me and Jay. We’re like Cain and Abel,” Hall admitted.
“Sometimes it sounds amazing and hard to believe, but I think I’ve just been blessed with an incredible life, which is why I was so cool after quitting the show with going home and chilling.”
