You may have seen this pic in the newspapers. Above, in a fairly cheesy staged shot, Jay Leno -- in bald cap and fake goatee -- poses as a TV critic with NBC Entertainment co-chairmen Ben Silverman and Marc Graboff. Leno showed up to NBC's TV Critics press tour event on Monday, in an attempt to make light of gossip that he plans to bolt for ABC once he leaves "The Tonight Show" next year.
But there was a local, bloggy angle to all this. When Leno walked into the Beverly Hilton ballroom where NBC was holding its press conference, the talk show host grabbed a random, unclaimed press credential:
Yep, he was wearing the name tag intended for my Variety colleague -- and DodgerThoughts blogger Jon Weisman. Jon writes more about his imposter here.
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