"I like to think that people come to a comedy show to kind of get away from the things, the pressures of life, wherever it might be," Leno said.

Jay Leno believes late-night TV comedians have become too politicized — and that they risk losing half the viewing audience by “cozying up to one side or the other.”

Letterman characteristically ripped into the “gutless” “bottom feeders” at Skydance, complaining that “There’s no fairness to these goons.”