Steve Martin says goodbye to Johnny in The New York Times. I set this link up so you shouldn't have to register. (For some reason, a lot of folks still don't want to sign up for sites like the Times, even though it's free, it doesn't seem to generate Spam, and you can easily get a special, separate e-mail address for such registrations if you want to keep your regular e-mailbox pure.)
If the Nielsen report I just received is accurate, Leno's show last night got a monster rating…11.2, which is more than double what The Tonight Show usually gets. As I said, I thought it was a nice, tasteful hour and I thought Jay did a good job of not making it be about him. I'm seeing him faulted on a number of websites for not being more emotional and making more of a personal statement but I think he hit the proper note.