Well, here's another interview with Leno and he says pretty clearly that he's not going to do "another version" of The Tonight Show and that "I'm not going to go challenge any of my friends, or whatever they are, in late night as well. At least not in the foreseeable future."
I have to admit I'm a bit mystified. For months now, folks close to Jay have been telling me that he was going to wait until his NBC contract allowed him to entertain other offers before he made any decision about his future. He might or might not do another late night show as soon as he's a free agent but he wasn't going to decide that until he'd allowed some suitors to chase him a bit. Now, it sounds like he's taking himself off that market before that happens. Jay was quite hurt during the whole Conan mess by folks saying he'd lied; that he'd said he'd do one thing and had done another. I would think he wouldn't say the above unless he was damned sure he wouldn't be back in late night for a while.