# Jay Leno have a hardon or something....?

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**Created:** [June 14, 2012, 6:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jay-leno-have-a-hardon-or-something/625111 "2012-06-14T06:57:57Z")\
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**Post date:** [June 21, 2012, 2:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jay-leno-have-a-hardon-or-something/625111/121 "2012-06-21T14:55:31Z")

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> [@Bricker](#):
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> Wasn’t he also losing to Chelsea Handler? In fact, it seems to me I saw something about his having fewer viewers than Chelsea, Jon Stewart, and Stephen Colbert.

For a couple weeks here and there she was beating him by a smidge in absolute numbers (but not the male 18-34; her show is more popular among women). TBS managed to acquire syndication rights for some popular shows (like Big Bang Theory) to act as lead-ins for Conan, and his ratings have rebounded. He typically gets around 1.3-1.6 million viewers, whereas Chelsea Lately rarely cracks a million.

It’s surprising how important lead-ins still are in the DVR age.

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