It’s like he never left. Or refuses to leave, depending on how happy you are to have Jay Leno back as host of NBC’s The Tonight Show. Whether Leno is happy as well is hard to judge; all that’s clear is he’s not particularly straining to keep the job now that he has it again. [...]

“There’s no place like home!” Jay Leno cried in his return to “The Tonight Show” after his disastrous stint in primetime. Leno’s first “Tonight” episode since he displaced Conan O’Brien (who had, of course, displaced him) opened with a sepia-toned parody of the conclusion to “The Wizard of Oz,” with Jay waking up from a [...]

Jay Leno took back The Tonight Show from Conan O’Brien on Monday night, saying, “It’s good to be home.” Ha-ha-ha, oh, oh, I get it: Conan was a bully who kicked poor Jay out of his own house and stayed on as a squatter until the police (i.e., NBC) gave Jay back his property! Justice [...]