Jay Lenois back and cracking jokes aftera horrifying accident a few months agoleft his entire face on fire.
What happened, I was working on a car and I got a face full of gasoline.
And it caught fire."
Jay Leno jokes about his ‘new face’ on ‘The Kelly Clarkson Show’.Weiss Eubanks/NBCUniversal
“It felt exactly like my face was on fire,” Lenotold PEOPLE a month later.
“Maybe like the most intense sunburn you’ve ever had, that’d be fair to say.”
“I was under the car maybe 10 seconds before Dave pulled me out,” he added.
“Any longer than that I could have lost my eye.”
Despite the accident, Leno’s sense of humor remained unscathed.
“Only for the second time in my career am I the new face of comedy.”
Pointing out his left ear, Leno then proclaimed, “That’s a brand new ear!”
