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Jay Leno Hit With Backlash After Making Cringey Joke About Jeremy Renner's Snowplow Accident
Jay Leno's latest attempt at humor fell quite flat amongst his Twitter followers.
While attempting to poke fun at his own injuries, the former late night host made a bad-landing joke about Jeremy Renner's horrific New Year's Day snowplow accident from which he still has "a long road to recovery."
Leno, who is recovering himself from burns suffered from a gasoline fire in his garage in November, was involved in a motorcycle accident on January 17, leaving him with a broken collarbone, two broken ribs and and two cracked kneecaps.
Striving to make light of his own situation, Leno tweeted last week:
"I was riding my motorcycle up in Lake Tahoe and I came around the corner and bam, I crashed into Jeremy Renner's snowplow."
\u201cI was riding my motorcycle up in Lake Tahoe and I came around the corner and bam, I crashed into Jeremy Renner\u2019s snowplow.\u201d— Jay Leno (@Jay Leno) 1674847696
Renner broke over 30 bones when he was crushed under his snowplow while trying to save his nephew from the moving 14,300 pound vehicle.
He continues to receive therapy and recover at home.
The Twitterverse felt Leno's "joke" was in poor taste, at the very least.
Not funny. Renner broke 30 bones in the process of saving his nephew’s life. Respect to the guy. Pure guts.
— John Dawson (@JRDAWSONTV) January 28, 2023
How is that funny.
— Brooke Hammerling (@brooke) January 28, 2023
Stay retired. That’s a terrible “joke”. Maybe your humor went up in smoke ?
— Bill Hynes (@thethrill57) January 28, 2023
Hang it up Jay
— Pooliticat (@Pooliticat) January 28, 2023
this is a disgusting joke
— DonovanDC (@DonovanxDCx) January 28, 2023
Is this supposed to be funny?
— Attil (@Attil22) January 28, 2023
Guy nearly died Jay.
— Brennan Neill🛸 (@BrennanNeillVT) January 27, 2023
😳🙅♀️🤦♀️ sorry that is not even the tiniest bit funny. Jeremy was almost killed in that terrible accident.
— Trina Qureshi (@TrinaQureshi) January 28, 2023
too soon
— Steve (@SCadinski) January 30, 2023
Of his accident, Leno explained to Las Vegas Review Journal:
"So I turned down a side street and cut through a parking lot, and unbeknownst to me, some guy had a wire strung across the parking lot but with no flag hanging from it."
"So, you know, I didn't see it until it was too late. It just clotheslined me and, boom, knocked me off the bike."
"The bike kept going, and you know how that works out."
Yikes!
We wish both Leno and Renner well in their continued recovery.