HOLLYWOOD, Calif. — Jay Leno was back at "home" Monday as he returned to The Tonight Show seat he previously held for 17 years.
The broadcast opened with a take-off on The Wizard of Oz, with Leno trying to make sense of the strange dream he has suddenly awakened from.
"I went away to the strangest place," he recollected. "It was wonderful, but some of it wasn't so nice."
The bit also featured a cameo by Betty White.
The Tonight Show was the No. 1 late-night program when Leno handed it over to Conan O'Brien last spring. But Leno's failed primetime experiment and O'Brien's inability to hold the top spot against David Letterman's Late Show resulted in last night's switcharoo.
"I'm Jay Leno, your host, at least for a while," the 59-year-old comedian quipped in his opening monologue.
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