Arsenio Hall and Jay Leno were both titans of late-night TV, but Hall recently revealed a story that explained the duo actually saved two lives together, too.
Hall, 70, skyrocketed to stardom on his late-night show, The Arsenio Hall Show, which ran from 1989 to 1994, and again from 2013 to 2014. He also had legendary film roles, like Coming to America, alongside Eddie Murphy. Leno, 75, a former stand-up comedian, hosted The Tonight Show for years, and famously ended his run in 2009. But in Hall's new memoir, Arsenio: A Memoir, it's revealed that the duo once saved an elderly couple from their burning home.
“Jay and I run out the front door and sprint to the burning house," Hall shared in the book, PEOPLE reported. "He presses the doorbell and I pound on the door. No one answers. In tandem, we kick the door and break it down."
Yelling to neighbors to run for help, Hall and Leno found an older couple asleep in the back bedroom.
"'You wake them up,' I say to Jay. 'They need to see you first, not a random Black guy standing over them,' " Hall recounted. "We wake them up and lead them out of their house. A few minutes later, sirens wail and firefighters arrive."
Hall was flabbergasted at what the two had just experienced.
"A few of them start clapping and the applause builds. I lower my head, feeling uncomfortable, but the crazy thought does occur to me, 'Tonight Jay Leno and I saved two lives,' " he recalled.
It was commonly thought that Hall and Leno were enemies back in the '90s due to their dueling shows. Hall told Entertainment Weekly in 1992 that he would “kick [Jay] Leno's ass."
He later said the statement was "taken out of context and isolated from the rest of my conversation," and "took on a very different meaning than what I had intended."
When Does Arsenio Hall's Memoir Come Out?
Arsenio: A Memoir was released on March 31, and the comedy titan couldn't be more excited.
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