Jay.Fucking.Leno

Is not cool. Right? Right? No, definitely right. Reasons for thinking this are
1) He has an enormous chin
2) His autobiography is entitled "Leading With My Chin."
3) He looks like he's plastic.
4) He just wrote a children's book called "If Roast Beef Could Fly," which has nothing to do with flying roast beef and makes Madonna look like a transcendent figure in children's literature
5) If Roast Beef... is also illustrated so that the young boy protagonist looks exactly like adult Jay Leno. Creepy and lacking imagination.
6) The people who like Jay Leno are not cool

How, you might ask, do you know about #6? I am not, for clarity's sake, talking about people who watch Leno from time to time, people who can stomach him, or have no feelings either way. I'm talking about the type of people who would attend the Roast Beef book reading and signing session that took place at 11:30 today, a Friday, a working day, at the 66th street Barnes & Noble of their own free will.
I was there. This was, not of course, of my own free will, but for work (and actually, as far as that goes, it was a good task).
Here's a small sampling of those in attendance, just to convince you that fact #6 holds water.
A 40 year old white guy, with glasses and a suit, lugging around a framed caricature of Mr. Leno, which he clutched in his hands while posing with Mr. Leno for a photograph. Heard downstairs saying to his mother "I just hope I was calm enough. That I didn't shut my eyes or anything."
An Australian girl, very soft spoken and mousy, who has been in America for a month though her husband remains back home, remarks after purchasing "Leading With My Chin," "When will I have another chance to do something like this?"
70 year old woman who strikes up conversation with any and every available stranger cooing, "Jay is just amazing with the kids!"
Jay Leno look alike, who had apparently just been on the Tonight Show in that capacity, sporting his Tonight Show sweatshirt and his very overweight wife telling Jay he'd "See him later tonight."
Very attractive New York City mom, cutting the line because she had an infant and then lugging her infant up on stage so she could pose with Leno for a very cozy photograph. Then, repeating the entire flirty, offensive mess with her friend’s toddler.