After his face and body caught fire in a recent accident, Jay Leno wasn't focused on getting treatment -- he was concerned about his wife.
Kotb then asked,"So you loved your wife more than you worried about yourself?""I think there's something to that," Leno replied in a more serious tone.
But the funnyman couldn't resist throwing in a few more jokes, even when it came to his wife's reaction to his peeling face. "Oh, thrilled, yeah, yeah," he said before noting that she"of course" wanted Leno to immediately head to the hospital. Once at the burn center, doctors had to scrape away layers of burned skin on his face and repair one of his ears. He also had to spend eight hours a day isolated in a hyperbaric chamber as part of the healing process.
"It's basically a glass coffin," Leno recalled, noting that he thought about jokes and his act while in isolation. As for whether he was concerned about what he'd look like once he'd healed, the comedian joked,"When you look like me, you don't really worry about what you look like. Look, if I'm George Clooney, that's gonna be a huge problem.""People [who] work with their hands get injured every single day," he said."And I don't want to be some whiny celebrity, 'Oh boo, boo hoo is me.' I don't want to be one of these people.
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