Jay Leno injures face and breaks wrist in fall down hill: ‘I’m all black and blue’

Jay Leno is “all black and blue” after a recent fall injured his face and broke his wrist.

The comedian was staying at a Pennsylvania Hampton Inn when he decided to have dinner at a restaurant before his show. He didn’t have a car, so he walked, and attempted to take a short cut down a hill that turned out to be more steep than he anticipated. He tumbled 60 feet down the hill, hitting his head on a rock in the process.

“I broke my wrist, lost my nail on the finger, and then I’m all black and blue,” he recalled to Inside Edition while sporting an eye patch.

Speaking of the eye patch, the former Tonight Show host, 74, also told TMZ, “I fell down. Boom, boom, boom. I rolled down the hill, hit my head on a rock, knocked me in the eye, there you go.”

Leno said the accident happened right before he was set to do a show at the Yaamava’ Casino in Southern California. The show must go on, apparently, because Leno waited until after his performance to go to the hospital to seek medical attention.

Not that he’s too concerned. When Inside Edition asked Leno if he’d be able to see again, he said, “It’ll be fine, I’m not worried about it.” He echoed similar sentiments to TMZ when that outlet asked how he was “holding up” with the obvious injuries. “I’m holding up fine — I’m right here talking to you,” he said.

The fall down the hill is the latest in a string of injuries in recent years for the comedian. When asked about this by TMZ, he quipped, “The great thing about this age [is] you don’t learn by your mistakes, you just keep doing the same stupid thing.”

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In November 2022, the noted car aficionado was hospitalized and treated for second- and third-degree burns on his face, chest, and hands in a gasoline fire that started while he was working in his garage. From there, Leno spent nine days at Grossman Burn Center in West Hills, Calif., recovering and undergoing two skin-grafting surgeries — one of which involved human cadaver skin, and the other pig intestine. He also revealed he refused to take pain medications afterward, insisting that “the pain is a reminder that I’m an idiot!”

Then, a few months later in January 2023, the comedian revealed in an interview with the Las Vegas Review-Journal that he had gotten into a motorcycle crash on Jan. 17 and subsequently required medical care for several broken bones.

“Just last week, I got knocked off my motorcycle,” Leno said at the time. “So I’ve got a broken collarbone. I’ve got two broken ribs. I’ve got two cracked kneecaps.” Leno added that he was ultimately “okay” and — surprise, surprise — still planned to work that weekend.