Looks VERY much like Jay Walking. But wait...didn't Howard fly out to LA for a party hosted by Jimmy Kimmel?

Not ok when Jay "rips off" his segment, but he doesn't appear to mind when Jimmy does it.

Howard is a hypocrite. What else is new?

99% of Howard's hatred of Jay Leno is that Leno hired Howard's bitch, Stuttering John.

Exactly. It's all riding off that. If Jay had talked to Howard in advance (which doesn't work that way), it would all be good.

Jay Leno DEFINITELY ripped off Howard when it comes to Jaywalking, but Howard's claim that he invented the whole bit is what never made any sense. Either way, it's not like it's such an original idea no matter who does it, you go out and talk to people on the street and hope for weird answers to things. I used to watch the talk shows religiously before sleeping and I just never remembered Leno doing it before Howard, though of course I could be wrong, I'm going off of memory.

Leno claimed it was invented by Steve Allen (man in the street?) long before Howard.

I remember Allen doing that bit. I'm sure he lifted it from somewhere else.

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Actually, didn't Howard rip himself off? LOL!

He had John do it...then he had Richard & Sal do it.

(I jest.)

I think the Steve Allen bits were all scripted, though, using actors like Louis Nye, Bill Dana (Jose Jiminez), and Don Knotts (as well as others). So the idea existed, but in a very different way. Who knows who might have been doing it on radio before the days of TV.

Got this from Wikipedia.

Vox Pop was the name of a popular US radio program before 1950.
American television personality Steve Allen as the host of The Tonight Show further developed the "man on the street" interviews and audience-participation comedy breaks that have become commonplace on late-night TV. Usually the interviewees are shown in public places, and supposed to be giving spontaneous opinions in a chance encounter — unrehearsed persons, not selected in any way. As such, broadcast journalists almost always refer to them as the abbreviated vox pop. In U.S. broadcast journalism it is often referred to as a man on the street interview or M.O.T.S.[2]

Leno is wholly unoriginal in most things, which is what I think the real problem is; other than that, does it really matter who does the Man-on-the-street interviews? The comedy is in the "victim" who answers, not the person asking the questions, for the most part, because the interviewer pretty much has to play the "straight-man" role. I kind of don't mind Leno's take on it because he tends to do it from tourist locations or well-known L.A. locales, etc. so it is more "slice of life", whereas Stuttering John/Sal/Richard do it from Rockefeller Plaza and it almost always is born-and-bred Manhattanites.

I want to see Kimmel do it, though, now I'm curious.