Clay Laughs With Jay and Jack Black, Sings On My Way Here on Tonight Show

As the beginning of this article is being written, it is still about 15 minutes until The Tonight Show comes on. The following report from The Aiken Breakin' Broads site has me even more excited to see the show:

The early reports all seem to say that Clay looked fantastic on Leno -
great clothes and great hair. His segment is the last one. He does a little bit of his Spamalot accent, jokes around with Jack Black (the other guest), and sings perfectly!!

But what can we expect? Clay always looks fantastic and jokes around (can't wait to see him joking with Jack Black!). And sing???? Well, yeah!!!

Stay tuned for more details in about an hour!!

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Well, Clay appeared on The Tonight Show with at least his 5th hairstyle since he first went on 5 years ago. They laughed about this and Clay says he changes his hair about every 30 minutes. He told Jay that when it was darker it made him feel older. Jay said, "So how old are you now, about 40 or 43?"

Jack Black and Jay were both asking him questions at the same time. I get a kick out of Clay saying, "Whose doing the interview?" and look back and forth at both of them. Funny.

Clay did his British accent from Spamalot for Jay. He said he goes right into it when he arrives at the theater. I can imagine him doing that too! Then Jay asked him something about superstitutions and he told Jay about the time he said something about MacBeth when he was sitting with several of the cast, and they all gasped and said you were not suppose to say MacBeth in the theater. My teenage son who does theater at school agreed that this is true. Guess I'll make sure not to say "MacBeth" next time I'm at the movies!

Jay asked Clay if he had ever done theater before. Clay said he had been cut from the high school play his senior year but he didn't hold a grudge...even though he would like to announce that teachers address...and phone #...and name...on tv! But no grudge!! Then he gave the teacher the raspberries!! Pretty funny stuff!!

Clay and Jack Black were both funny laughing it up. I knew they would be. And they both sat with their foot under their other leg...a sign of being comfortable in their surroundings. Clay and Jack were still talking as they went to a commercial. Would love to know what they were talking about!

Clay sang On My Way Here beautifully. Quiana, Angela, and Sean were there. I guess Clay stole Sean from Broadway for a little while!



It was a great interview and a great performance. If you haven't had a chance to watch it yet, be sure to run to Clack Unlimited and download the show!





Thanks to Gerwhisp from The Clayboard for the screencaps.

"Clay TV" To Look Forward to in the Coming Weeks

Clay is scheduled to be on quite a few shows in the coming weeks. From VH1: Rock on TV, here is a listing of shows Clay will be on in the upcoming weeks:

Click on the word "info" to see more information about each program. Note that the newest show added on that list is "ET" on Friday, May 2. Not included in this list are the following shows Clay will appear on:

Wednesday...5/7 Good Morning America - 7-9 am EDT ABC

Thursday...5/8 The View 11:00 a.m.-12 bNoon EDT ABC

Monday....5/12 The Tonight Show with Jay Leno 11:35pm EDT NBC

Friday......5/16 Jimmy Kimmel Live approx Midnight EDT ABC (Guests: Ryan Seacrest, Clay Aiken, Kate Nash (musical guest)
Taping to start at 7:00pm PDT on Friday May 16

Monday.....5/19 The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson 12:35 am EDT CBS

Also, Clay will be on the Rachel Ray Show sometime in May. Mark your calendars now for all 9 of these shows. Stay tuned to CDD for any other shows that may be added.

Tidbits 4/22

Clay and Tyra Banks are featured in today's People Magazine StarTracks. Tyra recently visited Clay on the set of Spamalot to tape a special segment for her Tyra Banks Show. An air date has not been set yet. The same photo is also featured at JustJared.com.

• antiMusic - Clay makes the rounds on late night shows to promote new album -

  f you're a bit underwhelmed by the current crop of American Idols, an old favorite is returning to your television screen and you won't have to put up with Paula to watch. Which favorite is it? It's the guy who's fans sent over dozens emails to let us know that their hero was going to be back on TV. That's right, it's Clay Aiken and he's going on a late night TV blitz to promote his new album.
  
  Claymates will make a run on record retailers on May 6th, when Aiken's new album, 'On My Way Here,' is released and the following week he'll make two late night appearances to promote it.
  
  First up, he'll head over to Burbank to appear on the Tonight Show with Jay Leno on May 12th and then he'll make an appearance on the Jimmy Kimmel Show on May 15th. We received conflicting information from the fans that wrote in about the Kimmel appearance. Some said Clay was performing and others said he wasn't. So we fired off an email to the show's publicist and she confirmed that "Clay Aiken is booked for an interview" only. The musical guest on that night will be Dierks Bentley.
  

• American Idol mentions:
• All Headline News -

  While judge Simon Cowell often chastises contestants for sounding "too Broadway," all six will have to pull out the big numbers for the Broadway themed show. Despite Cowell's remarks, many former "American Idol" contestants have gone on to have successful runs on Broadway, including Fantasia and Clay Aiken.

• Deseret News on Carmen Rasmusen's thorn with American Idol -

  Rasmusen's April 18 column gave us a behind-the-scenes look at how "Idol" works. She wrote of one experience waiting to consult the show's vocal coach while Clay Aiken was being coached.
  
  "I could hear him going over and over his song, dissecting it. Finally, after about 30 minutes, the door opened. It was my turn. I walked in and sang my song about three times before being dismissed. Hardly the personal one-on-one attention Aiken had just received."

• Courier Post Online -

  But who cares about costing an innocent bystanders hundreds of dollars? In the 2003 "American Idol" finale, 130,000 votes separated winner Ruben Studdard from the runner-up, Clay Aiken. A few days later, a phone company in the Midwest said it had received 240,000 misdialed calls during voting.

• Philadelphia Inquirer -

  It's unlikely that the producers who saw the very pretty Kelly Clarkson triumph over the even prettier Justin Guarini that first summer ever envisioned anything like the tuneful but less-photogenic showdown between Season 2 finalists Ruben Studdard and Clay Aiken, much less the Season 5 victory of Taylor Hicks, a twitchy, gray-haired Alabamian whose personality charmed millions but who's been eating the dust of fourth-place contestant Chris Daughtry ever since.

• The Campus Press - Idols ... where they are now: "Clay Aiken, the runner up on season two of American Idol has been singing and dancing his way on Broadway in Monty Python's Spamalot, which tells the story of King Arthur and his knights of the round table."
• antiMusic - random mention:

  You see the Ozzy track was playing on my iTunes when I clicked over to Pendulum's Myspace and one of their songs started autoplaying. It was a strange mix, but actually worked. Maybe we'll start a new online crazy with Myspace/iTunes antimash-ups? We're gonna go try Iron Maiden and Clay Aiken right now.
  

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Clay To Drop by "Tonight Show" on May 12

Clay will be making a promotional appearance for his new album on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno on May 12, Corabeth confirmed with RCA's marketing department:

I just confirmed with RMD that Clay is taping Kimmel on the 15th (which then airs at midnight on the 16th for most)

Also, the Leno appearance is May 12th.

Clay's last appearance on Leno was all the way back in 2006 when he appeared to promote ATDW:

Jeff Foxworthy on Tonight Show - No Clay Mention, But...

Jeff Foxworthy was on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno tonight. So I stayed up to watch and see if there would be a Clay mention. Unfortunately, Jeff didn't mention anything about Clay or the celebrity shows. He did say that the new kids on the show are real little since its the beginning of the school year, so don't you know that Clay just loved them and they adored him!

Jeff was very funny and quick-witted with his stories, and I hear that Clay outsnarked him during the taping. I'm thinking our guy can outsnark just about anyone. I'd pay a fortune to watch these two southern guys snark back and forth for an hour. My sides would be splitting and hurting so bad by the time they were through!

One of Jeff's jokes tonight: He gave us some fashion tips. He said that if your mom is still driving you to school, you ain't no gangsta, so pull your pants up!!

Another fashion tip from Jeff: If your rear end looks like two raccoons wrestling a 50 pound bag of corn (or something), say NO to spandex!!

Betcha Clay could have come up with a remark about both those jokes!!

They also showed Jeff's brand of barbeque sauce with his picture on it. I wonder if its better than Clay's North Carolina barbeque sauce. These two guys seem to have a few things in common...both from the south, both are very witty, and both love barbeque! Hmmmm, maybe Jeff and Clay would be great partners on the show Clay has always wanted to be on, "The Amazing Race"...that is if Jimmy can't do it!! Mark Burnett...see what you can arrange!

I liked Jeff Foxworthy last year on Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader. Somehow, after yesterday's taping, I think I'm going to love him all the more!

Tidbits 8/12

• ABC News - roundup of the late night comedy.. for Jay Leno's show:

  The debate was here in Los Angeles and it centered on topics of interest to the gay community -- which I don't understand. Don't gay voters care about the same things as straight voters -- health care, the war in Iraq, what's the deal with Clay Aiken? These are the issues, these are the issues we want to know about.

• Playbill - "Idol: The Musical", "based on the fan worship of former "American Idol" contestant Clay Aiken and featuring direction by Daniel Tursi — officially opens at the 45th Street Theatre Aug. 12. Previews began July 5."
• Lincoln Journal Star - Raleigh rapper looking to be Raleigh's next Clay Aiken ...

  Small World thought about why he’ll follow Clay Aiken as the next big thing from Raleigh and why North Carolina rappers haven’t made a dramatic dent in the hip-hop scene.

• Meadville Tribune - 2007 turning out to be a bad year for fair concerts ...

  In 2005, the Crawford County Fair did hit two home runs.
  
  Country music star Toby Keith actually had more than 10,000 seats sold — 10,248 as the fair board squeezed in the 248 extras on the race track.
  
  However, only 3,100 turned out for adult contemporary singer Clay Aiken’s concert that year.

• ClayKat - a beautifully written, honest and candid post about that certain someone who "made false accusations [about Clay] in early 2006" and why he showed up at Clay's Cary show on Friday night ...

  I just need to share my anger at some people who for some sick reason, get kicks out of goading Clay, in his very face, in his home-state... Clay's summer tour stopped in Cary, North Carolina last night, and as well as the huge crowd of Clay fans, there was a certain someone in the audience with bad intent, a person who has slandered Clay and made false accusations in early 2006. If that guy - who will remain nameless because I will not provide links nor an easy way to find his garbage - had a shread of decency in him, he would not have bought tickets to Clay's concert, for goodness' sake! He would have stayed far away. It just makes me sad to think how Clay must have felt last night, during the concert, knowing those nasty eyes were on him.
  
  I am happy to learn, despite my and others' feelings about this man, that there were no incidents having to do with him, at the concert. However, the handshake line that Clay often does after his concerts, was cancelled for security reasons. Ah, let's see... what could those be? Could they have to do with the evil-doer? In my opinion - of course that's why the handshake line was cancelled! So thanks to that ill-intentioned guy, hundreds of peaceful, Clay-loving fans did not get to shake Clay's hands - and I bet that Clay himself was somewhat shaken by the situation.
  

"New" Photos from September 2006 Leno Appearance

ClayAikenPix.com has posted some never before seen photos of Clay appearing on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno on September 15, 2006. Love the stubble - THUD!

Click the thumbnails to enlarge