Jay Leno Graces Worst-Selling Time Magazine Cover Of 2009

Newsstand perusers were evidently unimpressed with Time magazine’s assessment that Jay Leno is “the future of television. Seriously!” The late-night, and then not-so-late, and then once again late-night tv host’s mug happened to grace the publication’s worst-selling cover of 2009.

The cover, which hit newsstands last September 14, coincided with the launch of Leno’s short-lived prime time show. Which is to say: That enterprise was pretty much doomed to fail in a flaming ball of “meh.”

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