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'The Situation' interview with Jay Leno, video

By April MacIntyre Sep 15, 2010, 5:59 GMT

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The Situation had Jay Leno's ear tonight, September 14.
 
Mike "The Situation" Sorrentino ("Jersey Shore") stopped by NBC’s "The Tonight Show with Jay Leno" (Monday-Friday, 11:35 p.m. ET) tonight, Tuesday, September 14.  While on the couch, he talked about his new role on "Dancing with the Stars," his previous dance experience at a male strip club and had an "ab-off" with guest Jamie Lee Curtis.

When Leno asked Sorrentino how his new gig on "Dancing with the Stars" was going he didn’t hold back, "I’ll be honest with you I love the challenge, I love the people, I love the camera, but at the same time I’ll be honest with you, it’s pretty hard."

Sorrentino also revealed that this is not his first experience dancing for an audience.

When Leno asked him about a rumor that Sorrentino once worked at a male strip club the "Jersey Shore" star replied, "There’s actually strippers and then there’s dudes that walk around with their shirt off and serve drinks, so I was the dude with the shirt off."

But when Leno queried if he ever got on stage Sorrentino explained the situation, "You want me to be honest?  You know I did try it once.  I really didn’t like it though," he continued,  "I really didn’t like the costume.  You know?  The outfit."

He wasn’t a cop or a fireman however, "My birthday is on the Fourth of July so they had some like, I don’t know if I was Uncle Sam, but it was some sort of Uncle Sam with a thong and I wasn’t really feeling it."

Later in the interview Sorrentino, who is known for his abs, had an ab-off with guest Jamie Lee Curtis.

See Sorrentino’s full interview tonight on NBC’s "The Tonight Show with Jay Leno."

JAY LENO’S MONOLOGUE HIGHLIGHTS TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

IN WHAT HAS TO BE THE DUMBEST STORY OF THE WEEK…WE TALKED ABOUT THIS LAST NIGHT.  THE PRESS SEEMS FASCINATED BY THE FACT THAT PRESIDENT OBAMA WAS NOT WEARING HIS WEDDING RING DURING HIS PRESS CONFERENCE LAST FRIDAY.  TURNS OUT THE RING WAS OUT BEING REPAIRED.  BUT ONE REPORTER ON CABLE SAID TODAY, “HE’S NOT SO SURE.”  WHAT DOES THAT MEAN?  THE PRESIDENT IS GOING TO BARS AFTER HOURS…  “HI BABY!  MARRIED?  NO!”

A GROUP CALLED THE CENTER FOR AMERICAN PROGRESS IS USING JUSTIN BIEBER IN THEIR MARKETING TO HELP GET OUT THE VOTE IN NOVEMBER.  AND REALLY, WHAT BETTER SYMBOL TO GET OUT THE VOTE THAN SOMEONE WHO IS TOO YOUNG TO VOTE AND CANADIAN.

THE ALLEGED DRUG KINGPIN WHO GOES BY THE NICKNAME "EL GRANDE" WAS ARRESTED IN MEXICO THIS WEEKEND, ALONG WITH HIS TWO ACCOMPLICES "TALL" AND "VENTI".

RESEARCHERS IN DENMARK HAVE ANNOUNCED THAT SMOKING CAN DAMAGE A MAN'S SPERM WHICH REDUCES THE CHANCE THAT HE WILL GET A WOMEN PREGNANT.  DO YOU KNOW WHAT THAT MEANS?  IF JOHN EDWARDS HAD A CIGARETTE BEFORE HE HAD SEX WITH HIS MISTRESS INSTEAD OF AFTER, HE COULD HAVE BEEN PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES.      

A MAN IN GEORGIA IS SUING A GROCERY CHAIN AFTER FINDING A TAMPON IN HIS BOX OF "CHOCOLATE CHIP CRUNCH" CEREAL.  ISN’T THAT DISGUSTING?  A GROWN MAN EATING CHOCOLATE CHIP CRUNCH CEREAL.  HOW HORRIBLE IS THAT?

ACCORDING TO "THE WALL STREET JOURNAL" ONE OUT OF EVERY FIVE PEOPLE WHO COMMIT SUICIDE IN NEW YORK CITY DO SO BY JUMPING FROM A TALL BUILDING. THE REST DO IT BY SIGNING A LONG TERM CONTRACT WITH THE KNICKS.

THE JETS ARE COMING UNDER SCRUTINY FOR ALLEGEDLY HARASSING A FEMALE SPORTS REPORTER.  THIS IS A HUGE STORY.  THE TEAMS OWNER, WOODY JOHNSON, SAID HE TALKED TO THE FEMALE REPORTER AND ASSURED HER THE TEAM IS COMMITTED TO TREATING ALL WOMEN WITH RESPECT.  UNFORTUNATELY, THE REPORTER THOUGHT SHE WAS BEING HARASSED AGAIN WHEN HE INTRODUCED HIMSELF AS “WOODY JOHNSON.”  RIGHT THERE.