So how did StutJo manage to get Leno anyway?

So I'm a VERY casual Howard fan at best and only really listened for Sal & Richard and some of the Wack Pack (and mostly on YouTube). We're talking mostly in the Artie days, nothing before, and little since. My introduction to Stuttering John (who I would confuse with John the Stutterer) was actually his role on Tripping the Rift and had no idea he was also the annoying celeb interviewer guy from the show.

How exactly did he manage to pull a Leno gig? It feels like something so out of his league. I honestly don't even know how to connect the dots from him to Leno and why an announcer gig when he was always more of a troll. I wouldn't think anyone in Hollywood would give anyone like him the time of day, and he clearly couldn't handle it when he did. Didn't even realize he was with Leno (in one form or another) for a decade too. I almost fell over when I first saw his name in the credits like "THAT John Melendez?!"

In any case, I hope he ends up digging his nails in the charred walls of the damned.