Jay Leno, the guru of the garage, did not mince words describing the accident that put him into intensive care.
“And suddenly, boom, I got a face full of gas," Leno said. "And then the pilot light jumped and my face caught on fire.”
In a televised interview on NBC’s "Today" show, the comic looked only a little worse for wear, and he’s now back on stage doing standup after nine days at the Grossman Burn Center in Los Angeles. He was burned last month while he and his friend Dave Killackey were working on one of Leno's vintage automobiles, a 1907 White Steam Car.
Describing the accident, Leno said that he had asked Killackey to blow some air through a clogged fuel line, when gasoline erupted and a pilot flame ignited it.
"I couldn’t even see his face," said Killackey, who joined Leno in the interview.