Chucklehead Leno Mocks CPAP Users “How is someone supposed to sleep while wearing that stupid thing?” Jay Leno laughed. Last week Leno, host of the Tonight Show , was in the middle of his Headlines bit, a segment where he jokes around about various news clippings. Usually Leno yuks it up by targeting bad headline typos, bumbling criminal stories and quack product ads. This time he was commenting about a magazine advertisement for a sleep apnea pillow. When he mentioned the ad, I assumed he was going to ridicule a dubious product that claimed to treat sleep apnea by itself. Leno held up a photo showing someone sleeping on his side, facing the camera, while wearing a CPAP mask. The pillow was shaped to make it easier for the man to wear the mask, unlike regular pillows. So what was the problem? From what I saw the pillow was a good design; it should work. Regular pillows are more apt to dislodge the facemask. But Leno didn’t want to comment on the pillow; he found humor in the mas...
