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One of the many things that fascinates me about Grey Leno is his relationship with the hypothetical audience. I can only describe it as a reverse parasocial relationship. I feel like he knows deep down that the audience is fake, but he'll never admit it. Despite this, he believes the audience needs him. In his mind the audience loves him as much as he loves them. Even when there's nobody there, it's the thought of the audience that keeps him going. Sometimes he gets so in his head he thinks the imaginary audience that once loved him now hates him. When he's feeling this way he'll start to rebel in his performance, making rude comments and just breaking character sometimes. Every show he walks this balance of perceived love or hatred from the audience.

This is one of many things that makes the Grey Leno Show so fun to watch for me. I think you should re-watch Best of Grey Leno from start to finish with this in mind.

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"New Yorkers bite more people than sharks annually" is an excellent example of how statistics can be misleading. Like yeah no shit, do you have any idea how rare it is to even encounter a shark in the wild? They're not exactly urban animals. I'm pretty damn sure that if sharks were living in big cities like pigeons, just strolling down the streets looking for food scraps, you'd see a lot more news stories about New Yorkers biting them.

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This plush has restored meaning to my life.

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Always wanted to do one of those "draw the squad" things. Took me three years to find the patience to sit down and do it.

it them.

Here's the original:

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this sucks. whatever

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my recent strategy for dealing with intrusive thoughts is imagining bulk boagn (pictured below)

Fucked up creature in the dark? nope that’s bulk bogan. An unlikely/ impossible disaster happening? bulk bogan will stop it. Other thoughts i don’t want? think about bulk bogan instead. It is surprisingly effective in a way that I didn’t expect

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Unofficial Grey Leno Time Line July 2025

Nobody asked for this, but I did it anyway. ENJOY!!

The following is a hypothetical interpretation of the events from Grey Leno's birth to today.

NOTICE: 1. Grey just kinda says shit, so who knows if it's real or not and 2. There's a lot of blanks to fill in between these likely non-canon events. In other words, I MADE MOST OF THIS SHIT UP!

To start, let's get this outta the way: Grey Leno claims to be 37 space years old, which he say is around 400 Earth Years.

For that reason, we start in the 1620's, when Grey Leno was born. I have the headcanon that Grey Leno is half human for a few reasons. For one, he certainly doesn't look like any grey alien I've ever seen, and two, it fits my (made up) backstory for him perfectly.

I don't have a good reason for why aliens were on Earth in the 1600's, but, oddly, it's not that hard to imagine a human and an alien falling in love. These are the events that lead to the birth of Graylaxian and Greylockanus, twin brothers that would, in a couple centuries Earth time, be known as Grey Leno and Gray Leno. Unfortunately, for one reason or another, they were abandoned.

The brothers were raised in a nearby space orphanage in the Milky Way galaxy. They didn't get along with other kids very much, but they always had each other. Growing up, they took a lot of field trips to Earth, which is where the found their shared love of Earth culture.

In the 1800's, they were in their 20's in space years. Graylaxian had moved to the Zeta Reticuli star system and got married (For the first time). While Greylockanus had become an adventurer on an unknown primitive planet. (Yes, I mean that Dragon's Dogma 2 is canon in the Lenoverse)

A couple decades and one divorce later the brothers are reunited. Not quite ready to give up on the fun of youth, they start doing stand up as a duo. They tried a bunch of different gimmicks, but nothing really stuck.

Wouldn't ya' know it Graylaxian is married again. This time it seems like things will work out, they start a family together and everything. Unfortunately, this splits up the brothers yet again, and they stop doing shows together.

Greylockanus doesn't give up however, instead starting his own public access show under the name Grey Leno. (Like Jay Leno, ya know that kid who was on Johnny Carson's show a few times. It's not like he's goin' anywhere anyway.)

(It's the 70s, he thought he looked cool, okay?)

This is around when he met Bonehead. They weren't quite friends, but Bonehead truly appreciates being able to work with Grey Leno. Nobody else would hire him because he couldn't speak, but Grey never found it to be a problem as Bonehead is surprisingly intelligent.

Before things could get better, they had to get worse. As Earth went through what they deemed Y2K, an unknown tech company from the Orion constellation unveiled what they had named "Clonan Orion". Clonan was cloned from the DNA of Earth's greatest talk show host and genetically modified to be the universe's greatest talk show host. He was everything Grey Leno wanted to be and more: funny, capable, charismatic, and sexy. Yet another motivator for Grey Leno to succeed.

After a lot of work and growth, The Grey Leno public access show had finally reached two viewers. One of which being Gnorts who, at the time was quite famous in the Zeta Reticuli star system. (I like to imagine he hosted some off brand America's Funniest Home Videos type show, but that's not important to the story)

Gnorts was getting tired of fame and decided to help Grey Leno become the next big thing and defeat Clonan. Sadly, they were completely incompatible. Gnorts just gave up, and left Grey Leno to sort things out himself. Gnorts then fled fame entirely, and moved away to a small Earth town called New York City. This is where he met Vinny.

Grey Leno then joined a cult. What, you think he got on a major network without selling his soul? Somehow he got this cult to work on his show, don't ask me how, but they helped him find his first guest: Mr. Frog. He's not a super important to the lore, but interviewing him was one of the most important steps in Grey Leno's career.

The Grey Leno Show was then canceled after one episode. When Gnorts heard about this he had to tell his friend Vinny. Vinny being the agent of chaos that he is then posted the show to his youtube channel. By some miracle, humans seemed to enjoy Grey Leno, all be it ironically. This was just the spark Grey Leno needed to get the ball rolling again.

Grey finally got to make the same power move his hero had before: stealing someone else's show. He started small, interfering with a few VR videos Vinny had posted, but that was only a warm up. He then stole the set of Live! With William Maltmile and hijacked Vinny's Twitch stream on April first 2023 claiming to be an AI. It was in fact not AI. This stream is also the first know reunion of Grey and his brother Graylaxian, now known to the viewer as Gray Leno.

Next Grey Leno filmed his "million subscriber special". He didn't post the video on youtube, nor does he have a youtube channel, instead choosing to release the video only on a single VHS tape that he hid in a dumpster. It was none other than Vinny who found the tape and posted it on his youtube channel. This consisted of a QnA segment (that most of this backstory was pieced together from) and Grey claiming that "if he gets to a million, he'll just die". He did not reach a million subscribers. This is also the first appearance of his cohost with the croissant, whom I call croissant guy. (I think he was another case of nobody would hire him so Grey did)

(Just watch the video, it's peak Grey Leno content, and my favorite episode of The Grey Leno Show in general)

Now, the moment you've all been waiting for: Best of Grey Leno...

Hear me out, guys... This episode isn't hosted by Grey Leno... It's hosted by Gray Leno. This is Graylaxian's way of reconnecting with his brother. He watches back everything Greylockanus did without him during his second failed marriage. We were never supposed to know, Gray refurring to himself as Grey and his brother as Gray, but every thing "Grey Leno" says about himself is a little off. Grey loves to rant about his problems on stage, surely we would have heard about his multiple divorces. And quite notably he says his full name IS Graylaxian, whereas in his million subscriber special he said his name was Greylockanus (or something like that, I've just been BS-ing the spelling this whole time). However it is possible they switched back at the three hour mark, as the footage on screen switches to the first three hours of the video at that point. Meaning it's unknown which brother is capable of the "Omega Leno" transformation.

We also see Grey (maybe Gray) make his first friend. Unfortunately, that friend was this fucking guy that I hate. I'm not even gonna draw him.

Best of Grey Leno: Volume 2, he's killed. BY THAT FUCKING GUY I HATE, I KNEW THERE WAS SOMETHING OFF ABOUT HIM! (Grey gets better, don't worry)

Then out of the blue, Grey Leno out of the blue decides to run in the 2024 US election. He is not elected and never speaks of it again.

Grey's most recent appearance (as of my starting this project) was as the host of the 2024 Vinesauce Game Awards. This is the first official collaboration between Grey Leno and Vinny, (that we know of) though ironically Vinny cut off Grey's allegedly three hour recording, technically stealing his show. No hard feelings for the April Fools stream, I guess.

Finally some more stuff to write about! Grey released his first official merch! GREY LENO PLUSHIES!! Not a lot to say about it, but Mr. Frog makes a brief appearance in the reveal video, which is really cool.

What does the future hold for our favorite fraud? I guess that's up to Vinny to share with us.

[Final note: any games Vinny has put this freak in that weren't already mentioned could fit into the story somewhere as a part of Greylockanus' story OR as whatever Graylaxian was doing for all that time, or not idfk.]

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We were just a band, ya know, folks?

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Do you think, maybe he-

He birthed these?

Draw Gray Leno pregnant.

Really, anon? What makes you think I would ever-

Huh? Woah! My hand is moving on it's own... .. .

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Huh? I must have blacked out, what happened? ...

OH MY GOD, WHERE DID THAT COME FROM!?

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Welcome to Riverstool, Grey Lena. You'll fit right in.

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As far as I can tell, there are no major lore implications in the release of the Grey Leno plush. I don't need to rewrite the entire timeline (yet).

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Guys, HOLY SHIT!! New reason to live just dropped.

I'm sure Vinny will say something about this whenever he streams next, but world's biggest Grey Leno fan here, of course I'm the first to know about it. Have some memes to celebrate

Buy him. Now. Fuck it, here's a link.