Jay Leno is facing his cosmetic obstacles with humor.

After being hospitalized in November 2022 after burning his face in a gasoline fire and suffering a fall off of his motorcycle the following January, The Tonight Show alum had the opportunity to thank surgeon Dr. Peter Grossman for giving him a “brand new face,” per E! News.

As for his first accident, he explained during a speech on Monday night’s (Sept. 30) 2024 Daytime Beauty Awards, at which Grossman was being honored with the Outstanding Achievement in Medicine Award, that he “got a face full of gasoline and caught on fire.”

While he went directly to the Grossman Burn Center, he ultimately headed home to check in on his wife Mavis, who was “having some health problems,” opting to return the following day. In fact, he did not even realize that his face was “still burning” when his head hit the pillow at home.

“When I wake up, I can’t get the pillow off my face,” he shared. “So, I’m sitting there with scissors trying to cut the pillow off. So, Dr. Grossman took the pillow off my face.”

Leno, who noted the “seamless” process only required a nine-day-long recovery, said that the results were “better than the face [he] had.”

Leno then recalled his fateful motorcycle ride and the “wire across the road” that “tore [his] face.”

“I called Dr. Grossman and I said, ‘Listen, I need another face. The other face you got was great, but I just need another,'” he shared. “So I guess I am officially a two-faced bastard now.”

When Grossman accepted his award, he said the “biggest challenge” of working with Leno was that “the entire world was watching as it was happening.” Nonetheless, he issued his praise for the comic.

“Jay is kind, he’s generous and he is as down to earth as you can imagine, and just a genuinely good person and has become, for me, a role model,” he said.

While speaking with E! News, Leno teased that he hopes his “next chapter” does not involve his “next accident.”

Leno previously ribbed himself and his misfortune during a March 2023 appearance on The Kelly Clarkson Show, quipping that “only for the second time in [his] career [is he] the new face of comedy.”

“I got it once in the ’80s and now I get it again,” he added.