New York ? No worries, no surprises. It’s the same comfortable Jay Leno. Typical Jay Leno, just on a plusher scale. Pleasant. Affable. Even funny.

And, as promised, earlier than the “Tonight Show” where Jay presided for 17 years.

That was the takeaway from Monday’s premiere of “The Jay Leno Show,” now airing at 9 p.m. every weeknight — before the local news, not after it, when, you know, the new “Tonight Show” with Conan O’Brien comes on.

The new, earlier Leno began with a bluesy theme song and Leno’s entrance into a cavernous studio where a scrum of adoring audience members greeted him at the edge of his stage. To his left was Kevin Eubanks and the Primetime Band.

It seemed reassuringly familiar.

“I’ve been off the air for three months,” Leno noted. “Or, as most people in Hollywood call that, rehab.”

A stylistically familiar Leno monologue unfolded.

The night’s big draw, of course, was Kanye West, whose on-air rudeness Sunday toward country singer Taylor Swift at the MTV Video Music Awards had made him Pop Culture Topic No. 1.

But before he arrived to perform with fellow musical guests Jay-Z and Rihanna, Leno chatted with a tuxedo-clad Jerry Seinfeld, who called himself “the first guest on your I-guess-I-didn’t-get-fired-again-by-NBC program.”

Leno had a parody “interview” with President Barack Obama, intercutting his mock questions with Obama’s “replies.”

Asking Obama about his love life, Leno inquired, “You ever think of filling the White House pool with those floaty candles like they do on that Viagra commercial?”

Obama’s inserted answer: “What I would be willing to do is consider any ideas out there that would actually work.”

“It works,” Leno grinned.

Before the night’s musical number, Jay returned to the wing chairs where Kanye West unburdened himself for his bad behavior toward VMA winner Swift.

Referring to how he had intruded on her acceptance remarks, West told Leno, “It was rude, period.”

The final moments of the broadcast were given over to a Leno staple from his “Tonight Show” days — the “Headlines” feature.