Comments on: Jimmy Fallon Plays It Safe, Not Funny, On Late Night

By: red

red — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 06:22:44 +0000

Geeze, Conan playing to seniors..... Kimmel and Carson they are terrible. Adult swim and Redeye might be the only options (3 am is hard sometimes). Network tv sucks anyway.

Conan's writers are great. Abstract, dark, insane writing. Can a guy who's funiest moments are him cracking up and breaking character in the background of the 'cowbell' skit pull it off? Hell, if I just wanted to watch interviews I'd watch the Tonight Show.

I never really considered 'the Roots' a group of veteran studio musicians. Are they going to play the same material every night? Can they back up all genres of music? Am I completely out of the demographic? Do the NBC execs rely on their 12 year old grandkids ideas of what they think are funny. I'm sure NBC will continue like Carson or ABC with Kimmel and let it keep going for 5 years before they do anything.

All I can say is I'll give it a shot, but don't forget the demos for conan. They'll rewatch the Family Guy episode they watched 3 hours earlier ( and have seen 75 times). Just like when Carson comes on the air.

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Jimmy Fallon, Much Improved: Station Conversation « NewTeeVee — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 23:32:47 +0000

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By: jrf09

jrf09 — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 22:25:14 +0000

Jimmy Fallon and his wife first met The Roots last Memorial Day Weekend when they performed at the Jazz Reggae Festival @ UCLA. The Roots played an amazing set, and Fallon instantly hit it off with them backstage. They’ve been in touch ever since, and now The Roots are Fallon’s in house band for his late night TV show

By: Randi Himelfarb

Randi Himelfarb — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 05:51:10 +0000

Oh, and one more thing – Love the Roots

By: Randi Himelfarb

Randi Himelfarb — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 05:50:10 +0000

Short and Sweet. Looking forward to more!

By: Liz Shannon Miller

Liz Shannon Miller — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 02:57:23 +0000

Gavin, thanks for commenting and I'm really glad to hear that future installments will be more web-oriented. I am now interested in watching more!

Quick question, though -- are the jokes in tonight's show FUNNY jokes? :)

By: Gavin

Gavin — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 01:30:12 +0000

I've mentioned this in a couple other blogs but I think you should keep watching. There are many things planned in the vein of what you're talking about above.

Check out tonight's show - noted video blogger Steve Garfield gets a shout-out + more fun stuff.

Also, there are jokes. :)

Big fan of the site from my AOTS days - keep up the great work.

Yours,

Gavin Purcell Co-Producer "Late Night w/ JF"

By: Jason Harris

Jason Harris — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 23:20:27 +0000

Sounds like what you'd expect from Jimmy Fallon. It's a stroke of genius to sell ads towards women over 25, because honestly, nobody watches him who has a sense of humor, it's girls who think he's "so cute!"

Although I think that ship sailed about the time Fever Pitch came out, but hey I'm not a network exec. Combine that with not at all funny pretty boy Carson Daly and they have a nice 90 minute block of horrible TV with handsome hosts.