I know Coco rules, and i'm a big fan of his work. But i just watched Fallons first tonite show and i have to say, Jimmy Fallon is also pretty good and funny host. At least he's 1000 times better than Leno.
In Vino Veritas.
I've followed Fallon since shortly after Conan's departure from The Tonight Show and I love him. He seems like a really genuine guy who much like CoCo has a great respect for the history of The Tonight Show. I hope everything works out for him TTS. Of course he's funnier than Leno. My earbuds are funnier than Leno.
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I love Fallon, but I like Conan as well. Both have their strengths and weaknesses. Conan is creative, willing to try new things, and self defecating, but his humor is a bit of a niche. Fallon is extremely likable and you want him to be a success. He is also great relating to people, and willing to try new things. However, his monologue are fine, but he is not a seasoned standup comic.
Look, I think both are great. Fallon much be happy b/c he is hosting the friggin' Tonight Show, and Conan has a great show on a great network where I am sure they do not care that much about his ratings and kinda let him do what he wants.
Both men came out heads up. Honestly, it has been a good long time since Conan parted ways with NBC, and I would love to see this man as a guest on Fallon's show. I have a feeling we will see that in the next few years. I think Conan had a cameo on Late Night sometime back.
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Fallon much be happy b/c he is hosting the friggin' Tonight Show.
Michaels is a huge part of the reason Fallon became a strong success. Michaels seems to love Fallon. Michaels made Fallon do a stand up comedy tour before Late Night, and if you watch the first year of Late Night, it was not great. If you watch Fallon's first Late Night, to be honest, he sucked, but that was years ago.
I love Fallon, but do not think he deserved to host Tonight Show at this point. Due to the fact Michaels loves him, Leon retired, and he had done Late Night for years, he became the Tonight Show host.
I think a seasoned comic like Dana Carey would have been more logical, but do not get me wrong, I love Fallon and think he will do great! But, this man did get rather lucky to host the Tonight Show at only 39 years of age.
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I think a seasoned comic like Dana Carey would have been more logical,
I love Fallon and think he will do great! But, this man did get rather lucky to host the Tonight Show at only 39 years of age.
Thank you for the mature reply. It is all to often people troll on these sites, and it is people like you that make me keep writing! On another thread on a separate topic, I had a major assclown troll the thread. Give me a break!
I am also happy people did not misinterpret what I said to mean Fallon is lousy. Fallon is great, but even Fallon concurs it was the break of the century. It was the perfect sequence of events to yield Fallon amazing luck. Fallon has gone on record of being in awe of his situation.
However, we must acknowledged Fallon really did something special with Late Night and totally made it his own. Fallon took risks and at least tried new things, and even when he knew it was not really working in the middle of a set, he put his whole heart into it and tried to make it funny. Jimmy Fallon may not be the most seasoned or the best of the best of the late night host as many of them have 30 years of experience, but he puts his heart into it more than anyone!
Either way, at least it happened to a class act and someone who wanted to do well, like Jimmy Fallon. He will do great.
BTW, I liked Kimmel on The Man Show and his radio shows, but I agree he is rather smug and I do hope Fallon wipes the smirk off his face.
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Thank you for the mature reply. It is all to often people troll on these sites, and it is people like you that make me keep writing! On another thread on a separate topic, I had a major assclown troll the thread. Give me a break!
I can't believe it's been 5 years and Fallon is already hosting TTS. I don't know what bothers me more, that 5 years flew by that quickly and I never watched much Fallon, or the fact he got the gig without having to really prove himself. Compare that to Conan, who had one of the longest uphill climbs ever.
I think Fallon is better at networking and schmoozing than Conan. Though Conan is definitely better at this than Letterman lol, he doesn't even try to be phony which is something I always liked about Letterman.
But Fallon is very likeable and I think will be an improvement over Leno, though that's not very hard.
I actually hung out with Fallon for a few hours, in what must have been his first or second season on SNL when he was doing a campus comedy tour. So I got no problem with him, I think he'll do a better job than his predecessor. Will that be reflected in the ratings is anyone's guess. Taco Bell makes more money than your average Tex Mex restaurant, yet the latter has far better quality.
I think if Conan does go on TTS, it will get a crazy reaction. Conan always works best in off kilter things, like remotes, cameos, interviews that bomb etc...so I could see it being hilarious and well received. Hopefully it happens, I think Fallon would sign off on it because he knows Conan ain't gunning for his job.
self defecating
Haha, it was dead late when I wrote it.
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Lol...but when you think about it, isn't all defecating self-defecating? Unless of course it's supposed to mean shítting ON oneself, as opposed to shítting BY oneself.
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not a fan. I could say a lot on why I don't think he's any good at this late night gig, but I will say I enjoyed him and tina on SNL's WU. Also, some of his games are pretty entertaining.
Science is whatever we want it to be. -Dr. Leo Spacemanshare
The first episode was great, but every episode since then has been painful. So I stopped watching. On the bright side, it made me realize how much I love Conan.
Oh, and Seth Meyers was pretty painful too, but he gets a handicap of a few years I think.
I liked Fallon on SNL, so I watched him from his debut on Late Night until Conan was forced out of NBC. I watched Conan on the Tonight Show and then watched Fallon pretty much every night. I stopped after Conan left. It's still frustrating to see Fallon as the Tonight Show host. But he does great and entertaining comedy bits. Like history of rap with Timberlake, lip syncing competition with Paul Rudd, Brian Williams rapping, etc. His sketch acting on SNL helps him. The old peoples' heads probably exploded when he did the history of hip-hop dancing with Will Smith in his first ever episode. But I wonder how far nightly sketches will take him before people think it's repetitive. He's turned the Tonight Show into SNL thus far.
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