Jimmy Fallon To Host/Ruin Late Night Television
Great news for fans of talentless hacks getting high paying dream jobs for some unexplainable reason, bad news for everyone else. From Fox News [via comingsoon]:
There's much debate about letting Leno leave NBC etc., but right now let's just concentrate on Jimmy [Fallon]. He's the perfect successor to Conan and should have just as big an audience when he takes the reins. Fallon is one of those great underrated performers. This should be the right milieu for him.Fallon, who recently married producer Nancy Juvonen, is said to be thrilled and ready, if not a little scared, about taking Conan's desk. He still has to pick a producer and a band, among other things.
Don't Jimmy Kimmel and Carson Daly already have late night talk shows? There isn't enough hackneyed middle-brow white ex-frat boy humor on TV after 11pm? Or was the problem that neither Kimmel nor Daly wanted to host two shows per night, so they got a watered down version of the two. Worst. Nice going, Hollywood. You should take some tips from television's 24 and detonate a nuclear device in your own face. (Did that happen? I don't actually watch 24 because I believe time does not exist.)
I'm pretty sure any of these people would have been better picks than Jimmy Fallon:
Dane Cook
He is popular with the same people Jimmy Fallon is popular with (idiots), and you wouldn't need to hire any writers for the show.
This Stock Photo Of A White Guy
What's got two thumbs and just as much personality as Jimmy Fallon? This stock photo of a white guy. Admittedly, the thumbs have been cropped out of the photo, just like Jimmy Fallon cropped the humor out of Saturday Night Live!
Ball of Hair
I honestly believe that this ball of hair would be just as capable of hosting a late night talk show as Jimmy Fallon, if not more so because at the very least this ball of hair is unique to the format, and lacks a resume full of indicators that it should NOT be hired.
Posted by Gabe at 5:48 PM
Tags: Bags Of Hair | Conan O'Brien | Jimmy Fallon | Late Night
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You did not just lump Jimmy Kimmel in with Carson Daly. I mean, we all love Conan, but how many times can the man tell a mediocre joke, do a damn leprechaun dance to cover for it crapiness, and be forgiven. Kimmel at least has Letterman's old head writer from Late Night.
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Ugh, not looking forward to more Jimmy Fallon in my life. They should give the show the Chelsea Handler. She needs to be on TV more.
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i thought Jon Stewart was gonna replace him. this sucks.
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The reason Jimmy Kimmel gets lumped in with Carson Daly is because they're both only as funny as their writers. Conan is genuinely funny on his own and doesn't need writers to generate laughs. The jokes can totally fall flat but it doesn't matter because the man knows comedy. Just look at the episodes he did during the writer's strike. They were just as funny as anything he's ever done with writers (even more so, in my opinion). Kimmel and Daly (and Letterman and Leno, for that matter) have nothing on Conan.
The problem with Fallon is that he can't even deliver jokes properly, regardless of quality. The guy just has no charm. He also looks silly in a suit.
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I actually caught Jimmy Fallon at a local comedy club a few weeks ago (he was a special "surprise" guest). I had heard some of his standup before, so I wasn't expecting much. Turns out, Fallon's been in the lab working. His set killed. I'm telling you, the guy is going to surprise you.
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Nullo physics, Gabe?
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