***Official Jimmy Fallon First Tonight Show Thread***
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Jimmy does a great job and he'll succeed. Leno is a dbag. Still wish Conan was hosting The Tonight Show though, but Jimmy is my second favorite by far.
Leno never retired last time, they forced him out of the tonight show and put him in an earlier slot. That was half the problem in forcing Leno out. This time I think Leno was ready to go...
I agree (although I didn't mind Leno). But fact is, Conans ratings were horrible and Lettemans ratings were going up. As much as people hate Leno, his ratings were always good
Except for the fact that Conan still had Leno in front of him still sucking off viewers. NBC never really gave Conan a chance. He was host for only 9 months before they booted him.
Agree, but that was NBC forcing Leno out before he was ready. I felt like this time Leno was ready to go...
Conan pulled a power play to get the prime slot, but didn't deliver. Some might blame the network, but Conan was the worst fit for mass appeal of all of the Tonight Show hosts. Carson will always be the best, but Fallon will likely end up as the 2nd best host.
I think it's spelled prawn.
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-A9ZhDhjUQjg/UHpRU9aJTBI/AAAAAAAAC7o/kGld_HxcS84/s1600/Prawn-1.jpg
You'll notice the large backside on this photo.
Exactly. IMO the first month of Conan's show was good, and the last month was pretty good with all the cancellation drama, but in between, it was medicore to bad, and I like Conan.
I also like Fallon, and hope he can pull it off.
Leno was winning the time slot but has been mailing it in for a decade. Conan is a great spontaneous interviewer, but his comedy was a little too oddball to make the transition from LN to TS. Dave is an *******. Jimmy can do this, if he can keep ratings while consistently pulling a younger demographic (what Conan was supposed to do but failed) he'll get plenty of time to smooth out the bumps.
Good show last night. Jimmy didn't do much with his interview time, but that stuff was probably all canned and practiced anyway given the moment.
U2. Holy crap! Where have these guys been? I gave up on them when they went Euro/techno in 1995.
Will Smith is the perfect guest to have on first for that show. Does anybody have broader appeal across demographics?
Good show last night. Jimmy didn't do much with his interview time, but that stuff was probably all canned and practiced anyway given the moment.
U2. Holy crap! Where have these guys been? I gave up on them when they went Euro/techno in 1995.
Will Smith is the perfect guest to have on first for that show. Does anybody have broader appeal across demographics?
Fallon kicks Letterman's butt and so does Kimmel; how much longer can CBS tolerate that curmudgeon?
They've basically been putting out the same album over and over for the past 15 years.
Thought is was a pretty good show overall but there was a lot of extra stuff acknowledging that it's the first show so it'll be interesting to see how it goes (and if they make him change a lot) once he gets settled in and doing regular shows.
I wasn't as impressed as a lot of you, although I gave up on watching late night comedy a long time ago. Watched the first half hour, and part of the Will Smith interview before I got bored and then turned it off.
