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Jimmy Fallon followed by Carson Daly could quite possibly be the lamest two hours of television programming in history.

This is depressing.

Give me a fucking show...

I'll give it a year into the fallon take over before NBC pulls the plug.

NBC hired Who to replace letterman?

a tall irish writer fella who has never been in front of a camera? This is going to bomb!


Im not a huge fallon fan, but sometimes things work out. He seems like a guy who doesnt take himself to seriously, and should have fun with it.

well if you want to talk about a resume of sorts, the simpsons episodes that conan worked on were funny.
i have never seen anything remotely funny that jimmy fallon has done. granted, SNL as a whole sucked and you after will ferrel left and you can't hang that on his shoulders, but still

Hmmm, Fallon usually ruins the shit out of sketches by laughing, but in this case he'd be allowed to laugh. So maybe it'll work.

But probably not.

This is surely a bad idea.

I haven't seen Fallon in anything for many years, and I am still sick of him.

I say 1 1/2 years. He will be awful.

i say 1 year, 9 months, 3 weeks, 1 day, 12 hours, 4 minutes, and 3 seconds.

ok but it's the closest without going OVER, remember

But I think there's a huge difference between someone like Conan when he started and someone like Fallon. With Conan, he was an unknown. Sure, he was a writer on SNL and producer for the Simpsons, but not a whole lot of people knew of him, so they had no preconceptions about him and tuned in to draw their own conclusions. With Fallon, people know him, and he seems very polarizing. People know him from SNL and the two-bit movies in which he starred after. Those that don't care for him won't give him the benefit of the doubt and won't even bother tuning in, regardless of how good or bad he actually turns out to be. So there will be a huge segment of potential viewers that will never watch.

Horatio Sanz = Andy Richter

jimmy fallon should be ejected from the planet by one of those spring-loaded ejector seats they have in the looney tunes cartoons.

so how do you really feel?

as someone has mentioned, his annoying laughing at every skit (which the SNL audience members loved) gets old.

i also don't see him as a good interviewer...but what do i know.

and also as previously mentioned, conan was not known by 99.9% of the public when he started his show. it's very different.

conan was the valedictorian of his graduating class at harvard, as well as the only person to serve as the editor of the humor/lampooning newspaper for two years in a row. I think in the biz, he had a reputation which got him a lot of those gigs....

Jimmy Fallon taking over for Conan-- I'm VERY excited. Good music will come through his show, and I suspect his recent absence from the limelight was calculated to put a little distance b/t this new incarnation of his public life and the previous one...

As for the yappers complaining about his "laughing," I LOVED that the dude was having so much fun on the set and enjoyed getting to work with such a great troupe of guys that sometimes their comedy forced him to breach the 4th window and laugh like he was just an audience member. same thing someone said about MMJ's new album- you can tell they are having fun and it's infectious.

That said, I'm going to very interested to watch how Fallon assumes the role of Interviewer; that is a third of the job if not less and I'm curious how he will pull off showing/expressing his interest in whomever is his guest. Hopefully they can load up his first month with people he'd want to be interviewing anyways to help him transition into dealing with guests that you either outright don't like/respect or just don't dig what they are into...

also, how he handles the monologues/opening, I'm going to be very interested in the type of material he does. Lettermans my VERY trusted grandfather, Conan a cool/funny guy I wish I was friends with, and Fallon??? I'm curious what personality types he'll assume

also, is Conan having to move out to LA for his promotion, or will he stay in NY??

*the 4th wall

On the contrary, the only time his sketches were even tolerable was when he was laughing.

i knew that too...

really? i think this is a very late april fools joke.

fallon seems to have ADD; i can't see him holding an interview if he's not the focus