WELL PLAYED, JIMMY FALLON
05.27.09Things would have been so much easier for the average cynical blogger if Jimmy Fallon had failed miserably at the reins of “Late Night.” But not only has Fallon pulled solid ratings since taking Conan O’Brien’s late-night slot, he’s actually… **looks around nervously** … kind of good. I mean, I’m not watching every night or anything, but when I do check in, he’s doing cool stuff like TuSpock or being surprisingly quick on his feet while interacting with the audience.
The clip above — “Head Swap” — is a good example of him going an entirely different direction with a standard gimmick of late-night shows. With offbeat skits like this, Fallon just might be — and I fear your reprisals for saying this — an acceptable replacement for Conan after all. Y’know, maybe that Lorne Michaels fellow has a future in the television industry.
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That, quite possibly, could be the dumbest skit I’ve ever seen. Fallon, very simply, is lacking of any talent. He laughs at everything he says. Annoying. I’ve tried to give the show a chance, but the five or so episodes I’ve seen are not only boring, they’re, again, annoying.
Oh, and that featured clip! That, I take it, is some of “the good stuff”? Oh boy. What a riot. I’m sure that would garner all of about 900 hits on youtube.
Fallon’s a complete douche. Now that he’s been on for a couple months (taking two separate week-long vacations in the process!) his ratings have already started sliding to the point where he’s behind where Conan was at the same point in time. Don’t worry, it’s only gonna get worse.
The writing is utterly lame. Desperately latching onto every little internet and techno angle possible. He’s like Dr. Evil with his son: “Look, Kids!!! I’m hip. I’m with it”.
This idiot is a bad as Dane Cook. Was never funny on SNL. Not funny now.
Agreed. Fallon’s not so bad. The announcer though creeps me out. You just know he’s choked a Thai Ladyboy.
my soul hurts. here i thought i found a blogger i could trust. but no! you squelch that trust with fondness for that hack who looks more like a serial pedophile than a comedian–what with his shifty eyes always having to look away from the camera and shit. what? he’s looking at cue cards? oh. my bad.
I think it speaks a lot to Fallon’s horridly low appeal that we have to apologize for thinking something he does is funny.
I know I’ve heard the name TuSpock before and it came to me, it was back when Jimmy did a sketch with Ben Affleck as radio DJs. TuSpock was one of the characters Affleck’s radio DJ came up with.
@Kid Presentable: agreed. All I’m trying to say is that Fallon has exceeded my low, low, sub-sub-basement expectations.
I think that skit was pretty good due to solid writing, though … he’s not terrible, but if you put Fallon on his own at a Central Park bird-watch or an 1864 baseball re-creation, he wouldn’t come anywhere close to the levels Conan did.
Maybe that’s an unfair comparison, but then again I’ve been counting down the days until June 1st for months.
If you love him so much, why don’t you MARRY him?
They can make anyone seem funny these days. That wasn’t even Jimmy Fallon, that was probably some CGI-generated character they created.
The world’s a-changin’, people. At least watch the video before you voice your dissent.
No no no no no. I’m at work and can’t watch the video, but Jimmy Fallon sucks ass every time I watch that show. Oh man he sucks. That guy sucks and isn’t funny. Phew.
BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!
Didn’t a lot of Conan’s writers stay in New York to work on this show?
Please say yes. I refuse to admit Fallon is talented, and not a product of superior writing talent around him.