Jittery Jimmy Fallon ‘Gripped With Fear His Head Will Roll’: Nighttime Host in ‘Crisis Mode’ Over Plunging Ratings, Budget Cuts and Ad Rates

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48 comments

  1. Unpopular opinion I’m sure, but I have always thought his show was unwatchable.

  2. Millennials loved Conan because he wasn’t like Jay Leno. Jimmy Fallon is kinda like Jay Leno. Makes sense to me. 

  3. How about that time he choked that, now, up and coming director?

  5. Its not just his show, it’s a trend for cable television at large, but yes, Jimmy Fallon should be worried. The whole late night genre is a dying breed. I don’t want to watch your hacky political jokes followed by an uncomfortable interview with an actress I don’t care about.

  6. i watched one of his highlight videos on youtube from a recent show and his energy/quality of jokes was just damn near nonexistent. especially when compared to colbert, kimmel and jon stewart, it’s a night and day difference. honestly depressing to see after he used to be great imo

  7. Out of the four late night hosts, he’s on the bottom. He’s too gung ho, too much of a cheerleader. He’s the People Magazine of late night hosts. And WTF is up with all of the games? Lame.

  8. Talk shows used to be unique. Letterman, Conan, Leno, Arsenio all has very different shows, very different personalities, different comedy styles, a variety of guests, etc.

    Now every talk show and host looks exactly same. It’s so boring.

  9. He basically hosts a high budget YouTube channel at this point

  10. He’s not a good host. Everyone is always his favorite and “we just love them”. The fake excitement is just annoying. The show may have 1 or 2 funny reoccurring segments like slow jam the news, but when late night shows are really held up by YouTube uploads, I find myself clicking on Fallon only for a rare musical guest.

  12. The only time I watch is if he has a guest I’m really interested in and even then I skip all the filler and just go to straight to the interview.

    Bring back Craig. At least he was authentic

  14. Dude promoted NFTs on his show without disclosing he had a financial stake in them…

    He used his show to try and scam people into buying NFTs so he could profit off them in secret… What a piece of shit.

  15. He stepped out of every SNL sketch he ever did, including “More Cowbell.”

    Asshol3e.

  16. We just don’t need two Jimmy’s making the same cheap jokes.

  17. From what I understand, years ago NBC executives urged SNL to drop their musical guests. I believe SNL didn’t have a house band at all for a few seasons in the ’80’s. The network recently axed the live band from Seth Meyers’ show, which must have been costing them practically nothing compared to what they spend on The Roots for the Tonight Show. I imagine NBC is constantly pressuring Fallon to dump live music in order to cut the budget, and Fallon really doesn’t want to do it.

    I’ve always thought that Fallon works all these game shows to help offset the cost of The Roots and musical guests in general. But imho, the writing is on the wall. It seems NBC would be happy with pre-recorded music on all their late night shows and no musical guests at all. House bands and musical guests are relics of a different era, much like late night talk shows themselves.

  18. Let yourself be petted again on your head by Trump!

  19. The only way I’ll ever watch The Tonight Show is if Conan is hosting, the way it should have been.

  20. He’s just not funny. He wasn’t funny on SNL, and he isn’t funny now.

  21. Maybe he should try something like “Late night with the devil. “

  22. Fuck I hope so. There are few people less deserving of their success than this unfunny, coke fiend hack.

  23. I always thought he was a hack. Nothing he has ever done has been funny to me. But hey that’s just like my opinion man.

  25. Fallon. Was. Never. Funny. “Awkward alcoholic” is not a personality.

  26. He can quit and make YouTube channel and retire comfortably anyway

  27. He’s an apolitical nothing burger in the middle of a political season. He’s getting destroyed by Colbert.

  28. i really don’t find him funny at all. odd he has popularity but to me he feels disingenuous, fawning and flat.. imho

  30. This fuck has been riding snl writers dick to fame for decades, I don’t get it at all, completely uncharismatic.

  32. At least he’s not concerned about Diddy parties. That we know of. 😉

  34. He’s had the gig for years and has generational wealth because of it. I’m sure he’s just fine.

  35. You see, the thing about Jimmy Fallon is that he’s not funny and he never really was. Kimmel is marginally less awful, but still pretty fucking awful.

  36. It’s just…. It’s just when he does bits like having U2 busk in the subway or have an elevator filled with Michele Obama fans open and quickly close on a floor where she’s standing there…so is he. He’ll also put on a disguise and play with U2 etc and when they’re revealed and the people freak out he’s all up in it like they’re freaking out over him too. But no one is freaking out over seeing Jimmy Fallon.

    I dunno. It’s weird. It just feels so arrogant yet needy. They’re the guests. Let them get the freak out and he stays behind the desk.

  39. No one laughs more at a Jimmy Fallon joke than Jimmy Fallon

  40. I gave up on Fallon when he ran his fingers through then-presidential candidate Trump’s
    hair and didn’t ask him anything of substance.

  41. He’s so phoney.. that incessant fake laugh is so cringy for me..

  42. “Remember talk shows?”

    “Yeah I remember talk shows.”

    What was the point of talk shows to begin with? To divulge in a person’s personality? That sounds like a podcast.

  44. I’m not sure why Jimmy Fallon would be gripped with fear. He’s been the host of the Tonight Show for 10 years. He and the other late night show hosts make $15 million a year.

    If the show ended today, He’s made generational wealth in the last 10 years. He never has to work another day in his life.

  45. Late night TV is expensive and nobody watches network TV anymore.

    Back in the Johnny Carson Tonight Show days, people would stay up to watch the monologue and maybe the first guest and go to bed.

    I loved late night TV because it made me feel like it was a party every night at 11:30 and I loved to see the musical acts. Johnny had decent older musical acts but Letterman and Conan had these rock bands I’d been dying to see/hear so it was really exciting to me.

    I paid for it the next morning but I still was really excited to do it again.

  47. Oh no…he’ll just have to stay at home with his millions and his kids. How tragic. /s

  48. Yeah that happens when you’re supposed to be a comedian but are really nothing more than a sketch actor.

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