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No...no I refuse to believe Jimmy Fallon will become "endearing" to the public. Why?

- The man had enough time on SNL to try and latch onto the public's current definition of funny, and he failed at that. (C'mon, even that asshat Andy "I'm not funny without Paul Rudd holding my ass up" Samberg managed to gain a following.)

- He failed at making a film career for himself (In someone else's hands, maybe fellow unfunny douche Dane Cook, "Fever Pitch" and "Taxi" might have been career gold. In his hands, it was a bad case of uranium poisoning.)

- He always looked at the camera and laughed during his SNL sketches, failing to maintain character and credibility. (I'm not asking for Bale-esque concentration, but when he pulls this shit, I don't need to laugh. I don't need to laugh because he already knows it's funny, which robs the scenario in question of its comedic value. It's funny because the character takes it as normal/strange/a goose. It's not funny when you're like a human fucking laughtrack!)

In short, one word really does sum up Jimmy Fallon: FAIL! That having been said, I announce my candidacy for successor to Jimmy Fallon. The balls in your court NBC.

Maybe Black Thought should host.

I'm rooting for Jimmy Fallon. Have at me, angry sweater monkeys! I like him. He seems affable enough, I never saw either of his movies so I'm unscathed in that department, I loved his chemistry with Tina Fey on Weekend Update, and I'll always adore his Barry (was it Barry?) Gibb impression and his crazy cool medallions.

I look at Jimmy Fallon and then I think of Fever Pitch and then I go into a black rage where everything goes away and then I wake up on my knees with blood up to my elbows and the taste of copper in my mouth.

Jimmy Fallon is a bad thing.

Hopefully someone more productive than me will just edit every episode to the parts with the roots in it, since they're the only chance this show has of being entertaining.

Julie, I can fully appreciate why you feel that way. However, I love some of Chevy Chase's movies as well as his sketch work on SNL. Magic Johnson was a phenomenal NBA player. I didn't really like Keenan Ivory Wayans other than a few bits on In Living Color. Despite previous success (or audience tolerance), all of them were terrible late night hosts.

Alan Thicke was just doomed from the start, but that's only because he's Canadian.

I went to see Fever Pitch with a friend of mine who happens to be a Red Sox fan. Suprisingly, the only part of the movie I absolutely hated was the end, because it forced me to relive what is a very painful memory (shut up, TK). As I look back, I think the reason I didn't totally hate it has to do with my automatically associating anything baseball-related with hot dogs. Hot dogs are awesome, and therefore things associated with hot dogs can't be all bad. Except maybe the way they're made. Shutting up now.

I will NEVER watch this, someone noted before that Fallon is looking a tad rough, I agree, disastrous for someone who has gotten by on halfassery and "boyish charm."

As a side note: who the hell keeps trying to interview DeNiro, he goes out of his way to act like a complete tool.

Yeah, that MUST be it, Mohaski. We're all just lemmings because we happen to agree with each other.

OR, it might be that SNL sucks, and people continue to watch in the hopes that maybe someday it will get consistently funny again, as it once was. Or maybe they don't have anything better to do.

Spare me the conformity bullshit. SNL isn't "reviled on the internet". For every site that hates it, you'll find two that like it. Maybe you're just reading the wrong ones.

Puh-lease.

Made it to the Rush Limbaugh joke and had to switch off. Ive never really seen him considering apart from via the internet we dont get SNL really in the UK and his films have all been crap so no-one watched them.
But still he did seem pretty shit and thats coming from someone who has no knowledge of late night talk shows and why you guys love them so much or at least revere them. Closest thing I can get to it is its like us and the monarchy except we recognise the monarchy is shit. Not that its all bad on these shows from what Ive seen, but its either really sycophantic interviews or allright jokes once every few years.
That said I loved the Larry Sanders Show its just a beautiful show.
That being said again we Brits do have Parkinson and Johnathan Ross. Parkie manages to do away with the jokes and hone his mumbling Yorkshireman interview craft and Johnathan Ross puts the film stars on edge by vulgarly asking them about their sex lives.

Did anyone else notice how slow-jammin' the news is a complete ripoff of The Daily Show's R. Kelly bit?

Really. That's bullshit.

Mr. Tusks...De Niro was probably pimping the new branch of Nobu now open in a Middle Eastern, homophobic, theocratic state near you! (If "you" are an American soldier dying just borders away for the kind of freedoms that allow douchebag has-beens to open sushi restaurants in Dubai).

Don't get me started. Don't even get me started.

When the cast of the Carol Burnett show cracked each other up constantly, we called them comedy geniuses. In fact, Harvey Korman busting up on camera became celebrated.

Mohaski, I must disagree. I can see a whole cast cracking up, and I can see even one actor/actress cracking up on camera. But not with every gag, and certainly not with the whole cast. Fallon was, for the most part, a lone wolf of cracking up on camera. Whereas Harvey Korman could still keep it together for the majority of the time. Even when he cracked up, he could still act the pants off of Fallon; and really the big reason it worked with Harvey Korman is because when he cracked up he legitimately cracked up. Fallon, when he "cracks up", looks like a schoolboy after he hears the word "titmouse" or "ballcock".

Even compare the material...Carol Burnett had some pretty clever writers, and SNL has very few that could be considered clever (Tina Fey definitely being one of them). To be fair though, you're comparing Korman to Fallon, so let's match up the track records:

Korman: Films include Blazing Saddles, History of the World Part I, and High Anxiety. "Slummed it" in The Flintstones Viva Rock Vegas, but was still somewhat entertaining. Notable parody: Gone with the Wind, with Carol Burnett. (Where he did indeed fight not to crack up, but honestly didn't you crack up when she showed up wearing the curtains?)

Fallon: Films include Fever Pitch and Taxi. "Slummed it"...well it's hard to slum it when your career is in THIS shape. Notable parody: Adam Sandler on Jeopardy, but only because Sandler the Proper stopped making people laugh so it was a nice reminder of the old Sandler.

Summation: One's a comedic genius who shall live on in the memories of those who love to laugh. The other is fucking Jimmy Fallon, and the fact that he's destined for the bin is fait accompli.

Have at me, angry sweater monkeys!

Follow me or perish!

Damn right, Mike. Fallon's fucking up SNL skits was one of the reasons I stopped watching. I never understood how Lorne Michaels, who supposedly hates that kind of thing, let that jackass screw up his lines every week.

Even if he finds his footing, I'm still not watching his show.

I think that one major difference between Fallon and the other people you listed, Dustin, is that we already know Fallon and his schtick pretty well. Conan came out of left field and there was a collective wtf until everybody learned the ropes of his humor. I know Fallon and I don't care for him, and I don't think a talk show format is going to solve that.

The Carol Burnett laughing was spontaneous. They were making each other laugh. It wasn't at the material. It was the laughing in church syndrome. And the fact they tried to hide it only made it funnier. Fallon just giggled at everything on SNL.

And don't forget that Fallon has been a performer for a long time. Conan was a writer, so as bad as he was, it was at least understandable. It was a new medium for him. Fallon has no excuses.

I wish they'd go back to the days of guest hosts on shows. It's like the minor leagues for future hosts. In fact, that's how Ferguson got his show.

Where can I cop the soundtrack?

He's an assclown.

Ass clowns have more talent, at least they can put on make up and remember lines.

Conan had been writing The Simpsons for years before he got the show, if I'm not mistaken.

If you need a reason to dislike Jimmy Fallon, check him out in the execrable THE RUTLES 2: CAN'T BUY ME LUNCH. The fact that he stands out in my mind in that morass of comedic degradation should say a lot. Actually, do yourself a favour and don't check it out, there's a reason its release was suddenly halted. But, on my life, since seeing him in that, he's been known simply as 'The Ruiner' in the secret laboratory in my brain. He was upstaged by a wacky Robin Williams accent and Jewel--Hand to God--JEWEL.

This is indeed a disturbing universe.

What's wrong with Jimmy Kimmel? I like Jimmy Kimmel.

wsapnin - good call! Joel McHale is ten times funnier and more charming (and better-looking) than Fallon.

"I hated Conan when he first started. HATED him. I thought he was wretchedly unfunny, unattractive and partially retarded."
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I still think that, without the "partially." I tried to watch him a few times to see what everybody thought was so funny, but as soon as he'd do one of those weird dances I'd think, "The boy just ain't right," and go to bed.

Hi..it's Jimmy Fallon here...I'm the new definition of the word "awkward". You would think that with all of my comedic experience that I would know how not to butcher any and all jokes..well, i guess that jokes on me. I know..I'll just use that cute little nervous giggle of mine to cover for my incompetence. Even the Roots don't want to bite when I try to get them to back me up in my lame opening monologue. How did I beat Carson Daily out of this position?..i mean, he's actually comfortable on camera, has a somewhat original show format and a halfway good sense of humor. Maybe if we switched time slots and his show was extended to 1 hour and mine was reduced to a half hour I could fit more content in and look a lot less like I'm just trying to kill time.. If we could do this then maybe people would actually have something interesting to watch at 12:30 again rather than my cliche, mundane and uninspired carbon copy of over used late night talk show cliche'...p.s. I SUCK!

whoever suggested Joel McHale is right on the money..Comedy is all timing....and when a joke falls flat , still being able to make the crowd laugh is what a comedian does....

Jimmy Fallon ruins a joke , or a monologue , doesn't hear laughter, then just rips into the next joke hoping it'll work, the next one falls flat, and instead of slowing down, he speeds up,...and this pattern goes on and before you know it, the monologue's over...and you're left thinking "what the hell just happened ?"

Great comedians can use the crowd, and use time to their advantage. Nobody can seriously say Fallon has this ability....

maybe NBC wants the late show to fail, and they figured "hmm, how can we make the show crash as fast as humanly possible ? But we can't make it look too obvious, so we'll put in a good band "

they have 2 choices,...a slow motion train wreck,....or a spectacular high speed wreck...make up your mind NBC....either way,...IT'S A WRECK