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Kokehed]Jimmy Fallon Sucks! He’s not funny. He’s not a good actor. He’s not a good interviewer. And so far, he has yet to have an original idea.   Here’s the only problem: while his ratings have been everything NBC could’ve wished for, Jimmy Fallon kind of sucks. As in, his take on The Tonight Show is in some ways even worse than Leno’s. It’s not that Fallon doesn’t occasionally do some funny bits, it’s that he’s so unfailingly benign and so unwilling to ever make anyone — his guests, the audience, anyone — the least bit uncomfortable that you feel like you need an insulin shot from all the sugar that’s being pumped into your bloodstream during his show. He certainly doesn’t need to be snarky or wry, that’s more the torch Jimmy Kimmel is carrying forward, but Fallon and his writing staff of apparent Thought Catalogers seem so thrilled to simply be there that the occasional edge that could benefit an interview or a show beat is never even considered. Believe it or not, the show suffers because of this.
What’s more, Fallon not only attempts to avoid anything that might cause a break in anyone’s fun, he willfully edits out serious moments if they happen naturally. Recently, an article on Shailene Woodley claimed that during the actress’s appearance on Tonight to promote Divergent, the show cut her answer to a question Fallon had asked about whether she minded being compared to Jennifer Lawrence. Woodley’s answer was no-nonsense and took to task Hollywood’s tendency to pit female stars against each other. Fallon’s people apparently thought it harshed the vibe or something because the exchange never saw the light of day.
Then just a couple of days ago came Chris Christie’s damn-near hallucinatory guest spot on Tonight in which he and Fallon did a sketch called “The Evolution of Dad Dancing” and Fallon thanked him for “standing in the ring and getting hit like that” by the press while sheepishly deflecting the conversation away from the reason the press was “hitting” him: because his administration almost certainly ordered part of the George Washington Bridge closed to punish a political adversary. Fallon is simply genetically incapable of asking a question that might get an answer that isn’t 100% unicorns and rainbows. Even Leno was able to slyly hammer Hugh Grant after the guy had been busted with a hooker.
Fallon’s sketches seem to aim largely at triggering the dopey nostalgia receptors in the brain, with the amusement to be gleaned from watching him and his guests dance, and sing, and rap Gen-X and Millennial favorites apparently being a limitless commodity. He gets the cast of Full House back together; he sings Ebony and Ivory with Terry Crews; and he of course pores over every possible hip-hop classic, either by lip-syncing, bringing out Justin Timberlake to do cheesy white-boy karaoke with the Roots, or editing Brian Williams intros into Baby Got Back. It’s not that it’s not funny or charming on occasion, it’s just that it’s not on occasion. It’s constant. Fallon has one speed and only one speed: cloying and cutesy. He seeks out maximum Facebook viral circulation and hits precisely the insipid notes necessary to achieve that, turning The Tonight Show — one of the most storied properties in media history — into broadcast television’s answer to Upworthy. Fallon is a living, breathing hashtag.
Now certainly Fallon knows that the word broadcast is what matters. He’s aiming for the broadest possible audience and maybe that’s a laudable thing in an age where media saturation has removed the old cultural touchstones we as a nation used to experience together. There will never be another Johnny Carson precisely because there can’t be — our media choices are too expansive and diverse now and it’s split the audience into too many different subsets. But Fallon is trying to use social media to connect all the dots out there and give Americans something they can share in, even if they don’t share it in the traditional way. The problem is that there’s no meat to Fallon and that’s what’s needed to move his shtick beyond being just, well, shtick. Guys like Carson weren’t just funny, they were insightful and empathetic; they knew when to turn on the charm but also when to turn up the class and even subtly go for the throat. They knew that there’s more than one way to be entertaining. Fallon doesn’t seem to grasp that yet — although admittedly there’s time for him.
As long as his ratings hold, The Tonight Show will be Fallon’s for as long as he wants it. Hell, one day he may even be honored by the Kennedy Center. At which point he’ll probably take the stage and do a rap battle with the cast of Friends.
Fallon seems to have a never ending supply of common games that people with low IQ's play at company picnics. Beer pong, Egg Toss's, and now a pie eating contest! 09/12/2014
Glenn Close, a widely respected award winning actress! Eating blueberry pie on late night. UNBELIEVABLE. What's next? A Potato sack race with Nicole Kidman? I recommend they all take TV Broadcasting 101. Fallon mumbles, talks under his breath, and talks too fast. He interrupts guests and talks over them. I never understand the banter with Higgins, who once even covered his mouth to deliver lines in a skit! Say what? The show is unintelligible. With this issue and the constant and fawning, "we just love him/her so much," I don't watch anymore. I gave him a chance but never heard a really interesting conversation, what parts I could actually hear. Seems like a bunch of amateurs. Watching Jimmy Fallon is like walking into a Rite Aid store It's empty, lifeless, and kind of sickening in a way that isn't easy to describe. Words that come to mind are Cheap, Contrived, Stupid, Over-CaffeinatedWhen he's not bashing republicans and laughing at his own jokes, he awkwardly conducts interviews where he basically interviews himself. His weird sidekick laughs at Jimmy as Jimmy laughs at his own jokes. Then, he does that boring thank-you-note routine or pretends he's a singer. The guy just doesn't have it and it's a mystery how he got this gig.He has all the sophistication of an immature teenager with the giggles. And now he's taking over for Leno? How is this possible? He couldn't host a Saturday morning kiddie show. He always claps when a new guest walks on.Then he sits down and claps some more. His interviews consist of unabashed butt- kissing to the extreme.Then he doubles over with laughter and clapping whenever his guest says something remotely funny. He is very childlike and covers his eyes with his hands as he "cracks up".As I am writing this,he is interviewing Andy Cohen and talking about bottling Lady GaGa's urine as a perfume and marketing it. He thinks "Ga-Ga pee", as he puts it,is extremely funny. Fallon's humor is geared to stupid people,like himself.Late Night with Jimmy Fallon is the single worst late night TV show I have ever had the displeasure to watch.
He has had enough time now to settle in to the job but he has not gotten one bit better! When will NBC admit that this show is a huge fail and just let it die already? Jimmy Fallon should not be on TV.
The monologues and his interviews are simply painful to watch and the jokes and skits he does are all just terrible. What are these people even attempting to do is beyond me and every time I try to watch this show I just end up staring at the screen wide-eyed wondering to myself "how does something this bad actually get put on TV?"
Jimmy Fallon should do everyone a favour, including himself, and get this show off TV for good. It's for his good too because in the long run he'll be remembered as the guy who had the late night talk show that was even worse than Chevy Chase's show. This show and Jimmy Fallon are just terrible.
He was also the worst Emmy host I have ever seen.  http://www.cracked.com/funny-1148-jimmy-fallon/ 
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Dhal pretty much nailed it. Only thing I could add is The Tonight Show has always been a show geared more towards a family audience. I remember watching it with my grandparents when I was a kid when Johnny Carson was the host. It's never going to be as edgy as some other shows because it's not geared for that type of audience. It's supposed to be fun the whole family can enjoy.
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Wait, people actually watch The Tonight Show in 2014?
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Hexen]Wait, people actually watch The Tonight Show in 2014? #DidYouEvenWatchTheHashtagSkit? Duh
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I kinda figured inoffensive late night network television sleep-procrastination was replaced by putting a laptop on your beer gut and leaving illiterate youtube comments on cat videos about a decade ago. This is a genuine surprise to me.
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I love it when Jimmy breaks character during skits and pretends to laugh at the other persons joke  Do the JF fanbois in here enjoy Adam Sandler movies?
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Cool idea, boring in the end.
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Kokehed]I love it when Jimmy breaks character during skits and pretends to laugh at the other persons joke Do the JF fanbois in here enjoy Adam Sandler movies? So, you admit you watch it then. Got it.
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Vermithrax] Kokehed]I love it when Jimmy breaks character during skits and pretends to laugh at the other persons joke Do the JF fanbois in here enjoy Adam Sandler movies? So, you admit you watch it then. Got it. I watched SNL, and thats what he did in EVERY skit he was in.
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If Jimmy Fallon did a skit about how unfunny Jimmy Fallon is it would be the funniest skit Jimmy Fallon has ever done.
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