So, Late Night with Jimmy Fallon. Aside from the mannerisms we loved to hate when he was on SNL (talking too fast, constant fidgeting, laughing at his own jokes), how did he do on his first night filling Conan's big shoes? If you made it through the "Lick it for Ten" game, in which Our Host brings up three audience members to lick sponsor products for ten bucks, then you may have seen that the kid did alright! Yes expectations were low, but the general consensus is that Fallon is going to do his job well. You can watch the full episode here.
Okay, so the Robert De Niro interview was awkward/painful/confusing, but once Justin Timberlake (his old fake talk show co-host) hit the stage, the show seemed to hit its stride (sidenote: JT should seriously consider being the Andy to Jimmy's Conan, he maybe have saved the show last night—clip after the jump). Gawker has some of the high points (the Slow News Jam with the Roots, clip above, was a definite winner), and overall says the show has some promise. The Hollywood Reporter follows that tune, saying the show "displays the host's charm and potential." TIME also says Fallon showed "glimmers of potential." Maybe he really did win people over by setting Rachael Ray on fire.





For those that missed the show, this is what most of it sounded like: "umm ahhh ummm aaahhh ummm um ahhh heh ummm ahhhh heh."
Hopefully they keep the Roots when they replace Fallon.
hate to say it but you had me at "painful"
Shouldnt they have given that job to a comedian?
IT WAS PAINFUL, they couldn't find any other ex-snlers? sad
I said "as expected," but only because I was expecting so little from a doofus who has a terrible delivery of a punchline and laughs at his own jokes.
2 words. Craig ferguson.
definitely!
fallon was and always will be a gigantic overrated douche; proof that lorne michaels is going senile.
he was on Martha Stewart and was so boring. I kept thinking Conan on Martha is a million times better.
No one can replace Conan! This is like sacrilege.
Conan is sacrilege.
They'll just look at it the way they see SNL: you get a more or less consisitent 1.6 rating and all advertisers want is a 1.6 rating with an 18-49 demographic. Keep it cheap and snooze through the next ten years of forgettable crap.