In case you didn't know, Momofuku's David Chang and the Roots' Questlove have been in a bit of an online feud regarding their respective fried chicken recipes lately. So of course, last night they took the fight to Late Night with Jimmy Fallon (where Questlove works) for a battle judged by Mad Men's John Slattery, 30 Rock's Tina Fey and Fallon's announcer Steve Higgins. And yes, there was smack talking. After all, dishwashing duties were on the line.
Video: Momofuku's David Chang Fries Questlove In Chicken Battle
Video: Bloomberg Hits Up Fallon, Threatens To Steal His Job
Three years and one month after his first visit, Mayor Bloomberg returned to Late Night With Jimmy Fallon last night with curious claims about his subway habits, quips about the GOP and his stock answer as to why he doesn't want to be the President. Also, Hizzoner has some advice for all you young whippersnappers out there!
Video: Muppets Join Jimmy Fallon To Sing "When The River Meets The Sea"
The Muppets are no stranger to Late Night With Jimmy Fallon—they've made 13 appearances on the show since 2009, including a few Christmas-themed singalongs. Last night, Kermit and Robin (Kermit's nephew) showed up to sing "When The River Meets The Sea," a sweet little tune from the John Denver/The Muppets '70s album, with Fallon and The Roots. Watch it below!
Video: Radiohead's Thom Yorke And Jonny Greenwood Perform On Fallon
Last night, Thom Yorke and Jonny Greenwood of Radiohead performed a beautiful, skeletal rendition of the ethereal "Give Up The Ghost" on Late Night With Jimmy Fallon (Michael Stipe also showed up for a mute guest appearance). Watch below!
Fallon Fight Spreads Throughout the Twitterverse Easy as Pie
Did Jimmy Fallon get into a real altercation at a local pizza place this weekend or is he simply playing internet games? After the still head shaking realization that The Roots are now a talk show house band, the second-most unique aspect to Jimmy Fallon's reign of Late Night thus far might be his incorporation of Twitter. He's let viewers send in questions to Cameron Diaz, updated on-air simultaneously with the Diggnation guys and gotten over 30,000 of his viewers to follow a random audience member on the social networking site. A series of updates on his Twitter that he was kicked out of Posto Saturday because they mistakenly thought he had bad mouthed them are being used to report the story around the web. Gawker even claims that their tipsters say there was a fistfight involved—difficult to imagine for the incredibly affable Fallon. Late Night is on vacation this week, so no first-hand account is coming tonight. Did something actually go down or are we all sucked into some sort of manufactured Twitter-drama?
Road Sign Hacking Continues Around Town
Yesterday's sighting of a DOT warning that "New York is Dying" apparently had less to do with the city's decaying infrastructure and was more likely the handiwork of hacker(s) who had their way with road signs in Manhattan yesterday. Commenters yesterday pointed us to a January posting on iHacked that gave simple instructions on how to manipulate the roadside messages as well as the fact that the Diggnation founders had just mentioned it (and even gave out the signs' default password!) this past week on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon.
Conan Gives Props to Fallon and Fans Upon Leaving
With Friday night's final Late Night repeat now behind us, the Conan O'Brien era in New York is officially over. But luckily for some fans, the new Tonight Show host was not able to take everything from his old show with him. The nonprofit group Build It Green! loaded up two truckloads of props left over from Late Night this past week—many of which will be available for fans to buy. Build It Green! made it clear though that the Brian Williams cutout used for Conan's old feud with the anchor is off-limits (can you blame them?). And despite threats to retire the Masturbating Bear, something tells us that costume will make the trip to LA. One prop that won't however is the giant pickle that Conan once received from his predecessor and now rival, David Letterman. While a few people looking for trouble called out Conan for leaving Jimmy Fallon on a sour note by not paying the new host more lip service during his farewell, O'Brien did make a point to pass along the good luck cuke. Fallon and The Roots take over Late Night in a little over twenty-four hours!
Fallon's New Studio is Sue Simmons's Sloppy Seconds
Jimmy Fallon talked with us this afternoon about his foray into Late Night which, believe it or not, is less than two weeks away. We were wondering how he was able to get his show up and running with its premiere coming a mere week after Conan goes off the air (his final Late Night in New York is tomorrow night). Fallon told us that he won't be moving into Conan's digs at Studio 6A inside 30 Rock, but rather into 6B, home until recently of WNBC 4 New York—or as Fallon put it, house of "the great Chuck Scarborough and Sue Simmons" (not to mention Matt Lauer and Ira Joe Fisher).
Is ?uestlove Gonna Be the New Max Weinberg?
The legendary hip-hop group The Roots have been well-respected for so long that they can provide instant credibility to whomever they work with. But that might prove to be a little easier when they were the house band for Jay-Z than it will be next to new Late Night host Jimmy Fallon. Various sources are reporting that Roots leader ?uestlove said in a radio interview over the weekend that they will be the house band for Fallon when he takes over for Conan O'Brien next year. That would make The Roots the first hip-hop band in the studio nightly alongside a major talk show host. Conan has gotten America to accept a man named La Bamba into their hearts--can Jimmy do the same for one known as "Black Thought"? TBD

