So last night was the premiere of Late Night with Jimmy Fallon and the first thing I want to recognize is how fucking cool it is that The Roots are his house band! I think it's a great step for hip-hop having a band like The Roots on a mainstream television program. However, according to ?uestlove (member of The Roots), the band has stopped touring to be on the show which is very, very unfortunate and hopefully not the case. Anyways, the show had special guests Robert DeNiro (looks like he's getting old but who cares...he's Robert DeNiro), Justin Timberlake, and Van Morrison and featured Jimmy slowjamming the news, audience members licking things to aquire $10 (a pretty cute girl licks a scanner...great way to get off on a Monday night), and Justin Timberlake doing hysterical impressions of John Mayer and Michael McDonald. A good start for Jimmy but he has to live up to the outragous hillarity of Conan. You can watch the whole show on
hulu.com! JFLACK APPROVES!
I dunno about Jimmy. I watched the one where he interviewed Tina Fey and I felt like he was a little awkward being a host. I think he's too funny for that position in that he needs his own jokes, I think he has a problem playing off of other people's words, something that Leno and Letterman are very good at.
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