Tonight Show Highlights
The Tonight Show starring Jimmy Fallon debuted last night. Overall it was very entertaining, and deserves to be watched in its entirety rather than cut up into highlights.
Being me, however, I have to add my two cents on a couple of things:
I’m not a fan of the Tonight Show’s opening, which was directed by Spike Lee. It feels very chaotic to me.
I like the set, but I’m not crazy about how The Roots have been re-organized. They’re too spread out and individual members don’t stand out like they used to.
The “Jimmy’s $100 Tonight Show Bet” bit was awesome. .
Will Smith was a charismatic and talented as ever.
I would have enjoyed U2‘s performance a lot more if there had been a lot less fancy camera work. The band is way too good for that.
I give it:
– Woody
I saw a couple of clips on news shows this morning. As you know, I’m NOT a fan of Jimmy Fallon. At all. But I saw 2 clips that might make me soften a bit towards him.
One clip seemed obviously commenting on the previous “new host” debacle, that with Conan O’Brien.
The other clip was either still commenting on Conan or else it was actually Jimmy Fallon being modest, and that’s something I don’t know I’ve ever seen.
I think Fallon is one of those guys like Paulie Shore, Adam Sandler or Andy Samberg – you either like him or hate him.
I haven’t watched the Tonight Show since not long after the David Letterman debacle, so this doesn’t really change my viewership at all. (I did watch a few of the Conan episodes, but I don’t like to miss the Colbert Report.)
I’ve said before I think part of the problem with Conan was a lot of his audience were also the Daily Show/Colbert Report audience. I don’t think Jimmy Fallon has that problem at all. Totally different audiences. We have yet to see if he can keep the Tonight Show audience, or if they go to Dave.
I think Jimmy’s style is between Jay and Dave, perhaps a little on the Dave side, with Aunt Bee thrown in (too much, at least for me). His only saving grace is that he can be hilariously funny and the Roots are indeed the best.