‘Late Night with Jimmy Fallon’ to debut online
Don Day July 20th, 2008
NBC and Lorne Michaels have a novel plan to launch the next version of Late Night with new host Jimmy Fallon: online. The show will start online five to six months before debuting in its 12:35am slot on NBC. The idea is to give Fallon his sea legs. The idea grew out of Michaels’ experience launching the same show with Conan O’Brien. The online show will give him a chance to experiment with different kinds of comedy, and hopefully build a young audience.
Smart.
2 Comments Add your own
1. Anonymous | July 21st, 2008 at 8:04 pm
Well, GEE! I believe that’s six months to watch him crash and burn over and over…
WHAT FOR?
It really betrays the whole point of the show, to appear spontaneously and chaotically out of control–within a strict format, of course.
Shows no confidence in the “kid’s” chops, eh?
2. GamjawanG | July 22nd, 2008 at 9:09 am
Worst idea ever. Jimmy Fallon isn’t funny at all. He is the furthest thing from funny. It isn’t funny when you are laughing at yourself because you can’t even keep your composure on SNL. Doesn’t NBC have someone other than this talentless hack to take over the reigns of Late Night? We’ve had Letterman, and then O’Brien, and now it’s going to be Fallon? I thought Carson Daly was the biggest tool, however, I’ve got to say, Fallon is giving him a run for his money. I’ll watch his online “trial run,” just to be fair, however, I have a feeling he will just call Horatio Sanz and both these clowns will just sit there and laugh at each other’s unfunny bits, thinking that they are the funniest guys in the world. They are the equivalent of a severely handicapped Bert & Ernie on crack and meth.
Leave a Comment
(Please keep URLs out of the comment body or the spam filter will block you.)Subscribe to the comments via RSS Feed