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Up until the height of election season in 2016 (maybe around August/September), I enjoyed Jimmy Fallon. The show was goofy, fun, and you could tell that he legitimately enjoyed talking to guests. The improv between him and Steve Higgins (his announcer/writer) was always my favorite part of the show. Also, the Roots are still the best band on Late Night. I say "up until" because I can no longer enjoy The Tonight Show. It feels like it's a window into the alternate reality where Clinton won and Trump didn't even make it past the primaries. Fallon wants to stay pretty much completely out of politics and it feels pathetic and cowardly in an age now where we have a legitimate villain/Nazi in the White House. I feel like grabbing his face and screaming "DON'T YOU KNOW WHAT'S GOING ON IN THE WORLD RIGHT NOW?!" any time I flip over to the show.
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So he's the anti-Colbert. I wish John Baptiste and Stay Human would get shot into the sun, and he sucked UNTIL Trump won the election.
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Oct 3, 2017 19:11
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Kind of like how Jon Stewart didn't find his footing until the Bush administration.
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Oct 3, 2017 19:25
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IRQ posted:So he's the anti-Colbert. I wish John Baptiste and Stay Human would get shot into the sun, and he sucked UNTIL Trump won the election. I always find myself surprised when Jon adds in a comment or gets into banter with Stephen and it's entertaining. It happens sometimes!
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Oct 3, 2017 19:27
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GreenNight posted:Kind of like how Jon Stewart didn't find his footing until the Bush administration. ... maybe? When Jon took over the Daily Show, it was in a fairly different place than where he ended up taking it. They had changed hosts unceremoniously, and for a while, he was trying to do Craig Kilborn's show. That didn't really fit Jon's style. It reminds me of when Leno took over for Johnny Carson back in the day--until he made the show his own, it was objectively terrible. (Afterwards, it was only subjectively terrible.)
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Oct 3, 2017 19:28
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IRQ posted:So he's the anti-Colbert. I wish John Baptiste and Stay Human would get shot into the sun, and he sucked UNTIL Trump won the election. {Colbert says joke} {Loud, hyena-like cackle from off-screen} "Oh no he didn't!" {Colbert says next joke} "Ha haaaaaa, (repeats last few words of joke)!"
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Oct 3, 2017 19:34
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JazzFlight posted:Baptiste is so drat annoying during the monologue, I swear. Yeah, that. He can actually take a deadpan approach to direct banter pretty well, but his interjections are just the worst.
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Oct 3, 2017 19:37
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Maybe I just have low standards for banter, but I'm a fan of "Collllld blooded!" There were also one or two times last week where Batiste really seemed to lose it, which was fun.
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Oct 3, 2017 19:43
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DC Murderverse posted:also, god bless Jimmy Fallon for being the most oblivious lameass clown and opening not with a monologue about bravery of first responders, reflections on the nature of late night talk shows and their ability to communicate after a tragedy, or pleas to take action, but (and i swear to god this is real because i pinched myself after watching it and it is not just my fever dream) Miley Cyrus singing a Dido song accompanied by Adam Sandler Jesus Christ. Fallon films in Hollywood yeah? They must have literally stuck their head out the door of the studio grabbed the first two recognizable names they could see. Nothing says touching tribute to the fallen like Adam Sandler and Miley Cyrus.
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Oct 3, 2017 20:21
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My only problem with Batiste (and it's not really his fault) is when they cut up the monologue for time and mask it by showing him laughing or smiling. It's really distracting.
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Oct 3, 2017 20:26
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Batiste should get to do more, but also less. They just suck at planning and directing the show.
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Oct 3, 2017 20:48
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counterfeitsaint posted:Jesus Christ. Fallon films in Hollywood yeah? They must have literally stuck their head out the door of the studio grabbed the first two recognizable names they could see. Kimmel is hollywood. Fallon is decidedly NYC due to SNL and friends. They had already been hyping miley cyrus for all of this week due to her new single/album/ep/whatever, but i have no idea where sandler fits in
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Oct 3, 2017 21:03
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Watermelon Daiquiri posted:Kimmel is hollywood. Fallon is decidedly NYC due to SNL and friends. They had already been hyping miley cyrus for all of this week due to her new single/album/ep/whatever, but i have no idea where sandler fits in he's got a movie coming out, apparently it's an actual dramatic performance as opposed to... whatever it is Adam Sandler has been doing for the last 8 years
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Oct 3, 2017 22:06
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Racist Netflix movies I believe.
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Oct 3, 2017 22:26
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Being the modern day Mel Brooks, if Mel Brooks had a terrible sense of humor and missed the entire point of the satire in Blazing Saddles' treatment of race. Replace Gene Wilder with Rob Schneider and Dom Delouise with Kevin James. I have no idea who watches his poo poo.
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Oct 4, 2017 15:48
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Pander posted:I have no idea who watches his poo poo. Well, it's not geniuses.... Pander posted:Being the modern day Mel Brooks, if Mel Brooks had a terrible sense of humor and missed the entire point of the satire in Blazing Saddles' treatment of race. ROB SCHNEIDER was a loser, a horrible actor with one funny bit on SNL years ago that they drove into the ground so far that people wondered why it was ever funny. But now, look out, audiences! Because now, Rob Schneider is... GENE WILDER!! (Audio clip: "I Feel Good" by James Brown starts playing.) Whoa! Look out, Holly-WEIRD! One of America's most prestigious and slightly dead actors is actually... ROB SCHNEIDER! Rob Schnider is... Gene Wild-errr? Coming soon, on yo' mama's face. (A Happy Madison joke for a Happy Madison production.)
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Oct 4, 2017 16:35
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What're y'all talking about?
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Oct 4, 2017 20:57
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Adam Sandler's nepotastic money tree
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Oct 4, 2017 22:52
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Johnny Carson's house is for sale - some nice pics: http://www.coldwellbankerhomes.com/ca/malibu/6962-wildlife-rd/pid_20152627/
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Oct 8, 2017 15:51
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EugeneJ posted:Johnny Carson's house is for sale - some nice pics: You'd think the commission on an 81 million dollar property would get you a real estate agent that didn't write like Sarah Palin texting.
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Oct 8, 2017 16:28
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7k ft2 of space and 4.5 bathrooms and yet only 2 bedrooms???
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Oct 8, 2017 20:20
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Watermelon Daiquiri posted:7k ft2 of space and 4.5 bathrooms and yet only 2 bedrooms??? That's a hell of a way to say you don't like visitors staying over.
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Oct 10, 2017 04:27
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oh hey conan is gonna be on the late show this week?
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Oct 12, 2017 04:30
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This is probably one of my favorite moments from Colbert's show https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3L8cxD-lLXw
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Oct 12, 2017 17:41
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Corden's battle rap skits are getting their own show, Drop The Mic, a la Lip Sync Battle. Could it be any clearer that he was basically just told to "be Jimmy Fallon?"
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Oct 15, 2017 04:42
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I think it's entirely plausible that he's just that lame.
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Oct 15, 2017 05:19
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IDK hes pretty good drunk with jack whitehall on the 2012 BFQotY - 'Lobstromonous'
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Oct 15, 2017 05:34
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Steve Vader posted:Corden's battle rap skits are getting their own show, Drop The Mic, a la Lip Sync Battle. Could it be any clearer that he was basically just told to "be Jimmy Fallon?" this is extra funny being being Jimmy Fallon is really not helping Jimmy Fallon. quote:The current late-night “war” is certainly less vitriolic than the previous David Letterman vs. Jay Leno Battle Royale. Stephen Colbert and the Jimmys Fallon and Kimmel are all buddy-buddy, with significantly less mud-slinging. But that will never be the case with their respective television networks—the ratings battle will always live on, and it looks like Fallon is in a bit of trouble for the moment.
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Oct 18, 2017 19:57
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I like that Trump is the anti-Hugh Grant for him. However, once this long national nightmare is over and we don't have to monitor the president 24-7 to make sure we all don't die, Fallon's brand of whimsy will likely make a come back. It remains to be seen if NBC wants to play the long game. Also, Dave was on Kimmel last night, responding to Conan telling Colbert about Dave's parting gift to Conan - an unexpected horse.
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Oct 18, 2017 20:27
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Steve Vader posted:However, once this long national nightmare is over and we don't have to monitor the president 24-7 to make sure we all don't die, Fallon's brand of whimsy will likely make a come back. It remains to be seen if NBC wants to play the long game. Agreed. The stakes of regular life have been raised beyond being able to appreciate somebody consciously trying to be irrelevant outside of the boundaries of his own show.
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Oct 19, 2017 15:05
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Steve Vader posted:I like that Trump is the anti-Hugh Grant for him. 3-7(god forbid) years is a really really long time. People are still gonna have a really really bad taste in their mouths and may not go back.
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Oct 19, 2017 15:21
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Dexo posted:3-7(god forbid) years is a really really long time. Especially if Trump figures out a way to pull their broadcast license - Go Anti-1st Amendment creeps! But I think the minute this rear end in a top hat is out of office, there's going to be a celebratory HOT drat LET'S PLAY PATTY CAKE AGAIN moment... before the dread of President Pence sets in.
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Oct 19, 2017 21:46
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X-O posted:I posted this in Couch Chat, but it's worth a post here too. Today we lost the teller of the greatest story ever told on late night talk. RIP Jay Thomas. I don't know anything about him, but I can confirm: that was very funny.
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Oct 20, 2017 16:22
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Jeff ross popped a boner while talking to bieber
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Oct 24, 2017 11:06
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Milo and POTUS posted:Jeff ross popped a boner while talking to bieber You mean ol' boy's baby bits bopped up into a Bieber boner?
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Oct 24, 2017 14:41
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Steve Vader posted:Especially if Trump figures out a way to pull their broadcast license - Go Anti-1st Amendment creeps! This is essentially impossible and another case of Trump not knowing what the hell he's talking about. Networks like NBC don't have broadcast licenses. Individual affiliates / stations carry the licenses.
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Oct 24, 2017 18:33
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It's also hilariously unconstitutional but we all know he doesn't give a gently caress about that.
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Oct 24, 2017 18:38
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Kind of like appealing to the "equal time" rule even though a) it doesn't apply outside of elections and b) it only applies to appearances by politicians, not what people can say about them. One can only hope his abject refusal to learn how any law works, beyond the name of said law, is enough to keep him from completely ruining everything.
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Oct 24, 2017 18:50
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He knows perfectly well. His skill is exploiting people’s ignorance. I really don’t like the “whadda dummy!  ” approach that Fallon takes on him.Timby posted:This is essentially impossible and another case of Trump not knowing what the hell he's talking about. Networks like NBC don't have broadcast licenses. Individual affiliates / stations carry the licenses.
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pwn posted:He knows perfectly well. His skill is exploiting people’s ignorance. I really don’t like the “whadda dummy! Nah I have to agree with Nate Silver on this one. Trump isn't playing 12th dimensional chess, he's just a loving idiot. https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/the-media-needs-to-stop-rationalizing-president-trumps-behavior/
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