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[Captain Pants]

There is no longer a place for apolitical behavior. Get off the fence or get out of the way.

Exactly. Joking around with Trump and messing his hair up isn't how you stay relevant.

 

[kIdMuScLe]

Does he do anything but music skits?

 

[Saint Gregory]

Align yourself with Trump, get dumped.

Take notes NFL.

 

[Broken Joystick]

As an outsider, Fallon has always appeared the most fake of these late night hosts.

 

[DTU]

Wooooooooooooooooooooow

That's not just bad. That's really fucking bad.

I believe you have misread. 250,000 is the gap from 2nd -> 3rd.

 

[PingPongvonLaserstein]

Having seen this GIF surely a couple of thousand times now, one might think I'd have become desensitized to it, but it still makes my blood boil.

 

[Joe T.]

Call me crazy, but I like the fact that Fallon doesn't spend all damn night talking about Trump. He's the polar opposite of Colbert. Kimmel's my happy center, not that I spend much time watching any of the late night shows these days. I miss Letterman.

 

[Trojita]

I believe you have misread. 250,000 is the gap from 2nd -> 3rd.

Aah that's my bad.

 

[whitemex88]

Guess all those games instead good material are finally catching up?

 

[sixteen-bit]

Jimmy Fall

 

[backflip10019]

The Tousle That Rocked Late Night.

 

[Nokterian]

Seth Meyers, Trevor Noah, John Oliver ,Samantha Bee and Colbert make quality tv, they bring the facts and fun in a blending that i really like.

 

[Skinny Pete]

He doesn’t bash Trump. Simple as that.

 

[Shao Kahn Brewing a Stew]

Flawless post.

 

[mnannola]

The gap in perceived sincerity between Kimmel and Fallon is Grand Canyon sized.

 

[SephCast]

Colbert and Kimmel deserve all the success they're getting right now.

 

[tuxfool]

He doesn’t bash Trump. Simple as that.

Even if he did, he'd be bad at it, like he is with most other things.

 

[louiedog]

Does he do anything but music skits?

Does he still play games very poorly with celebrities where he can't help but break into laughter constantly? Those used to always bubble up in YouTube recommendations for some reason, I guess because his show was more popular, and anytime I bothered to watch because the guest was someone I liked it seemed horrible. It wasn't like he was letting the guest win or anything, it was more like he was just really bad at the creative games.

 

[PandaPandaPanda]

I feel like Seth Meyers is much more funnier than Jimmy Fallon but I guess the public doesn't agree with that opinion. That being said, I never was really a fan (he had a few nice bits eg the Nicole Kidman thing and the Breaking Bad parody) but when he tried to normalize glorious orange leader was when I said i'd never watch his show again.

 

[howdyjacker]

Good.

Colbert deserves the ratings he gets.

I don't watch the show, but I always see his videos on YouTube the following day.

And I always watch Seth Meyer's A Closer Look segments.

That describes what I do to a tee.

I get all my political satire I can take.

 

[Sanjuro]

Bring Conan back to The Tonight Show.

 

[kirblar]

He doesn't have Tina Fey there to carry him, unlike on SNL.

 

[Previous]

Dropping Conan for a few more years of Leno continues to bite NBC in the ass.

 

[hodayathink]

Colbert and Kimmel aren't afraid to get political. Fallon still is for some reason.

Because he's pretty bad at it? It's not really his thing, and he really doesn't have a stake in it. The biggest reason Kimmel is getting political now and it's hitting is because he has a stake in it (health care because of what happened with his son, and then being from Las Vegas when talking about the terror attack).

 

[The Main Event]

Needs more Reggie.

 

[PsychoSoldier]

It's hard to watch a guy on TV once he shown you his whole ass.

 

[backflip10019]

Bring Conan back to The Tonight Show.

+1.

Bring back the Bugatti Veyron mouse.

 

[ebullientprism]

I feel like Seth Meyers is much more funnier than Jimmy Fallon but I guess the public doesn't agree with that opinion. That being said, I never was really a fan (he had a few nice bits eg the Nicole Kidman thing and the Breaking Bad parody) but when he tried to normalize glorious orange leader was when I said i'd never watch his show again.

Seth Meyers is great. Its a shame he doesnt get as much love as he should.

 

[Frozenprince]

Fallon's problem is that none of his personality shines through at all. He's constantly so neutral other than laughing at things or making a few sterile quips, you don't see any of him shine through.

The good hosts all have core aspects of their personality shine through to make themselves into characters along side their bits and guests.

Jimmy just feels like pure genericism, and maybe 20 years ago that would fly and he'd be okay, but I have quite literally limitless entertainment at my fingertips almost every minute of every day. He needs to allow himself to shine through, if there's even anything there to shine, if he wants to survive.

 

[Skinny Pete]

Even if he did, he'd be bad at it, like he is with most other things.

That’s true. He seems pretty irrelevant now with this orange asshole in office.

 

[bebop242]

Never liked him. Whatever

 

[BoogieWoogie]

Even if he did, he'd be bad at it, like he is with most other things.

Fallon's impersonation of Trump is some embarrassing shit.

 

[Mobius 1]

.

Exactly. Fuck him for validating that orange cancersack pillock.

 

[sugarman]

I don't hate the guy, but he seriously is the worst case of phoning it in I've ever seen in comedy. Judging by his troubling incidents, I don't even think he's happy with the show.

Incidents?

 

[Sanjuro]

+1.

Bring back the Bugatti Veyron mouse.

RIP Wax Fonz & Tom Cruise.

 

[GTI Guy]

Serves you right NBC for being a dick to Conan

 

[Zeus Molecules]

The only thing Fallon did right was get the Roots to be his band

 

[Skinny Pete]

Seth Myers is damn good tho. Guy kills Trump on the reg.

 

[newtypepilot]

Trump aside, Fallon is a terrible interviewer. All he does is fake laugh at everything the guests say. His gimmick has always been playing games with them, but even that gets old after awhile. He gives the impression that he's trying to playing both sides to be safe, but I don't think that works given how divided america is today.

 

[ComputerBlue]

Fallon on any given night, and a big reason why I can't watch him.

Half of what comes out of his mouth during an interview is a compliment. You're the best, we love your new album, we love you so much, oh you're so great in so and so, we just love you here on the tonight show, I'm a huge fan, this is one of my favorite songs of all time, oh my gosh, I'm a huge gamer....Just, tone it down a bit Jimmy. I do think he is a genuinely nice person, but he is over the top where it comes off as insincere.

He seemed a completely different person with the Late Night, the gig should have gone to Conan as it was supposed to.

 

[Davide]

I didn't make a big deal out of his Trump interview but I'm just not as interested in watching him as much as Colbert or Kimmel, and lately I've just been watching Kimmel.

I never watch Seth Moore, Trevor Noah, or John Oliver.

 

[Escape Goat]

Remember that thing that was a thing 30 years ago?

That’s Fallon.

 

[thiscoldblack]

Should've kept Conan.

 

[hyp3rlink]

I enjoy Seth Meyers more; don't watch Fallon's segments on Youtube even.

 

[backflip10019]

RIP Wax Fonz & Tom Cruise.

Wow, this just made me unfathomably sentimental and then sad.

So many great Late Night characters killed off.

 

[CountAntonius]

Kimmel and Colbert are both far better hosts.

 

[Frozenprince]

Fallon on any given night, and a big reason why I can't watch him.

Half of what comes out of his mouth during an interview is a compliment. You're the best, we love your new album, we love you so much, oh you're so great in so and so, we just love you here on the tonight show, I'm a huge fan, this is one of my favorite songs of all time, oh my gosh, I'm a huge gamer....Just, tone it down a bit Jimmy.

He needs to let himself be himself more. Stop being "generic late night talkshow host" and just be Jimmy Fallon, the weird guy who made "The Man Show" on a $500 budget.

 

[Instro]

He doesn't strike me as a bad dude, but I feel like you could sub in any half decent presenter on his show and lose nothing. Being completely behind the curve on politics, and having nothing meaningful to add to the conversation on anything didn't/doesn't help him either.

Might as well stick car pool karaoke guy in there at this point.

 

[Shaanyboi]

Give some spotlight to Myers who is infinitely more interesting than Fallon could ever hope to be

 

[iammeiam]

Call me crazy, but I like the fact that Fallon doesn't spend all damn night talking about Trump. He's the polar opposite of Colbert. Kimmel's my happy center, not that I spend much time watching any of the late night shows these days. I miss Letterman.

I think Fallon wants to be the escapist host that lets you escape from the shitshow of US politics by just not dealing with it for a night.

I don't think this works in the Trump era, though, because the Trump admin is an all-consuming waking nightmare always waiting in the wings to depress or outrage us. Escapism in the Trump admin isn't a world where politics aren't mentioned for many of us, it's just a world where the batshit insanity going on in the federal government is called out for what it is.

Fallon's approach is probably the smart middle-of-the-road one that works like 90% of the time, but the current climate has made it all but impossible to be neutral and people want catharsis.