I just wanted Jimmy Fallon to sound villainous! I don’t actually think this is on him, at least not entirely. First of all, it’s somewhat common for the big late night shows to “block” their guests from appearing on competing shows. Like, in the old days, if you were an average top-tier celebrity, you would only do Leno or Letterman, not both. Letterman wouldn’t want you if you had done Leno, and vice versa. But TMZ reports that with the successful transition to Jimmy Fallon hosting The Tonight Show, the people at NBC have gone mad with power:
NBC is coming down like a hammer on celebs who want to get on Jimmy Fallon’s show … if they dare do a show on CBS or ABC … they can forget about “The Tonight Show.”
Sources connected to CBS, NBC and ABC tell TMZ … the Peacock network believes Jimmy Fallon’s ratings success gives them extreme bargaining power. They put the word out to celebs, agents and publicists … if they want to be on Fallon they can’t appear on ANY other network … and not just shows that go head-to-head with Jimmy, but morning shows as well.
We’re told NBC is saying the stars who go on Fallon are also allowed to appear on “Today,” “Dateline” and any similar shows they air, but that’s it.
A GMA source tells TMZ … they’ve already gotten fallout from people they were trying to book.
Fallon is dominating late night …. crushing Jimmy Kimmel by bringing in more than twice the number of viewers.
[From TMZ]
It’s reasonably typical for a celebrity to stick with one network during a promotional trail – saying that they’ll appear on the Today Show, the Tonight Show and nothing else. But there’s a difference between it being a “common practice” versus “NBC is ordering it.” And what if a celebrity is trying to get booked for, say, The Daily Show or The Colbert Report? Comedy Central is Viacom, right? Which owns CBS too. So, you can choose CBS Morning, Letterman and The Daily Show. Or you can choose Today and Fallon. Or you can choose GMA and Kimmel. It’s starting to get crazy, y’all.
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As a non-American, I have only just this second realised the jimmies kimmel & fallon are different people – they sort of blur into one in my mind as this is the only place I ever hear about them.
How should I be keeping them straight in my mind?
I have the same problem, I think Jimmy Kimmel dated Sarah Silverman and they made the whole “Im f***** Matt Damon/Ben Affleck” videos?
Nah. You’re fine. They ARE basically the same questionably talented douchnozzle.
Couldn’t disagree more
Absolutely not. You have no idea what you’re taking about because you obviously don’t watch Fallon.
Kimmell’s schtick is he’s a jerk and he plays that up and uses it to his advantage. Fallon is a sweet guy who was an SNL star, does incredible impressions, plays guitar and sings very well, never disses people, never does dark humor, never undermines anyone for the sake of a laugh, and everybody across the board LOVES him.
+1 @gg
Completely disagree.
Um, I agree with littles.
I couldn’t agree with @gg more. Fallon’s a sweetheart and this is coming from a personal experience as well as his TV persona.
You’re right. Fallation’s show is terrible Bring back Leno.
Kimmell is the jerky one. Fallon is the sweetheart.
This is very understandable. I’m not American either and I used to mix them up all the time. They both look somewhat similar, share the same first name, host night-time talk shows and both are Internet famous (to international audiences) because they both have popular viral videos (Kimmel with Mean Tweets and Fallon with the Lip Sync thing among others).
Yeah, I have to concentrate to picture the difference between their faces, and then I have to concentrate even more to get the right name attached to that face.
TV needs fewer generic white guys.
Ok. So at the risk of being very, very stupid – are the pictures in this post of 1 jimmy or both? (they all look like the same person to me.)
AmandaPanda, Jimmy Fallon is in the two large photos up top (the ones on the ends in the thumbnails). Jimmy Kimmel is in the middle picture.
Love Jimmy. Nothing you can say will put me off! He was very sweet and honest about their infertility struggles, and seems such a nice person.
I’m just hoping the blinds that were pointing to him being really crappy aren’t true.
He is a television star who tried long and hard to have a baby with his S.O.
Now that the baby is here, though, he is being a real jerk about it! He doesn’t go home after work, and he has little interaction with either the baby or the mother. What’s going on here?
Well, we’ve gotten to the root of the problem. He is privately telling friends that he doesn’t really consider the baby “ours”! The couple had so many fertility problems that they eventually used donor eggs and a surrogate to carry the baby. Now he says that his S.O. isn’t the baby’s “real mother” and that they aren’t the baby’s “real parents.” He likes to make that dig directly at the mother rather meanly and rather frequently, too. No, he’s not kidding. And his behavior certainly isn’t funny.
Dad:
TV Show:
BONUS HINT: The first sentence of the third paragraph contains a significant clue.
The bonus hint answer would be Root, and the Roots were the band for his show. So I don’t know. You can only take blind items with a tiny grain of truth, so I really hope it’s not him.
Ugh I hate blinds. Such bs
Malarky.
Hope so guys. That’s why I don’t put much stock into them. I just can’t see giggly, sweet tempered Jimmy being like that.
My husband and I have not watched the tonight show in decades. But we started watching it after hearing from a friend how good Jimmy is. He really is very funny. I was surprised. I’m a fan now.
There’s been rumors about him cheating on his wife for a long time now…
Never heard of such rumors
I prefer Fallon as well, but let’s not kid ourselves: He’s friends with Justin “laughs at poor people during his lavish wedding and is an all-arround douche” Timberlake.
This is undeniably the worst thing about him and has undermined his other good qualities. Well, that and having Timberlake on at every opportunity, thus making all of us suffer for the friendship.
This sounds like something completely thought up by the NBC honchos and I doubt jimmy had little if anything to do with it.
It also doesn’t make any sense they can never stop celebs from going anywhere else because they still need them to come on their show. All celebs have to do is stop making late night appearances. I understand the reasoning behind the request (limit other appearances and more viewers will tune in to see their fav celeb) but they could never make that mandatory .
I agree—it’s NBC big-wigs, not Fallon.
This will only serve to shoot themselves in the foot by mandating that celebrities can only appear on this or that show(s). If they continue, I believe they will eventually get backlash from a celebrity(ies), in that, “Stop telling me what to do and where I can and cannot go.” And that will trickle down and hurt their viewership and ratings, which will be no fault of Fallon’s in and of itself.
Agreed. Trying to ban celebrities who are guests on The Tonight Show from other networks will not increase ratings. Such tactics will backfire and while NBC should be trying to improve Jimmy’s popularity among those who are not familiar with him, this will only serve to decrease viewership. I am sure this is an idea of the “power honchos” at NBC but it is not a good one!!!!! Hopefully, they will abandon such a plan. I doubt if Jimmy approves. As a matter of fact, this is probably infuriating him and he probably knows that he will be blamed for it. Jimmy is not a “cut-throat” type of guy. This whole issue undermines Jimmy’s ability to get ratings on his own — he is perfectly capable of winning over America and being the King of late night without forcing it.
That sounds exactly like a ham-handed move NBC would try to pull.
Indeed – perhaps Leno is working as a consultant for the show now!
This is ridiculous.
It’s the opposite the most popular a list celebs typically do all the late night shows which is why celebs like jlaw are own all of them when promoting. Trying to block appearances on daytime shows is not common
I’m trying to imagine Jimmy Fallon as a villian. All I can see in my head is him wearing a Peculiar Purple Pie-man from Strawberry Shortcake outfit.
Jaderu, AHH! I haven’t heard a Peculiar Purple Pieman reference in ages….I may have to go dig out my SS DVD.
DVD?!?! I still have my strawberry shortcake VHS!!!!
I don’t know if you ever watched Robot Chicken but a character on there called “Bitch Pudding” is a riff on SS and is hilarious!!
Fallon sucks. The end.
I’m kind of embarrassed of this, but I’ve been watching the Tonight Show occasionally since Fallon took over. I’m used to making fun of it, so it’s a little disturbing that I sort of enjoy it now.
Don’t be embarrassed!! I watch it pretty much every night now that Fallon’s hosting. During Leno’s tenure—a total of 21 years, I think I watched maybe 4 times. I just didn’t care for Leno’s humor. To me, Fallon is more “silly,” and I personally like that better. So count me in!
Same here. I could not sit through Leno or Conan. Bored me silly. Avid watcher of Fallon. He makes his guests play hilarious games and act silly.
Same here. I could not sit through Leno or Conan. Bored me silly. Avid watcher of Fallon. He makes his guests play hilarious games and act silly.
I don’t think there is a mean bone in Jimmy’s body. I’ve been to his late show’s taping twice in NY and he was nice and professional on both times. Sometimes I don’t think he is funny and he always slips out of his character (probably his schtick) but I’ll always see him as a good guy.
ooo I’m jealous. Did you have to wait in line or do you have connections?
Yes, he reminds me of Ellen in that regard. They’re both hilarious, talented, good natured and basically kind, decent human beings. They don’t need to ever “go negative” in order to get a laugh.
I was extra impressed with Fallon after hearing a radio interview with Lorne Michaels and how he was utterly blown away by his SNL audition, he said it was the best he had ever seen.
I heard him on NPR Fresh Air with Terri Gross and it was hilarious.
gg, I heard that, too, I remember driving and just cracking up…his Adam Sandler impersonation, Bob Dylan, etc.
This sounds like some NBC BS that will tragically/epically/beautifully/hilariously backfire on them.
Yup. No one ever accused NBC of being smart.
Though I’m guessing this is exaggerated. Most celebs go on a variety of shows if they have something to promote.
That’s why it will backfire. The people who watch The Tonight Show don’t necessarily watch The Daily Show and Colbert or Kimmel or the morning shows etc. Promo for tv and movies have to cover as many bases as possible.
I find this tactic very bullying. Me no likey
I have tickets to see him in April and I can’t wait!!
Leno pulled the same thing when he took over “The Tonight Show,” but he was careful to have his former agent, who’d been made Executive Producer, Helen Kushnick, take the fall for it. Four months into the show, she was fired for strong-arming guests.
I can totally see Fallon trying the same thing. Curious to see if he’ll be held accountable for it, or find a scapegoat like Leno.
I’m sure he has a scapegoat ready to take the fall for him. He never showed any real accountability when the whole Michelle Bachmann thing happened when he was on Late Night.
What was the Michelle Bachmann thing? I don’t remember hearing about that (though admittedly, the only late night show I watch is Jon Stewart).
The Roots changed the music that she walked out to and no one knew it. It was not discovered to a few days later and Fallon issued an apology and stated that he talked with the band about it.
@Tiffany, thanks! That does vaguely ring a bell.
Sticking with one sole network is certainly NOT the norm… how many times have we seen folks do the Today show and an hour later, end up on Live with Kelly and Michael (ABC)? The Daily Show and the Colbert Report are on a VIACOM network (CBS affiliated). This DEFINITELY sounds like the NBC honchos trying to strong arm people. Unless the stars are IN an NBC/Universal project, I don’t see how they can do this.
Jimmy Fallon is a doll and will never be a power hungry guy, letting it go to his head.
What this article leaves out is that clearly NBC can only expect this of non-A-list celebrities… does anyone really think that they would demand exclusivity from the likes of Jennifer Lawrence? She would laugh uproariously and go on whatever the hell show she wanted to go on, without any consequences whatsoever.
Jimmy Fallon is about as much fun as sticking nine inch nails through your eyelids.
Any way its 2014 what person in this day and age is watching anything on network TV.
Watered down garbage, I guess if you are under 12 or over 50 its the place to be. It is heavy censored drool. I opt out so should you!!!!