But maybe he wasn't supposed to - just long enough to avoid any troublesome Obamacare jokes through the elections this November.
Yeah I'm that cynical.
It’s target audience has become immature liberals, so Fallon might do well.
Watched the mochelle interview and it made my stomach turn.
Wonder how much it cost the tax payer to send her there with the secret service and her friends and personal staff.
Her comments regarding the little people working jobs they hate just shows her disconnect with America
Couldn’t agree more...Fallon was a success at 12:30 (in part) because of Jay Leno’s lead-in, and the fact that his core audience (18-34 year olds) finally flip on a TV about that time at night.
NBC had the same vision with Conan O’Brien five years ago. Conan was younger and hipper, and bound to bring in a more desirable demographic. He was gone in six months.
Fallon will flop as well. Leno’s old audience will find something else to watch and the younger, club-and-party crowd won’t change their viewing habits, either. If you see Letterman and/or Jimmy Kimmel close the ratings gap by this summer, you’ll know that Fallon is in serious trouble. NBC will give him more time to build an audience, but the hand-writing is already on the wall. One reason Fallon will get more time is because they don’t have a back-up plan if he fails. Seth Meyers? Give me a break.
Meanwhile, Jay Leno is biding his time and deciding what he wants to do next. Despite the brave face he put on in recent months, Leno was not really happy with the way the transition was handled (again). He dominated late night ratings, generated a ton of money for NBC and even took a pay cut to keep some of his staffers on the show. NBC showed its gratitude by hustling him out the door (again) and installing younger, hipper host Version 2.0.
Leno claims he’s done with late night—and he doesn’t need the money. But I don’t think he’s through with getting his revenge on NBC. I believe Leno will have a new show on the Fox broadcast network by this fall (early 2015 at the latest). Fox can offer him something the other networks can’t—a 30-minute jump on the competition.
Fox doesn’t program the 10 pm EST hour of primetime, so most of their affiliates have their late news at that time, meaning a Leno talk show on Fox would be cleared to start at 11 pm. That meshes well with viewers who tuned in for Leno’s monologue and turned off their TVs before the show ended.
If Leno returns to late night, I can see Fallon at #3 or even #4 in the time slot within two years. At that point, NBC will have to write another $60 million check (that’s ow much they had to pay to get rid of Conan), and they’ll be scratching their heads over how the killed one the biggest cash cows in the history of broadcast TV.
why is it that comedians have to be liberal?
They used to joke about Bush all the time, but, it’s as if Obama is off limits for some reason.
The tone of the political humor on these shows has definitely changed since Obama became president.
I’m with you.
Jimmy Fallon.
Wasn’t some sort of small time bit player on SNL? (yes)
He wont last long. Seems like your everyday Joe Schmuck that could part time at Jiffy Lube on the weekends.