I don’t think this is true: https://movieweb.com/donald-trump-threatens-late-night-shows-stephen-colbert/ https://ca.news.yahoo.com/jimmy-fallon-skirts-trump-calls-202539269.html
I don’t think this is true:
Tellingly, Donald Trump has called for the firing of almost all of the other late night hosts—Colbert, Kimmel, even Seth Meyers—but excluded Fallon from his hit-list, because Trump recognizes that there’s nothing about Fallon’s empty banality that could be anything close to a threat.
Trump didn't leave other late-show hosts out of his tirade, choosing to go at his usual suspects, Jimmy Kimmel and Jimmy Fallon, with threats that their shows could very well be next. Trump said, "Next up will be an even less talented Jimmy Kimmel, and then, a weak, and very insecure, Jimmy Fallon. The only real question is, who will go first?
Trump was a guest on Fallon’s “Tonight Show” back in 2016, and the moment went viral quickly, drawing harsh criticism as the host ruffled the president’s hair during the interview. Trump has since soured on Fallon and late night in general, and during Kimmel’s brief suspension at ABC, Trump called for NBC to follow suit and cancel “two total losers,” Fallon and Seth Meyers.
I've tried a few times over the years to watch Fallon. It's always felt "off", and wasn't that entertaining, and always left me feeling somewhat repelled but I could never figure out why. This...
I've tried a few times over the years to watch Fallon. It's always felt "off", and wasn't that entertaining, and always left me feeling somewhat repelled but I could never figure out why. This article might be exaggerating for effect, but I also don't think their overall thesis is wrong. I have never found Fallon funny. While watching the recent Colbert episode where they reassembled Strike Force Five, I had the same thought I had had listening to the original podcast : "why is Fallon here, he adds nothing to this".
The horror of the Tonight Show is not found in any singular problem, but in the totality of its project: the systematic replacement of the real world with a brightly lit simulation of “niceness.” Fallon is the court jester of the Anthropocene, a figure who invites us to watch celebrities play parlor games on stage while the air outside the studio begins to smell of tear gas and smoke.
Meanwhile, on the other end of this spectrum, Colbert has hosted multiple guests that have used their appearance on the show to perform poignant performance pieces that address the incredibly upsetting things happening in the US.
It would be one thing if Fallon was just not funny. He's existentially terrifying to me because he strikes me as someone who is desperate to appear to be funny to everyone. And because of that...
It would be one thing if Fallon was just not funny. He's existentially terrifying to me because he strikes me as someone who is desperate to appear to be funny to everyone. And because of that he's become as milquetoast and fundamentally hollow as humanly possible. You know how there's these robots they're making that cross into the uncanny valley? When I see Fallon, sometimes I see the opposite side of that valley.
I don't watch his show but he has the tendency to be everywhere and none of those appearances are better than what I would imagine if he were simply not there.
I see this opinion online a lot, that there is something very wrong about Jimmy Fallon. From my perspective, he seems to be a little bad at interviewing, and maybe seems a little bit phony. But I...
I see this opinion online a lot, that there is something very wrong about Jimmy Fallon. From my perspective, he seems to be a little bad at interviewing, and maybe seems a little bit phony. But I also have seen him do impressions, including impressions of musicians, and I've been pretty impressed. So he's not my favorite host, but also I don't find him all that objectionable as a human.
The other day people were talking about Colbert and some people really dislike him too. I was also surprised about that, because Colbert doesn't seem phony at all and is a pretty good interviewer.
Personally I like Conan the best, even though he often talks about himself too much in interviews. I haven't watched Kimmel enough to form much of an opinion, but I remember him from The Man Show when he appeared to be a much different person.
Edit: I read the article after initially posting this, and the article mentions Dick Cavett. If you haven't done this before, I think it is very useful to go look up some old Dick Cavett interviews on youtube. The kinds of discussions that occured on that show are such a contrast to now that it's simply shocking. It's very interesting to see Marlon Brando or John Lennon or Muhammad Ali discuss serious topics without a lot of interruption. I've seen contemporary criticism of Cavett that paints him as a self-absorbed name-dropper, but his show and the format are a lot more interesting than most of the low attention-span stuff that is on now.
I respect that everybody is entitled to their opinion, and that comedy is different things to different people. And for me, I have never found any humor from Jimmy Fallon. I understand logically...
I respect that everybody is entitled to their opinion, and that comedy is different things to different people. And for me, I have never found any humor from Jimmy Fallon. I understand logically why I should find him amusing, but I don’t and I never have. I don’t dislike Jimmy Fallon. I nothing Jimmy Fallon. He never randomly crosses my mind.
NBC never should have had Fallon do anything political at all. Instead, The Tonight Show should have been a simple variety show with two celebs (on at the same time), a comedian, a music act, etc...
NBC never should have had Fallon do anything political at all. Instead, The Tonight Show should have been a simple variety show with two celebs (on at the same time), a comedian, a music act, etc —- just play games and have fun and give the viewers a simple, mindless show to fall asleep to.
I don’t think this is true:
https://movieweb.com/donald-trump-threatens-late-night-shows-stephen-colbert/
https://ca.news.yahoo.com/jimmy-fallon-skirts-trump-calls-202539269.html
I've tried a few times over the years to watch Fallon. It's always felt "off", and wasn't that entertaining, and always left me feeling somewhat repelled but I could never figure out why. This article might be exaggerating for effect, but I also don't think their overall thesis is wrong. I have never found Fallon funny. While watching the recent Colbert episode where they reassembled Strike Force Five, I had the same thought I had had listening to the original podcast : "why is Fallon here, he adds nothing to this".
Meanwhile, on the other end of this spectrum, Colbert has hosted multiple guests that have used their appearance on the show to perform poignant performance pieces that address the incredibly upsetting things happening in the US.
It would be one thing if Fallon was just not funny. He's existentially terrifying to me because he strikes me as someone who is desperate to appear to be funny to everyone. And because of that he's become as milquetoast and fundamentally hollow as humanly possible. You know how there's these robots they're making that cross into the uncanny valley? When I see Fallon, sometimes I see the opposite side of that valley.
I don't watch his show but he has the tendency to be everywhere and none of those appearances are better than what I would imagine if he were simply not there.
I see this opinion online a lot, that there is something very wrong about Jimmy Fallon. From my perspective, he seems to be a little bad at interviewing, and maybe seems a little bit phony. But I also have seen him do impressions, including impressions of musicians, and I've been pretty impressed. So he's not my favorite host, but also I don't find him all that objectionable as a human.
The other day people were talking about Colbert and some people really dislike him too. I was also surprised about that, because Colbert doesn't seem phony at all and is a pretty good interviewer.
Personally I like Conan the best, even though he often talks about himself too much in interviews. I haven't watched Kimmel enough to form much of an opinion, but I remember him from The Man Show when he appeared to be a much different person.
Edit: I read the article after initially posting this, and the article mentions Dick Cavett. If you haven't done this before, I think it is very useful to go look up some old Dick Cavett interviews on youtube. The kinds of discussions that occured on that show are such a contrast to now that it's simply shocking. It's very interesting to see Marlon Brando or John Lennon or Muhammad Ali discuss serious topics without a lot of interruption. I've seen contemporary criticism of Cavett that paints him as a self-absorbed name-dropper, but his show and the format are a lot more interesting than most of the low attention-span stuff that is on now.
I respect that everybody is entitled to their opinion, and that comedy is different things to different people. And for me, I have never found any humor from Jimmy Fallon. I understand logically why I should find him amusing, but I don’t and I never have. I don’t dislike Jimmy Fallon. I nothing Jimmy Fallon. He never randomly crosses my mind.
It's almost a meme about how Fallon ruins everything, but honestly, that boy ain't right.
NBC never should have had Fallon do anything political at all. Instead, The Tonight Show should have been a simple variety show with two celebs (on at the same time), a comedian, a music act, etc —- just play games and have fun and give the viewers a simple, mindless show to fall asleep to.