Found 53 days, 15 hours, 2 minutes, and 12 seconds ago on
origin.observer.com
There were no surprises at 30 Rock today as NBC announced the new host of Late Night when current host Conan O'Brien decamps to 11:30 PM sometime in 2009. As far back as February 2007, Bill Carter, The New York Times ' veteran TV reporter and de facto historian of late night, had been reporting ...
Jimmy Fallon will replace Conan
msnbc.msn.comFound 53 days, 8 hours, 6 minutes, and 4 seconds agoTom and Gisele look suave, Britney looks back, Usher gets blue and more. Fallon, 33, appeared on "SNL" for six seasons and was co-host of its "Weekend Update" segment. His impending move to "Late Night" stems from a development deal he signed with NBC in early 2007.
Jimmy Fallon Said to Be in NBC's Late-Night Plans
nytimes.comFound 53 days, 15 hours, 2 minutes, and 14 seconds ago
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NBC on Monday made official a plan that's been talked about since 2003, when a network executive first broached the idea of doing a talk show with the former "Saturday Night Live" star. "I've been doing a monologue in my living room the last three years and it was embarrassing," Fallon joked at a news ...
Found 53 days, 13 hours, 6 minutes, and 56 seconds ago
gawker.com
The Observer covered NBC's press conference anointing never-funny (but cute!) former SNL er Jimmy Fallon the new king of late-late night. They included this anecdote: "Mr. Fallon claimed his kindergarten yearbook featured his photo above the caption 'Most Likely to Take Over David Letterman.' (Someone in the crowd, possibly auditioning to be Mr. Fallon's sidekick, let out an audible 'Wow' at this point.) When asked what kindergarten had yearbooks, much less ones with references to David Letterman, Mr.
Found 53 days, 12 hours, 14 minutes, and 9 seconds ago
gawker.com
Sports blogs might be losing their edge! Back in the good old days they were all bile-spewing, rumormongering perverts who cared about nothing but posting pictures of NFL players cavorting drunkenly with Buzz Bissinger (pictured, ranting). But as time went on, they actually started making money and gaining credibility and-wouldn't you know it-now they're paying more attention to making sure stuff is true! At least that's the theme of the weekend's sort of obvious-day LAT trend piece . The reality is that this entire "These kids are finally maturing, thanks to us" angle is primarily designed to make old school sportswriters feel better about themselves as blogs steal their lunch money.
Found 148 days, 16 hours, 52 minutes, and 24 seconds ago
mediabistro.com
In a press conference we all knew was coming , loveable dork Jimmy Fallon announced he'd be replacing loveable loser Conan O'Brien on Late Night when the latter comedian takes over for Jay Leno on The Tonight Show .
Lorne Michaels , the puppet master behind the scenes, said the transition would happen "probably in the first six months of 2009, possibly in the second six months."
TVNewser's Steve Krakauer , who interviewed Saturday Night Live cast member Seth Meyers today for Wednesday's So What Do You Do?
Found 53 days, 16 hours, 7 minutes, and 2 seconds ago
defamer.com
Confirming rumors that his appointment as Conan O'Brien's Late Night successor was a " done deal," a press event at 30 Rock today presided over by dark SNL overlord Lorne Michaels, NBC rock star Ben Silverman, and badly-in-need-of-a-distinguishing-nickname Marc Graboff, made official their intention to hand over the 12:30 a.m. programming block to one Jimmy Fallon. Goodbye, Masturbating Bear and Pimpbot 5000, hello, masturbating Barry Gibb and '80s radio hits set to "You Can't Touch This." From The Observer :
Found 53 days, 12 hours, 13 minutes, and 31 seconds ago
dlisted.com
" Jimmy, save the bad jokes for your new gig.
I'm usually asleep, drunk, pooping or all of the above whenever "Late Night" comes on, so this doesn't affect me.
I really think Jimmy needs a unibrow. That space between his eyebrows is two big and he needs some fur in there to set it straight. Then he would really look like Bert of Bert and Ernie.
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Found 53 days, 8 hours, 5 minutes, and 32 seconds ago
time-blog.com
Making months of speculation official, it is being widely reported that NBC will announce today (at a press conference scheduled noon-ish) that Jimmy Fallon will succeed Conan O'Brien as host of Late Night.
It's a brilliant, brilliant move. For Jimmy Fallon. For the rest of the parties involved, I'm not so sure. Granted, Conan O'Brien himself proved that an underrated host could succeed wildly. (As I wrote a few years back when Jimmy Kimmel launched, hosts the world over owe O'Brien a huge debt for lowering the bar of expectations.
Found 53 days, 16 hours, 6 minutes, and 38 seconds ago
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"Mr. Fallon claimed his kindergarten yearbook featured his photo above the caption 'Most Likely to Take Over David Letterman.' (Someone in the crowd, possibly auditioning to be Mr. Fallon's sidekick, let out an audible "Wow" at this point.) When asked what kindergarten had yearbooks, much less ones with references to David Letterman, Mr.
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