Jimmy Fallon to host primetime emmys

[willywonka666]

Really? Fallon?

[Childish Gambino]

Have you watched Late Night lately? Over the last 5-6 months he has REALLY grown into the show, making it his own. Its almost a variety show with some pretty hilarious interviews. Hes got the perfect charisma for it I reckon.

[Ben Wyatt]

May 6, 2010 8:20:36 GMT -5 Childish Gambino said:

Have you watched Late Night lately? Over the last 5-6 months he has REALLY grown into the show, making it his own. Its almost a variety show with some pretty hilarious interviews. Hes got the perfect charisma for it I reckon.

Agreed.

[Sir Woodrow]

Yeah Jimmy is actualy pretty damn entertaining now and at least it's not Leno.

[Gus Richlen: Ruffian]

well, that will be the most boring awards show since 2008.

[pks]

To be fair, who can really follow NPH?

[Phosphor Glow]

May 6, 2010 8:20:36 GMT -5 Childish Gambino said:

Have you watched Late Night lately? Over the last 5-6 months he has REALLY grown into the show, making it his own. Its almost a variety show with some pretty hilarious interviews. Hes got the perfect charisma for it I reckon.

This indeed. I've always been a huge supporter of Jimmy. I think he's a lot more funny than people really give him credit for.

[Yami Daimao]

May 6, 2010 8:20:36 GMT -5 Childish Gambino said:

Have you watched Late Night lately? Over the last 5-6 months he has REALLY grown into the show, making it his own. Its almost a variety show with some pretty hilarious interviews. Hes got the perfect charisma for it I reckon.

This. He started off a bit slow, but he was new to it, could you really blame him? He's made his own niche, and is no longer considered "that guy who replaced Conan".

I really dig the guy.

[Friday Night SmackOwn]

I have no problems with this. Like others have noted, Jimmy has done well making Late Night into his own show, and he'll probably be a good Emmy host.

[Millie D]

i wonder if he will ask the celebs to lick their emmys for ten

[Toom E. Guci]

Well, maybe he can get us a Saved By the Bell: College Years Reunion? That was on in primetime.

[Big DSR Energy]

May 6, 2010 11:42:38 GMT -5 Phosphor Glow said:

May 6, 2010 8:20:36 GMT -5 Childish Gambino said:

Have you watched Late Night lately? Over the last 5-6 months he has REALLY grown into the show, making it his own. Its almost a variety show with some pretty hilarious interviews. Hes got the perfect charisma for it I reckon.

This indeed. I've always been a huge supporter of Jimmy. I think he's a lot more funny than people really give him credit for.

I am in agreement with you.

[Phosphor Glow]

May 7, 2010 12:50:20 GMT -5 Big DSR Energy said:

May 6, 2010 11:42:38 GMT -5 Phosphor Glow said:

This indeed. I've always been a huge supporter of Jimmy. I think he's a lot more funny than people really give him credit for.

I am in agreement with you.

This, sir, is quite the surprise.

We're usually so at odds with each other.

[pegasuswarrior]

I agree with just about every post. I DVR Late Night every night and try to take it in as much as I can. Sure, there are hits and misses, but there are a lot more laughs and fun on there than not.

Dance Your Head and Hands Off Show Host personality is tops: I *live* for that final diatribe of rhymes that he uses to conclude the "shows"

Scene-in-Reverse is absolutely brilliant and fantastic physical comedy that never fails

Celebrity Charades

Slow Jamming the News is so awesome that it's the name of one of my fantasy baseball teams

... and I could go on and on.

I *love* how he gets the audience involved in every show. I think it's pretty novel.

And Artie Lang with Olivia Munn was the best interview segment on late night I've seen in a great many years. Endless impromptu banter that just demolishes all of that scripted and rehearsed bogus crap you see on just about every other late night show. (Definitely not saying he's the best interviewer, because he's not, but when they go off script, it's often pretty darn awesome.)

[Throwback]

I'm willing to say that at least half of the Fallon hate is coming from people who aren't even watching him. He's grown into quite a host and he's constantly making me laugh. Even the lame sketches make me at least giggle because of Fallon's reaction to them.

Big heads, Big heads, Big heads.

[Throwback]

May 6, 2010 15:58:01 GMT -5 Toom E. Guci said:

Well, maybe he can get us a Saved By the Bell: College Years Reunion? That was on in primetime.

The California Dreams Reunion was pretty good.

here's part 2. (can't find part 1)

Watch out for Belding

[Koda, Master Crunchyroller]

I LOVE Fallon now. He's become quite funny, and, the biggest reason why I love him, he's given video games a gateway into the mainstream public.

He loves to talk about video games, hell one time he had Dwight Howard on the show, not to talk about basketball(like pretty much the other talk show hosts would), but rather to talk about him being the cover of NBA Live 10.

And, the gaming industry itself has decided to support Fallon back, especially Microsoft, having the first public demo of Natal on Fallon's show last year(like a week or two after E3), and just a couple of weeks ago, CliffyB officially announced Gears of War 3 on the show(I say officially, despite everyone who follows gaming news already knowing thanks to the Xbox Live ad department accidentally showing ads for Gears of War 3 on the Xbox Live dashboard 3 days early).

[-Lithium-]

May 7, 2010 19:29:36 GMT -5 Throwback said:

I'm willing to say that at least half of the Fallon hate is coming from people who aren't even watching him.

Its typical entertainment criticism. No matter how much he improves, for the next few years people will still pretend he's as bad/awkward/nervous as he was when they first saw the show last June. Once something like that is in the publics head, it sticks around no matter what...