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Hey Fallon, you SUCK! (Original Post)
Earth_First
Feb 2014
OP
the bit with the friend who bet him $100 he would never host the tonight show was good
fishwax
Feb 2014
#2
I've never liked him much. I find it laughable that NBC thought Conan's appeal
Common Sense Party
Feb 2014
#3
That was my initial thought when I first heard of Fallon being tapped to replace Leno...
Earth_First
Feb 2014
#6
HipChick
(25,485 posts)1. I thought he was great...Leno had not been funny in years..
Earth_First
(14,910 posts)4. The LGBT digs were the final straw for me...
The Matt Lauer and "lesbian Screech" comments are all I need to know about Fallon.
I gave it a shot for the first time tonight, the last time as it turns out.
840high
(17,196 posts)10. Beg to differ. Leno
better than Fallon.
HipChick
(25,485 posts)11. Leno seems more for the blue hair/gray crowd..
I could never watch him, he's just so corny....
fishwax
(29,149 posts)2. the bit with the friend who bet him $100 he would never host the tonight show was good
Common Sense Party
(14,139 posts)3. I've never liked him much. I find it laughable that NBC thought Conan's appeal
and humor were too young, too weird for the blue-haired Tonight Show audience, but somehow Jarrett/Sully/giggle boy is going to catch on just fine.
Sognefjord
(229 posts)5. You have a point.
I'm watching to see who he thinks his target audience might be.
Earth_First
(14,910 posts)6. That was my initial thought when I first heard of Fallon being tapped to replace Leno...
Turns out there's much more I dislike about Fallon than originally thought.
No Vested Interest
(5,166 posts)7. I like Jimmy Fallon, though I didn't see tonight's show.
He's not mean-spirited. Or overly sophisticated.
Something youthful about him that appeals to this senior.
KurtNYC
(14,549 posts)8. So much more talented than Leno -- sings, plays guitar, impressions, writes (some of) his own materi
material.
Jay Leno could NEVER do this:
or this:
mucifer
(23,542 posts)9. Or "Joking Bad":