Talk:The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon

A fact from The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 21 September 2013 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon is set to be broadcast from Studio 6B at NBC Studios in New York City, the same studio where Johnny Carson hosted The Tonight Show from 1962 to 1972?

A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2013/September. The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon.

Wikipedia

Tip: Anchors are case-sensitive in most browsers.

This article links to one or more target anchors that no longer exist.

[[List of Jimmy Fallon sketches#Egg Russian Roulette|egg Russian roulette]] The anchor (#Egg Russian Roulette) has been deleted by other users before.

Please help fix the broken anchors. You can remove this template after fixing the problems. | Reporting errors

This article is rated C-class on Wikipedia's content assessment scale.
It is of interest to the following WikiProjects:

Television Mid‑importance

	Television portal This article is within the scope of WikiProject Television, a collaborative effort to develop and improve Wikipedia articles about television programs. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page where you can join the discussion. To improve this article, please refer to the style guidelines for the type of work.TelevisionWikipedia:WikiProject TelevisionTemplate:WikiProject Televisiontelevision articles
Mid	This article has been rated as Mid-importance on the project's importance scale.

United States: Television Low‑importance

	United States portal This article is within the scope of WikiProject United States, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of topics relating to the United States of America on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the ongoing discussions. Template Usage Articles Requested! Become a Member Project Talk Alerts United StatesWikipedia:WikiProject United StatesTemplate:WikiProject United StatesUnited States articles
Low	This article has been rated as Low-importance on the project's importance scale.
	Television portal This article is supported by American television task force (assessed as High-importance).

Comedy Mid‑importance

	Comedy portal This article is within the scope of WikiProject Comedy, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of comedy on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.ComedyWikipedia:WikiProject ComedyTemplate:WikiProject ComedyComedy articles
Mid	This article has been rated as Mid-importance on the project's importance scale.

YouTube Low‑importance

This article is within the scope of WikiProject YouTube, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of YouTube and related topics on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.YouTubeWikipedia:WikiProject YouTubeTemplate:WikiProject YouTubeYouTube articles

Low This article has been rated as Low-importance on the project's importance scale.

WikiProject YouTube To-do:

A list of articles needing cleanup associated with this project is available. See also the tool's wiki page and the index of WikiProjects.

Here are some tasks awaiting attention:

Article requests : see list.
Assess : Apply the assessment scale on Unknown-importance YouTube articles + Unassessed YouTube articles
Cleanup : See cleanup listing
Maintain : This WikiProject
Stubs : Category:Stub-Class YouTube articles
Other :
- Substitute {{WikiProject YouTube/Invite Members}} on user talk pages
- Check out edit requests on Talk:List of YouTubers

Racism Controversy

There was a racist outburst from the crowd on 8/13, with people cheering the census reports of a decline of white population. This left Mr. Fallon bewildered, but no action was taken to remove the offenders. He continued to deliver the joke, which suggested that white people like unfashionable, boring music. How should this be addressed in the article?

Starring or with

So far it is being called the Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon based on news articles. Name of article should be changed.

Fan made Graphics

Fan made graphics cannot be put on this Wikipedia. Someone keeps putting them up. Please make a conscious effort to remove these graphics when they are put up. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Bbruskin (talk • contribs) 18:10, 17 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]

The graphic currently displayed does appear to be The official logo identity for The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon 76.185.190.195 (talk) 06:36, 12 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Sketches/games

I do not believe it would be accurate to say that games follow the monologue when no games have been done on the show so far. this i believe is original research. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.223.147.118 (talk) 05:27, 19 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

On February 19th a game of charades was played on the show, so as the original poster, I rescind my earlier comment — Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.223.147.118 (talk) 04:49, 20 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Brian Williams and Ann Curry

Brian Williams, Savannah Guthrie, Harry Smith, and Ann Curry Rap's Bitch Please on June 25 2014

Host age

With Seth Meyers hosting the Late Night franchise and Jimmy Fallon hosting The Tonight Show franchise, this marks the first time in history that the host of Late Night is actually older than the Tonight Show host; with Meyers (40) being older than Fallon (39) by nine months.

Didn't Letterman host Late Night a few months still after Jay Leno had taken over the Tonight Show? If so, the above is not accurate (since Letterman is older than Leno).

Spin-off?

The Spike series Lip Sync Battle is based upon the recurring segment on Fallon's Tonight Show. That should make it Tonight's very first spin-off, shouldn't it? (Notwithstanding syndicated compilations of Carson's skits.) 68.146.52.234 (talk) 21:40, 10 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

This topic was never answered, but I think it’s relevant again in the face of The Kids Tonight Show (a spinoff of the show as a whole) and That's My Jam (also based on a recurring segment of the show) CreecregofLife (talk) 04:06, 28 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Format addition

Based on Zoglin, Richard (May 14, 2015). "David Letterman Knew How to Talk". The New York Times. Retrieved 2015-05-16. {{cite web}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |1= (help), which says:

The late-night world that Mr. Letterman leaves behind is almost all performance. Jimmy Fallon has turned the “Tonight Show” into a festival of YouTube-ready comedy bits — lip-syncing contests, slow-jams of the news, musical impressions, games of Pictionary and egg Russian roulette. His interviews, meanwhile, have resurrected the kind of Merv Griffin-style celebrity gush that Mr. Letterman thought he had stamped out years ago. Mr. Fallon is setting the pace for the new, performance-dominated late-night scene.

I added the following to The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon#Format:

Following the monologue, the main segments are a mix of interviews and performances—examples of the latter include musical impressions, lip-syncing contests, games of Pictionary and egg Russian roulette.His celebrity interviews are throwbacks to "Merv Griffin-style celebrity gush."

67.101.7.247 (talk) 05:09, 16 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]