2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumThe internet scorches Jimmy Fallon: ‘F*ck him for trying to make Trump likable’
Jimmy Fallon hosted Donald Trump for a softball interview Thursday on The Tonight Show, and social media users blasted the talk show host for trying to make the racist tycoon look like a regular guy.
Mark Harris ✔
@MarkHarrisNYC
I don't fault Jimmy Fallon for not being a journalist. I do fault him for his willingness to serve as hell's court jester.
1:08 AM - 16 Sep 2016 · Massachusetts, USA, United States
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Cloudy Lemonade
@KarmineSA
I get that it's not Jimmy Fallon's job to tear down fascism but he had an opportunity and let it fly by so fuck him.
7:02 AM - 16 Sep 2016
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Eric Wolfson
@EricWolfson
"Wow, Donald Trump went on Jimmy Fallon, acted cute, & let Jimmy mess up his hair! I guess that erases the years of Trump's hate speech!"
6:03 AM - 16 Sep 2016
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Ken Jennings ✔
@KenJennings
In his defense, Jimmy Fallon just pulled in a 35 share among white supremacists 18-49.
12:45 AM - 16 Sep 2016
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http://www.rawstory.com/2016/09/the-internet-scorches-jimmy-fallon-fck-him-for-trying-to-make-trump-likable/
NWCorona
(8,541 posts)I personally think he has a Trump crush
Buckeye_Democrat
(14,856 posts)He "broke character" with laughter so many times on SNL, I wondered if he was a simpleton or high on drugs.
I could accept it if the skits were truly hilarious and clever, but he'd break at just about anything.
geardaddy
(24,931 posts)Can't stand Jimmy Fallon. Total idiot.
Buckeye_Democrat
(14,856 posts)I like it since I agree with it!
http://www.phillymag.com/news/2014/02/24/jimmy-fallon-isnt-funny/
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Back in the 90s, I lived in an apartment off Sunset Boulevard, where I had quite the assortment of neighbors, including Ellen Grandma Walton Corby, Lemmy Kilmister from Motörhead, and a struggling actor named Oscar Nuñez. Oscar was a performer at the Groundlings sketch comedy school, and Id go see him perform.
I remember one show in particular in which each performer got five minutes to do a character of their own creation, and after watching one excruciatingly annoying character named The Masshole, I wanted to walk out. But I stayed to support Oscar.
The Masshole bit was just five minutes of a guy doing a bad Boston accent. No jokes. Just an accent, like My brudda pahked his cahr in the yahd not fahr from Havaaad Yahd. Its a wicked Camaraaa I remember thinking at the end of the gig, Dont quit your day job, kid.
That kid was Jimmy Fallon.
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Hes not funny. Hes not a good actor. Hes not a good interviewer. And so far, he has yet to have an original idea.
Fallon is the kind of guy that pulls out an acoustic guitar at a party and does a Neil Young impersonation or takes someones sunglasses and pretends to be Stevie Wonder.
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Impersonations are the lowest form of comedy, just below puns. And impersonations of Gilbert Gottfried, Jerry Seinfeld and Adam Sandler are the lowest form of impersonations. Fallon does all three regularly.
He was the one guy on Saturday Night Live that could not stay in character. He would crack up laughing, flub his lines and stare directly into the camera.
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I know not everyone falls for Fallons smirky, impish personality. Its been reported that other SNL cast members werent keen on his antics. Tracy Morgan was bothered by the laughing and all that dumb [bleep] he used to do he wouldnt mess with me because I didnt ****ing play that shit. Thats taking all the attention off of everybody else and putting it on you, like, Oh, look at me, Im the cute one. I told him not to do that shit in my sketches, so he never did.
geardaddy
(24,931 posts)I love Tracy Morgan!
lupinella
(365 posts)is rarely something that professionals do organically. It is much more frequently done on purpose to make people feel that you are in on the joke with them.
It can be used to great effect in certain venues. (In my area of the world we call it 'Ren Faire preciousness') However, I've done shows with people who 'broke' at the same bit every night.
It's not the sign of a good performer, it's the sign of a jack-ass who no one wants to work with because he pulls focus.
Fallon has built a career on imitating others & laughing at his own sketches. Not a surprise he cozied up to a self-aggrandizing, hyperbolic douche. Same cloth, different pattern.
monmouth4
(9,709 posts)uponit7771
(90,364 posts)ProudToBeBlueInRhody
(16,399 posts)The Tonight Show is for people who "don't want to be upset with edgy humor" before bed.
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Stonepounder
(4,033 posts)They would have known that Letterman would have torn him to shreds and when he was done the only thing left of Trump would have been that furry thing he wears on his head, only it would be sitting on top of an asshole.
klook
(12,165 posts)The Polack MSgt
(13,192 posts)killing time until the Roots play.
book_worm
(15,951 posts)and in doing so shows no integrity at all. Just remember what Letterman did to Trump when he was on his show as a contrast
Grammy23
(5,813 posts)Was this not a golden opportunity to get a boost in his ratings by heavily promoting the clip of Fallon messing up Trump's "hair" in the hours before it was to be shown? It was a gift to Trump as well, because it portrayed Trump as a likeable guy, instead of the asshole he is.
He kind of did the same thing when he appeared on Dr. Oz and asked the audience if he should "reveal" his health information. I think that was his plan all along....act like it was a spontaneous moment when he had that dramatic reveal intended from the moment he hatched the idea. In time, we may find out that it was Trump's idea for Fallon to mess up his hair.....giving him instructions on how to do it without ripping off his hairpiece. Did anyone notice how the whole thing moved as a whole?? They need to show it in slo-mo so it is obviously a sewn on wig.
Once again Trump proves he knows how to get attention and entertain. Maybe with any luck he will get an offer to play the President on a TV show and spare us the nightmare of him really being the US President.
Fast Walker 52
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Ken Burch
(50,254 posts)jovi
(61 posts)seeing this thing try to be likable, personable, funny is just to fake to me to waste my time. And it feel like I want to vomit every time I see him and think that this could be our next president. Everyone get out and vote, we have to defeat this thing
Augiedog
(2,548 posts)world wide wally
(21,754 posts)Fast Walker 52
(7,723 posts)TonyPDX
(962 posts)I won't be tuning in again.
Buzz Clik
(38,437 posts)kcr
(15,320 posts)Buzz Clik
(38,437 posts)kcr
(15,320 posts)Buzz Clik
(38,437 posts)Someone's not singing in tune with the chorus?
There,there. It will be okay.
geardaddy
(24,931 posts)Buzz Clik
(38,437 posts)geardaddy
(24,931 posts)Buzz Clik
(38,437 posts)geardaddy
(24,931 posts)SCVDem
(5,103 posts)Check out Trevor Noah's slam on Trump on last night's Daily Show.
I also get a better feeling watching Lawrence slam Trump and repeatedly calling him a liar.
Screw the enablers. I record Colbert and don't watch Failin.
classykaren
(769 posts)calimary
(81,466 posts)Not one of 'em. They can try but he'll always be the king. Back then, Johnny Carson's opening monologue was a Must See, every night after the local news. He would put the nation's whole day - news, politics, fads, celebs, gossip, etc. - in perspective. There's nothing like that now, especially since Jon Stewart left the stage. HE was the heir-apparent. And at least we had him for awhile after Carson retired.
It's just not the same. I find the current crop of late night dudes really - um - well, not measuring up.
Buzz Clik
(38,437 posts)Duppers
(28,127 posts)And how could anyone watch Fallon's 12 year old mentality on display in the first place? There are no intelligent conversations, ever. Just ego stroking and "wanna play a game?" Or dance?
Yawn.
geardaddy
(24,931 posts)Duppers
(28,127 posts)Fallon doesn't entertain me. He's just not my kind of humor. I prefer Colbert and Letterman before him.
Gidney N Cloyd
(19,847 posts)dawnie51
(959 posts)the six corporations who own all media have decided they do not want to give up the money in November; they want Trump to win. There is no other way to take this; it can't be explained away or ignored. Trump is heinous and Pence is more so. When the country lies in tatters, we must remember who is at fault, other than a dumbed down electorate. There is no serious election here; it is a WWE or monster truck rally, and it being sold as such. It is sickening.
usaf-vet
(6,207 posts).... hundreds per year. Save your sanity. Buy a Roku and watch what you want.
pstokely
(10,530 posts)nt
tralala
(239 posts)He was doing just fine IMO and he was only going to get better.
TeamPooka
(24,254 posts)stop Trump for us.
Ken Burch
(50,254 posts)If so, that's way cool of him!