Why Jimmy Fallon Will Fail
- Posted on: Jul. 21, 2008
- 18 Comments
He’s not funny and he acts like a baby. Late night requires a man, not a boy.
Posted in Jimmy Fallon, Lorne Michaels, SNL, TV18 comments
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Fallon, to me, looked like a “holy shit, we have to get someone!” choice. That show’s gonna bomb faster than Dick Cheney hits Iran.
Secondly, web video is totally a step backward. No one in their right mind would rather do web video than television. The idea that it’s more free, etc., is usually being spread by people who could never get hired by a television network in the first place as a way of placating their bruised ego.
Like I said here once before, new media is old media for people who couldn’t get a job in old media.
ReplyBingo
ReplyI think there’s also the reality of human nature that you often tend to want what you don’t have… whether it’s better or worse, a step forwards or backwards… if you don’t have it, you want it.
Marriage is a pretty good example of this phenomenon. I’m happily married but I still feel like it would probably be better to be single, while all my single friends wish like hell they were married.
The grass is always greener. Maybe that’s part of it, don’t you think?
ReplyExcept that a lot of web-minded folks have deluded themselves into thinking that television isn’t a step forward for them and that the internet is where they want to be.
Credit to Loren for being honest enough to point out that if he got a TV deal he’d be off the web in a heartbeat. I think most of the cewebrities would probably do the same no matter how unwilling they are to admit it.
ReplySorry Loren, but I think you got the wrong information. NBC is actually pretty smart on this one.
What they do is testing Fallon (and potential audience’s reaction) FIRST on the web, BEFORE he actually takes over the late show in 2009 (when Conan O’Brien will replace Jay Leno).
Thus how is that “backwards”? It’s FIRST on the web, and THEN - if it works - on TV. That’s really a first, and imho a smart move from NBC, proving - if need be - that they’re not really sure (as all of us), about Fallon and whether he has enough talent to handle the show.
And don’t say ‘never’ about you and TV. I’m sure there’s a spot for you in Comedy Central. Have you ever contacted Jon Stewart? You could start as a smart-ass/tough-guy sort of reporter/correspondent in Irak or something, could be very funny.
Source: http://blog.wired.com/underwire/2008/07/jimmy-fallon-to.html
Replyhey baby, lower that camera down….is this a total nude shot?? who cares about Jimmy, i just wanna know, boxers or briefs or just plain eh, Ka-man-do.
so if a bunch of guys are watching your videos and you are naked (even if they don’t know you are), does that make them gay?
Reply@Simon
Has 1938media turned into a gay show? Probably. At least it looks like Loren is trying to reach a new audience: the San Francisco crowd. Maybe to get a round of VC money who knows. After all Jason Calacanis is a fag, right?
Anyway, the real question is: “what is Loren doing naked in the middle of Central Park?”
Reply@simon snout,
You might be onto something there, guv’…just may be…
Personally, I dig LF’s Dice Clay raspy rap and the whole ciggy dragging affect…I think it totally goes with 1938’s territory, edgy and smooth at the same time, if you catch my drift.
Frankly, I don’t know too many others online who mix it up the way Loren can, and there are many Wannabes to the E-Throne.
It’s all going to work out, kids.
The purple fart clouds will totally blow the hell over, the Grand Cycles will resume their Eternal Majesty. The stock exchanges will have their bear and bull streaks, there’ll be an election in November ‘08, and the boys will eventually come home from Iraq — just like we did from ‘nam.
Loren knows this intimately — and he’s chilled as Haagen-Dazs about it. So chilled, in fact, that m’main man can lay back in Central Park (or wherever he chooses to gallivant) and read the entirety of us, the loyal denizens of the Interweb, the Sacred Riot Act.
As you were, LF…
Take no prisoners, chew ‘em up, spit ‘em out.
It’s clobberin’ time.
Signed,
ADM in Prague
ps the infamy of the Munich crisis of September 1938 lives forever. Never again!
ReplyThe Bottom line Mr. Fallon is not funny on any medium.
Although wait a second theres… still the morse code audience, he might translate well there.
Replymaybe jimmy and loren can do a naked video show together until jimmy gets the hang of things. Since loren is fond of Central Park, maybe in front of the Lewis Carroll statues to add another twist???
ReplyNBC f-d up by giving Leno the boot. He will move on to create his own non-NBC empire probably around cars and comedy, his true loves anyhow. I don’t think Leno’s passion is listening to celebs talk about their dogs and kids etc..
I’ll bet that Leno will make more loot and the tonight show ratings won’t be as good with Conan. Conan is real funny for his niche but doesn’t have the broad appeal Leno has. Leno will have the last laugh. I’ve met the dude a couple of times and he is a cool guy, too bad NBC are dicks.
Reply“If I ever get on TV I’m not going back to the web”
Sounds like what I’ve been saying to my friends forever: “When I win several million dollars, you’ll never see me again. I’ll buy some new friends.”
ReplyDennis. Exactly.
ReplyI like Dennis Bjørn.
I’ll bet his new friends will be bi-sexual.;-)
ReplyThe Jimmy Fallon impression was so good, i actually liked him until I realized he is a tool. I would love to see you take him on. TV to internet, hmmmm? Not so much.
Reply@Vince: Sounds like a win-win situation to me =P
ReplyWith a philosophy like that, you can’t lose, Dennis.;-)
ReplyJust a comment on the web being a step backwards. It depends on what you want. If it’s money, which undoubtedly is the thing for most people, the web is definitely a step backwards. Audience wise, i’m not so sure. Twit live for example has more than 10x the audience leo laporte had on tech tv, according to him and Dvorak.
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