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Jimmy Fallon to take over 'Late Night' for NBC

Posted May 12th ago via The Watcher 
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In "news" that had been widely leaked to the news media during the past few months, Jimmy Fallon is set to take over from Conan O'Brien as host of "Late Night" in 2009. O'Brien, as you probably already know, will take over "The Tonight Show" from Jay Leno next year. Leno will exit that show but is expected to resurface on somewhere else on the TV landscape pretty quickly. "You're never really certain of these things, but I just think [Fallon's] built for it," Lorne Michaels told the Associated Press. Michaels, the "Saturday Night Live" executive producer, is shepherding the Fallon transition at "Late Night." "You've just seen that he's really funny, he's smart and he has a really, really good work ethic." Is a work ethic enough? I don't have much of an impression of Fallon; he seems a callow and not particularly memorable performer. And he's not even (by far) the most memorable "Weekend Update" host that "SNL" ever produced. And as Time's James Poniewozik points out (in a post with the brilliant headline "Fallon Upward"), the O'Brien and Fallon situations are not quite comparable. "Granted, Conan O'Brien himself proved that an underrated host could succeed wildly. (As I wrote a few years back when Jimmy Kimmel launched, hosts the world over owe O'Brien a huge debt for lowering the bar of expectations.) "But O'Brien was someone whom few outside Simpsons fans knew at all, and even those who liked his writing hadn't seen him before a camera. Fallon is a known quantity'just known for something else, reading scripted material and doing characters, and the marketplace's verdict on that work is mixed, judging from his ...

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