Last Monday former “SNL” star Jimmy Fallon started a daily video blog on nbc.com to give viewers a behind-the-scenes look at his new late night show. Let’s hope his real show is a lot funnier.
The video blogs were originally supposed to be a practice run of how Fallon’s going to host the “Late Night with Conan O’Brien” predecessor, according to Variety; but, now they are meant to be more of a free-style look at the preparations before the show debuts on March 2. Yet, the video blogs could benefit with a little more structure.
Some of Fallon’s insider information is interesting. For example, the Roots are going to be his in-house band, and every night fans of the guest band will be able to come out on the stage à la concert-style. We also got to see a model of the set including where there’s going to be trap doors for surprise guests to arrive.
Otherwise his blogs are kind of a snore. We got to watch Fallon read comments on his website where he practiced his sad face when someone called him “a douchebag who doesn’t deserve his job.” There was also the bit where he and his announcer, Steve Higgins, endlessly went back and forth about if his dismal movie with Queen Latifah was called “Taxi” or “Taxi Cab: The Movie.” We’d expect funnier from Fallon.
We’d also expect funnier when current “SNL” star Fred Armisen stopped by one night to do a mock interview with Fallon. Armisen was supposed to play the role of a bad guest to test Fallon’s interviewing skills, which just turned out to be a bad skit.
So log onto nbc.com for his insider bits; but, if the comedy doesn’t get funnier Fallon will have a hard time keeping viewers awake at their laptops let alone at 12:35 a.m.
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