Archive: March 2009

"Would you like to meet Jimmy Fallon at a bar Friday night?"
Honestly, I was planning on making pasta, watching Dollhouse and turning in early. But when I heard the late-night host would be dropping by a local bar to hang out and buy patrons a round of drinks, I decided to embrace the opportunity.
More @ USA Today: here.

When his NBC talk show premiered last week, Jimmy Fallon introduced a comedy bit spoofing TV bosses' fixation on attracting certain market demographics. Fallon's show is supposedly going after blond mothers, according to the bit, partly because "they look less sick and sad than their brunet counterparts."
 
More @ LAtimes: http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-cotown-ratings11-2009mar11,0,4291014.story?track=rss

On Wednesday's Late Night with Jimmy Fallon, the talk show host challenged Cameron Diaz to a dance-off (see video, above).
Both took turns trying to out-do each other with wacky dance moves as Fallon's house band, The Roots, played.
Diaz -- who pranced around in black satin trousers and heels -- was saucy throughout her routine, giving Fallon the "talk to the hand" gesture and calling him a "bi-atch."
More @ USA Magazine: http://www.usmagazine.com/news/cameron-diaz-jimmy-fallon-have-a-dance-off-200953

NEW YORK – Almost a year after Jimmy Fallon was named new host of NBC's "Late Night," and 10 days after predecessor Conan O'Brien departed, Fallon made his debut Monday. Fallon's opening-night guests included Robert De Niro and Justin Timberlake, with Van Morrison as his musical guest. (It airs at 12:35 a.m. EST.) More @ Yahoo: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090303/ap_en_ot/tv_fallon_premieres_7