Archive: May 2009
Late Night With Jimmy Fallon Is Out of Beta
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SNL's Jimmy Fallon Receives Bachelor's Degree
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On a Friday afternoon in mid-March Jimmy Fallon stands on the stage of NBC's Studio 6B fine-tuning tonight's monologue. Twenty or so Rockefeller Center tourists are quietly ushered in to watch the host of Late Night With Jimmy Fallon tell one joke after another, each scrawled on a scrap of paper. If the gag works and the audience laughs, it stays in the pile and makes it on-air; if it stiffs, Fallon drops the paper to the floor, where it's presumably swept up and FedExed to Carson Daly.
"President Obama has been invited to his 30-year high school reunion in Hawaii," Fallon reads, teetering back and forth in his sneakers, as if he can barely wait to drop the punch line. "I heard they tracked him down on Facebook."
The joke draws a huge laugh from the crowd, possibly because these polite Midwesterners are hoping that the sooner this is over, the sooner they can catch Al Roker leaving the Today show set across the street. Looking a bit surprised by their reaction, Fallon turns to Late Night coproducer Gavin Purcell, who's sitting on one of the guest couches balancing a laptop on his knees.
"I don't even get that." Fallon shrugs. "I like it, though. Do you get it, Gavin?"
Full article here: http://www.wired.com/entertainment/hollywood/magazine/17-06/ff_fallon
"President Obama has been invited to his 30-year high school reunion in Hawaii," Fallon reads, teetering back and forth in his sneakers, as if he can barely wait to drop the punch line. "I heard they tracked him down on Facebook."
The joke draws a huge laugh from the crowd, possibly because these polite Midwesterners are hoping that the sooner this is over, the sooner they can catch Al Roker leaving the Today show set across the street. Looking a bit surprised by their reaction, Fallon turns to Late Night coproducer Gavin Purcell, who's sitting on one of the guest couches balancing a laptop on his knees.
"I don't even get that." Fallon shrugs. "I like it, though. Do you get it, Gavin?"
Full article here: http://www.wired.com/entertainment/hollywood/magazine/17-06/ff_fallon
SNL's Jimmy Fallon Receives Bachelor's Degree
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Jimmy Fallon, who graduated from New York’s College of St. Rose on Saturday, tells his fellow graduates that one is never too old to graduate from college. He's a comic, actor, Saturday Night Live veteran and Late Night talk show host. Add one more thing to Jimmy Fallon's resume: College graduate. Fallon, 34, finally got his bachelor's degree
Saturday, 14 years after he left an upstate New York college to pursue his comedy career. The television and film star picked up his degree in communications and spoke to graduates at Saturday's College of Saint Rose commencement. Fallon was a Saint Rose student from 1992 through 1995, studying computer science before switching to communications. In the second half of his senior year, he left the Albany college to pursue a show business career. He was one semester short of graduating. He earned his degree after presenting college officials with a portfolio of his work in TV and film, which satisfied remaining credits. More than 800 students attended the ceremony and received degrees from the school. There are more than 28,000 Saint Rose alumni.
Full article here: http://thecelebritycafe.com/features/27657.html
Saturday, 14 years after he left an upstate New York college to pursue his comedy career. The television and film star picked up his degree in communications and spoke to graduates at Saturday's College of Saint Rose commencement. Fallon was a Saint Rose student from 1992 through 1995, studying computer science before switching to communications. In the second half of his senior year, he left the Albany college to pursue a show business career. He was one semester short of graduating. He earned his degree after presenting college officials with a portfolio of his work in TV and film, which satisfied remaining credits. More than 800 students attended the ceremony and received degrees from the school. There are more than 28,000 Saint Rose alumni.
Full article here: http://thecelebritycafe.com/features/27657.html