Archive: November 2008

 Over the weekend, a video interview popped up on the Internet in which Roots drummer/leader ?uestlove announced that the long-running group will be retiring from large-scale touring and taking on a new gig as Jimmy Fallon's house band when he takes over NBC's "Late Night" from Conan O'Brien in 2009. More @ MTV: http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1599642/20081118/roots.jhtml?rsspartner=rssYahooNewscrawler

Watching Jimmy Fallon strut his stuff onstage is two cans of Red Bull and a caffeine pill chaser for the psyche. He is a blur of boundless energy, elastic voiced, a troubadour satirist with a guitar.Exhibit A: During one bit Saturday night at The Improv in Schaumburg, he did 16 spot-on celebrity impressions in 160 seconds.Yes, he may be playing Woodfield Mall tonight (the Branson, Mo., of the northwest suburbs), but Fallon, he of charming boyish aloofness, of meticulously kempt-unkempt hair, is a prince in waiting.In March, the "Saturday Night Live" alumnus inherits NBC's vice presidency of late-night television. As "The Tonight Show" swears in President Conan O'Brien, Fallon will take over "Late Night's" 11:35 p.m. slot.More @ http://www.chicagotribune.com/features/lifestyle/chi-jimmy-fallon-1111nov11,0,1523659.story