Occasionally on this blog we like to check in with Late Night with Jimmy Fallon to see if the show is still killing it.
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Yes. Yes it is.
Category Archives: Talkies
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As if trying to break his own record for sheer awesomeness (holding both the World and Olympic titles), Tom Hanks has been on a tour of hilarity the past week, turning up on GMA (well, that was more a tour of obscenity) SNL, Night of Too Many Stars (where he was the only celebrity with the integrity and temerity to eat a White Castle slider on camera) and Late Show with David Letterman (we just regret that we were deprived of this). But he saved the best for last (assuming this was the closing night of Hanxfest 2012), reaching new levels of awesomeness on last night’s Late Night with Jimmy Fallon. We don’t like to throw around the word perfection too often, but we feel like it’s appropriate here. Perfection:
The best slam poetry since Charlie Mackenzie.
And for more about that particular episode of Full House referenced above, see here.
In Case You Were Wondering, Jimmy Fallon Is Still Killing It
We don’t talk about it much anymore, because it’s like pointing out that the sun rose in the East, it’s just the immutable truth, but Jimmy Fallon continues to be brilliant on Late Night, late night in and late night out. His latest, The Evolution of Dad Dancing, is just the latest in what is now a multi-year string of genius, originality and unbridled fun.
(and, if you’re wondering, our Dad’s trademark dance falls somewhere in between the “Clap When You Want To” and the “Until You Hurt Your Back”)
Filed under Brilliance, Good Humor, Talkies
Parting Shot: Despicable Them
Two the worsts that taste worse together.
Filed under Parting Shot, Talkies, The Worst
Last Night in ‘Late Night’: There’s a Reason We Have a Category Titled “It’s Gross”
For things exactly like this:
And Jimmy started off the episode so strong, borrowing “The Word” from Stephen Colbert’s playbook (their rivalry/friendship, btw, has to be one of the best ongoing storylines on all of television right now. Including Dexter (which, we admit, we’ve never seen)). Kiss your mother (or wife) with that mouth?
Alternate joke: if Jimmy wasn’t drunk after playing white wine pong, he most certainly was after that. A quick peck from Kathie Lee alone is enough to exceed most breathalyzer tests. A prolonged smooch like that, Jimmy must have been well beyond the legal limit.
Filed under It's gross., Rip-off, Talkies, Today in Today
The Intersection of the Venn Diagram of Things That We Love and Our Dad Loves
Well, now Jimmy Fallon has done it all. His greatest feat was not a dead-on parody of the Real Housewives, or Late Night‘s own version of Rockapella, or even his engineering of the California Dreams reunion. Nope. Fallon’s biggest coup to date is presenting a musical performance that would fascinate both us and our dad. And with this performance of “Party in the USA,” with Fallon in the guise of Neil Young and joined by Young’s sometimes bandmates David Crosby and Graham Nash, Jimmy accomplishes just that. Crobsy, (Stills,) Nash, & Young is perhaps our dad’s favorite musical group of all time; certainly Crosby is the singer whose mustache our father would most try to emulate if he were a folk rock luminary. And, as for us, we never tire of Fallon’s remarkable, often stunning, impressions. Not when he was on SNL, and not now. At this point Jimmy probably sounds more like Neil Young than Neil Young does. So, Late Night, thank you for brining a father and son together (in front of a computer screen, not saying a word to one another).
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And, in case you were curious, here’s an abridged version of said venn diagram.
There Are No Words
In honor of, well, Friday.
Vodpod videos no longer available.There needs to be a new, better word to articulate just how incredible this is. Hyper-brilliant? Super-genius? Indescribable supernova of awesome? But none of these do this, and the superb work that Late Night has been doing, justice.
Doesn’t it speak volumes, though, that Stephen Colbert chose to do this performance not on his show, but on Jimmy Fallon’s? Even Colbert knows that Late Night is the most fun, inventive, irreverent game in town these days. So, supreme kudos all around.
Everybody’s lookin’ forward to the weekend!
Filed under Brilliance, Talkies, Virulent
Ladies and Gentlemen, Your Next Movie Star (And He’s Just Like Us)
As if Jason Sudeikis needed to endear himself to us even more, he went on Conan last night that and showed that he’s into the exact same things we are: beer and wings.
Vodpod videos no longer available.After the jump we detail our very personal experiences with Natty Light and Buffalo Wild Wings
Last Week on ‘Top Chef’: The Boorgerman
If you thought we couldn’t keep up our habit of recapping Top Chef just before the new episode premieres, then you were wrong. DEAD WRONG. So here we go! (note: our DVR ran out of space when recording this episode so we cannot provide our usual primary source materials. Sorry!)
- For the Quickfire challenge they made fondue! Just like a party my parents might have! But Carla was struggling and lamented the fact that there was never any time.
- Time to sample the dishes! Padma seemed to particularly enjoy Tiffany’s entry.
Jumped The Snark 
