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Jimmy Fallon Replacing Jay Leno For Sure

After all that speculation, it's totally true. Tonight will have a new host as of tomorrow. Well, as of next spring,. Jimmy Fallon steps in where Jay Leno departs.

Jimmy Fallon Inhales Anchovies and Meatballs at Frankies Spuntino

Jimmy Fallon is not afraid of a little bad breath. The Late Night host eats his way through a plate of peppers and anchovies -- "So great. Phenomenal. You will not believe."-- during a recent GQ interview conducted at Frankies Spuntino, before going to town on an order of the restaurant's signature ... More >>

Watch A Hobbit Fan Ravage Denny's Entire Middle Earth Menu in 20 Minutes

Think you really stuffed your face this Christmas? Jamie "The Bear" McDonald probably ate a few bites more than you did. The competitive eater visited his local Denny's to try and down all eleven dishes on the restaurant's Hobbit-themed menu. What, exactly, is served for breakfast, lunch, and dinn ... More >>

When The Gay Topic Is The Deal Breaker With Celebrities

I always push the G word in celebrities' faces and they--or at least their publicists--sometimes respond by using their own G word, Goodbye! For example: *When I interviewed Dolly Parton on the phone once, she was nothing but delightful, as she always is. But when the interview turned to the vari ... More >>

Mario Batali Busts a Move, Eats Doritos and Could Have Been Your Pool Boy

photo by Melanie Dunea PamEven more Mario.​ Yesterday, we sat down with Mario Batali to discuss his new cookbook, Molto Batali: Simple Family Dinners from My Home to Yours; his new show, The Chew; and his ever-changing role as a food icon. Today, he reveals what he might have done had the whol ... More >>

Free Will Astrology: July 13-19, 2011

NO, JIMMY, THANK YOU!

Fallon loves being gracious

Stephen Colbert's Americone Dream v. Jimmy Fallon's Late Night Snack

Easier to stomach than Fallon himself?​Stephen Colbert isn't the only late-night TV host to have his own Ben & Jerry's ice cream flavor. Jimmy Fallon's Late Night Snack, packed with salty caramel swirls and fudge-covered potato-chip clusters, was just announced and will soon be available in a ... More >>

Top Chef: Chicken Pot Pie!

​ Tre is gone, and Mike and Fabio still can't get over the fact that Antonia won last week's episode by serving a pile of French mussels at an Italian restaurant. And Dale can't get over what the judges said about his food. "It crushes me to the core when they say my food is bland," he says, ... More >>

Odd Future Really Are Performing On Late Night With Jimmy Fallon

​As of this moment, Odd Future frontman Tyler the Creator's last Twitter update reads: "88; To My Aryan Brothers." (The one before that goes: "Fucking Whore.") Seven hours ago Tyler's OFWGKTA cohort Hodgy Beats wrote: "i get high at 2:26am. swag." And yet somehow on February 16th, 2011, these ... More >>

HOW TWEET IT IS

Your life performed in 140 characters or less

The Meatball Shop Sets Its Sights on the West Village

A couple of nights ago, in between making port toddies (hot toddies with port) and expounding upon their "secret to a great meatball" on Jimmy Fallon, the Meatball Shop's Michael Chernow and Daniel Holzman revealed that in addition to their upcoming location in Williamsburg, they're also planning ... More >>

Paul McCartney Sings About Scrambled Eggs and Tofu Wings with Jimmy Fallon

It's the Friday two weeks before Christmas and two weeks after Thanksgiving (and the day after the end of Hanukkah). You're probably fasting before the onslaught of holiday parties begins or still trying to work off a fortnight of turkey sandwiches and leftover pumpkin pie. In any case, we figure ... More >>

Let's Critique Some Other "Play Guitar With Pavement On Jimmy Fallon" Contest Entries

​So Pavement, in celebration of the five-night NYC stand that is (almost) finally upon us, are playing Jimmy Fallon later this month, and held a contest to determine their third guitarist -- submit a video of yourself playing a Pavement song, submit yourself to whatever online-voting scheme Fa ... More >>

Pavement Just Invited You To Play Guitar With Them On Late Night With Jimmy Fallon

​You remember Pavement, right? That band whose Central Park reunion shows you bought tickets for a solid year ago? Who then pranced around the country for most of 2010 while you patiently waited and ruefully read fawning concert recaps from other cities and very possibly lost said tickets? (Se ... More >>

The Best Tweets of Kanye West's First 24 Hours on Twitter

Welcome to so many more photos like this one. Via @KanyeWest, of course.​Even as we write this, Kanye West is cruising through New York in a Maybach, listening to Andre Rieu's recording of the "William Tell Overture," talking about the genius of classical music and the hardship of dating model ... More >>

Watch Rick Ross And The Roots Do "B.M.F." On Jimmy Fallon

Everyone's favorite real-life-gangster-impersonating fabulist dropped by late Friday night to do the "I think I'm Big Meech" one with everyone's favorite late-night band: Guitarist Captain Kirk, in particular, has an interesting sonic assignment this time out. Rick starts out showing not much more ... More >>

SNL's Men Get Films Careers, But the Women Don't

​Why is it only the male stars of Saturday Night Live who end up with the big movie careers? Flip back through the years, and think about it: John Belushi, Chevy Chase, Dan Aykroyd, Bill Murray, Eddie Murphy, Dana Carvey, Mike Myers, Adam Sandler, Rob Schneider, Will Ferrell, and tons more e ... More >>

The Roots' How I Got Over Is Out Tomorrow; A Most Likely Pretty Epic "Roots Jam" Is Set For Highline Ballroom Tonight

Lest you forget, the best house band in Late Night by orders of magnitude (I mean, did you see this?) put out records, too. And so How I Got Over, the first Roots release since they took the Jimmy Fallon job -- "an album of doubts, parables and pep talks," sez the Times -- is out tomorrow (stream ... More >>

Tonight! Dan Deacon, Jimmy Fallon, Das Racist, Simian Mobile Disco, Reverend Horton Heat, And Dylan Fest

Tonight, Dan Deacon, the life-affirming ("Who wants to live forever!?") king of spazzcore, plays the Cake Shop alongside Ponytail's Dustin Wong, a comparably minimalistic acoustic doodler. Over at Party Expo, the ubiquitous Das Racist celebrate Street Boners' hipster fashion joke book, while Briti ... More >>

Here's Jimmy!

The new late-night prince

Just How Inane Was This Weekend in Washington D.C.? Unbelievably So!

Political Powerhouses Jessica Simpson and Jimmy Fallon​No one with any sense of perspective believes that Real America -- most of the nation, fly-over country, everywhere but the coastal cities, whatever you want to call it -- gives a quarter of a shit about the White House Correspondents Dinner. ... More >>

Liquid Liquid Are Playing With the Roots in the Late Night With Jimmy Fallon Studios, Right Now

Twitpic by @brainofjoacohen​We were very excited when this news was first announced, and now it's come to pass: Liquid Liquid, the finest art-punk dance weirdoes ever to do it in downtown New York, are performing with the Roots on Jimmy Fallon tonight, and they're in the television studio now, ... More >>

The National Debut High Violet's "Terrible Love" on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon

That's one way to announce your return--with two secret shows tonight and tomorrow in Brooklyn, a new album due in May and, last night, a live premiere of that record's first track, "Terrible Love," on Jimmy Fallon's TV show. The song is as paradoxically melancholy and galvanizing as every Nationa ... More >>

New Kids on the Block are Collaborating With the Roots Tonight

Oh boy​Twitter don't lie, folks. Or at least, the verified NKOTB account doesn't. Tune in to Jimmy Fallon tonight for the funkiest version of "The Right Stuff" ever.

Obligatory Weekend Awkward Collabo Video Roundup: Conan O'Brien and Friends Say Farewell to the Tonight Show with "Freebird"; Jay-Z, Rihanna, and Bono Do Damage During the 'Hope For Haiti' Telethon

It took braver men than us to sit through the entirety of the "Hope for Haiti Now" telethon--our taste for artist self-martyrdom/self-aggrandizement is minimal, and since we have no desire to talk to George Clooney or Stevie Wonder personally on the telephone by way of giving money to a desperatel ... More >>

Attention, All Roots Fans Unnerved By This Impending Leno/Conan/Fallon Debacle

​ ​ Connect the dots here and you get a little worried for Jimmy Fallon and his moderately popular house band. Not too worried, though. Yet.

Ha, Clipse's "Grindin'", the Roots Remix

Almost definitely not the song the Clipse are going to perform on Late Night With Jimmy Fallon tonight, but here's a web-only type rehearsal take of Pusha and Mal jumping on the song anyway, as assisted by the Roots. Worth it for Questlove and Captain Kirk's falsetto chorus punctuation alone. Love ... More >>

Jimmy Fallon and Horatio Sanz Do a Pretty Good Julian Casablancas Impression, It Turns Out (And Casablancas Does a Great "I Wish It Was Christmas Today")

Watching the live taping of the Jawbox episode of Late Night With Jimmy Fallon the other week, we were reminded of the utter weirdness of the late night TV variety show format. On TV, because Letterman et al have done it for so long and so well, it's come to seem normal, but make no mistake: thes ... More >>

This Week in the Voice

​Sailors used to roll around the city like Gene Kelly, but security concerns and technology have changed things, and now they mostly stay on the ships or, if they're lucky, at rare havens like the Seafarers & International House. The men whose boats brought you almost everything you have are m ... More >>

Duly Quoted: 50 Cent Is the "Nicest Dude in Hip Hop," According to Questlove

And thus, ten thousand Okayplayer readers are forced to reevaluate the basic premise of their lives. The occasion? Curtis Jackson bringing his abysmal new single "Baby By Me" to Jimmy Fallon's TV show, where he was stoically backed by the Roots. And indeed, onstage with rap's best live band, one m ... More >>

JIMMY GROWS UP

Fallon's team gets some face time

Jawbox Is Doing Jimmy Fallon In December

​As rumored, outstanding D.C. post-hardcore crew Jawbox are reuniting, if only for a Jimmy Fallon performance December 8, ostensibly to promo the imminent reissue of For Your Own Special Sweetheart, which is plenty rad, but don't sleep on 1996's self-titled follow-up neither. Shouldn't you guy ... More >>

Fallon & Colicchio Face Off on "Late Night"

Jimmy Fallon had Top Chef judge and Craft mogul Tom Colicchio on Late Night last night for a panini cook-off. Apparently, Fallon hates gherkins, eggs, and mayo, but the finicky eater did find it acceptable -- or maybe just funny -- to put peanut butter, bananas, marshmallow fluff, and potato chips ... More >>

Live: Dinosaur Jr. Leave "Billie Jean" Alone at the Music Hall of Williamsburg

via dennischang's photostream Dinosaur Jr. Music Hall of Williamsburg Thursday, June 25 Dinosaur Jr. did bring up Michael Jackson from the stage last night, frontman/guitar wizard J. Mascis muttering something about Farah Fawcett and MJ and, later, when Lou Barlow took requests: "What are we gonna ... More >>

Week in Review: I Want to Be Michael Jackson When I Grow Up

The news that obliterated the week that was: MJ. Our remembrance here, plus the complete Michael Jackson Voice archives, as written by the dream team of Robert Christgau, Chuck Eddy, Greg Tate, Vince Aletti, Stanley Crouch, Guy Trebay, Nelson George, Elvis Mitchell, Simon Frith, and Scott Poulson-Br ... More >>

Who's Your Favorite Late-Night Host?

John J. Kruzel Who winds you down the most amusingly as your day saunters off into a world of monologues, sketches, and celebrities hawking sequels? Here are your choices from the major networks:

Week in Review: Young, Self-Satisfied, Confident Celebrities

In the week "I ain't shoot nobody in like...since the early 90's" irretrievably entered the American lexicon, we learned with some dismay that David Carradine very likely left this earth the hard way. And more grim news: Koko Taylor, 1928-2009. Live: Doves cry at Terminal Hall, Art Brut's second-ni ... More >>

Anne Hathaway Happily Drowns in a Sea of Love on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon

It's almost too awkward to even watch--people who don't know how to play guitar playing guitar usually are--but there's something really endearing and also sort of funny about this clip of (Obies presenter!) Anne Hathaway playing "Sea of Love" on last night's Jimmy Fallon. Conan's debut is the new ... More >>

The Beastie Boys Preview New Record, Play Old Song, on Late Night With Jimmy Fallon

The big Beastie Boys news of the day is the name of their forthcoming album, Hot Sauce Committee, which they revealed last night on Jimmy Fallon's show. But, as with everything else that happens on Fallon's stupendously awkward set, the highlight was a musical one. The trio were coaxed into doing ... More >>

Why Redman and Method Man Performed on Jimmy Fallon Without the Roots

On Monday night, Method Man and Redman took their Blackout! 2 promotional tour to Jimmy Fallon, an evening that promised to join the rapidly growing pantheon of incredible rap performances on Fallon's show--the Roots backing veterans that went as far back or farther in the game than they did, guy ... More >>

Dave Matthews Band+the Roots

Saturday's Headlines: 'So I killed someone. That makes me a bad guy?'

HARKAVY is now blogging at The Smart AssetYour Saturday New York headlines...Second suspect in December hate-murder of Ecuadoran immigrant arrested: "So I killed somone. That make me a bad guy?"Jimmy Fallon admits being nervous before starting his run at "Late Night." See Rob Harvilla's Voice story ... More >>

This Week in the Voice

Rob Harvilla on The Roots, hip-hop's favorite live backup and Jimmy Fallon's house band. Tim Elfrink and Jesse Hyde on how Guantanamo's custodians are coping with their mission and prisoners in the infamous prison's last days. Scott Foundas calls the new Harrison Ford vehicle, Wayne Kramer's Cro ... More >>

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