As I type these words I’m half-listening to an NBC conference call/press conference, live from 30 Rock, where Lorne Michaels and a bunch of NBC bigwigs are introducing Jimmy Fallon as the next host of "Late Night." Fallon’s appointment, though, has been widely reported for weeks if not months.
Former "Saturday Night Live" standout Fallon will take over Conan O’Brien’s "Late Night" chair sometime in the first half of 2009, but that’s about the only specific anyone has to give us. There are few scraps of info on what Fallon’s "Late Night" will be like - he says he’s not going to "reinvent the wheel," and that there will be comedy and interviews and music. He just said that one change he’s going to make is that "Late Night" will now be "a morning show." Rimshot please!
This, of course, is just the first of many shoes to drop as NBC […]
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