# Jimmy Fallon gets tonight show next year **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 20, 2013, 10:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jimmy-fallon-gets-tonight-show-next-year/653495 "2013-03-20T22:19:22Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![fiddlesticks](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fiddlesticks/32/18129_2.png) [@fiddlesticks](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fiddlesticks)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2013, 10:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jimmy-fallon-gets-tonight-show-next-year/653495/81 "2013-03-26T22:01:35Z")
> [@Bijou\_Drains](#): > > Many actors/TV hosts have huge egos so even though Letterman has a great job he might still view it as a “lesser” job than the Tonight show. It’s like he never won the Super Bowl/World Series/ etc. Or as Dave would probably put it, being a Hoosier, winning the Indy 500 (which he did, as a car owner). ---
**Author:** ![Bijou\_Drains](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bijou_drains/32/2814_2.png) [@Bijou\_Drains](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bijou_Drains)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2013, 4:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jimmy-fallon-gets-tonight-show-next-year/653495/82 "2013-04-03T16:53:04Z")
It’s official now [http://www.cnn.com/2013/04/03/showbiz/tv/leno-tonight-show-exit/index.html?hpt=hp\_t2](http://www.cnn.com/2013/04/03/showbiz/tv/leno-tonight-show-exit/index.html?hpt=hp_t2) ---
**Author:** ![randwill](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/a3d4f5/32.png) [@randwill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/randwill)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2013, 10:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jimmy-fallon-gets-tonight-show-next-year/653495/83 "2013-04-03T22:55:29Z")
> [@Bijou\_Drains](#): > > It’s official now > > [http://www.cnn.com/2013/04/03/showbiz/tv/leno-tonight-show-exit/index.html?hpt=hp\_t2](http://www.cnn.com/2013/04/03/showbiz/tv/leno-tonight-show-exit/index.html?hpt=hp_t2) To be executive produced by Lorne Michaels, who goes from producing a show (SNL) that regularly satirizes TV talk shows to actually producing a talk show. ---
**Author:** ![friedo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/8edcca/32.png) [@friedo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/friedo)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2013, 11:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jimmy-fallon-gets-tonight-show-next-year/653495/84 "2013-04-03T23:02:25Z")
> [@randwill](#): > > To be executive produced by Lorne Michaels, who goes from producing a show (SNL) that regularly satirizes TV talk shows to actually producing a talk show. Lorne Michaels also produced Conan’s _Late Night_ incarnation and currently produces Jimmy Fallon’s. ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2013, 2:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jimmy-fallon-gets-tonight-show-next-year/653495/85 "2013-04-07T02:50:43Z")
So, Loren, why couldn’t we just get Seth at 11:30? ---
**Author:** ![friedo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/8edcca/32.png) [@friedo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/friedo)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2013, 3:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jimmy-fallon-gets-tonight-show-next-year/653495/86 "2013-04-07T03:22:10Z")
> [@digs](#): > > So, Loren, why couldn’t we just get Seth at 11:30? NBC seems to have a fetish for promoting the 12:30 guy but screwing it up. It’s possible that Seth has no desire to leave SNL, or that he’ll follow Jimmy’s lead and take over 12:30. Or do something else entirely. He’s currently got a good gig as head writer and Update host on SNL and seems to enjoy it. ---
**Author:** ![Irishman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/b487fb/32.png) [@Irishman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Irishman)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2013, 5:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jimmy-fallon-gets-tonight-show-next-year/653495/87 "2013-04-07T17:31:30Z")
Fallon is something of a known product now. Seth Meyers would be a more unknown quantity. Not that that has necessarily worked out in the past. Witness Conan. Still, the premise is the later time slot is a practice session and training ground for the Tonight Show slot. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jimmy-fallon-gets-tonight-show-next-year/653495.md?page=4)