![]() ![]() "So I saw her audition, and I said, 'Tina's audition was amazing. And sharp - almost too sharp just to be by herself at the time. She was just a writer at the time who wrote a lot of stuff for me and she was super fun and super funny and super hard-working. One of the writers auditioning was Tina Fey. I'd rather not do it.' He said, 'I think it should be someone from the cast.' So they had auditions. I don't really read the newspaper all that much. ![]() "Colin Quinn was leaving Weekend Update and Lorne Michaels said, 'Jimmy, I think you'd be great at doing Weekend Update.' And I said, 'I don't think so. And the ones that were clean, we would be able to watch, me and my sister Gloria." My parents would tape it and they would watch it and cut out any sketches that were risque or dirty or things that we couldn't see. "I was obsessed with the show and this is back when VCRs had just started to come out. On reenacting Saturday Night Live as a child "I would sit to the left of my wife every night at dinner and look at her and try to ask her about her food and stuff but you don't know what it's like until you're in the situation and talking to people. On how he practiced for his gig at Late Night So we have a guitar and we're sitting in my office, trying to think of how Neil would do it." What do you do with it? So one of my writers said, 'Why don't you do a Neil Young doing a nice version of Willow Smith's 'Whip My Hair?'. "I think every impressionist has a Neil Young but you don't know what to do with it. "And you don't know who they are so you're like, 'Should we hold hands? Are you going to slow down? Do I speed up? One of us has to make a decision here.' So those types of things, they're just random but you go, 'Oh, yeah, there should be a joke somewhere about this.'"Īhmir Thompson, AKA Questlove Sept. "Like do you ever go down the hallway at work and there's someone walking at the same speed as you and right next to you so you're almost like walking together?" Fallon asks. The book is based on a recurring segment on Late Night, when Fallon and his staff round up mundane things that don't get enough attention and give them each the praise they deserve. Otherwise, he says, it would just sound like "Loyd."įallon collects more than 100 nuggets of gratitude in his book, Thank You Notes. And he's grateful that the name Lloyd starts with two L's. The comedian and host of Late Night tells Fresh Air's Terry Gross that he is appreciative of the word moist - for being the "worst word ever." He's thankful, too, for taco shells that have survived their long journey from factory to supermarket to his plate - and then break the moment he fills them. "If I want to play video games now, I have to schedule it," he tells Terry Gross.Įvery single day of Jimmy Fallon's life is like Thanksgiving. Jimmy Fallon says he spends almost 12 hours each day at the Late Night offices, which makes the rest of his life difficult.
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