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I'm sure the staff just loves Jimmy pushing for a 5th day. :lol:

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I think so too, I doubt they're working the weekend.

Didn't Colbert do the same thing too with the occasional back-to-back?

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I thought that's what Jeff is for.

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Letterman taped his Thursday and Friday shows on Thursday back to back. I suppose they all do it sometimes.

I saw Fallon did one of these Sunday shows live from the city where the game was played, so I thought these were special live shows.

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The only reason I can imagine Fallon wanting to produce shows five days a week is that there must be some people who get paid by the hour working there, and they would be hurt by the 4 day schedule.

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I am watching the Sunday night monologue on YouTube and there are jokes about things that happened Saturday and Sunday, so it could not have been taped on Thursday or Friday. He is even showing headlines from Sunday newspapers for reference to the news.

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He did a special show from Detroit but it was not live at or from a game site.

He ha a sponsorship with Ford so it was done to promote Ford vehicles.

His wife said he lives for his show and that is what he is consumed with so he probably is happy if he does another show for Sunday.

The Thurs show in the same week during a Sun show is a repeat so technically still 4 shows a week.

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Take “funny man” Jimmy Fallon out of the equation and you’re saying the only reason you could think of a boss wanting additional work is to look out for the guy on his team making an hourly wage?


OK……….

I mean maybe that is the case but assuming taking on extra work must be done to benefit the employees is carrying a lot of water for management.

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As someone who only works because I need money to live, it is hard for me to imagine someone wanting to work five days a week when they can get paid the same for working four. But maybe it is like Jeff says, and Fallon just loves working so much. Hard for me to figure that a very rich man with a wife and children can't find more enjoyable things to do than host a talk show.

And Jimmy Kimmel has made it very clear that he was going to retire at his last contract renewal, but did not because it would mean putting all his employees out of work.

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Or Fallon is cognizant to the fact that he's the least talented person in a position he loves that is not so slowly going away and he wants to be as valuable to his bosses as possible. Seems way more likely to me than Jimmy being like "You know it's more work for the majority but Christmas is coming up and Ben in catering could use an additional 6 hours of pay a week so let's add an extra show per week".

Though sure either's possible.

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Now it would be adding back an extra show per week, but I am certain to him, it is not really adding an extra show per week. It's doing the same number of shows per week that he had been doing for a decade.

If NBC only wants him to produce four shows a week to save money, and he wants to produce five shows a week despite their wishes, that does not make him as valuable to NBC as possible. If he wanted to be as valuable to NBC as possible, he would renegotiate his contract to a lower salary to reflect the decreased workload they require from him.

I don't know why you would dismiss the possibility that he wants to make sure his non-salaried employees are being able to work, when you have Jimmy Kimmel expressing the exact sentiment that he is thinking about his employees' welfare when making his own retirement decision.

My niece lived in Manhattan and worked in an entertainment industry job. She worked five days a week, 60 hours a week. She relied on the 20 hours of OT she was getting to afford NYC. IDK the details of how many hourly employees The Tonight Show has, or how many hours they work on show days, but you don't either. I do not find it difficult at all to believe that nice guy Jimmy Fallon would care about his employees like that.

Plus, whatever you want to say about Fallon, by 2028, there's a good chance he will be the only one of the four network guys who still has a show.

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I understand it doesn't add value because NBC doesn't want more Jimmy Fallon but if you're Jimmy Fallon that's all you have to offer.

The rest seems like fanfiction to me but again, possible.

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All I am saying is that you have a host who wants to make a show, and usually networks like new shows instead of reruns. But NBC thinks the money they are saving is more important, so where is the savings coming from?

How much does the physical production of a single Tonight Show cost?

Well, some of that money being saved is just not paying some people to come to work, right?

Maybe I am foolishly soft-hearted, but I think Jimmy Fallon cares about the welfare of the "little people" working on his show.

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Once Colbert is gone and maye Kimmel if he leaves early Fallon could have the selection of everybody in Hollywood and music to be on his show and no competing for guests.

It seems now he has more guests and less skits and games on his show which kind of sucks since that made him different from the other shows.

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With Colbert gone and no ABC show in NYC, Fallon will be the default #1 stop for all the A-listers with something to promote on their NYC press tour. He could have a stacked show every night.

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That would be awesome

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He has another Sun show with Millie Bobbi Brown

Will she bring her dog again?

Amanda Seyfriend and Sydney Sweeney were on last week much more exciting than Elizabeth Warren and Amy Klobacher on Colbert. :)

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Is Amanda Seyfried a Nazi?

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these gals were both on Celebrity Family Feud which I thought was very odd considering their profile and talent. they were playing against one of the Housewives crew. Never expected two stars like that to be on such a silly show with Steve Harvey. i just by chance put it on for a minute and was like huh?

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So random, before I saw your comment I was checking out suggestions provided to me by YouTube and the Celebrity FF edition episode with Sweeney as a Fast Money participant was recommended to me so I watched it.

I am not really a Fallon watcher, but it sounds like bits on his show where songs are played with classroom instruments have fallen by the wayside. Bummer, because stuff like that did indeed differentiate him from folks like Kimmel, and Colbert.

I used to watch those bits via YouTube.

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If there was any host who made Fallon look like Carson reincarnated, it's Harvey.

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And I'll take Taylor Swift over Millie Bobby Brown

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Fallon had Taylor first so he won and she probably likes Fallon m ore and can relate to him more than Colbert as a person and appeared multiple times on his show compared to Colbert.

Tom Pelphery from Task told Fallon he was a good listener and liked him as a talk show host.

Fallon still does the musical instruments but yes it seems now he uses that time for games for more guests on the show.

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I want to give Taylor credit for the intelligence to see that Fallon is just a stop on the publicity train with a consummate celebrity ass-kisser, and that Colbert is trying to save the US from ruin.

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They were promoting a movie--their whole team consisted of cast members and the director (if I remember right)