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busterbrown

(8,515 posts)
Mon Jan 9, 2017, 12:06 AM Jan 2017

Fuck You Jimmy Fallon.

Watching The Golden Globes Tonight it reminded me how you interacted with Trump the night you had him on your show..Clowning around, messing up his hair, just playing to the audience. illustrating how Don is just one of the guys.. Fuck you Fallon.. I’ll never watch your show again..

and thank you so much Meryl..Reminding us of how our country must address the fact that Donald Trump
presents such a danger to our way of life.

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Fuck You Jimmy Fallon. (Original Post) busterbrown Jan 2017 OP
what did Fallon do ? JI7 Jan 2017 #1
Nothing, really. HassleCat Jan 2017 #3
Yea.. Right! busterbrown Jan 2017 #5
If you want to criticize I suggest you save it for HassleCat Jan 2017 #6
You are absolutely right.. busterbrown Jan 2017 #8
This is something we have to accept in the popular culture HassleCat Jan 2017 #14
he's an ass kisser, like Leno before pstokely Jan 2017 #29
I don't have any use for him............... Jim Beard Jan 2017 #2
Fallon is superficial. roamer65 Jan 2017 #4
This message was self-deleted by its author pangaia Jan 2017 #20
Fallon, the 2-3 times I actually watched the idiot for 30 seconds or so, is like dried ramen. pangaia Jan 2017 #22
Never a Fallon fan either... wcmagumba Jan 2017 #7
I thought just the opposite, he was digging his heals in on tRump pretty good ffr Jan 2017 #9
Im referring to the night he had him on his show.. busterbrown Jan 2017 #11
You're right about that. ffr Jan 2017 #12
The instant that I see Fallon on TV, I change the channel. Buckeye_Democrat Jan 2017 #10
I agree with you completely... busterbrown Jan 2017 #13
Giggling through SNL sketches and "acting cute" is all he's got. Buckeye_Democrat Jan 2017 #16
THIS oldtime dfl_er Jan 2017 #19
The only thing good about the Tonight Show now is the band. progressoid Jan 2017 #18
Well, one unfunny mealy mouth guy following another. :))) pangaia Jan 2017 #21
Fallon, the 2-3 times I actually watched the idiot for 30 seconds or so, is like dried ramen. pangaia Jan 2017 #23
I understand! Buckeye_Democrat Jan 2017 #24
I refused to watch those episodes bravenak Jan 2017 #15
Made me sick! n/t busterbrown Jan 2017 #17
Agree. At first I thought he was sweet. Laffy Kat Jan 2017 #25
Fallon choked when the teleprompter failed in the first seconds of the show LastLiberal in PalmSprings Jan 2017 #26
he's just a comedian for pete's sake IcyPeas Jan 2017 #27
Well are Colbert and Seth Meyers decision makers...Not entirely.. busterbrown Jan 2017 #28
Unnnn, if MiniPootin was threatening to him or anyone in his family like he is to the rest of us uponit7771 Jan 2017 #30
 

HassleCat

(6,409 posts)
3. Nothing, really.
Mon Jan 9, 2017, 12:09 AM
Jan 2017

He's a talk show host. It's his job to be friendly and jovial with his guests.

busterbrown

(8,515 posts)
5. Yea.. Right!
Mon Jan 9, 2017, 12:15 AM
Jan 2017

Be jovial with a guy who permeates hate... Nothing more than a homophobic, misogynistic, nationalist hater.. Just be “friendly and jovial “ Jimmy.. Wow...

 

HassleCat

(6,409 posts)
6. If you want to criticize I suggest you save it for
Mon Jan 9, 2017, 12:22 AM
Jan 2017

The actual reporters, those whose job it is to ask tough questions. Fallon's job is to entertain, to make people laugh, not to cross examine his guests.

busterbrown

(8,515 posts)
8. You are absolutely right..
Mon Jan 9, 2017, 12:27 AM
Jan 2017

But he certainly didn’t entertain me or thousands of others who hate Trump’s ugliness and ended up watching his show that night..I’ll say it again... Fuck you Jimmy Fallon...

 

HassleCat

(6,409 posts)
14. This is something we have to accept in the popular culture
Mon Jan 9, 2017, 12:35 AM
Jan 2017

If we view it, follow it, consume it, etc. It is shallow and annoying. I try to avoid watching when there is somebody I don't like.

roamer65

(36,745 posts)
4. Fallon is superficial.
Mon Jan 9, 2017, 12:14 AM
Jan 2017

Never been a fan of him. Always seemed like a Mike Myers imitation...but with much less skill.

Response to roamer65 (Reply #4)

wcmagumba

(2,886 posts)
7. Never a Fallon fan either...
Mon Jan 9, 2017, 12:22 AM
Jan 2017

His comedy and timing has never seemed natural or particularly funny to me. Love Meryl though...

ffr

(22,670 posts)
9. I thought just the opposite, he was digging his heals in on tRump pretty good
Mon Jan 9, 2017, 12:28 AM
Jan 2017

in the monologue.

Was I wrong?

Buckeye_Democrat

(14,854 posts)
10. The instant that I see Fallon on TV, I change the channel.
Mon Jan 9, 2017, 12:29 AM
Jan 2017
http://www.phillymag.com/news/2014/02/24/jimmy-fallon-isnt-funny/

I remember one show in particular in which each performer got five minutes to do a character of their own creation, and after watching one excruciatingly annoying character named “The Masshole,” I wanted to walk out. But I stayed to support Oscar.

The Masshole bit was just five minutes of a guy doing a bad Boston accent. No jokes. Just an accent, like “My brudda pahked his cahr in the yahd not fahr from Havaaad Yahd. It’s a wicked Camaraaa…” I remember thinking at the end of the gig, “Don’t quit your day job, kid.”

That kid was Jimmy Fallon.

And now, many years later, the unthinkable has happened: Jimmy Fallon is everywhere. Forget his day job, the kid now has the most desirable job in comedy.

I know that the world is a cruel, unjust, chaotic place. I just don’t understand how mealy-mouthed Jimmy Fallon became host of The Tonight Show.

He’s not funny. He’s not a good actor. He’s not a good interviewer. And so far, he has yet to have an original idea.

Fallon is the kind of guy that pulls out an acoustic guitar at a party and does a Neil Young impersonation or takes someone’s sunglasses and pretends to be Stevie Wonder.

busterbrown

(8,515 posts)
13. I agree with you completely...
Mon Jan 9, 2017, 12:33 AM
Jan 2017

But I would never publicly criticize him... unless his humor ends up hurting people.

His playing around with Trump the night he had him on his show, illustrated his intentions of only worrying about his ratings.. Not Trump’s destructive hate.

Buckeye_Democrat

(14,854 posts)
16. Giggling through SNL sketches and "acting cute" is all he's got.
Mon Jan 9, 2017, 12:37 AM
Jan 2017

Fallon behaving that way around Trump doesn't surprise me because he's got NO SUBSTANCE.

progressoid

(49,991 posts)
18. The only thing good about the Tonight Show now is the band.
Mon Jan 9, 2017, 12:47 AM
Jan 2017

But I don't bother watching because I can't manage to tolerate enough of Fallon just to hear the band.

pangaia

(24,324 posts)
23. Fallon, the 2-3 times I actually watched the idiot for 30 seconds or so, is like dried ramen.
Mon Jan 9, 2017, 01:04 AM
Jan 2017

meant to reply to you but replied to someone else, then deleted, then replied to you.

God it's getting late.

Buckeye_Democrat

(14,854 posts)
24. I understand!
Mon Jan 9, 2017, 01:08 AM
Jan 2017

I've done it before too.

I replied to the wrong poster the other day (in a gun-related thread) and decided, "Heck with it. Let it roll!"

Laffy Kat

(16,382 posts)
25. Agree. At first I thought he was sweet.
Mon Jan 9, 2017, 01:49 AM
Jan 2017

But what he is is cowardly. And usually intoxicated. Really lost a lot of respect for him after he had the orange one on his show. He was one of the first to sort of normalize the asshole.

26. Fallon choked when the teleprompter failed in the first seconds of the show
Mon Jan 9, 2017, 01:56 AM
Jan 2017

Couldn't do anything but whine about how the teleprompter was broken. He wasn't even able to think of saying, "Welcome to the Hollywood Foreign Press Awards." It really didn't enhance his status as a performer (which went downhill from there over the rest of the evening.)

IcyPeas

(21,882 posts)
27. he's just a comedian for pete's sake
Mon Jan 9, 2017, 03:21 AM
Jan 2017

he's an employee of NBC. he has bosses. he is not the decision maker. do you think he likes everybody that he has to talk to?

now you want to talk about CNN, MSNBC, FOX, etc.? The MSM made Trump. 24/7 for the past year. Don't blame fallon.

And sometimes he has good musical guests.

busterbrown

(8,515 posts)
28. Well are Colbert and Seth Meyers decision makers...Not entirely..
Mon Jan 9, 2017, 03:58 AM
Jan 2017

but they never treated Trump as one of the guys like Fallon did..

at the end you’ll notice that many were not too pleased.

http://mashable.com/2016/09/15/jimmy-fallon-messes-up-donald-trump-hair/#e3X9M3DFiaqL

uponit7771

(90,344 posts)
30. Unnnn, if MiniPootin was threatening to him or anyone in his family like he is to the rest of us
Mon Jan 9, 2017, 06:33 AM
Jan 2017

... then he wouldn't treat him like that.

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