Entertainment Queen

I’m so excited I was able to go to the very FIRST ever taping of Late Night with Jimmy Fallon today. This post will contain spoilers so you don’t want to know what happened, don’t read anymore! And please remember I am writing this all exhausted and trying to warm up as it feels like about 0 degrees in New York City, so I apologize in advance if it is random and jumpy. I attended a taping of Late Night with Conan O’Brian in December, so I was prepared for the hurry up and wait fun. First of all the set was awesome! I can’t believe they redecorated and completely changed all of that in like two weeks. It seems like a completely different place than where Conan was filmed. It was a pleasant suprise that The Roots were Jimmy’s band! They had contagious energy. When Jimmy came out at first he seemed incredibly nervous, understandably so. His monologue went by so fast. I was really thrown off by the title of the game ‘Lick It For Ten’, which was…well, exactly what it sounded like. Members of the audience were chose to go down on stage with Jimmy and lick a random item for ten dollars. The first item was a lawn mower, the second a scanner printer combination and the third was a bowl of goldfish. It took me a couple minutes to fully wrap my head around the absurdness of the game. I was secretly kind of glad no one in my party was picked to go up there! Robert DeNiro was the first guest and was great as usual. I loved the skit that Robert and Jimmy did together about a fictious movie they did together (but not really) called Space Train. Justin Timberlake did some impressions, like Barry Gibb. He and Jimmy talked about how they used to do the Barry Gibb talkshow skit on SNL. Justin also did a John Mayer impression that was quite hilarious, complete with facial expressions. Van Morrison was okay, kind of a disappointment. I will probably think of more later but that is it for now!