The Banal Horror of Jimmy Fallon: Under the sterile blue lights of his studio, Fallon laughs endlessly at the same pseudo-jokes, rubs elbows with Trump and Sam Altman, and ushers in the death of culture.

Jimmy Fallon is if a focus group designed a person and they had to make a lot of compromises with one another and nobody really ended up thrilled with the result

To quote the famous drunk Mike Stoklasa, "Jimmy Fallon? The only thing he should host is a parasite!'

>Tellingly, Donald Trump has called for the firing of almost all of the other late night hosts—Colbert, Kimmel, even Seth Meyers—but excluded Fallon from his hit-list First of all, the wording is weird. "Even" Seth Meyers? Like he's some apolitical guy caught in the crossfire? No, he actively talks about and criticizes Trump all the time. Second, this is not true. Trump has called for Jimmy to be fired.

Slagging off Jimmy Fallon? They're really going after the sacred cows with this one!

This reads like a high school essay by someone who's just discovered class consciousness and LLMs at the same time. >These games are not true “play” in the ***revolutionary*** sense of the word, wherein games are unscripted, free, and disruptive. Instead, they represent the total commodification of play. What revolutionary sense of the word 'play'? Is there Marxist praxis on 'play'? What does this mean? >In a cultural landscape dominated by the attention economy and defined by precarious labor and existential dread, **Fallon presents play not as an escape from work, but as an obligatory task that must be performed, a contractual obligation to a marketing team**. This is a buzzword salad that's saying very close to nothing. The performative 'play' on Fallon's show is not categorically different than the play on other late night shows, it's just less convincing. But what on earth does it mean that Fallon 'presents' play as an obligatory task to be performed? Presents to whom? And why would he have a *contractual obligation* to the ***marketing team***? These are just a bunch of words thrown around that requires you to squint your eyes into slits to make them make sense. >He recently joined [forces ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QBdkNWh8-6o)with the soulless monstrosity that is State Farm to shill their insurance, and in a great detail, their ad highlights that you don’t actually need to tell a joke for Jimmy to appear. You just need to say the word “joking” to summon him like a c**** simulacra of Bloody Mary or Candyman. Advertising Fallon is indistinguishable from him on the show—after all, he’s doing exactly the same thing. What? Why would Fallon appear by you *telling a joke...*? That's not the premise of the ad? "You don't actually need to tell a joke for Jimmy to appear..." Is this AI? I feel like I'm losing my mind reading this.

Isn't Current Affairs the Socialist magazine whose owner fired the entire staff when they wanted to Unionize?

You keep calling Jimmy Fallon banal like he didn't make the conscious decision to be banal and like it hasn't paid off immeasurably for him.

Whenever a person from another country slams the late night talk shows in the U.S. I read them and more often than not it confirms my thoughts that person really doesn't know anything about the U.S. So their critique really has no relevance. 

How original and bold. What are you gonna tell me next, that pineapple doesn’t belong on pizza or you don’t like sitcom laugh tracks?

"death of culture" ? Now that's hyperbolic even for a clickbait

No one with an IQ above 80 takes this publication seriously.

In other news, Jimmy Fallon sleeping with Current Affairs editor's wife.

And he just ruined Survivor!

I'm no fan of Fallon but after reading this article, I honestly have a little more sympathy for the man. If we ignore the insufferable prose, this is simply a long rant against Fallon that doesn't add anything we haven't heard 100x before.

I'm no lover of Fallon, but has an article ever been so long to say so little? It's getting cliché to say at this point, but I feel like this wasn't written by a human at all.

The Roots deserve so much better.

Hating Jimmy Fallon this much is almost as weird as liking Jimmy Fallon

The Banal Writing of Jon Greenaway: Under the sterile guise of an exposé, Greenaway writes endlessly about the same criticisms said about Jimmy Fallon for the past 20 years

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It’s fine to not like Fallon but “death of culture”? Gimme a break.

Fallon is seriously unfunny. Everything has to be about him. You look at Carson and what he would do is let the guests start talking and he would sit back and let them, Fallon cannot let anyone talk for more than a few seconds without having to interject his comment in his attempted humor. Fallon is a guy with more friends than talent

This reads like somebody who is severely mentally ill putting way too much stock into a late night show

I mean, I'm not exactly a fan, but saying he "ushers in the death of culture" is a bit of hyperbole.

Going at Jimmy is easy. The article would have been much more interesting if it had gone after The Tonight Show itself. It has always been this way. 

I don't care for Jimmy Fallon a ounce, but my friend worked with him once, and I thought it was an interesting story. My friend was a stage manager for some show that Jimmy was headlining.  My friend draws a lot of comic book type art and was working on something in his sketchbook backstage. He said that Jimmy came up to him and started talking about comics, and he genuinely seemed like he didn't want to go on stage, he just wanted to hang out and talk about comic books.

Fallon is such a deeply odd figure as we progress further into the 21st century. Anthony Jeselnik has commented in the past about how Fallon is generous and friendly, and every once in a while there are theses strange moments on The Tonight Show where it’s almost like he let out a funny joke by accident. I met Fallon once outside of a steakhouse with Lorne Michaels, and he seemed to be a genuinely pleasant guy who kinda proactively handles his fame in a cool way. My pals and I were smoking cigarettes after dinner and he was waiting for a black cab, and he said hi to us first! We talked about how great dinner at the steakhouse was and he and Lorne smiled and chatted and then left. It was so weird and seeing articles like this makes me just think it’s all even weirder.

The third most popular late night talk show is not the death of culture. Author is unhinged

If banal late night is representative of the death of culture, then I’m afraid culture died 5/25/92.

Yeah let’s keep dunking on Fallon of all people lol

>ushers in the death of culture. Might be a tad overdramatic there.

Fallon wasn’t even funny when he was on SNL.

Oh spare me. He's vanilla ice cream. In fact, his blandness is why he's still going "strong" while Colbert and Kimmel are culture war targets.

this article sucks.

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“The death of culture” You couldn’t be any more overdramatic if you tried.

Just got my boy Christian voted off survivor too smh

Jesus Fuckin' Christ, this couldn't be more Listnook if it tried. Want to throw in some anti-HOA and 'f*** lawns' material while we're at it? Maybe some Amy Schumer jokes while we're hitting these cultural touchstones at the height of their popularity and relevance?

For someone to usher in the death of culture wouldn’t they have to have more cultural relevance?

I can't believe I have to defend Jimmy Fallon but that's a gross exaggeration. As Jon Stewart said, comedians don't have that kind of power.

Fallon reminds me of a male version of Ellen DeGeneres. He seems mean-spirited, conniving, and completely self absorbed.