Jimmy Fallon will take over for Conan O'Brien
We tried and tried to believe it wasn't so, but apparently it's true. Jimmy Fallon will be taking over for Conan O'Brien when the big C takes the reins at The Tonight Show. NBC announced the deal at a press conference on Monday, with Lorne Michaels saying the changeover will occur "sometime in '09," the AP reports.
Apparently there's plenty of backroom deals going on to try to keep Jay Leno on NBC and not on some other network.
"We love Jay and want to keep him around," NBC Entertainment co-chairman Ben Silverman told Entertainment Weekly. Just not on the little screen so many people watch, we guess.
As for what Fallon's show is going to be like, he says he's been doing standup routines a lot lately to get into shape. That beats listening to him sing parody songs and watching him mug for camera all night long.
"We're not going to reinvent the wheel," Fallon said. "But when Conan took over for (David) Letterman, he wasn't Letterman. Oh, and all the furniture will be suspended six feet in the air."
See? He's trying too hard already.
[Photo: AP]
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