Jimmy Fallon and Seth Meyers are recalling just how they got into the late night hosting game.
07.09.2023 - 14:55 / justjared.com
Jimmy Fallon is being called out in a bombshell new story.
The 48-year-old host of The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon is the subject of a new report from Rolling Stone, in which 16 current and former staffers claim his erratic behavior spoiled their “dream” of working on The Tonight Show.
According to two current and 14 former employees, The Tonight Show has allegedly been a “toxic workplace for years — far outside the boundaries of what’s considered normal in the high-pressure world of late-night TV.”
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The employees call out Jimmy‘s “erratic behavior” and “ever-changing leadership teams,” including nine showrunners in nine years, who “seemingly don’t know how to say no to Jimmy.”
Former employees say it’s a “pretty glum atmosphere,” with some alleging they were “belittled and intimidated by their bosses, including Fallon himself.”
The workers also spoke out about Jimmy‘s “outbursts,” and though many of them allegedly spoke to HR about issues, the problems continued.
The former staffers who spoke to Rolling Stone requested anonymity out of fear of retaliation.
“Writing for late night is a lot of people’s dream jobs, and they’re coming into this and it becomes a nightmare very quickly. It’s sad that it’s like that, especially knowing that it doesn’t have to be that way,” one staffer said.
Rolling Stone contacted more than 50 Tonight Show employees, past and present.
“While many of them praised Fallon’s immense talent and comedic gifts, not a single one agreed to speak on the record or had positive things to say about working on The Tonight Show,” they noted, nor would any of the showrunners since 2014 speak to the show’s environment – or give statements of support.
“Nobody told Jimmy,
Jimmy Fallon and Seth Meyers are recalling just how they got into the late night hosting game.
Keith Richards has said that John Lennon and George Harrison would have fitted into The Rolling Stones in a new interview.Speaking to The Telegraph, Richards opened up about The Beatles and the rivalry between the band’s fans in the sixties.Richards explained: “I don’t think John Lennon would have had much problem fitting into the Stones, or George, if you can imagine that sort of thing happening.”He continued: “We were the same generation, and we all loved the same music. When we first heard The Beatles, we were relieved that there was some other band in England on the same track that we were on.
The “Strike Force Three” live event has struck out. The hotly anticipated show — which was announced last week by Jimmy Kimmel, Jimmy Fallon and Stephen Colbert — has been cancelled due to illness.
Selome Hailu The “Strike Force Three” live event announced by Jimmy Kimmel, Jimmy Fallon and Stephen Colbert last week has been canceled, as Kimmel has tested positive for COVID. “Well, Las Vegas, I got Covid, and sadly, we need to cancel this weekend’s Strike Force Three show,” Kimmel posted on X, formerly known as Twitter. “I could never live with myself if I got my hometown friends sick.
Strike Force Three, a planned live show from Jimmy Kimmel, Stephen Colbert and Jimmy Fallon, has been canceled.
Katharine McPhee has responded after a clip showing her bouncing on Russell Brand’s lap resurfaced online amid the sexual assault allegations against him.
who’s facing a multitude of sexual misconduct allegations, is in more hot water — after a resurfaced video shows Brand suggestively bouncing singer Katharine McPhee on his knee during a 2013 appearance on “The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon.” Brand, 48, has been accused of rape, sexual assault and emotional abuse by four women stretching from 2006 to 2013. He has denied the claims.In the three-and-a-half-minute clip, Brand jokingly refused to move from his chair alongside Fallon, 48, when McPhee, 39, came over to chat with the host. He then grabbed McPhee’s hand and she sat on his lap, as Brand told Fallon, “She’s welcome to sit here.”“No, Russell, don’t even say for the Queen, you can’t,” Fallon said, referring to McPhee, who looked uncomfortable.
The late-night power players behind the new “Strike Force Five” podcast are temporarily losing two members for a special live on-stage event.
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Michael Schneider Variety Editor at Large Three of the “Strike Force Five” are taking their show on the road. Late night hosts Stephen Colbert, Jimmy Fallon and Jimmy Kimmel will host a one-night-only event, dubbed “Strike Force Three,” at the Dolby Live at Park MGM in Las Vegas on Saturday, September 23 — marking the first time the trio have been on stage together at the same time. Colbert, Fallon, Kimmel, John Oliver and Seth Meyers recently launched the podcast “Strike Force Five,” as a way to help support the staffs of their respective shows.
Late-night staffs should see a few more dollars in their pocket after three of the major hosts are planning a Las Vegas extravaganza.
It’s been two weeks since the launch of “Strike Force Five”, the featuring late-night hosts Jimmy Fallon, Stephen Colbert, Jimmy Kimmel, Seth Meyers and John Oliver.
posted to X ( formerly Twitter), was initially covered in Tina Fey’s 2013 autobiography “Bossypants,” and depicted Fallon, 48, yelling at Poehler, 51, during a table read for the NBC variety show. “Amy Poehler was new to SNL and we were all crowded into the seventeenth-floor writers’ room, waiting for the Wednesday night read-through to start,” wrote Fey. “Amy was in the middle of some such nonsense with Seth Meyers across the table, and she did something vulgar as a joke.
Zack Sharf Digital News Director According to Jerry Seinfeld, Rolling Stone’s recent exposé on Jimmy Fallon includes an “idiotic twisting of events.” The magazine published a report on Sept. 7 in which several former “Tonight Show” staff members claimed the series had a toxic work environment, which included alleged outbursts from Fallon himself. Two employees said they witnessed Fallon berate a crew member who was holding cue cards during a taping of the show with Seinfeld as a guest.
groveling apology to his “Tonight Show” staffers after reports surfaced of his toxic workplace behavior — but fans aren’t buying it.One user on X, formerly known as Twitter, pointed to a line the 48-year-old TV host allegedly said during the all-hands meeting: “It’s embarrassing and I feel so bad.”The commenter said the “apology sounds like it was spoken by a toddler.”“Why didn’t and couldn’t he apologize in person? I find the Zoom apology insulting,” another shared, while others chimed in that Fallon only said he was sorry “cause he got called out.”Fallon likely conducted his apology virtually, however, because of the ongoing Hollywood strike, which has shut down production for a slew of highly-anticipated movies and TV shows, including late-night talk shows.“Oh, f–k off. Fallon’s ‘apology’ is about how he was inconvenienced by the Rolling Stone article exposing him as a raging a–hole and nothing about apologizing to staff or saying how he will change,” another scathing comment said.Another user likened the saga to Ellen DeGeneres, who had her “Ellen Show” canceled in 2022 after a 19-year run following a flurry of toxic workplace allegations against the seemingly family-friendly talk show host.“The Jimmy Fallon saga is following EXACTLY the same footsteps that Ellen DeGeneres tread … accusations.
Following the release of a new Rolling Stone exposé, in which two current and 14 former staffers at “The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon” opened up about host Jimmy Fallon’s alleged erratic behaviour and the reported “toxic workplace” at the late-night show, multiple current producers and assistants at the show gave statements to ET saying that the article “misrepresents” their experiences in the same workplace.
Jerry Seinfeld is speaking out in Jimmy Fallon’s defense.
Whelp, it looks like you can add The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon to the list of talk shows allegedly fostering a toxic work environment. Just like Ellen DeGeneres and James Corden before him, several current and former employees have come forward about their horrible experiences working for Jimmy Fallon. Get ready, Perezcious readers, because there are a lot of bombshell details to cover here!
Rolling Stone published a story in which 16 current and former employees accused the late night talk show host, 48, of being “erratic,” drunk at work and creating a “toxic work environment.” Fallon reportedly told staffers that he did not intend to “create that type of atmosphere for the show,” two employees claimed to the rock bible in a follow-up report. “It’s embarrassing and I feel so bad,” Fallon allegedly said.
Jimmy Fallon has offered a mea culpa to his staff after a report highlighted a “pretty glum atmosphere” at The Tonight Show over the years.