When well-regarded automobile enthusiast Jerry Seinfeld stopped by at The Tonight Show last night, he did something he hardly does anymore: picked up the microphone and told a few jokes.
Jimmy Fallon's recurring Tonight Show games, like beer pong and musical impressions, are pretty reliable, but only because he doesn't overuse them—he has to mix it up by introducing new ways to torture his guests. Or, in the case of last night's new game, his audience.
U2 have postponed their scheduled week-long residency on the Tonight Show while they deal with the unknown person or persons trying to kill Bono, so Jimmy Fallon booked himself and The Roots to stand in for The Biggest Dad Band in the World last night.
Ira Glass, famous voice of This American Life, sent the summer news cycle aflutter when he tweeted that "Shakespeare sucks." "It's as if Mister Rogers has tweeted, 'Kermit's an asshole," he told Jimmy Fallon of the ensuing think pieces and tweetstorms on the Tonight Show.
What we forget watching serious drama the Good Wife—with the heels and the jackets and the hair and the objections!—is that Julianna Margulies is actually pretty funny. Namely, she's game for most bits; she's down for letting herself look foolish. So in comes Jimmy Fallon's latest Tonight Show sketch riffing everyday…
Do you want the good news or the good news? They're both made up by the Tonight Show writing staff, because even Jimmy Fallon couldn't fail to notice that everything that's really happening right now is basically terrible.
Say what you will about Jimmy Fallon—his schticks are repetitive, he's an adult child—but there are human emotions underlying that cynical viral video factory. Fallon cries at the things that make other humans cry, including the death of Robin Williams, "the Muhammad Ali of comedy."
There is a right way and there are several wrong ways to take an Instagram selfie with actor/poet/MFA-PhD./creeper James Franco outside of his Broadway production of Of Mice and Men, according to James Franco.
Morgan Freeman altered his famous voice with helium for a segment of his Science Channel show Through the Wormhole, so Jimmy Fallon figured he'd be up for doing it again on The Tonight Show.
Dan Aykroyd appeared on the Tonight Show last night to promote the James Brown biopic Get On Up. While there, he shared a story about the time he and Bill Murray ran into James Brown in a rental car lot.
Happily single Australian supermodel Miranda Kerr is taking a break from relationships and focusing on herself for a while. She's into transcendental meditation, experimenting with women, and that most self-improving of all activities, flip cup.
On tonight's The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon, disgraced New Jersey governor Chris Christie danced like no one was watching in the "Evolution of Dad Dancing" skit. The "joke" is that Chris Christie dances like a buffoon that makes you want to scrub your eyes with bleach, and it is also "true." Way to get in front of…
Professional gigolo and miracle of modern science Channing Tatum appeared on the Tonight Show Friday night, and, like many pretenders before him, Jimmy Fallon wanted to challenge Tatum to an arm-wrestling match.
Earlier this year, Anne Hathaway said she had decided that people needed a break from her. Well, break's over. The Les Mis Oscar winner and diary-keeping princess who everyone loves to hate teamed up with Jimmy Fallon to Broadway-ify some hip-hop tracks.
For his first official Lip-Sync Off as host of the Tonight Show, Jimmy Fallon picked a formidable opponent in Paul Rudd.
Louis C.K. made his last appearance on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno last night, and gave Jay a proper send-off with some Grade A observations about love, happiness, and his long lost directorial debut that's about to see the light of day for the very first time.
Everyone's favorite retiree George W. Bush appeared on The Tonight Show on Tuesday, ostensibly to promote his new library but also to show off one of his new paintings, which he gave to host Jay Leno. The painting, a portrait of Leno, marks something of an artistic shift for Bush, who has spent the past several months…
Later today, NBC will confirm that Jimmy Fallon is taking over the Tonight Show. As predicted, he'll start in February.
Barbara Walters may be upset and disappointed after being bumped by Lindsay Lohan in favor of appearances on nearly every other talk show, but the Liz & Dick star told Jay Leno last night that "the timing wasn't right."
Louis C.K. stopped by the Tonight Show as the third season of Louis C.K.'s brilliant Louie premieres this week. Here are two great bits from his appearance: ragging on Jay Leno's weird face and Jerry Sandusky.
