The HSO live blogs Late Nite with Jimmy Fallon!

Oh, the excitement!

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Intro/House Band: People, it's the motherfucking ROOTS. Terrific. Love it. Want more Roots, now.

Monologue: Eh. He's going to have to work on his delivery. The OMG joke had legs, but he's not selling it. He'll get there, though - I'm old enough that I remember Letterman, Leno and Conan, and they were all stiff in the early years.

Random bits: Ron Dempsey - Flashback Master! Perfectly good skit - no worse than anything Conan's done, at the very least.

I like how he - so far, at least - is involving the guests in his tomfoolery. This bit with Trump is amusing. "Thanks, Trump Trump!"

President Of The Audience Bit: Who doesn't love the Applause-O-Meter? Who doesn't love Schadenfreude? Not me, I'll tell y'all what.

Blair FTW! Nice Podium. And he's from Canada, so the incongruity is fun.

Soil samples.

Trump: (oh, shit - the Roots just dropped the sweetest Wu Tang ref! There. Has. Never. Been. A. Better. Talk Show. House Band. God. Damn!) Jimmy's actually really comfortable, here - he's letting the D run, but he's sticking his own stuff in here and there. Good flow, very conversational. Love his restraint - he could go cheap and piss the guy off, but he's stroking him along and letting the flow develop. I'm really very impressed at the light, conversational tone he's maintaining. Well done, Fallon.

Given his ability to interview, I expect he'll be around for a while.

And, again. The Roots. ?uestlove, y'all! I'm instantly addicted to this.

I'm going to need a smoke at some point, here. This means I will miss some things. Live blog, right? Cool.

Tuba!

I like how the gag runs throughout the show - for now. It might get old. The "Attack Ad" is predictable, but not bad in context.

Serena Williams is beautiful and terrifying all at once. Beauterrifying. Jimmy's definitely going to play her gently. Eek.



Okay, the smoke break devolved into an Easy Mac-making project. I'm hungry. Live blogging.

I suspect this Kings show is going to be shiny poop.

Beer pong. Awesome. Drink, Fallon!

Ludacris + The Roots: Dude can MC - back him with all that goodness and it's bound to be okay.

The mini-interview @ the end further illustrates Fallon's surprising ease in the interview mode. This bodes well for him, I think.

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I liked it.