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Fallon Falls Into Late Night With Nightly Webcasts

 

Published 7/21/2008 at Celebrity Fix

Jimmy Fallon is going to log a little more time on NBC's farm team, working under the hope that practice makes perfect for the Late Night host-in-waiting.

Lorne Michaels, the executive producer of the house that Conan O'Brien built, has revealed plans for his successor to hone his late-night shtick with five or six months' worth of online webcasts prior to his TV debut in the post-Tonight Show slot.The online shows will come in advance of Fallon's spring 2009 takeover and, presumably, will help work out the kinks that, back when O'Brien first started out, nearly rendered the then-untested host DOA on the airwaves. (link)

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