NBC didn’t want Jimmy Fallon to host Late Night at first.
09.09.2023 - 15:33 / justjared.com
Some very big Hollywood stars started off on Saturday Night Live!
Some well known names that came out of the hit sketch show include Jimmy Fallon, Tina Fey, Amy Poehler, and Kristen Wiig – but do you remember some of the other stars that were SNL?
Despite their time being short on SNL, a lot of these stars of gone on to star in major blockbuster films and have won tons of awards.
Click through the slideshow to see the stars that started off on SNL…
NBC didn’t want Jimmy Fallon to host Late Night at first.
The official end of the Writers Guild strike on Wednesday brought a slew of news from the world of late-night television, which was the first to go off the air in May when the writers hit the picket lines.
Seth Meyers and Jimmy Fallon will be flashing their smiles on the small screen in no time.
Jimmy Fallon and Seth Meyers are coming back.
Late night TV is coming back!
Jimmy Fallon and Seth Meyers are recalling just how they got into the late night hosting game.
Saturday Night Live should get pretty much a full season after the writers and the studios reached an agreement to end the strike.
With the WGA Strike almost over (the contract still has to be ratified and signed by members), fans are starting to think about just when late night talk shows could return.
Michael Schneider Variety Editor at Large As the WGA strike draws to a close, first stop on the road to normalcy will be late night — where producers are already plotting a return to air within the next two to three weeks. “We want to come back ASAP,” said one late night insider.
Lenny Kravitz has joined the ever-growing legion of celebs to harness the power of TikTok.
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.
Tina Fey and Amy Poehler’s ‘Restless Leg Tour’ is picking back up on Thursday, Sept. 21 for a 22-show leg that will send the comedic duo all over North America up until mid-January 2024.“When you think about the ways people could be spending their money right now, it’s gratifying and heartwarming that people are like, ‘Yes, that’s the night out that we want,’” Fey told The Hollywood Reporter.“Because, for me, I don’t want to go to anything.
Bill Maher has faced a lot of criticism after revealing that he was bringing Real Time back to HBO next week.
The late-night power players behind the new “Strike Force Five” podcast are temporarily losing two members for a special live on-stage event.
An NFT-backed animated series production featuring the voices of Ashton Kutcher, Mila Kunis, Chris Rock, Dax Shepard, Jane Fonda and Seth MacFarlane has been fined $1 million for misleading investors.
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.
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.