Saturday, May 25, 2013

Jimmy Fallon's Wonderful 'Game of Thrones' Parody Previews Late Night's New King

Jimmy Fallon's Wonderful 'Game of Thrones' Parody Previews Late Night's New King

Jimmy Fallon released a brilliant Game of Thrones parody on Friday's episode of Late Night and, really, the whole thing is fantastic. But it really served as an introduction for the next king of the remote control throne.
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Jimmy Fallon's Wonderful 'Game of Thrones' Parody Previews Late Night's New King


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Connor Simpson 1:25 PM ET
Jimmy Fallon released a brilliant Game of Thrones parody on Friday's episode of Late Night and, really, the whole thing is fantastic. But it really served as an introduction for the next king of the remote control throne. No, seriously, look closer: they made a spot-on reproduction of the iron throne, but with television remotes. It turns out the world of late night television, especially at NBC, is a lot like Game of Thrones. There are arguments, back room dealings and a murky line of succession often corrupted by ego. So it only makes sense to boil the last few months of bad press into a wonderful and immature riff on one of the best shows on TV.
Game of Desks starts with Fallon, a spitting image of Ed Stark, receiving word that there is a Joffrey-esque usurper attempting to steal his throne. It turns out "Prince Firecrotch," the head writer, took Fallon's place at the Iron Desk because Fallon forgot to call a seat save. (Always, always call a seat save.) Anyway, it goes on from there, with Fallon nearly losing his head. The Roots play a major role, of course, but the ending is the best part. We don't want to spoil everything, but the ending is the best part. We get to hear, for the first time, what the next "heir" to the late night throne will sound like when his reign starts "in February of aught-fourteen."

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Jimmy Fallon's Wonderful 'Game of Thrones' Parody Previews Late Night's New King

Ever since I first watched Jimmie Fallon I noticed that Fallon is the closest in personality and talent to Johnnie Carson. So, I predicted the first time I saw him that he likely would eventually take the lead at "The Tonight Show". Jay Leno was also always great at the "Tonight Show" but I think people are sort of going retro in wanting their "Here's Johnnie" Clone back. Also Fallon with his "Skit" mentality that he brings from Saturday Night Live rings true for all the fans of Saturday night live since it first broadcast in 1975. I was a fan of Johnny Carson from about 1960 when I was 12 and could stay up that late in the summers, and a fan  of SNL when I was 27 in 1975 when Saturday Night Live first broadcast with Chevy Chase and I believe John Belushi and Dan Ackroyd at that time along with Gilda Radner and all the others.  So, it is sort of Saturday Night Live meets "The Tonight Show" and both are late night shows so they share a lot of the same kind of audience.

Also, Seth Meyers is set to take over Jimmie Fallon's old show on NBC as well so this two show becoming "Saturday Night Live meets the Tonight Show".

I was a little and too young to watch much of Steve Allen who created the Tonight show but I did watch Jack Paar a few times before he gave the show over to Johnnie Carson.

 



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