If you're on Twitter, follow Bryan Brinkman. Follow him not because I said so, you wouldn't do that anyways. Let's face it, I'm not influential like that. People like Jimmy Fallon and Questlove though, two guys who are influential, are the ones who want you to follow Bryan. Who's Bryan? You ask. I d...

Filed under: Late Night, Programming, Celebrities, Talk Show, Reality-Free At 8, ABC has a new Homeland Security USA . NBC has a new, two-hour Biggest Loser at 8, then a new Law and Order: SVU . FOX has a new, two-hour American Idol at 8. There's a new Reaper on The CW at 8. At 9, Sci-Fi has a new E...

Jimmy Fallon has lasted until day four but that doesn't make him any less awkward interviewing guests. His flop sweat has dried up but the fact that he laughs at his own jokes and can't seem to talk about anything else but his unfunny days on Saturday Night Live and his failed attempt at a movie car...

Filed under: Late Night, Programming, Celebrities, Talk Show, What To Watch Tonight, Reality-Free At 8, ABC has a new Ugly Betty. CBS has a new Survivor at 8, then new episodes of CSI and Eleventh Hour. NBC has new episodes of My Name Is Earl, Kath & Kim, The Office, 30 Rock, and ER. FOX has a n...

Jon Stewart (below) explains: "Recent opinion polls indicate that six weeks into Barack Obama's administration, the American public thinks they approve of his performance. But it turns out they're wrong." In fact, based on cable TV coverage, Stewart concludes: "Opinion polls don't matter. The stock ...

The end of my senior year is almost here and there’s still so much left for me to do… I really need to sit down and write out a schedule for when I need to have things done other than their actual due dates since most of them are so close to one another. Time management… I need to ...

Who isn’t in love a little bit with Jimmy Fallon?  I’ve had my eye on him since Saturday Night Live, when he was the giggling boy who had that great sexual chemistry with Tina Fey. I mean, has the Weekend Update ever been that good?  (Well, maybe in the seventies, but you know what I m...

NBC The credits of Late Night with Jimmy Fallon, appropriately enough for a show produced by Lorne Michaels and starring an SNL alum, look and sound an awful lot like an SNL credits sequence. The difference: they feature just one guy, Fallon, and he is running, furiously, as hard as he can, as if he...

newVideoPlayer("/fallon_firstshow_gawker.flv", 506, 423,""); Sure, Jimmy Fallon was awkward on his Late Night debut, as first-time hosts tend to be. But expectations are so low the comedian just needed to show a little promise. That he did. The biggest weakness on the show is relatively easy to fix:...

You have to give Jimmy Fallon credit for one thing: He has pretty great taste in music. The house band for "Late Night with Jimmy Fallon," which premiered Monday night on NBC, is the outstanding Philadelphia hip-hop/R&B band the Roots. Closing out Fallon's jittery first show was th...