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Jimmy Fallon speaks out about infamous Trump interview

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BunnyBear

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Fascinating article in The New York Times about THAT interview with Donald Trump, the backlash that followed and the effect on his ratings. He admits it was a mistake:

Mr. Fallon acknowledges now that the Trump interview was a setback, if not quite a mistake, and he has absorbed at least a portion of the anger that was directed at him by critics and online detractors.

“They have a right to be mad,” a chastened Mr. Fallon said in an interview this month. “If I let anyone down, it hurt my feelings that they didn’t like it. I got it.”
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For Mr. Fallon, who lives a portion of every day online, the hate felt inescapable.

“I go, I just can’t read Twitter,” he said. “Then I can’t read the news. I can’t read the internet.”

Speaking in a quiet, tentative tone, Mr. Fallon seemed to be reliving the experience as he recounted it.

“I’m a people pleaser,” he said. “If there’s one bad thing on Twitter about me, it will make me upset. So, after this happened, I was devastated. I didn’t mean anything by it. I was just trying to have fun.”
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Much more here: https://mobile.nytimes.com/2017/05/17/arts/television/jimmy-fallon-tonight-show-interview-trump.html

I feel sorry for him in a way, because he always developed the show as a lighthearted, inoffensive hour aimed right down the centre. His mistake was booking Trump in the first place.
 
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BunnyBear said:
Fascinating article in The New York Times about THAT interview with Donald Trump, the backlash that followed and the effect on his ratings. He admits it was a mistake:



Much more here: https://mobile.nytimes.com/2017/05/17/arts/television/jimmy-fallon-tonight-show-interview-trump.html

I feel sorry for him in a way, because he always developed the show as a lighthearted, inoffensive hour aimed right down the centre. His mistake was booking Trump in the first place.
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It cant be a mistake when his network had that man on their network for over a decade before that, and his old former show(SNL) had him as a host during the campaign.

It really was the interview in particular that rubbed people the wrong way.Kimmel had Trump on as well, and even with a Mexican sidekick who had to sit there and watch it, didnt get half the backlash.
 
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It's weird, but it reads like someone who isn't sorry for the right reasons.

He's sorry his ratings have dropped, but he doesn't seem to understand what he did wrong or continues to do wrong.

Also, these two lines kind of seem to contradict each other:

“I don’t want to be bullied into not being me, and not doing what I think is funny,” he said more defiantly. “Just because some people bash me on Twitter, it’s not going to change my humor or my show.”

He added: “It’s not ‘The Jimmy Fallon Show.’ It’s ‘The Tonight Show.’”
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“If I let anyone down, it hurt my feelings that they didn’t like it. I got it.”
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Ultimately, Mr. Fallon concluded that his only recourse is to keep doing the show he has been doing. “I tossed and turned for a couple of weeks, but I have to make people laugh,” he said. “People that voted for Trump watch my show as well.”
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I mean, clearly he's made his choice and plans to stick with it. What's the point of saying it was a mistake if he wants to stay the course.
 
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Too late. Not even a real sincere apology.
 
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Wanting to stay apolitical probably shouldn't have resulted in playing with Trump's hair.

But this honestly probably goes beyond politics anyway. Paling around with a GOP candidate for president isn't a bad thing and hasn't been in the past. Paling around with Trump specifically is the problem.
 
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Jimmy Fallon showed to be sorry and remorseful.

Only for someone to bring a random gadget into the room and he forgets everything about it to giggle like an idiot and call it the best thing ever
 
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“If I let anyone down, it hurt my feelings that they didn’t like it. I got it.”
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Oh my god, guys. We hurt Jimmy's feelings by not liking him enabling a monster. We're the real monster.
 
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It's pretty hard not to be political, but Trump also has serious problems to the point he's entirely toxic if you don't take a fairly firm stance against him. Unfortunately for Jimmy, he didn't realize that soon enough, it's fine to be inoffensive, but the problems are too big for that, especially in hindsight.
 
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Kind of a weird article, overusing "Mr. Fallon" and even using Putin's middle initial. The pictures are kind of funny though, trying to assign slump depression to him in an article about political polarization when he seems unperturbed and says he won't change his program.
 
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Would this even be a thing if Colbert wasn't curbstomping him and NBC is doing everything to get him back on top?
 
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Huh, so he is sad that he has hurt feeling because people didn't like it? That... doesn't sound like he knows what is the actual issue, or doesn't care.
 
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BunnyBear said:
Fascinating article in The New York Times about THAT interview with Donald Trump, the backlash that followed and the effect on his ratings. He admits it was a mistake:





Much more here: https://mobile.nytimes.com/2017/05/17/arts/television/jimmy-fallon-tonight-show-interview-trump.html

I feel sorry for him in a way, because he always developed the show as a lighthearted, inoffensive hour aimed right down the centre. His mistake was booking Trump in the first place.
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He's sad? Good fuck him for helping getting a fascist elected.
 
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I understand Jimmy wanting to keep his show apolitical, but I don't understand how you can maintain that stance once you've invited on a politician--and an incredibly controversial and morally repugnant one at that. Dude just should have vetoed the booking.

As an aside, I think it's really weird when any nominee/elected official are on shows like this in general. People were so shocked we elected a reality TV host as our president, but our culture has already started to treat our politicians like entertainers, so of course the lines have been blurred.
 
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Trump's rise to power was enabled by so many wrong and bad judgement calls, it is kind of incredible
 
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“If I let anyone down, it hurt my feelings that they didn’t like it. I got it.”

Sounds a lot like he didn't get it and is only sad it affected his ratings.
 
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Sounds more like he feels sorry for himself than actually being sorry for helping normalizing Trump by going out of his way to present him as a "nice guy goofball".

He feels like he is being bullied for wanting to be himself and funny.

Gtfo Fallon.
 
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ClosingADoor said:
Huh, so he is sad that he has hurt feeling because people didn't like it? That... doesn't sound like he knows what is the actual issue, or doesn't care.
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Yeah, basically. He knows something was wrong about that interview but doesn't understand the how and why.
 
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Don't feel bad for him.
 
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He still seems to not be concerned about the Trump situation, but about his ratings. Statements like "Trump supporters watch tv too, so I will be nice to Trump" is seen as wrong by most especially as Trump keeps sinking. He took a stand, yet now sees it was not good for business. He still seems unapologetic. No deal. Get out of here Fallon. Colbert eating your lunch, and with good reason.
 
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"I didn’t mean anything by it. I was just trying to have fun.”

Yes, that's the fucking problem.
 
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This just sounds like he's only apologetic because the majority of folks didn't find his segment funny and therefore criticize him on it. Oh woe is him.

Fallon, you're an unfunny hack.
 
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"I'm a people pleaser"

We know Jimmy that's why you'll always be the slightly warmed over pile of vaguely nostalgic tv dinners of the late night world. People will eat that shit till they find something that's actually engaging.

Corden is just as bad.
 
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The "Colbert is winning" thing is bollocks, he regularly pulls higher overall ratings yes, but he's trounced in the key demographics. That's where the money is.

There's an interesting comment on the NYT article by someone who claims that right now, America is baying for blood like Romans at the colosseum, and apolitical, inoffensive programs like Fallon's aren't cutting the mustard. But when this merciless Trump era ends, it's likely people will navigate back to Fallon.
 
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You have to give the same amount of time to political candidates. I dunno why no one understands this. Certainly he could have handled things better after the fact but I'm not gonna fault the dude because he had Trump on.

SNL had Trump on too but everyone forgot about it. That's because Baldwin and Co do a good job grilling him.

Tonight Show just isn't political about stuff it's Jimmy and memes.
 
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