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Jimmy Fallon

1 appearance on the record.

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14statements → 10claims → 4claims resolved → 100%fully supported → 3.93/5average certainty → 1.21/5average debate potential → ≈4.5/5argument clarity, estimated → 5said about them ↓

4 supported 0 partly supported 0 contradicted 1 not yet assessed 5 not checkable as stated how the 10 claims stand · each chip opens the sources

10 assertions · 2 insights · 2 disclosures · every statement was checked. The predictions and assertions are the 10 claims: statements the public record can support or contradict. 4 are resolved, 1 is not yet assessed, and 5 name no date, number or outcome precise enough to check. Everything else (opinions, insights, what ifs, disclosures) can never be settled by the record, so it carries no assessment.

The record, in short

What the tape says about how Jimmy argues and how the claims held up. Everything they said, and everything said about them, is in the tabs below.

Their most notable supported claim

Assertion Supported
Fallon's 8th-grade yearbook named him most likely to replace David Letterman
“I do remember graduating from eighth grade, my yearbook said, and this is true, I can, if you can believe me over this podcast I can somehow get a photo to you somehow, or maybe I'll tweet it when this airs, but it said most likely to replace David Letterman.”
Jimmy Fallon Jun 27, 2022 ▶ 8:21 The Tonight Show & Electric Hot Dog: Jimmy Fallon

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weighted support: a fully supported claim counts one, a partly supported claim counts half. Each filled bar is clickable and opens exactly those claims; "none yet" means nothing said at that certainty level has resolved yet

How they sound: not measured why? →

We measure speaking style by listening to the audio itself, and a fair number needs at least 2,000 words from one person on tape we have measured. There is too little of Jimmy Fallon on measured tape to publish a rate. This says nothing about how they speak.

Everything Jimmy Fallon said on How I Built This that made the record, most notable first. Filter by type, assessment or year in the ledger →

Insight
Why bombing on stage is necessary to build a comedian's baseline skills
“You actually have to go through it. And what happens eventually is, years later, you miss those days. And you kind of laugh about those days. And I go, now I can talk to you about those days. At the time, I couldn't even walk back into the improv. I was so emb…”
Jimmy Fallon Jun 27, 2022 ▶ 20:05 The Tonight Show & Electric Hot Dog: Jimmy Fallon
Assertion Not publicly verifiable
Lorne Michaels threatened to quit if NBC didn't give Fallon Late Night
“NBC didn't want me for late night because the movies didn't work and I wasn't hot, you know. And so, they wanted other people, and they were gonna give it to someone else, and then I remember Lorne just stepping in, kind of, and saying, look, I know, he's like…”
Jimmy Fallon Jun 27, 2022 ▶ 43:13 The Tonight Show & Electric Hot Dog: Jimmy Fallon
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Celebrities sometimes privately admit to Fallon their new project is a flop
“Sometimes people know when it's a flop. You know, they come on the show and they're like, Jimmy, this one is a rough one.”
Jimmy Fallon Jun 27, 2022 ▶ 1:02:48 The Tonight Show & Electric Hot Dog: Jimmy Fallon
Assertion Supported
Fallon's 8th-grade yearbook named him most likely to replace David Letterman
“I do remember graduating from eighth grade, my yearbook said, and this is true, I can, if you can believe me over this podcast I can somehow get a photo to you somehow, or maybe I'll tweet it when this airs, but it said most likely to replace David Letterman.”
Jimmy Fallon Jun 27, 2022 ▶ 8:21 The Tonight Show & Electric Hot Dog: Jimmy Fallon
Disclosure
Fallon plans to host The Tonight Show indefinitely
“I just think, I feel like I could do this for the rest of my life. As long as NBC and the audience would, will have me, I will.”
Jimmy Fallon Jun 27, 2022 ▶ 1:06:12 The Tonight Show & Electric Hot Dog: Jimmy Fallon
Disclosure
Fallon earned $7.13 a night for early Improv stand-up sets
“The Improv was my home club. I auditioned for them, and so they said, yeah, so you'll get like a Thursday night spot, or something like that, and I go, ok, so Thursday night, they put you up, 10 45, or 11 o'clock at night, and you get paid seven dollars and 13…”
Jimmy Fallon Jun 27, 2022 ▶ 16:22 The Tonight Show & Electric Hot Dog: Jimmy Fallon
Assertion Supported
Lorne Michaels watched Fallon's failed first SNL troll doll audition
“I'm doing this troll doll thing, and Lorne was there. I saw him walk in, he had a baseball hat on, and, you know, really pulled down, and he kind of sat in the darkness, and I think, you know, I just remember it did not go well.”
Jimmy Fallon Jun 27, 2022 ▶ 21:19 The Tonight Show & Electric Hot Dog: Jimmy Fallon
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Fallon negotiated an unprecedented SNL exit clause into his WB pilot contract
“And so they put an extra page in the contract. Never been done before, never been done since, I don't think. But saying, if I get Saturday Night Live, I get out of the show, out of my contract.”
Jimmy Fallon Jun 27, 2022 ▶ 24:31 The Tonight Show & Electric Hot Dog: Jimmy Fallon
Assertion Supported
SNL used to cut absent cast members from the opening credits
“Sometimes they would actually cut your, you know, Picture and name out of the opening credits if you weren't in the show.”
Jimmy Fallon Jun 27, 2022 ▶ 28:29 The Tonight Show & Electric Hot Dog: Jimmy Fallon
Assertion Not checkable as stated
SNL's Wayne's World stage area was where doomed sketches went to die
“It was in the Wayne's World section of ADH on the stage, which is It's famous for Wayne's World now, but at the time, it was also famous for where sketches go to die. So if you do, if you have a sketch in that section of the stage, it usually means you're goin…”
Jimmy Fallon Jun 27, 2022 ▶ 33:26 The Tonight Show & Electric Hot Dog: Jimmy Fallon
Assertion Supported
Will Ferrell intentionally wore a smaller shirt for the More Cowbell sketch
“Will Ferrell wore a smaller shirt on air, so when he lifted up his hands to hit the cowbell, his gut, like, fell out of the bottom of his, of under this thing”
Jimmy Fallon Jun 27, 2022 ▶ 35:12 The Tonight Show & Electric Hot Dog: Jimmy Fallon
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Why Fallon chose to star in the American remake of Taxi
“And I chose to Taxi, because Queen Latifah just had a hit with Steve Martin, and it was the most successful film of all time in France.”
Jimmy Fallon Jun 27, 2022 ▶ 37:52 The Tonight Show & Electric Hot Dog: Jimmy Fallon
Insight
Why Fallon's celebrity pitches succeed: genuine fandom over gotcha moments
“I'm a fan of, a giant fan of Paul McCartney, so he knew that it was coming from, I'm a fan, you know, I'm not just looking for a hit, and just a gotcha moment, come out, we'll do scrambled eggs, then you split, and I don't ever see you again. I'm like, I love …”
Jimmy Fallon Jun 27, 2022 ▶ 47:22 The Tonight Show & Electric Hot Dog: Jimmy Fallon
Assertion Not checkable as stated
The Tonight Show employs a staff of approximately 400 people
“Oh, man, probably, yeah, 400 people.”
Jimmy Fallon Jun 27, 2022 ▶ 56:29 The Tonight Show & Electric Hot Dog: Jimmy Fallon

The other half of the tape: Jimmy Fallon's own voice is left out of every number here. Other people bring the name up 4 times in 3 episodes on How I Built This. 1 statement on the record names them. every mention, with the transcript →

Who brings them up most Guy Raz 3Turner Lewis 1

Statements about Jimmy Fallon, by other people (1)

Assertion Contradicted
Fallon's Late Night generated almost $200 million for NBC in year one
“In your, I think in your first year on late night, you brought in like, Almost two hundred million dollars in revenue for NBC.”
Guy Raz Jun 27, 2022 ▶ 50:02 The Tonight Show & Electric Hot Dog: Jimmy Fallon

Every mention by year

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2024 1 mention in 1 episode
2021 2 mentions in 1 episode
2020 1 mention in 1 episode

Appearances (1)

EpisodeDateSpeaking time
The Tonight Show & Electric Hot Dog: Jimmy Fallon Jun 27, 2022 45m
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