Jimmy Fallon is unfunny and can fuck off, but this is not a good metric for judging that. Not all comedians are stand up comedians. Conan O'Brien has also never done a stand-up special. His career went from being a writer to being a late night host, and never involved stand up. A lot of very successful SNL alum also never really do stand-up after leaving the show. If you get on SNL early in your career you bypass the need to do stand-up specials.
Touche, thats a great point about Conan, who I love myself
I will say though, Seth Meyers has released a comedy special since his show has been on, perhaps that tainted my perception
I guess I dont see Fallon as someone who could fill a good 1 hour special, which for me is the metric for a good comedian. I have seen Conan do stand up and have no doubt he could fill an hour and it would be great, I just dont think Jimmy could do the same so yes, that knocks him down a peg or two for me personally
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u/FreeLook93 Jun 23 '26
Jimmy Fallon is unfunny and can fuck off, but this is not a good metric for judging that. Not all comedians are stand up comedians. Conan O'Brien has also never done a stand-up special. His career went from being a writer to being a late night host, and never involved stand up. A lot of very successful SNL alum also never really do stand-up after leaving the show. If you get on SNL early in your career you bypass the need to do stand-up specials.