Trivia / The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon

• Corpsing:
  • Jimmy is infamous for doing a lot of this in general. He was frequently criticized for it during his time on Saturday Night Live, but it arguably works in his favor in his role as a talk show host, when he can just be himself for most of the show or when it adds Stylistic Suck to an already ridiculous sketch.
  • At the start of "Thank You Notes", James Poyser plays some piano music to accompany it, and Jimmy and Steve Higgins often comment on his facial expressions as he plays. This often causes Poyser to crack a smile, even if he's trying to maintain a serious look.
  • When he and Carol Burnett were doing a skit for "Tensions", Jimmy Fallon was visibly corpsing on the second clip when the cappuccino foam didn't come off properly. Earlier, Carol was giving him tips on how to prevent corpsing.
  • Jimmy tried to couch Chris Pine about avoiding corpsing when Pine visited to promote his Saturday Night Live debut, but Pine was quick to point out that Fallon himself corpsed all the time when he was on SNL, although Pine admitted Fallon's uncontrollable laughter often made his skits funnier.
• Referenced by...: In the Smiling Friends episode "Mr. Frog", the titular character appears as a guest on The Tonight Show.
• Technology Marches On: "Screenshots" is a straight carryover of Leno's "Headlines", except that digital screen grabs on a tablet are featured instead of clippings from print publications mounted on cardboard.
• Throw It In!: The theme song for Jimmy's run was created entirely on accident. According to Questlove, the Roots were just screwing around to test out the studio's speaker systems and the recording of it got mixed in with the batch of songs they actually did write as potential theme songs. Jimmy heard the improv song and decided that was the theme song.

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