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Can Jimmy Fallon Be Himself on ‘The Tonight Show’?

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Jimmy Fallon can do sketches, he can interview celebrities, he can ad-lib snappy banter with his sidekick and eclectic house band—but can he be ingratiating simply by being himself?

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Johnny Carson once compared the delivery of his nightly monologue to the plight of a man threatening suicide from a skyscraper window ledge “while down on the ground, the crowd is yelling ‘Jump! Jump!’”

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Jack Paar lamented one night long ago that after years of struggle in show business, he’d ended...

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