Hurricane Sandy is huffing and puffing her way up the East Coast and will be passing over NYC sometime later tonight. As we all know she is a scary storm and because of that the North East is becoming a virtual ghost town with television shows shutting down production until she blows over.
Well the late night shows that tape in NYC all said yesterday they were going to go on as is, but today they are all changing their tune. Jimmy Kimmel Live, who flew across the county with his staff to do a week of special shows in Brooklyn, cancelled tonight’s taping. The ABC late night host Tweeted, “Though it pains us to do it, JKLfrom #Brooklyn tonight is cancelled. I’m disappointed too, but we want you to be safe.” No decision has been made as of now per his rep, if they will reschedule Chris Rock, Kelly Ripa and Alicia Keys for another night or if they will stay an extra day to make up for tonight.
While Kimmel is a guest in the Big Apple, Jimmy Fallon and David Letterman are not. The NBC Late Night host Tweeted, “We sent our audience home just to be safe. But we are doing our show tonight anyway. Should be fun. #LateNight” He said that after Tweeting, “Everyone in tonight’s studio audience gets a free Ben & Jerry’s Ice Cream. #LateNight #wehave10peopleinourau”. I sent an email to the show’s rep to find out if the scheduled guests would be there and as of now have not heard back. When it comes to The Late Show, a CBS rep says that they also will be taping without an audience tonight and that Denzel Washington and musical guest Paul Banks will be there. I mean it is Denzel after all, and he ain’t afraid of anything! In all seriousness, I think they made the right choice in choosing the audience’s safety over having them in the background for a few laughs.
This will not be the first time that a late night show has gone without an audience, Craig Ferguson tried out for fun a few years back. But in his case there was no Frankenstorm coming his way.
Now having written all about how the late night shows will or will not go on, I pray that everyone on the East Coast in her path will be safe. That is the most important thing.
UPDATE: The Late Show just Tweeted this, “Studio audience in place and ready for tonight’s all-new #Sandy show with Denzel Washington & Paul Banks.” At least they still have a sense of humor about it all.
A few weeks ago Jimmy Fallon wrote a song that he thought would be perfect for Rod Stewart and the NBC host made a viral video asking the crooner if he would sing it with him on Late Night when he was guest on the show. Well the ageless singer was on the show last night and he did the duet with Fallon. Once you hear Rod’s velvety voice on the tune, you realize that Dancin’ With You All Night Long is perfect for him. I just wish we would have heard Stewart sing a verse or two of it instead of just back up vocals.
Tom Hanks was on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon yesterday and he told the story of Full House in a way that has never been told before. He did it Beatnik style. Groovy man, just groovy!
Ladies and Gentlemen, that is why he is a two-time Oscar winner!
BTW here is a little fun fact: Before Bob Saget worked on Full House, he guest starred as a comedian on a show called Bosom Buddies. Do you know who starred on that show? Tom Hanks! The connection is even greater because the people that produced Bosom Buddies also produced Full House. And the acting world came full circle last night on NBC!
Salma Hayek was a guest on Late Night and she wanted to show Jimmy Fallon how to message his neck. So she grabbed him by the tie and started to loosen it up. As you can see by his face the NBC host rather enjoyed what was happening him. Then when she was done, she told him she was not going to massage him. So he said he was going to have to self-massage. A joke I am not sure she got. And of course she followed it up by saying first you need to get some moisturizer which is something we all know is needed for a male self massage!
Now it was time for the big reveal on how to do it and basically she wants to you beat the tip of the chin with your hands over and over and over again until you are satisfied.
Then once the demonstration was over, she told Fallon “You can dressed now, we’re done.”
I have to admit I actually felt for Fallon on that one because with all of that lead up she gave him, he really wasn’t left with much. But I am sure his wife was very happy when he got home!
BTW am I the only one who can’t stop messaging herself after watching Salma do her thing.
Last week during the Presidential debate Mitt Romney said he would cut funding to PBS and everyone has been focusing on Big Bird. Well yesterday on Late Night Jimmy Fallon focused on another PBS legend Mister Rogers and the results are pure genius. Mister Romney’s Neighborhood is the funniest thing I have seen done about PBS since Eddie Murphy did Mister Robinson’s Neighborhood on Saturday Night Live all those decades ago.
So if you are going to watch one education video today, make it Mister Romney’s Neighborhood!
