https://www.rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv-movie-features/jimmy-fallon-tonight-show-toxic-work-environment-crying-rooms-nbc-1234819421/
Not a ton of specifics. Specifics that are provided are bad but not criminal. This doesn't seem very good:
Then there's this. Reminder there are two sides to a story.
Interesting.
Not a ton of specifics. Specifics that are provided are bad but not criminal. This doesn't seem very good:
Quote:
Rolling Stone contacted more than 50 Tonight Show employees, past and present, during the reporting for this story. After reaching out to representatives for Fallon and NBC (https://www.rollingstone.com/t/nbc/), Rolling Stone reached out to an additional 30 current and former staffers. While many of them praised Fallon's immense talent and comedic gifts, not a single one agreed to speak on the record or had positive things to say about working on The Tonight Show. Nor would any of the program's nine showrunners since 2014 comment about the program's namesake on the record they wouldn't even give statements of support, as is
common in the entertainment industry.
Then there's this. Reminder there are two sides to a story.
Quote:
Two employees remember witnessing Fallon scold the crew member who was in charge of his cue cards in the middle of a taping with comedian Jerry Seinfeld (https://www.rollingstone.com/t/jerry-seinfeld/). They say it was an uncomfortable moment. Seinfeld told Fallon to apologize to the cue-card production member, which he then allegedly did. The employees say this incident, which felt awkward to watch, did not make it to the version of the show that appeared on television.
"It was very awkward, and Jerry [Seinfeld] was like, 'You should apologize to him,' almost trying to make it a joke," a former employee says. "It was one of the strangest moments ever and so many people were there, so it's kind of hard to forget."
Representatives for Seinfeld did not respond to multiple requests for comment. Following the publication of the story, however, Seinfeld sent a statement to Rolling Stone: "This is so stupid. I remember this moment quite well… I teased Jimmy about a flub, and we all had a fun laugh about how rarely Jimmy is thrown off. It was not uncomfortable at all. Jimmy and I still occasionally
recall it and laugh. Idiotic twisting of events."
Interesting.
