Will we ever get to see you beef with another late-night host?
Jimmy Fallon: Honestly, my goal has been and always will be to build a positive show.
That's tremendously disappointing. We were hoping you'd body Craig Ferguson.
Jimmy Fallon: I'd hate to disappoint anybody, but that's not me. When I first started, though, he sent me a box of Scottish cookies and stuff and told me to go fuck off. That was pretty cool. I think he's on the same page.
You host Late Night, but with that gig and a wife at home, are you really a night owl anymore?
Jimmy Fallon: On weekends I can go late. During the week, it depends. I had to watch the show last night because we did a spoof and I had to see how that played on television. Eventually that will change—I'll just take an Ambien and go to bed at 10 o' clock.
The smoke and mirrors of showbiz exposed!
Jimmy Fallon: You did it, man. You got stuff out of me that no one would ever get out of me! I go to bed early sometimes!
Wait 'til the web hears about that!
Jimmy Fallon:[
Laughs.] You're rubbing your hands together right now. Yeah, we have to be topical and current, so I go home and a lot of it is just catching up on TV; I have to be up on technology, so I read the news and go to all the blogs. I'm getting fat, so I have to work out, which sucks, because I'm lazy and I love to sleep; then, on top of that, video games—which is a bummer! I'm still trying to beat
Uncharted 2, which is a phenomenal game.
Are you a fan of reality TV?
Jimmy Fallon: A good show is a good show. I think
Jersey Shore is a good show because I'm not like those people at all and it's interesting to see how they act in their habitat. I feel like it's
National Geographic or something and I'm watching them like Jane Goodall or Jacques Cousteau.
[Laughs.] It would be amazing if they tracked Snooki and the Situation on Nat Geo during mating season.
Jimmy Fallon: Here's what I would do [for
JS Season Two]. Of course I don't know how to produce television or anything, but I would do
Jersey Shore Goes to Paris, bring those dudes out to Paris and just see how they act, and then, in the meantime, create a new cast of Jersey Shore to breed. You have the other dudes tour around in Paris, then they come back with the new cast, so it keeps flowing and growing.
Would France hate us or love us for that?
Jimmy Fallon: To be honest with you, I don't know. But [the cast of
Jersey Shore] might be ahead of their time. They might be more European than I am.