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Jimmy Fallon

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“But yeah, well, hopefully that you don't have to use, you don't have to play me anymore. I'm going to get to the next level.”
2025-06-02 · The Diary of a CEO · Jimmy Fallon: I Wasn’t Prepared For The Hate… It Was Brutal. I Was Starving, Living on $7.25! · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, and then they go, Oh, I didn't play that in so long. Jimmy Fallon game? Oh, good. This dude, this dude, no, I didn't play that game anymore. Yeah. No, I had him create a business.”
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“The edibles kicked in whoever wrote that one. It's a deep one. Jesus I wouldn't be shocked I wouldn't be shocked I go I probably would take credit for it. I'd probably say I knew that Wait what? You knew that? Yeah, I wouldn't be shocked if all of this was just based on what I'm doing. It's fascinating. If that's the real truth, how fascinating what a great experiment this was. And I hope I can't hope I passed. And again, I'm a people pleaser. Whoever is playing this game, I hope they're enjoying the game they're playing.”
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“Keep doing what you're doing. You're great. You're fantastic. I had the greatest time. It was so fun. I want to say thank you to every camera. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.”
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“Maybe someone that laughs. everything I don't really laugh at everything. I do have a good time, but I don't laugh at everything. I think one may misunderstood is maybe people don't think that I know what I'm doing or that I, you know, I'm just living through life like I don't know what's going on, but I do know what's going on. And I do care. And I put a lot of work into what I do. And I really put a lot of thought and care into things that I put out.”
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“Then go do what you want to do. That would make you successful. What you want to do If you do what you want to do, you'll be successful.”
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“And then the screaming baby in the restaurant that once when you were younger, like, will you shut that baby up? Now you go like, do you give me the kid? I'll take the kid for a walk. I will shut this baby. I understand what it's like to get out and be a parent and you don't want the kid to cry. And I get all that now. And you go, oh, I'm much more patient with that.”
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“I'll tell you one thing that surprised me. I don't want to tell you about your own kids because no spoilers. You're just going to figure it all out. And when they get to a certain age, we'll talk and be like, dude. And they go, yeah, of course. I didn't want to ruin it for you. It's great. It's a lot. It's great. But the one thing I didn't think would happen to me is I like other kids more. I actually appreciate other kids. They go, hey, are you not sharing with it where that kid's got no friends? Go talk to that kid because you go, that could happen to me, my kid. So you start thinking about other kids, hey, no, no, no, be nice to him.”
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“And I think I'm a good dad. Did the best kids, I love them so much. They're so fun. They're funny. They make jokes. They're interesting. They're interested.”
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“It's the greatest thing. I'm a dad. Can you believe that? This guy would be this guy would be a dad. This guy would be a dad.”
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“Yes, Gobstompers were a sneaker that we came up with that the more you wear them, the more the leather wears down and they become different colors.”
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“Tonight, dough ice cream. We've raised a lot of money for serious fun, which is a great charity. It's a great ice cream, by the way. But it actually goes through a great cause. So it's win-win.”
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“The last one was called holiday seasoning, which is a Christmas album, but I wanted to create like a new verb. Like, hey, we're all holiday seasoning. Like, are you holiday seasoning? I'm celebrating Hanukkah. I'm celebrating Kwanzaa. We're all holiday seasoning. It didn't take off. But, you know what? Maybe in the future, maybe, you know, at 2050, people will all be saying, hey, are you holiday seasoning? You know, yeah, we're all, I don't know. I don't know if I created what I wanted to, but on that one.”
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“way and that way, but I still feel like eventually there's a screen in your house or wherever you're living that you're going to want to see things on. You know, whether it's going to be through your eyeglasses or if it's going to be through your contact lenses or your phone or whatever it is. I don't think it's going to be the Apple goggles, but they have to try outside.”
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“When you're needing some outlet or creative or something or even a break, whatever you want to call it, meditation, television's there for you. You can turn on television and watch a movie, watch a show, and you're like, ah, this is great. For an hour of my life, I don't have to think about my problems. I'm thinking about their problems or I'm watching a reality show. Whatever show it is you're watching, but your brain's moving. It's not like your brain's shut off. You're listening to this podcast. You're not just zoning out going, you're actually thinking while you're listening to this. And this is changing the way you think. You may not agree that I think you might think all television is over, whatever, but that's interesting. Still, your brain's moving. And this is fun for people to listen to. And this is, I think, entertainment is always going to be there, has to be around. And I think it's just moving this.”
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“Or something crazy. But are you thinking about it? The next wave of Not really. I feel like this is a good gig for that type of aging. I think the older you get, the kind of the better the talk show gets. Like, you know, Johnny Carson did it for 30 years, I want to say. And, you know, I think I can do it as long as there's an audience. And I feel like there is always going to be an audience. I feel like I know everyone's like TV is dying, you know, the ratings are dying, but I don't think it is. I think TV is just as powerful as it ever was. I think they're making some of the best entertainment, the best shows are on television. If you call it something else, if you call it Netflix or if you call it, you know a live podcast or whatever it is, you're still watching. You need entertainment. And thank God for entertainment because you just find yourself when you're.”
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“Pioneers The shift towards the internet and digital, and you've got more bloody followers on YouTube and Twitter and Instagram.”
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“Yeah. I'm definitely eating better. I work out when I can. I walk every day. I love walking. But yeah, I try to drink as much as I used to. And I get checkups. Not that I'm unhealthy, but I think... I just want to be around for a long time. I don't even know how long I want to live, to be honest. I don't want to be that old that I'm older than everyone. I mean, I want to have people my age. I don't want to be 130 and no one else is like, dude, that guy won't die. I mean, eventually it should happen. I just want to be. I want it to all happen kind of in the right way and then eventually as you go on and they'll pass away. But I want to be able to be enjoying everything now.”
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“Financially stable for my kids too because I don't think my parents thought about any of that stuff. They just go, no, just have, it was a lot of fun and like a lot of support and like that was a lot of the thing, you know, but they didn't really didn't work out. I think we bought a treadmill twice, you know, different times. Joe's tried to make it something that we would all do and no one ever did it.”
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“Maybe around, I mean, I'm 50 right now, but I think, you know, I think about my parents, they were never healthy. These drink a lot. At the time they smoked, you know, when everyone smoked. I think there's a picture of my mom pregnant with me drinking and smoking, which is fantastic. I mean, gosh, terrible. But man, I turned out okay, right? Listen to this back. Yeah, maybe I didn't turn out. Guys, maybe this is a lesson. But yeah, I think about... Being around for my kids and trying to be alive and kind of”
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“Yes You still do it for them. In a weird way I still do this for my mom. I think of her when I do things. I go she would be she would be sight. She would be proud that would make her laugh. I still think of her for most things I do. She would love that. That would make her laugh. That would make her proud. She'd be like, oh, that's funny. Or that's good that you did that.”
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“Yes, I went for it. My wife is really helpful with that. She was like, go for it. Just go for it. Just cry and just grieve because eventually you actually just have to stop crying. There's no way. You can keep crying. There's no way. But do you feel like there's a whole in your heart and a hole in your lungs? You feel unhealthy and you feel like you have to go to the hospital that you're going to die. You know, you just have to go through that and you go. And then you just. Just get out of your system and then. You know, as time goes on, you just start being able to laugh at the things, kind of happy memories. You know, and sad she's not here anymore, but She gave me and went all the memories. I mean, it's way outweighs the sad thing. Wish he was around is the only thing if you harp on that, then it's too depressing.”
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“I did. I said everything she knew that I loved her. And, you know, it just, it kind of happened fast, which I kind of hope. I think that was a good thing. I hope it doesn't happen slow for you because I don't know if I could take that. This happened really quickly. And so I was like,”
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“She had a great sense of humor and she was always, you know, I think there's so many things. Talking about Probably talking about myself a lot, did you see the thing I did? Or I want her to bring it up like, that thing you did was great. And then it makes you feel good. So I kind of missed a Positive reinforcement defeat by positive feedback of something that I did that I kind of miss and her complaining about something or talking about something she doesn't like. I feel like that would kind of give me material. And I miss like, Calling on my birthdays and so much love. She just loved me so much.”
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“And I can't. And you go, so sad. And then the truth is it's just you don't. You don't forget about them ever. They will never, they're in your life, you think about them in the weirdest moments. And you'll hear a song and I'll hear like Duranduran or something. I don't even know if my mom liked Durand Rand, but something you remind me of me and my mom was, you know, think of my mom. Oh, my God, I can't believe I'm listening to hungry like the wolf or whatever Rio. And I'm thinking about my mom and getting sad. But you do. You have those moments when it's like, but it's more happier moments and you don't get that emotional, you know, if I, you know, want to, I can just. Start crying because I just miss her. But I think of the best times. And, you know, I think I wouldn't be who I am without her, you know.”
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“It's the toughest thing that I had to go through, I think. You know that it's going to come eventually, but It was just so sad because just choose so much joy in my life. I just miss her, you know. But you don't stop thinking about the people You know, and you think about all these things and you look at all these other photos and you go, yeah, that was probably, she probably gave me the microphone. My mom was probably here, giving me the microphone and When you think about people dying, especially when it happens for the first week, you go, I'm going to forget about them.”
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“My God, this is my Catholic teacher at kindergarten teacher. That's Mrs. Fulling. That's Frank Genteel we talked about earlier, friend Steve Tout. These are my dorm room friends. I would just stand up with Frank. And Steve was kind of the artist in the group.”
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“And all my female fans were like, really? You have two daughters and you're not going to write mama because this is the real truth. Everything is mama. So that's kind of the same book except I change it to. You want the kids to say dada and they just keep saying mamma. I have a phantom.”
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“Start putting more pressure on yourself for any little challenges or trying something. You go like, I've always wanted to put out a Christmas album. You know, and just come out with and write original songs, you know, trying to write songs is hard enough. Trying to write 20 original Christmas songs, it's insane. And what hasn't been said? I have an idea for a kid's book that I think could be funny, you know? Yeah, data was the first one that was a big deal. It's really the same word on every page. It's just getting your kid to say dad dad. I thought that no one's done this. So I go, basically, if you get to the end of the book, it's you saying the word dada so many times that I think your baby has to eventually just go dada so it'll work.”
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“You gotta show up and you always got to show up. You got to be there. And you got to be there for your audience. And you do that. You show up. You do all the stuff. I mean, you have to. And that's, like you said, it's kind of a seven days a week thing, but it's every day you go, what can I do? What can I do? What can I do? It just becomes part of your life. It's brushing your teeth. It's like, oh yeah, I guess brushing your teeth. Someone at one point told me they had to do that. But now I do it every day, so I don't think about it. I brush them three times, four times a day now. I'm like,”
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“This was not real. This is not, there's a light here. This is all fake. This is all a fake thing. This is how you don't make it old. You have to work. This is all nothing here is real. This is all a studio. But that's how you make it known. Get old. Yes. But this is, I think how you make it exciting is you got to put the work in. Don't get tired.”
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“I don't think he ever will. There's just so many interesting people. So many people in this world. And it doesn't end. I mean, four years, I'm trying to think of where that was. That was round at the end of late night for me. I mean, you're just doing all the things. You're just expanding. I mean, but you're working hard. I mean, you're trying. I think just keep trying. If you stop trying, you get boring tomorrow. But here you are in New York with ten cameras.”
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“And just really fun to watch, and it's fun to go back and now even if I see these people once a year, twice a year, I feel like I know them a little bit. And you're like, oh yeah. Floy, good to see you. What's up? Or Mick, you know, how's it going? How's your kids, you know, we can just talk. We're caught up, and you're like, Oh, yeah, and it's kind of feels like maybe it doesn't to them, but to me, it feels like I just saw them yesterday in that we're, you know, even though it's probably, I haven't seen them in a year, it feels like I just saw you. You go, oh yeah.”
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“I don't know. I don't have an exact recipe. I will tell you that I go in before the show to their dressing room and say hello before the show. Just to say hi. How's it going? Then I'll just talk to them. Sometimes I talk to them longer than the interview. We'll get talking about something or life or some bit or, you know. Their parents, or something, just get into real life talk. And by the time they come out, They feel like we've already talked. less pressure, I think also after sixteen years of talking to I've seen everyone at their highest. Seen everyone at their lowest? I've seen people date people they shouldn't date. I've seen people get married and have babies.”
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“Whatever, but it's that first kind of five to seven minutes where you get in there and then you start playing with them and you start like if you can get a laugh out of Floy Mayweather or something, it's cool.”
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“Interview, you know, which is you got to get in there fast and you're like, I got to make him comfortable. and know that I'm not going to make him look bad. I just want to talk to them and go like, hey, blah, blah, blah, or I'll make a thing or I'll just say some joke or I don't know what I'll do. And really? And then they'll be themselves and then you go, now it's flowing. And you go, yeah, yeah, yeah. And then you can get into the movie talk and, you know, and sell the product or whatever, you know.”
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“I'm interested in people, whoever it may be, whether it's Bruce Springsteen or Andre Lena Jolie or something, you're talking to them, just like, Talk to me about this thing or what I don't know. It's like also with my show, I got to jump right in. I have probably”
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“and it worked and it really worked it was might be one of the best sketches I was ever in and Mick was so happy that he was so giddy and he kind of shook my hand through the mirror which is funny because we almost supposed to be his reflection and it was just kind of cool and I remember one of those things where I'm like the room was shaking and I go that's cool like dude that's beyond what I dreamt I could do you know being on Saturn Live is one dream but now you're doing it sketch with one of your rock idols, you know, and scoring. And it's great. It's really funny. And everyone's having a good time. Like you really think, but that's something. And it wasn't meant to be, it wasn't written. It was all just kind of happened last minute. And, you know, but those little moments all kind of add up. And you go, oh my gosh, this is so crazy that this is all happening.”
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“So I go back to Lauren's office. I go, Good news, bad news. Good news. Mick wants to do a sketch. Bad news is it's the mirror sketch. And so Lauren was like, okay, we'll do it. And we wrote it in a night, which has never been done. I don't think when I was on the show, we wrote it on a Thursday night, rehearsed it once on Friday, and did the show on Saturday.”
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“You play Keith and I'm you and we work at a sunglass hut or something like that. And he's like, that. And I go, well, then I have this other idea, you know, where, you know, you and I work in an ice cream shop, but where, you know, blah, blah, blah. And he's like, nah, nah, I don't really like that. I don't want to do that. And I go, all right, and I'm going down the list and the ideas are getting worse and worse. And I'm just like, oh my gosh. And then at a desperation, I go. Or we could do something where you come in your dressing room and I'm your reflection in the mirror. And you're like, why am I doing a shot done in 70s and done the 80s? And what am I done? And he goes, I like that. And he goes.”
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“At the end of the day it's the work and the stuff that you do and the stuff that comes out of it where I'm most proud of where I'm like, oh, I get to do this. I think this bit could be fun. I remember we had Mick Jagger on the show and Lauren said Mick will do a sketch if anyone has an idea. And they go, I could do an idea where the reflection of Mick Jagger in the mirror and I'm like, you know, why don't you shadow that way? And Lauren goes, please don't do that. Absolutely, please, please don't do that. He goes, it's been done. Mark's brothers have done it. It's just a Lucille ball. It's been done. Please don't do that. Okay. He goes, but go pitch Mick ideas. I go, I don't want to pitch him ideas. You're the producer. I'm nervous. I didn't know Mick Jagger. He's like, just go in and pitch me ideas. So I wrote out like 10 ideas. I'm like, hi, Mike. He's like, he's very nice. And I go, you know, I was thinking maybe me and you, I played.”
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“No, I just kind of lived through it and go like yeah. I think I'll figure it out. I think fame was fun. You know, it's cooler. It's cooler than cool. It's like, wow, this is what I thought it would be. But it's also.”
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“Yeah. I mean, I love music, but I remember like, I love the Beastie Boys growing up. And there's that one line, Mike D, says, like, be true to yourself and you will never fall. And it's like, kind of is the move. Just be that's be true to yourself, then there's no, everyone can say whatever they want. It's like, that's who I am.”
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“The worst Yes, it is the absolute worst. I hate it. I want everyone to like me. I can't stand it. I go, oh my gosh, what can I do to make you like me? I think the answer is you can't make everyone like you. You just have to do what you do and do the best that what you do. And be happy with yourself.”
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“Yeah, overcoming like hating on you or talking. You know, saying you're not good or something, it's like you don't think that's going to happen. But it will if you're successful because someone will be like, uh, Someone's not going to like you no matter what.”
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“If you keep scoring, that will show your work will show. That stuff I wasn't prepared for of dealing with the overcoming that”
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“Getting rejection, you know, getting your sketches cut, being told you're not funny, you know, haters. This is before Twitter and all that stuff, which is. Different ballgame that I wasn't ready for either, but you think that it's just going to be like, oh, this is cool. Everyone would be great. But then just people, not everyone's rooting for you. Some people want you to fail. People's jobs are to take me down. And to put bad press out and stuff, it's just, that's their job. And you're just like, ooh, I didn't think it was, I don't live in that world. I don't believe that it's real, but kind of is real. And you go, oh, people are just going to be mean. And you got to again just toughen up and get through it and just keep your head down and keep being funny and just keep doing things and keep being creative and just if you move that out you realize it's not even real that's not it's it's real but it's noise and it's just it doesn't affect you you can only believe in yourself and and know that you have to keep going”
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“No, it paid off. It was everything was what I dreamt. It was crazy. Everything the announcer Jimmy Fall and him saying my name. I was like dreamt of it. He was really saying it. I could watch him. I enjoyed every second of it, every bit. The internet was happening at the time. And then people started getting sending me fan letters and then web pages and it was just like you started getting famous. And here's the New York City street. I walked on not too long ago being kind of afraid and intimidated. Now I'm walking and people are going Jimmy and it's cool. And you go, yeah.”
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“You know, again like it's the end of Rocky, you know, it's the thing. It's like I did it. It's like yes. You did it. That's insane. You gotta be kidding me. You did it what we all said you were going to do, but you went and actually, it's crazy. Not many people do this. And I was like, yeah And to talk to your mom, who's your biggest fan and always believed in you? Know that's emotional How can this be? It's just I don't know. It was just the whole thing's kind of crazy. It's amazing.”
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“And I say goodbye to LA and my roommates and everyone was just so happy for me. And then I went to New York and got an apartment in midtown, and it was the greatest thing. And I took Silent Live and went from there. A couple movies, I met my wife. It's the best thing that ever happened to me. And then I didn't work for a while after the movies. And then Lorne asked me to be on to host late night and replace Conan O'Brien. I did. I worked hard at that. And then I got asked to replace J. Leno on the tonight show. And I did that and here I am. I'm host of the tonight show. Crazy life and crazy opportunities, and it's just so interesting and fun.”
2025-06-02 · The Diary of a CEO · Jimmy Fallon: I Wasn’t Prepared For The Hate… It Was Brutal. I Was Starving, Living on $7.25! · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT