tear count. how many tear count? yeah, how many times someone cries on the show. there will be crying next week. final four, nikki, clare, cassandra. next week, shauk and awe. suspense. there is a big change on late night tv. just a few hours ago jimmy fallon hosted his first tonight shoe. for the first time in more than 40 years the tonight show calls new york home. he thanked jay lennon, conan o brien, first jerk first joke, that is about the show s rocky recent past. welcome. i m jammy fallon and i ll be your host, for now. back at the defblg, a parade of celebrities who jokingly thought he would never host the tonight show. robert de niro, even lady gaga
knock anyone s socks off. what a lot of people noticed and that we later documented was that most every joke from his monologue was one that he delivered on the show. the real highlight of the party was president obama. he had some great jokes and a fair number of jokes about himself. so let s listen to one right now, james. it s been quite a year since i ve spoken here last. lots of ups, lots of downs, except for my approval ratings, have which just gone down. but that s politics. it doesn t bother me. besides, i happen to know that my approval ratings are still very high in the country of my birth. so, james, i guess the expectation is also for the president he doesn t have to be funny where jay leno has to be funny. exactly. it s a much lower bar and easier to surpass.
and served by a venezuelan in a spa where a chilean gives me a brazilian. what it spooems speaks to is this larger trend where the comedians, more than ever before, became the newsmakers, colbert testifying before congress, the jay lennon/conan fight that played out in a big way here in washington just over and over again. a lot of people were saying here, how did colbert get invited and how was he able to testify in congress? and he submitted fake testimony that was very serious about the plight of migrant workers and totally discarded and gave his monologue before this shocked congressional committee. stay on the late night focus here. jay leno hosted the white house correspondent dinner in washington. i don t want to say that he bombed, but his jokes didn t