Watching Way Too Much: Jimmy Ruled Last Night

THE ANSWER TO MONDAY'S TRIVIA QUESTION: Jack Paar was The Tonight Show host before Johnny Carson.

FIRST FIVE: Mike O'Dea, Sue MacNamara, Ed Ziskind, Lance Beitler & Karen Hadley

HONORABLE MENTION: Karen Heniger

THE NUMBERS

Friday's Cable Top 5
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Sunday's Broadcast Top 5

Winter Olympics-NBC 4.8/21.0
America's Funniest Home Videos-ABC 1.2/4.9
Family Guy-FOX 1.2/2.5
The Simpsons-FOX 1.1/2.3
60 Minutes-CBS 1.0/8.0

Sunday's Cable Top 5

Sunday's Top 5 Nielsen Twitter Ratings
The Walking Dead-AMC 484,500 Tweets
Real Housewives of Atlanta-Bravo 86,100 Tweets
Keeping Up With the Kardashians-E! 69,900 Tweets
The Bafta Awards-BBC America 40,300 Tweets
True Detective-HBO 23,200 Tweets

Final numbers aren't out yet for the weekend, but the NBA All Star Game delivered 7.5 million viewers on Sunday night which was down from 8MM viewers last year but it was against the Olympics this year, so all in all not such a big deal. Saturday nights Dunk Contest was seen by 5.7 million viewers.

THE SHOWS

The Tonight Show starring My FBFF, Jimmy Fallon

I couldn't have been any prouder of my guy last night if he was my real FBFF. New very cool opening directed by Spike Lee, new very cool set, new very cool gray suit, even a new tune to walk out of the blue curtain to.The Apple logo is missing from Jimmy's laptop. Maybe he left it in the old studio? Everything's just a little different. Just enough to know that something HAS changed. Jimmy introduced himself, the Roots and Steve Higgins for all the new viewers. Jimmy and Gloria Fallon, Jimmy's parents were in the audience beaming, like I was at our boy. I'm betting I'll have so much fun hanging out with them at Winnie's birthday parties. Once we all got the gist, Jimmy started his first Tonight Show monologue and got right down to it. Lots of Olympics jokes and then some big names, who apparently bet Jimmy he'd never host The Tonight Show, came to pay off their debts:Joe Namath, Rudy Giuliani, Robert DeNiro, Mariah Carey, Tina Fey, Tracy Morgan, Joan Rivers, Kim Kardashian, Seth Rogan, Sarah Jessica Parker, Iron Mike Tyson, Lady Gaga, someone I didn't recognize but found out on the radio this AM that it was Lindsay Lohan, and Stephen Colbert who paid up in pennies, took a selfie and welcomed Jimmy to 11:30 even though technically last night the show didn't air til midnight. Perfect opening. The Evolution of Hip-Hop Dancing with Jimmy and Will Smith is, in my opinion, the first video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZTpn30Pms8I you need to see from the first Tonight Show. Then U2 performed on the roof of 30 Rock at sunset. Even if you don't like U2, the view alone is worth watching the video for. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oMnKIgeiZuQ. After ALLLLLLL that, Will Smith came and hung out with my guy. One tiny, tiny snafu. Not even sure that Jimmy knew it, but The Smiths shirts he presented Will with were missing a kid...Will's oldest son Trey was missing from the photo. Jimmy...if you need me...I'm here for you bud. Last bit of the night, Bono and the guys on the couch. Larry Mullen seemed to have issues sitting, apparently he prefers leaning, a bit strange, but they are U2 so who cares? Then, acoustic performance of "Ordinary Love" and the credits roll. It's just the start of what I believe will be a lonnnnnng run. Congrats bud...you nailed it!

Real Housewives of Beverly Hills
Carlton is the creepiest most bizarre woman I've ever seen. She's nasty and freaky and scares me more than the American Horror Story commercials. Kyle's convinced that Carlton put a spell on her and her computer. First Mauricio got really sick and then her computer screen out of nowhere had the words "wraith" "larva" "travesty" and "bigot" across it. That is twisted right? Yolanda met Carlton at the cuckoo candle store wearing clothes that were way too tight. Maybe she didn't want to let the spirits into her soul? On the other side of town, Brandi and Kim were getting naked spray tans. Well, Brandi was naked and unlike Lena Dunham's naked, it didn't bother me. Of course it too was unnecessary, but it didn't distract me the way Lena's did. Gigi's graduation party at her Dad's estate was actually very nice. Yolanda seems to have worked it all out very nicely. Her husband and her ex-husband are very friendly, her kids all love their Dad and their step-dad and they may be acting, but they seem like really nice people. All the speeches got me all choked up. Of course it didn't last long because everyone now seems to hate Lisa. Everyone except Ken and Jiggy that is. Ken, Jiggy and me. I still love her.

THE OTHER STUFF

Tuesday's Trivia Question: QuestLove is Jimmy's band, The Roots, leader...who was Johnny Carson's band leader?