https://www.thewrap.com/tonight-show-jimmy-fallon-record-low-ratings-viewers-audience-colbert-kimmel/

About 947,000 total viewers watched last night's show, based on overnight ratings. That's less than half of Stephen Colbert's Late Show Monday viewership.

LOL......I think for the Most Part the Late Night Show are finished

Fallon’s show needs to rebuild a little

Jimmy Fallon's ratings problems reminds me of this on-going discussion (https://www.sitcomsonline.com/boards/showthread.php?t=398242) about the differences between sitcoms of the '70s and sitcoms of the '80s.

Jimmy Fallon reminds me (if I were to make an analogy) of the way that sitcoms were like earlier than that. What I mean is that sitcoms of the 1960s and '50s were mostly fantasy-esque and very rural and didn't like to address the turmoil (https://time.com/4147951/star-wars-1977-garth-risk-hallberg/) that was going on in the real world at the time (i.e. the fight for civil and women's rights, the Vietnam War (https://time.com/vault/issue/1977-08-08/page/1/), increased crime in big cities, the energy crisis (https://time.com/vault/issue/1977-04-25/page/1/) and economic crisis (https://time.com/vault/issue/1974-04-08/page/1/), etc.).

Simply put, Fallon's brand of escapism (https://www.theringer.com/tv/2018/2/12/17003528/watching-a-week-of-jimmy-fallon) during the Trump era (http://splitsider.com/2017/03/why-jimmy-fallons-escapism-doesnt-work-in-the-trump-era/) and the Covid-19 crisis, doesn't work (https://www.reddit.com/r/television/comments/7ga1bb/comment/dqi9quj/?utm_source=reddit&utm_medium=web2x&context=3) because he's not speaking on matters people were facing at the time. Most people I think don't want to support someone that is ignoring (https://www.themarysue.com/jimmy-fallon-trump-crisis/) the elephant (https://www.thedailybeast.com/jimmy-fallon-youre-too-nice-a-guy-for-this-era-of-mean) in the room. He doesn't have the gravitas (https://www.vulture.com/article/jimmy-fallon-should-wear-glasses.html) anyway and to host (https://decider.com/2018/09/12/jimmy-fallon-doesnt-get-it/?utm_source=quora&utm_medium=referral) a late night show, you need more of an edge.

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For a couple of years...Jimmy Fallon was the reigning king of late-night television. His first season as host of The Tonight Show...Jimmy Fallon increased the ratings of Jay Leno number-one rated program. But over the last few years...ratings for The Tonight Show have been on a steady decline.

We reveal and react to recent ratings for The Tonight Show. We explain why Jimmy Fallon is struggling when compared to Stephen Colbert and Jimmy Kimmel. We discuss Jimmy Fallon future at NBC...and how NBC could potentially part ways with Jimmy Fallon.

I think it might be time to replace Jimmy.

I think it might be time to replace Jimmy.

Jimmy Fallon even back in his SNL days, just strikes me as a guy who tries way too hard for to get people to like him. I suspect that this is why people feel that he comes across as disingenuous (https://www.sitcomsonline.com/boards/showthread.php?t=411245). His friendliness and enthusiasm just comes across as another performance instead of being natural or genuine. On The Tonight Show in particular, everybody is his "buddy" and their latest projects are literally the greatest thing since slice bread. And don't get me started on Fallon cackling at just about any and everything his guests say every other minute.