Has Jimmy Fallon turned The Tonight Show into I Love the '90s?

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http://www.dailydot.com/entertainmen...algia-factory/

Nostalgia for the '90s is all the rage, which is why Fallon last week recreated the Fresh Prince of Bel-Air opening and reunited the cast of Saved by the Bell in an effort to capture more millennial viewers.

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Jimmy Fallon is not funny

http://thedailybanter.com/2014/06/ca...on-kind-sucks/

Fallon’s sketches seem to aim largely at triggering the dopey nostalgia receptors in the brain, with the amusement to be gleaned from watching him and his guests dance, and sing, and rap Gen-X and Millennial favorites apparently being a limitless commodity. He gets the cast of Full House back together; he sings Ebony and Ivory with Terry Crews; and he of course pores over every possible hip-hop classic, either by lip-syncing, bringing out Justin Timberlake to do cheesy white-boy karaoke with the Roots, or editing Brian Williams intros into Baby Got Back. It’s not that it’s not funny or charming on occasion, it’s just that it’s not on occasion. It’s constant. Fallon has one speed and only one speed: cloying and cutesy. He seeks out maximum Facebook viral circulation and hits precisely the insipid notes necessary to achieve that, turning The Tonight Show — one of the most storied properties in media history — into broadcast television’s answer to Upworthy. Fallon is a living, breathing hashtag.