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Jimmy Fallon taps The Roots as his late-night TV band

November 16, 20081

David Letterman has Paul Shaffer, Conan O’Brien has Max Weinberg, drummer for The Boss Bruce Springsteen, and now the new late-night TV host to come to NBC — Jimmy Fallon — will have The Roots by his side in March 2009. That’s what this video interview alleges. And they’ve already …

NBC’s 2009 late-night TV shuffle

July 22, 2008

NBC officially unveiled the timeline it plans for shuffling Jimmy Fallon into late-late night and Conan O’Brien into Jay Leno’s Tonight Show slot, which left Leno playing a cartoon version of a TV critic in disguise (pictured!) at the TV Critics Association tour yesterday. That timeline?Jimmy Fallon begins not on …