Comments on: The Roots make debut on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon: “Slow Jamming the News” (Updated)

By: coachern

coachern — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 18:17:47 +0000

yeah…and the blonde mothers skit was a complete “MISS ME ON THAT SHIT!”…sorry – no dice son/

By: coachern

coachern — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 18:13:14 +0000

ok…this is diff than the other posts…anyone notice that he referred to blackThough by his government and not his moniker?…plus, i had no clue Thought could sing (if you call that singing per-se) or that he was funny…he made that slow-jammin the news pretty entertaining/

By: Tone

Tone — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 04:08:39 +0000

The roots have a lot of respect in the music business. I can see Travis Barker being comfortable going to Fallon with those guys there. Not to mention Jay, Eminem, Prince and a host of others.

By: palko got some good points

palko got some good points — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 00:15:23 +0000

Yea i kinda agree with u…he is waaay more known then da god Conan was…and real talk he wasnt even DAT DUDE on snl…and dat movie with queen latifah he did as a cab driver alone is enough to make the suicidal finally blow his fucking head off!!!

By: GGB

GGB — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 23:22:45 +0000

The show was awkward, I don’t like Jimmy in late night but who knows what happens. This is good for the Roots though. National exposure every day is an awesome thing.

By: console

console — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 22:08:52 +0000

the roots sound great but jimmy step your comedy game up.

By: Palko

Palko — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 21:07:45 +0000

sideshowRaheem-

I know what you’re saying about Conan…I really didn’t think he was funny when he first came up, either, but now he’s hands down one of the greats of late night. I don’t know about the material he was putting out prior to his talk show, but I feel like Jimmy has a little more public track record of being lame. Every single one of his “movies” were absolute flops, and I can’t even think of one SNL skit that I gave the energy to chuckle at. IMO, he’s a poor man’s Chris Kattan, and even that isn’t something anyone should ever aspire to be.
In short, I’m very curious to see if he’s still doing this 12 months from now. If he is, more power to him, and it just means that the Roots Crew will still be doing their thing nightly, which I’m all for.

By: honeychild

honeychild — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 19:35:06 +0000

Onre more thing…. Jimmy did great in making The Roots his houseband but he needs to step up on the comedy. Yikes.

By: honeychild

honeychild — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 19:34:00 +0000

I don’t think they are compromising ish. What they are doing is earning a paycheck. I wonder if those complaining bothered to even purchase their last album or pay to catch them on tour.

They do the best hip hop show hands down btw.

By: sideshowRaheem

sideshowRaheem — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 19:33:03 +0000

@Palko

They said the same exact thing about Conan Obrien back when he took over for David Leterman in 1993. 16 years later he’s hosting The Tonight Show. If NBC sticks with him(wich they will because they have no other choice) he’ll find an audiance, he’s not hillarious but like Conan he’s very likable which is all you really need.