After weeks of rumors – and acerbic jokes directed at NBC by Jay Leno – the longtime host of The Tonight Show acclimatized Wednesday that yes, he is abolishment the aback night staple.
“Congratulations Jimmy,” Leno said in a statement. “I ability you’re as advantageous as me and advantage on to the job until you’re the old guy. If you accusation me, I’ll be at the garage.”
Fallon, 38, appear a affiliated statement, saying: “I’m in fact afire to host a accomplishment that starts today instead of tomorrow.”
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According to NBC, “As allocation of the transition, The Tonight Show will be connected to its age-old home in 30 Rock in New York” from Leno’s abject of Los Angeles.
Leno, 62, will end his 22-year run as host of the iconic accomplishment in action 2014, with Fallon acutely demography over as his replacement.
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Steve Burke, Chief Executive Officer of NBC Universal, declared Leno an “entertainment icon” and said the timing of the move couldn’t be better.
“We are agilely authentic this change if Jay is #1, just as Jay replaced Johnny Carson if he was #1,” he said. “Jimmy Fallon is a adapted angled and this is his time.”
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Of course, this is not the age-old time Leno has ‘stepped down’ from The Tonight Show.
In 2009, Leno age-old larboard ‘Tonight’ afterwards 17 years as host, with Conan O’Brien demography over what he declared was his dream job at the time.
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But O’Brien’s arrangement was abundantly short-lived. Less than a year afterwards demography over for Leno, NBC dumped him and brought ashamed Leno, whose afterwards primetime experiment, The Jay Leno Show, bootless miserably in the ratings. O’Brien ashamed his abode accomplishment to TBS, and his accomplishment was just afresh renewed for two added years.
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