Late Night host Jimmy Fallon talks Robert De Niro, The Roots and replacing David Letterman.
Voted “most likely to replace David Letterman” in junior high.
“I guess it planted a seed in my head maybe in 8th grade. I mean, I was little then but I guess I was a pretty funny kid. It’s that Irish personality where I wasn’t one of those people that needed to kiss the Blarney stone. I came from a family of just entertaining people…They would have parties and they would sing, you know, have a microphone set up with a reel to reel and some speakers -- even though we weren't famous, we were a performing family.”
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