No surprise. Fallon is barely even human. Just a hollow machine for propagating the system’s needs.
https://www.currentaffairs.org/news/the-banal-horror-of-jimmy-fallon
Fallon and every single person involved in lining up McGregor as a guest. Absolutely disgusting.
That’s a good point… there were loads of people who could have flagged this
You can see it in his eyes, he’s dead inside.
I agree, and his smile is plastic. He looks pained every time he does it as if he’s counting in his head how long to hold the grin for the camera.
Makes me miss Alex Trebek on Jeopardy. I like Ken Jennings and he’s a good host but he sort of has that always smily, happy style like is required today in media. That might just be him being Mormon though. Alex had a great deadpan humor and definitely wasn’t always laughing, I don’t think you’re allowed on TV if you act like a real person anymore.
suey eyes
Thank you, I enjoyed that article.
As someone who has never seen the show outside of snippets posted as memes or whatever, that is a haunting description of something you’d use in a movie or video game to create uncanny horror.
Then the meta-horror hits that this is our world.
That was a solid read
I would love to build a video game based on this concept. Not Fallon or a late night show, but the anti-gothic horror described in that peice, the desperate performative enthusiastic rejection of reality.
every corporate spokesperson, every one of their public facing people. are not people.
just a replaceable part of a machine that is slowly killing us all.
after work, when at home, they are people. but at work they sell their personhood to be an avatar for those corporations.
Let’s not make excuses for these people.
Not making excuses. just stating that they dehumanise themselves willingly.
The peak of this banal nightmare arrived only recently when Sam Altman, the serene architect of our contemporary algorithmic enclosure, sat across from Fallon to discuss the most intimate of human labors: the rearing of a child, and how he simply couldn’t imagine raising his newborn baby without the “help” of ChatGPT. With the flat, bloodless affect of a man who has already priced in the end of the world, Altman described using ChatGPT as a parental surrogate. Unlike with Hilton, here the audience is deathly quiet. As Altman offers up the future of his own offspring to the black box of his company’s large language model, Fallon’s grin never wavers. It is the ultimate Gothic inversion: the living child is transformed into a data set to be optimized, while the host performs a pantomime of joy to mask the sound of a tomb clicking shut.
This article was a delight to read. It’s also pointing out a lot that needs to be pointed out to the average tv-consumer.
He’s always been this way.
Good for her. Television in the US is about the become (even more of) an absolute wasteland due to the continuing consolidation of media control, I would hope that some of these hosts/anchors/actors/artists would push back some seeing as how they are the ones people want to see. No one is watching TV for the ads despite what they would really like
It’s “programming” for reasons.
so my middle school band teacher and my sister’s piano teacher were propagandists? every recital would have a “program” that they would hand out for FREE!!!
Close your eyes and listen to one of your favorite middle school band tunes, and one of your sister’s band tunes. Notice how you breathe, the sensations arising and subsiding in your body. Do the same with your least favorites of the same.
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Conor McGregor raped a woman so brutally that the EMT who saw her commented on the severity of her bruising. She also had to have the tampon she was using when he raped her surgically removed, as it had been shoved so far inside her.
Why the ABSOLUTE FUCK is this piece of human garbage being given a platform on Jimmy Fallon’s show?
Shame on you, Jimmy.
fallon is fucking scum… how this untalented clown has a career is beyond me. his whole schtick was him laughing like a fucking moron while breaking character and ruining skits
His whole job is effectively creating the pre-recorded sitcom laugh track for our society. He has never been funny, like you said, when working with actually funny people his only move was to “mess up” and ruin their good work.
His only talent is being charismatic enough (somehow) to make others think they should be laughing when they see him do it. It’s a laugh track, it’s literally just directly telling people “you’re having fun!”, and a bunch of us sadly responding with “gosh that guy sure is fun”. This man’s entire career.
Jimmy Fallon would happily keep doing his latenight comedy show where he socializes with members of the ruling class even if we had gas chambers and mass executions.
What has become of the moral integrity of our…late night hosts?
Fallon’s sterile loop of viral repetition comes the final victory of the commodity over human beings—a world where even our laughter is outsourced to the demands of the algorithm. You don’t even need jokes anymore. All you need is to say something that sounds like it could be a joke, and the hollow laughter will come. To watch Fallon is to stare at the face of a culture that has chosen the comfort of a rictus grin over the heavy, necessary terror of the truth. It serves as a grim warning: if we cannot reclaim our play, our politics, and our presence from this algorithmic void, we will be left with nothing but the echoes of a desk being slapped in an empty room, for an audience that has long since ceased to exist.
Re-read that last paragraph of the article and tell me if you still have a point you’re trying to make here.
Man, if I ever watched Fallon, I’d be super pissed right now…
It’s ok, you can be pissed that a rapist is being platformed at all. Especially in mainstream media.
What I don’t get is, rape aside, asshole is a retired injured MMA fighter… what is he even doing on television AT ALL?
He’s running for office in Ireland or plans to, is what I’ve heard.
Wow, so part of a “rehabilitation tour”. Wonderful.
Has he “found” Christianity yet? That’s the go-to move to try and avoid consequences
And what does that have to do with American late night TV.
He’s rehabbing his image.
He’s doing one more fight with another
retiredold fighter. Also, he got popular enough that he’s trying to pivot to other things, kinda like Tyson.Connor McGregor is definitely a fucking asshole and not relevant as a human being, let alone as a fighter. But Max Holloway is not retired, even if he is “old” in fight miles. He’s in fact the current 4th ranked Lightweight in the UFC, and by all accounts a very decent human being (even if he does punch people for a living)
Apologies, I don’t follow mma too closely. Can’t wait to see Max sleep Connor.
No apology needed! I also don’t follow it very closely anymore. It’s hard to care, when it’s run by such absolute shitheads tbh. Oh for real, I can’t wait!
Honestly? Honestly? That was a better outcome than watching him get beat up. Just pure embarrassment and I’m here for it.
if you elect a rapist president, you’re gonna have have rapist celebrities…
Conor McGregor is Irish.
Though I suppose I’m unaware if the president of Ireland is a rapist or not.
Who is McGregor? Never heard of him.
He’s a professional fighter, asshole, and violent rapist. I believe he fights for UFC.
Ah, that’s why. I’m blissfully unaware of all that “entertainment”.
Yeah apparently he’s been platformed for weeks now on UFC and other sports channels. The outrage only started when he did this interview with Fallon.
Not a single peep about this rapist until then. All those sports channels and UFC are fully embracing this piece of shit rapist.
They’re talking about him being on an American television show. He’s a celebrity in the eyes of Americans.
I’m unaware if the president of Ireland is a rapist or not.
Which rape is this? He’s raped many women.
This is the woman who sued him in civil court and won, Nikita Hand. Not before McGregor’s goons broke in and stabbed her boyfriend several times though.
What they broke in stabbed her boyfriend and raped her. Never go any jail time. WTF.
Yep. They were trying to intimidate her into not testifying.
Who is this guest person?
I would like to avoid whatever they’re involved in.
UFC
And now Irish politics, well, failed attempt at Irish politics
Conor McGregor is rapist piece of shit.
He’s also a professional fighter.
yeah he’s notable for also being a Nazi fuck
he’s been a very vocal anti-immigration activist in the uk. organising marches and what not. i think he even tried getting into local politics.
In the UK? He’s Irish, like Irish Irish, not wannabe-English Irish.
i think so? i’ve only read it in the news here and they don’t really separate the two.
How the fuck did.he end up in the remake of Roadhouse. Was that entire production and cast made up of right wingers and misogynists?
Did not a single person involved read his Wikipedia and ask “what the fuck are we doing?”
They read his Wikipedia and said “that’s our guy!”
In their defense he was basically a perfect casting as he was just playing himself. No acting required.
He should be blacklisted everywhere.
I never thought Jimmy Falon was funny and now I know he’s an asshole (like Connor Mcgregor for different reasons).
His comedy is watered down crap. They play to the lowest common denominator. He’s also a rule follower. Even if the rule is stupid. He does what he’s told. The worst kind of person
In January 2021, after prosecutors declined to prosecute McGregor for the 2018 alleged sexual assault, a civil claim for damages was launched in the High Court.
On 22 November 2024, the jury returned their verdict and found that McGregor had raped Hand. Accordingly, McGregor was ordered to pay Hand nearly €250,000 in damages.
What the fuck Ireland? You’re all okay with this dumbass justice system?
Once again the rich use the legal system to purchase some “rape time” for a paltry €250,00.00.
Hes starting the media circuit to wash his image for his big return to the ufc.
I’ll just leave this here. https://youtu.be/g0MZSmfEeTY
And I’ll say, shaming Fallon is useless. Maybe shaming Questlove could work, but I’m beginning to have my doubts.
