Neil Young Covers The Fresh Prince Theme
Bang the Fallon gong, this is easily the best bit on Late Night since "Let Us Play With Your Look," and Sara Schaefer's right in that it's a good reminder of why Jimmy got the job in the first place. (It's good to have reminders!) Has the Late Night writing staff been sitting on this since the show's launch, though? Or did they just realize it was basically brilliant? Either way Jimmy's sitting on a bunch of impressions this worthy and it's a positive sign for the show's future (as was his ability to look more natural than his guest in the bits with Blake Lively later in the show). (Being more natural than Serena van der Woodsen is better than not being more natural than Serena van der Woodsen, anyway.) Fallon does for the the Fresh Prince what Sam Beam did for the Postal Service, with less beard, more laughs, and about the same amount of folk. Awesome bit, great job:
(via latenightwithjimmyfallon.com)
Jimmy studied well at the school of SNL alum Neil Young impressions. (Relevant starting at 3:22.)
Posted at 2:08 PM by amrit in Video
Tags: Dana Carvey | Jimmy Fallon | Neil Young | Will Smith
The part that Jimmy is lacking is the monologue. It's mostly weird, but he's been doing really well with the skits. The thank you notes are always funny, the Ultimate Mustache Fighter bits have been the most ridiculously brilliant thing.
I used to love the Prince of Bel-Air when I was a kid, that included knowing the entire title song by heart, of course! Imagine my surprise last night...
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I think he did a good job on the arrangement, physical and vocal impersonations, but Neil never played guitar like that. He probably could have been hunched over a little more, Neil's spine hasn't been that straight since they day he was born.
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So good! Tiny guitar gripe? Should have played a Martin.
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Exactly! I don't think I've ever seen him without his D-28 or D-45, acoustically that is.
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Jimmy nailed it here. He sounds just like him.
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Absolutely right. These are words I've never thought, much less put in print before - "Good job, Jimmy Fallon!!"
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I am really curious. Is "Fallon Gong" a pun on Falun Gong?
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:)
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charles in charge ftw
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Aw, he didn't do the extended version. Either way, very funny.
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The best part of this is that I can totally imagine Neil writing this circa 1971. Top notch, Fallon. You've won me over.
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Great work - nothing says timeliness like doing a bust on 70s-era Neil Young singing the theme to a TV show that went off the air a decade ago. Maybe next week he can rip on President Hoover and throw in some raunchy Lewinski jokes!!!
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Yeah, you're absolutely right- he should have impersonated Carrie Prejean doing Death of Autotune. That would have been COMEDY.
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That was really spot-on. Actually nice to listen to, too!
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brilliant!
as a member of neil's original audience, it made me nostalgic for myself
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Now do "Head Swap!"
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Kay Pettigrew did it first.
http://vimeo.com/4018693
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