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Yes it's Fallon's show in name, but really we should be calling this thing Late Night With The Roots And Jimmy Fallon's Shrewdly Assembled Writing Staff. Whatever it is GE is paying Questo and Black…   Read Story »
Jimmy Fallon's Saved By The Bell reunion campaign got a boost when Mark-Paul Gosselaar did the show last night as Zack Morris, and covered Zack Attack classic "Friends Forever" with Questo and crew.…   Read Story »
They performed it on Late Night With Jimmy Fallon, so the One-Trick Pony track has something conceptual to its joyful, horn-lined lilt. Even if Fallon's jokes don't always work, his sound people…   Read Story »
Black Thought instead of T-Pain, background dancers, nautical themed pashmina afghans. This performance is REAL.   Read Story »
While the Roots crew is giving late night television a musical facelift, their one-time DJ/beatboxer dude Scratch has assembled a heavyweight constellation of cameo talent for his second…   Read Story »
Add Robert De Niro and you've got yourself an opening night bill trying to please everyone on a show that's otherwise clearly about targeting young men and their twitter accounts. So maybe the Astral…   Read Story »
Obviously the gossip at last night's Deerhunter show was all about NBC's decision to give Jay Leno a talk show weeknights at 10 PM. What does this mean for Conan, who is taking over the Tonight Show…   Read Story »
As promised, the Roots (aka Jimmy Fallon's new Late Night house band maybe) hit up kids' show Yo Gabba Gabba! recently to spread "Lovely, Love My Family." The song's an upbeat and sunny-day ska…   Read Story »
So says ?uestlove! Or, so says a rumor that so says ?uestlove. Jimmy (aka Bag Of Hair) is taking over Conan's seat next year, and having Ahmir for interstitial banter would be at least one factor…   Read Story »
This MP3 was posted around so much yesterday I didn't even bother to listen until later in the night, because I figured you guys didn't need to hear "A Milli" another time. I was so wrong though. The…   Read Story »