The goal was to keep audiences from flipping channels. The Peacock network famously launched its internal “NBC 2000” initiative in the late 1990s to cut down opening theme songs, shrink end credits and immediately transition from one show to the next without commercial breaks. One late night observer noted that the decision to scrap the intro in order to seamlessly move from late local news into Fallon’s monologue is straight out of the NBC playbook. Soon after the change, one fan started a petition on to “bring the old ‘Tonight Show’ intro back.” Only 43 people have signed on so far, although a viewer who did admitted that she misses “the old vibes the old intro had.” The new protocol also means the night’s guests aren’t immediately announced, until Fallon brings them up later in the monologue. The intro also included a moment where Questlove would shout the episode number of that night’s “Tonight Show.” “Literally, the first song we wrote ended up being the ‘Tonight Show’ theme, the ‘Hey, Hey, Hey, Hey’ song, which is weird because when you approached us about coming up with a new ‘Tonight Show’ theme, we did about 20 other compositions,” The Roots’ Questlove told Fallon on the panel. Fallon picked that tune out of several choices to become his signature “Tonight Show” theme. Sacrificed in the change, however, is that catchy “Tonight Show” theme song, which the Roots and Fallon revealed during a 2017 panel at the Paley Center was created out of bumper music the band wrote when they first joined “ Late Night with Jimmy Fallon” in 2009. I worked all day! I don’t need to see you walking through New York! I get it!'” What is the president doing? What’s the new pop culture thing people are talking about? Show me a viral video and let’s go! Entertain me, I’m tired. ‘Gimme the jokes, what’s happening in the world. going to tune in at 11:35 and want to see you be funny. The idea, he said, is simple: “Get to the funny, get to the comedy.
We get it, you’re in New York City and you’re ordering a hot dog.”
And you go, ‘I get it, Jimmy Fallon’s going to walk out. “So you’re forced to watch this, every night. “You don’t have on network TV,” Fallon said. “The Tonight Show’s” original opening sequence, directed by Spike Lee, featured Fallon and various New York landmarks, and had been a part of Fallon’s “Tonight” show since its 2014 launch.
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