My Late Night with Jimmy Fallon experience

by Justin Horn on May 4th, 2009 @ 8:21 pm

So I got up really, really early today to go stand outside 30 Rock in hopes of getting standby tickets for Late Night with Jimmy Fallon…Success! Also, got to sit in the front row, right section…so look for me on TV if you know me.

So few things I noticed. The production guys on the stage, that I guess monitor the taping, were timing the show with the iPhone stopwatch. Also, one of the guys was twittering on his MacBook…I’d like to have his job. Jimmy Fallon does play with his Mac built into his desk between the show breaks, he is a complete tech nerd. Jennifer Aniston called him out on his cool desk with a computer and they switched places and she started playing with the computer. I’m also pretty sure I saw a MacBook over with The Roots.

The coolest thing in the show had to be the Mom that won a MacBook Pro during the “Cell Phone Shootout” contest. This was the first time someone won the prize on the show! I talked to the winner after the taping to see when she was getting the prize and she said they would email her. The issue being that since no one has won the MacBook before they weren’t sure what to do as they needed to contact Apple first…so it looks like Apple sponsored the prize for the contest.

Other thoughts…  Jennifer Aniston was hotter than I thought seeing her in person, The Roots were awesome, Adel has a great voice, and Donald Faison seems as quirky as he is on Scrubs.

Bye Bye Late Night!

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Apples & Oranges, Humor, iPhone, MacBook

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1. heather

   May 17th, 2009 9:33 pm

   

   what time is ‘really really early’ ? i.e. how early did you get there and how many other people were there?
   Thanks!

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2. Justin

   May 17th, 2009 10:05 pm

   

   I got there at 7.45AM…which is really really early for me

   I was 9th in the standby line. I was actually last in line till about 8.15AM. There might have been 15 people behind me by the time they handed out the standby tickets. It was raining so might not be a good day to judge this though. They took at least 12 people that day. When I walked in they had cut people higher than 25 and people from 13 to 25 were maybes.

   So long story short, if you really want to make sure you get on show up before 8AM, aim for 7.30AM.

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3. lisa

   November 15th, 2011 12:03 pm

   

   oh wow i know this post was from ages ago! but what time did you have to get back to rockefeller before the show started? thx!

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4. Justin Horn

   November 15th, 2011 12:22 pm

   

   I forget exactly, it’s been a while, but the ticket stub pictured above shows 4:15PM. I went one other time, I think in September that same year, and I got back like an hour later than the time they said to be back and I was still able to get in. I think 5:30 is about as close as you want to cut it. They start shooting at 6 or 6.30 I believe.

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5. lisa

   November 15th, 2011 2:19 pm

   

   oh thanks for all the info! i’m going to nyc early next year so fingers crossed!

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