TAPEHEADS: Jimmy Fallon spoofs “Game of Thrones” and Jimmy Kimmel is using his nephew (above) to skewer “The Bachelor” in a battle of video bits.
TAPEHEADS: Jimmy Fallon spoofs “Game of Thrones” and Jimmy Kimmel is using his nephew (above) to skewer “The Bachelor” in a battle of video bits. (
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TAPEHEADS: Jimmy Fallon spoofs “Game of Thrones” and Jimmy Kimmel is using his nephew to skewer “The Bachelor” in a battle of video bits. (NBC)
TAPEHEADS: Jimmy Fallon spoofs “Game of Thrones” (top) and Jimmy Kimmel is using his nephew (above) to skewer “The Bachelor” in a battle of video bits. (
)
The DNA of late-night TV is being altered every morning.
Nothing separates “Jimmy Kimmel Live” and “Late Night with Jimmy Fallon” from Jay Leno’s “Tonight Show” and David Letterman’s “Late Show” more than the emergence of videos.
They’re clever and elaborate and are usually spoofing other TV shows — while filling the gas tanks of “Kimmel” and “Late Night” with laughs.
The monologue is still a late-night staple — but no one remembers anymore which host said what about the president’s latest gaffe.
But ask people who made “ I F—-d Matt Damon,” and they’ll say, in a blink, that it was Kimmel.
The videos — which are being viewed millions of times the morning after — are getting to be bigger than the shows themselves, a fact that is not lost on up-and-coming late-night rivals. This week — for the first time in memory — Kimmel and Jimmy Fallon started plugging their latest videos days before they aired.
Kimmel was pushing a video series called “The Baby Bachelor” — with a toddler playing the lead in a pitch-perfect spoof of “The Bachelor.”
Fallon debuts a takeoff of “Game of Thrones” — Westeros set in the office — on tomorrow’s “Late Night.” But he’s been teasing it all week on his Web site.
Kimmel has been touting “Baby Bachelor” on his YouTube channel for days — and the first installment had more than 3 million views on the site in just two days.
That’s about as many people as watch Kimmel’s ABC show at 11:35 p.m. every night.
The three-part “Baby Bachelor” series stars Kimmel’s 3-year-old nephew, Wesley, “looking for love” a la “The Bachelor.”
Wesley had to decide from a group of 3-year-old girls (“stay at home daughter,” “finger painter”) — and a 26-year-old “dental hygienist,” Ashley (natch) — and presented his love picks with a toy dinosaur (instead of a rose).
One release sent out by the show this week even had a mock Us Weekly magazine cover with a photo of Wesley and the headline, “Baby Bachelor Exclusive: Wes Says: ‘I’m in Love!’ ”
Over on “Late Night,” Fallon has been posting photos on Instagram all this week from the show’s “Game of Desks” video shoot.
He’s also been teasing viewers with portraits of “cast members” (including Fallon and the members of his house band, The Roots, in full “Thrones” regalia).
The photos were also posted Tuesday on the show’s blog as a “Web exclusive.”
Reps for “JKL” and “Late Night” declined to comment.