Film Theory: Hey Fallon, You're Doing it Wrong!

With everything happening in the world today, late night talk show hosts like Jimmy Fallon and Stephen Colbert have not been able to record their shows in front of live audiences like normal. Instead they have pretty much become YouTubers - setting up cameras in their house to talk to and getting their families to participate as a stand in for crew members and famous guests. Now, I give them credit for trying to adjust and keep making content how they can, but come on. These hosts do NOT know how to YouTube. What do I mean? Listen up Theorists and welcome to This Time Today with MatPat.

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Writers: Matthew Patrick and Luke Barats
Editor: Danial "BanditRants" Keristoufi, Alex "Sedge" Sedgwick, and Koen Verhagen
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Sources:

[birdbones]

Conan did an episode without celebrities and interviewed his staff instead and it got way more views than any other celebrities

[matthewdykeman]

Do you remember when Jimmy Kimmel went on a rant about how Youtuber's weren't actual entertainers, and were the lowest form of entertainment? While I do, and man do those words taste good now eh Kimmel.

[Crazelord]

My favorite thing about a bunch of these hosts (esp Kimmel) is how much they used to scorn social media and sites like YouTube and now are desperately trying to become popular on them.

[ottojetto]

Reasons why most folks watch certain shows :
- Fallon: mostly for the guest actors and related segments...not for Fallon himself.
- Kimmel: same as above + pedestrian questions + unnecessary censorship
- Colbert: political topics (not much going on during the pandemic, nobody wants to listen to the same news rehashed)
- Conan: for Conan himself...
- Trevor: for the messages he deliver...

[Ciel]

Jimmy Kimmel: "Youtubers aren't actual entertainers, you call this a job?"

Also Kimmel: *"Hey all you cool cats and kittens"*

[PROTOBLUES]

Tv media : we are losing viewership and we can’t produce new videos with the quarantine!!

Youtubers : First time?

[cortexius]

Remember when Kimmel ranted about YouTubers not being actual entertainers? Yeah, that aged like fine wine.

[lenoragomez]

Petition to name the “generic image of a man” that has been used in every video

[room]

Guest star: *breaths* Fallon: wow. THAT IS RELATABLE

[radicalxedward]

It’s hilarious how these celebs are so out of touch, they literally think the worse their “home studio” versions of their shows look, the more “authentic” they are. Meanwhile youtubers are filming on 8K RED Cinema cameras

[xAandreyYx]

Its also much simpler than that. Their Late Night shows were SHOWS. It was about the SHOW, the spectacle, the production. Comedy was an ingredient, not a product. Without the show, their jokes are bland, odd. Without the act, its just bad entertainment. Goes to show how much of their audience actually watched them for them, not the 40 man crew behind the curtains.

The only barely surprising thing here is that they are so unaware of this. Not to mention some of them really deserve the humility.

[ChristianIce]

John Oliver is even better without an audience.
Everybody else on the list is lucky he was not included :)

[forensikarie]

As a Non-US citizen, this is the first time I've realized that Jimmy Kimmel and Jimmy Fallon are not the same person:D

[XxDarkManaxX]

I have another theory, why Trevor Noah is doing so well right now:
1.Trevors jokes are light hearted Millenialhumour and he often includes stuff from his private life, which many Youtubers do.
2. Trevor is 36 which makes him the youngest of the hosts, and part of the generation, who uses Youtube a lot, so he probably knows, what kind of production and joke telling people are used to.

[hollowdreams]

2019: Being a YouTuber isn't a real job you don't need any skills
2020:

[cjhs]

I Wonder if Any of These Dudes Have Actually Seen This, I Really Really Hope They Have

[drewajv]

Something else to note: most vloggers are relaxed enough to laugh at their own jokes regardless of how funny they are. Late night shows rely on the writing being funny and the audience reacting, so the hosts play it straight in order to hammer in all the jokes through the audience laughter

[fangscrew]

Not only is matpat good at cracking down on theories but he is funny and his voice is so smooth and clear which makes it so nice to listen to these theories

[laltanpuia]

Talk show hosts before : youtubers bad

Talk show hosts now : literally have to be told what to do and what not to do by a Youtuber

Oh how the turntables

[zulfikarpane]

Matpat:"for 64 years"




Me, an intellectual : *a stack of years*