This Saturday, as with any time an old star comes back to host, Saturday Night Live looked to its past. They recreated a couple of host Jimmy Fallon’s classic sketches and, since the season was right, they even brought back Horatio Sanz, Tracy Morgan, and Chris Kattan to perform “I Wish It Was Christmas Today,” the holiday hit they first did back in 2000. The goofy tune is actually one of the few Christmas songs not written 50 years ago to have had much staying power so its unsurprising that Fallon and Sanz have performed it a number of times in the past decade. We’ve collected all the different versions below.

This one doesn’t need too much background. On Friday’s Late Night With Jimmy Fallon, Maya Rudolph and Jimmy Fallon sang a duet of “Baby, It’s Cold Outside.” Fallon, however, thought they were going to sing, “The Chipmunk Song.” The result? A fun little intersection of the two classics.

Last week, thanks to The Roots, America paid the most attention to a news story involving a talk show house band since that time a few years ago when The Roots became a talk show house band. In case you’ve forgotten, when Michele Bachmann appeared on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon, the band chose to score her entrance to the song “Lyin’ Ass Bitch,” and, apparently, it wasn’t because Bachmann is a secret Fishbone fan. The world promptly exploded, apologies were issued, and everyone got to remember how much we all used to enjoy mid-80s ska for a few days. Today, music website Pitchfork posted an interview with Questlove, the band’s most vocal member and the one who first alerted people to the musical statement, and he explained that he was “deeply sorry” for the choice.

Following Michele Bachmann’s calls for an apology from NBC after she walked on to Late Night with Jimmy Fallon to the tune of Fishbone’s “Lyin’ Ass Bitch”, the network’s vice president for late night programming, Doug Vaughan, offered a letter of personal regret for the incident. Brian Bakst from the Associated Press reports that Vaughan [...]

Glenn Beck was apoplectic upon learning that Questlove and The Roots had played “Lyin’ Ass Bitch” to introduce Michele Bachmann on The Late Show with Jimmy Fallon last night and trashed the late night host. “You treat her like that? Jimmy Fallon, you should be ashamed of yourself,” Beck erupted. “You want to use her for ratings? You’re a despicable human being!”

Michele Bachmann’s appearance on last night’s Late Night with Jimmy Fallon was primarily focused on her family life, Thanksgiving, and a ill-fated attempted to make “stale, rehearsed political humor.” It now seems, however, that her spot on the show was tainted from the very beginning thanks to a sly commentary from Fallon’s house band, The Roots. In case anyone watching the show was curious why Bachmann’s entrance music appeared to be a rocking Fishbone song, the song’s title, “Lyin’ Ass Bitch,” might explain things.

Michele Bachmann appeared on Late Night With Jimmy Fallon Monday night, and hit on everything from her Thanksgiving traditions to how to properly do a Minnesota accent. She also took a dig at President Obama that elicited some boos from the audience, and proved herself to be kind of stale when cracking jokes about her fellow GOP candidates.

For the first time about a year ago, Justin Timberlake joined Jimmy Fallon on Late Night to perform an impressively delivered potpourri of history’s greatest rap songs. Over the summer, the duo reprised their roles as hip-hop historians (with the help of The Roots, of course) for a second round of classics. Last night, they rounded out a trilogy that threatens (we hope) to become a seasonal feature in Late Night.

Conan O’Brien returned to the NBC studio at Rockefeller Center last night in a surprise walk-on comedy bit on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon. O’Brien had basically hosted the very same show now hosted by Jimmy Fallon for 16 years, and was received warmly with a standing ovation by the studio audience. The overall bit was more sweet than funny — sort of like the end of a a funny episode of The Simpsons or Modern Family — but no less satisfying.

Bad news, guys; Mr. Shue is a bully. At least, according to Jonah Hill he is.

Last night on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon, Hill told a story about his time at the fall upfronts and how he was the “unpopular new kid” when hanging out with all the other Fox actors only for things to get worse when he started getting picked on by a “cool kid,” Glee‘s Matthew Morrison. I’m not sure why, but this clip might be the funniest thing Hill’s done since Superbad.

Apparently a whole lot of people still care about the Charlie Sheen saga. Either that or they were really excited about the long awaited meeting of Kelso and Duckie. Anyway, with his Comedy Central Roast breaking records for the network, the whole situation seems ripe for parody and we got a great instance of that from the folks at Late Night with Jimmy Fallon. The show presented a sketch that sees Sheen dealing with his new addiction; roasting.

Lou Dobbs‘ new new show on Fox Business Network recently celebrated its 100th episode, and in celebration, the host took a bit of a victory lap by appearing on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon. Dobbs and host briefly onded over New Jersey, Bruce Springsteen and their common bond of being television hosts, when Jimmy Fallon asked about some political figures. Dobbs gave GOP front runner Mitt Romney some muted praise for saying the right things, before giving Donald Trump a backhanded compliment.

During an appearance on NBC’s Late Night with Jimmy Fallon, Keith Olbermann casually amplified completely unsubstantiated rumors about House Speaker John Boehner, rumors which have thus far avoided repetition by most reputable news organizations. During a conference call Friday morning to discuss the unveiling of Countdown II: Electric Boogaloo, Olbermann talked about the benefits of freedom from a corporate behemoth, saying that when preparing for the new show, he had to “stop myself from stopping myself.”

You can make fun of Rebecca Black all you’d like, but who was performing your music when you were 13? To the list of people now culturally bound to her hit (?) single “Friday” we can now add Stephen Colbert and Jimmy Fallon, who, along with The Roots, the Knicks City Dancers, some guy in a Bigfoot outfit, and American Idol winner Taylor Hicks for some reason, performed the most over-the-top rendition of the tune yet.

Late Night host Jimmy Fallon had Tiger Woods as a guest Wednesday night, opening the show with a friendly, “it’s been a year and a half since you’ve been on our show. Whadya been up to?” Woods smiled and said, “Uh, nothing, nothing. Playing bad golf.”

Woods, who’s been struggling to return to form after the sex scandal that rocked his marriage and his career, got a big thank you from Fallon on behalf of his writers, saying the jokes about Woods wrote themselves:

Recently, Late Night with Jimmy Fallon has become the place on network TV for great musical performances (take that, Glee!). When you’ve got The Roots there every single night, that shouldn’t be surprising. We’ve already brought you Fallon’s Blue Man Group-inspired “Little Drummer Boy” with Jack Black, but somehow we missed out on his rocking version o “Silver Bells” with none other than Twisted Sister’s Dee Snider! Fortunately, Christmas isn’t over and there’s still time!

On NBC‘s Late Night with Jimmy Fallon, Fallon and guest Jack Black got very imaginative with their rendition of “Little Drummer Boy.” With paint flying everywhere, it seems both could be great additions to the Blue Man Group. This brief video is guaranteed to be more creative than anything in Black’s upcoming movie “re-imagining” Gulliver’s Travels.

Conan O’Brien made his much talked about (and written about) return to late night this week, to strong ratings.

But while a lot of attention has been paid to Conan’s place in the late night community, someone else is continuing to break the mold: NBC’s Jimmy Fallon (also on the New York cover this week).

Did you know NBC’s Lester Holt hosts a Sunday political talk show? And that you are required to wear tank tops during all debates?

Jimmy Fallon revealed this by showing a recent argument he and Ed Norton had on the show.

If you turned on the television last week then you probably noticed that The Town’s press tour brought Jon Hamm on just about every single talk show imaginable. He was on the Daily Show, he talked with Bill Maher, heck, I’m pretty he sure even travelled back in time to discuss Ben Affleck’s directing style with Dick Cavett. However, it was during his appearance on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon that we learned this disturbing secret: Brian Williams is stalking him.

MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow took the 30 Rock elevator up a couple floors last night to be a guest on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon.

Now in the lead guest seat, a show of how far she’s come in the mainstream non-cable news entertainment world, Maddow talked about the “bad name” for the next phase of Iraq and her busy month of travel for work – that saw her ratings decline.

Late night comedy television has consistently been a location for heated competition – recently, more so than ever. (“Late night wars” has to be one of the most populated non-cable news tag pages on Mediaite.)

But this week, Jimmy Fallon and Craig Ferguson did their parts to end the wars and become BFFs.

Who: Jimmy Fallon, interviewed by Brian Williams What:  “Late Night with Jimmy Fallon“ Where: Paley Center for Media When: May 27, 2010 Thumbs: Up Jimmy Fallon and Brian Williams engaged in a sort of role reversal. For starters, Fallon set the light tone for the evening by pretending to interview Williams about his life and [...]

Jimmy Fallon‘s trailblazing new media innovation presence continues next week with a late night first – each night he’ll live stream from his office while that night’s show airs at 12:30amET.

Mediaite talked to Late Night Supervising Producer Gavin Purcell about the decision and what fans can expect.

While The Tonight Show with Jay Leno will be cross-airing on the Sarah Palin Network, the other NBC late night comedy show, Late Night with Jimmy Fallon has been thriving in another arena as well – on the web.

Thursday night’s show was a perfect example – jam-packed with viral videos rarely seen among the current crop of late night shows.