Man, who’d have guessed it? Those Pennsylvania politicians are talented! Just a week after we got the treat of watching former Senator Arlen Specter doing stand up, we’re now gifted with a video of Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter rapping! At this rate, it’s only a matter of time before footage leaks of the Pittsburgh comptroller doing interpretive dance.

Alternate title: “NO GUESTLOVE FOR QUESTLOVE?” So. It would appear that Questlove, the drummer and front-man for Late Night house band The Roots, is having his freedom to choose the show’s songs seriously curbed as a consequence of choosing to introduce recent guest Michele Bachmann with Fishbone’s “Lyin’ Ass Bitch.” He’ll now have to have [...]

Host Brian Williams was joined by a typically fidgety (not to mention “shiny” and “pocket-sized”) Jimmy Fallon on Rock Center Tuesday. After listing Fallon’s many, many talents (singing, dancing, cat wrangling, etc.), Williams asked the late night host about the backlash he and his band received for playing Fishbone’s “Lyin’ Ass Bitch” to introduce Michele [...]

The View‘s Joy Behar took a swing Monday at Republican presidential candidate Michele Bachmann over her outrage about the song “Lyin’ Ass Bitch” which Questlove and The Roots played to introduce the Minnesota Congresswoman on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon. “They should’ve played ‘Don’t Know Much About History‘!” Behar exclaimed to laughter and cheers from [...]

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 [...]

Fox News’ The Five kicked up the Michele Bachmann – Jimmy Fallon controversy (It was reported earlier today that Fallon’s house band, The Roots, played Bachmann on to the show with a version of Fishbone’s “Lyin’ Ass Bitch”), and absolutely tore into the band and NBC for allowing this to happen. Taking the most offense was Greg Gutfield, who painted The Roots as both cowards and politically-motivated entertainers.

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.

It is rare that a story so complex, tedious, and time-consuming as the current potential debt default Congress is fighting up takes up all the breathing room in the news cycle, and it has definitely taken a toll on the American people’s faith in government, if not on their attention span. Luckily, Jimmy Fallon and Brian Williams have put together a recap in what is possibly the only medium through which the story is palatable: the classic Slow Jam.

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.

Listen, The Washington Post, we all make mistakes. You correct them, move on. We get it.

But, while the actor Giovanni Ribisi does look like the bass player in The Roots, what made you go ahead and assume they were the same person?

Late Night with Jimmy Fallon is funny. There, I said it. Getting it out there in the open for all to see/hear/read/absorb/inhale (you get the point) is therapeutic. I honestly feel better already. If you have been staying up late watching Late Night or, more realistically, DVR-ing and watching it whenever you feel like it (I just burned through a week’s worth of episodes in a few hours this morning), you already know this fact. For the rest of you, this is your wake up call.

A glance at my watch indicated it was just before 1am on the first Saturday night/early Sunday morn of the Sundance Film Festival. The setting was downstairs at Ciseros restaurant on Main St in Park City, which had been rechristened for the week as the Island/Def Jam House of Hype aka The Film Lounge, one of the hottest party spots/ gifting lounges during the festival

Last night Danny DeVito was on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon, and fans of his quietly-getting-ginormous TV show, It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia, were treated to a musical rendition of an awesome in-joke: The Roots played DeVito in with a swingin’ rendition of “Troll Toll” from the Always Sunny musical, The Nightman Cometh. See? Total [...]