Jimmy Fallon was born in the Bay Ridge neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York, on September 19, 1974. He went to a Roman Catholic school called St. Mary of the Snow. He was an altar boy in school and thought about becoming a priest for a while. Fallon gave up on being religious when he started listening to the Dr. Demento Show on the radio and became more interested in comedy.
Educational Life of Jimmy Fallon
Jimmy went to a Catholic school called St. Mary of the Snow. He was also an altar boy, and he said that when he was young, he thought about becoming a priest. He went to Saugerties High School and was in plays while he was there. He graduated in 1992.
Fallon went to The College of Saint Rose in Albany, New York, and did stand-up comedy on the weekends. When he was 21, he moved to Los Angeles to try to get a job in the entertainment business. Jimmy decided to quit college in 1995, one semester before he was due to graduate.
The Career of Jimmy Fallon
Jimmy moved to Los Angeles and joined the improv group The Groundlings. He also started working on his stand-up act. He often did stand-up at the legendary Improv. He was paid $7.50 per set, which didn’t even cover the cost of parking at the Improv.
Auditioning for SNL is known for being scary and hard. Fallon first tried out for Saturday Night Live in 1997, but he didn’t get the job. At 23, Fallon got a job on SNL after his second tryout. Several people told him at the audition that creator Lorne Michaels rarely laughed at auditions.
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Fallon went up on stage and did well. He did impressions of well-known comedians like Jerry Seinfeld and Chris Rock in a sketch called “Celebrity Walk-a-thon.” Michaels cracked up. For the 1998-1999 season, he was hired as a cast member. Fallon made more impressions on the show than anyone else.
At first, Fallon thought he would spend three years on SNL as John Belushi did. But he decided to stay when Tina Fey and he were given control of the Weekend Update in 2000. In his later years on SNL, Jimmy Fallon and Justin Timberlake were both in a skit called “The Barry Gibb Talk Show.”
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In it, they played musicians, Barry and Robin Gibb. This started a long friendship and working relationship with Justin Timberlake. Fallon stayed on SNL’s cast through the 2004 season. People who watch SNL often say he is the best cast member since Phil Hartman.
Fallon was the host of the MTV Video Music Awards in 2002. During his opening monologue, Fallon made fun of music videos by Eminem, Avril Lavigne, The White Stripes, Enrique Iglesias, Dave Matthews Band, and Nelly. Jimmy went on to act in movies like Fever Pitch, Factory Girl, Ted 2, Jem and the Holograms, iCarly, 30 Rock, Family Guy, Taxi, and Whip It after he left SNL.
Fallon is the only host of The Tonight Show (besides the show’s first host, Steve Allen) who has never been a “Guest Host” before becoming the show’s permanent host. In 2009, he took over as host of the show Late Night with Conan O’Brien, renamed Late Night with Jimmy Fallon. In April 2013, NBC said that Jimmy had been chosen to replace Jay Leno on The Tonight Show after the 2014 Winter Olympics.
Before him, Jay Leno had filled in for Johnny Carson, Carson had filled in for Jack Parr, and Parr had filled in for Steve Allen. Fallon won Primetime Emmy Awards in 2010, 2012, and 2014 for Saturday Night Live and 2015 for The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon.
Net Worth of Jimmy Fallon
Jimmy Fallon is a comedian, writer, TV host, actor, singer, and producer from the United States. People know him for his work on Saturday Night Live, as the host of The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, and as the host of Late Night with Jimmy Fallon. It pays him $16 million a year to host The Tonight Show. Jimmy Fallon’s total wealth is $60 million.
Personal Life of Jimmy Fallon
On the set of Fallon’s movie Fever Pitch, he met film producer Nancy Juvonen, who, along with Drew Barrymore, is a co-owner of Flower Films. They began dating in May 2007. In August 2007, Fallon asked Juvonen to marry him on the dock of her family’s home in New Hampshire as the sun went down.
On December 22, 2007, they got married. They have two daughters named Winnie Rose and Francis Cole and a dog named Gary Frick, a golden retriever. Gary has been on Jimmy Fallon’s Late Night show.
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Fallon is known for breaking character unexpectedly and making people laugh, so much so that breaking character is sometimes called “Jimmy Fallon.” in elementary school, he was voted the most likely person to take over for David Letterman. In June 2003, he filled in for David Letterman as a guest host.
He is good friends with the actress Parker Posey, who lives near him in New York City.
Real Estate of Jimmy Fallon
In 2002, Jimmy bought a one-bedroom condo in New York City for $850,000. This was his first piece of real estate. Lorne Michaels, who runs SNL, urged him to buy the apartment. Jimmy found out later that he couldn’t afford the purchase back in 2002, but he took Lorne’s advice and went ahead with it anyway.
After marrying Nancy Juvonen, he and his new wife started buying units in the area. In 2014, they paid $725,000 for a studio apartment on the top floor. The purchase was made in a nine-story building with about 35 units. A one-bedroom flat next to the studio was bought a few months earlier for $1.35 million.
Over time, they joined the units to make a 5,000-square-foot apartment with six bedrooms. They spent $5.8 million on all five apartments. Jimmy and Nancy put their building on the market for $15 million in March 2021.
The house that Fallon and his wife own is in the Hamptons. It was built in the 1800s and is a farmhouse-style home with 3,500 square feet. It is in Sagaponack. They paid $5.7 million for it in 2011.
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