Jimmy Fallon Welcomes Live Audience Back To ‘Tonight’: “Like Performing At A Sold-Out Madison Square Garden”

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The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon welcomed a live, albeit reduced, studio audience to its taping last night, with the host sharing space with an invited group of first responders and health care workers.“Please give me a minute to soak up this audience,” Fallon said upon taking the stage at Studio 6B at 30 Rock. “I’ve never been so excited to do a show for 15 people in my entire life.

After last year, this is like performing at a sold-out Madison Square Garden.”The audience, socially distanced and masked, will include first responders and health care workers during the first week back.

Fallon welcomed the group along with “the family of raccoons that live in my desk.”Tonight‘s return to a live audience is the first among late-night