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“Emilia Pérez,” “The Brutalist” and “Wicked,” which lead the nominees for the 97th Academy Awards, announced early Thursday.And as the countdown begins to Oscar night on March 2, Jay Leno is rooting for first-time host Conan O’Brien.“I think he’ll be great,” Leno, 74, exclusively told The Post. “He’s a very funny guy. He’s very creative.

“The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon” Monday and advocated for people taking the medication to lose weight.“Oh, I love it, I love. I’m like, do it, do it. I have no judgment,” she said.

her Netflix lifestyle series during a “Trivia Night” segment on “The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon” Monday.Fallon’s sidekick, Steve Higgins, appeared in the segment and asked the 50-year-old late-night host, “What is the number one question that mystifies scientists? Number one question.”Fallon guessed, “Is there life on another planet?”“Oh, no,” said Higgins, 61. He then revealed the answer: “Why does Meghan Markle make her own pretzel bags? They don’t know why.”The entire audience, as well as Fallon himself, laughed at the joke about Markle.“That’s interesting,” Fallon said.

Jay Leno, laughter has been the best medicine in coping with wife Mavis’ ongoing battle with dementia.“I still make her laugh every day, and that’s always fun,” Leno, 74, told The Post.In fact, the couple — who have been married for 45 years — share some laughs rewatching some of his funny moments from hosting “The Tonight Show.”“We go back on YouTube — they have all the ‘Headlines’ [segments] that we did over the years. And my wife enjoys those, and it’s like she forgets that she just saw it, so she laughs again at the same jokes.

“Midas Man” — the new biopic of Beatles manager Brian Epstein — Jay Leno didn’t aim to put on a “really big show” as the TV legend.“They didn’t want an impression of Ed Sullivan,” the longtime “Tonight Show” host told The Post. “They just wanted someone who was a TV presenter.“So I said, ‘I’m gonna get killed because I don’t do an impression.’ But it was OK. I think people understood that I wasn’t trying to [imitate him].”The film, which is streaming on Olyn, depicts how The Beatles made their US TV debut on “The Ed Sullivan Show” on Feb.

the clip, Curtis wore a one-piece striped leotard as she taught aerobics again 40 years later. This time, Fallon, 50, stood in for her co-star John Travolta in the exercise class.Curtis and Fallon did different dramatic aerobics moves like thrusting their hides from side to side, just as Curtis and Travolta, 70, did in the film.But they also added some new props including pizza that they both seductively ate while staring at each other.

President-elect Donald Trump’s victory over Vice President Kamala HarrisJimmy Kimmel, Seth Meyers, Stephen Colbert and Jimmy Fallon greeted their shows with similar rehearsed acts — putting on a fake smile and lamenting about the terrible night they had because of Trump’s win.“I spent a lot of time over the past 17 hours thinking about what I would say tonight, or even if there is anything to say tonight, and there’s nothing, goodnight everybody,” Kimmel said walking off the stage.The 56-year-old ABC host returned and called election night “the worst taco Tuesday of my whole life” as he said he was figuring out what happened.“Those of you who are hate watching this show right now wanting to watch me suffer, you will be happy to know that there was no joy in Mudville last night,” he said.Kimmel became emotional later on when he claimed it was a rough night for several different groups. “Let’s be honest, it was a terrible night last night,” he said.“It was a terrible night for women, for children, for the hundreds of thousands of hardworking immigrants who make this country go,” Kimmel said, pausing to fight back tears.

according to a new Quinnipiac survey.The pair signed off with the iconic “Live from New York, it’s Saturday night!”Viewers noticed the concept and set looked strikingly familiar to Donald Trump’s sketch on Jimmy Fallon’s “The Tonight Show” show spot from when he was running for president on Sept. 12, 2015.Jimmy Fallon, a former “Saturday Night Live” member, portrayed Trump during the airing of his late-night talk show.He sat down at what looked like nearly the exact dressing room mirror, saying “Wow, I look fantastic” when Trump – just like Kamala – appeared on the other side of the mirror.

Thursday’s episode of NBC’s “The Tonight Show,” where the two explored the new haunted attraction, “Jimmy Fallon’s Tonightmares,” at Rockefeller Center.“Are you easily scared?” Fallon, 50, asked the British Royal at the beginning of the segment.“Not normally, but today might be different,” Harry, 40, replied before they both walked through the maze with cameras strapped to their chest.The door leading the duo into the maze quickly opened, and a sinister zombie-like character actor greeted them, prompting the startled Harry to curse just seconds into the spooky adventure.As they began to walk through the halls of Fallon’s haunted attraction, words appeared on the screen declaring, “There’s a serial killer on the loose.”Harry then spots a figure in white makeup and black rings around her eyes.“Is that a panda?” the Duke of Sussex asked, as the knife-wielding figure suddenly jumped from out behind a corner and lunged toward them.

drunk driving incident or plea deal, prompting swift backlash on social media. The 43-year-old singer and “The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon” host shared an Instagram clip of the pair’s conversation where they discussed Timberlake’s Forget Tomorrow World Tour and that Fallon, 49, is going to the upcoming Brooklyn show.The comments section of the clip became swarmed with fans poking fun at how Timberlake mentioned his tour when he got pulled over for drunk driving in the Hamptons over the summer.“What tour?” one fan asked.“Thank god it didn’t ruin the tour,” someone else wrote.There were also jokes about Timberlake’s DWI.“Make sure he doesn’t drive himself,” a fan said.“Ask him how the driving is going…” another comment read.“Just don’t let him drive you there, Jimmy,” a third person commented.Timberlake also faced criticism on X (formerly Twitter) after his “Tonight Show” appearance.“Justin Timberlake being on Jimmy Fallon with no shame and getting off with basicly a parking ticket is privilege at it’s finest!!” a fan tweeted.Even the YouTube comments on the interview were harsh towards the “SexyBack” singer.“Sad he had a chance to address it but refused to remind a national audience to not drink & drive but did not,” one user wrote.

Variety. NBC has not given an official reason for the cut, but the network has recently been examining the costs associated with its late-night offerings amid shrinking ratings. It’s unclear whether Fallon’s purported $16 million per year paycheck will be affected by the change.

For the Roots rapper Black Thought, the pastoral pleasure of playing SummerStage in Central Park is a no-brainer. “It’s classic New York — or old New York, as people sort of refer to it — in its energy and the vibe,” the 50-year-old frontman told The Post about the Rumsey Playfield concert series that the Roots will headline on Friday night as part of their Hip-Hop Is the Love of My Life Tour (with openers Jungle Brothers and Digable Planets).“Every time I’ve played SummerStage — even as a young person earlier in my career — it’s always felt just phenomenal,” he said.

Taylor Swift.When reflecting on the game during Friday’s episode of “The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon,” she admitted she didn’t “have a clue” what was going on.“I was incredibly confused. I’m still confused,” Ice Spice said.The “In Ha Mood” rapper explained that all of her prior knowledge about football “just went away” when she walked into Allegiant Stadium.“I honestly would just wait until Taylor cheered,” she noted, describing her strategy of how she knew when to applaud.

guest star on “The Jamie Kern Lime Show” podcast, Winfrey, 70, told Lime that she appeared on “The Tonight Show” in 1985 to discuss her successful TV show, “A.M. Chicago,” but instead the conversation shifted towards her body size.“Joan Rivers turned to me and she says ‘Tell me, why are you so fat?'” the former broadcast journalist told Lime, the founder of IT Cosmetics.Winfrey replied: “Oh, I just love potato chips Joan.”Rivers, who died in 2014 due to brain damage from lack of oxygen, told the former TV host “shame on you.”She added to Winfrey: “I’ll let you come back if you lose 15 lbs.

told Jimmy Fallon on Tuesday.The comedian, 49, and De Niro, 80, both appeared on Tuesday’s episode of “The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon,” which reignited Handler’s love for the “Meet the Parents” actor.While being interviewed by Fallon, 49, Handler admitted that she was too shy to approach De Niro in-person at the studio.“I couldn’t even go near him backstage because his girlfriend’s back there, and I don’t want her to think that I’m making a move — but I want to make a move,” Handler said. De Niro is dating Tiffany Chen, 45, and they have a 1-year-old daughter named Gia Virginia Chen-De Niro. Gia is De Niro’s 7th child.

“Sister Act 3” cast wouldn’t be complete without the Holy Father himself.Whoopi Goldberg revealed that she offered Pope Francis a role in the upcoming Disney+ film when they met in October 2023. The Oscar winner, 68, made this holy revelation when she appeared on “The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon” Wednesday. “I wanted to thank him,” she told Jimmy Fallon after the talk show host showed a photo of Goldberg with Francis, 87.

Anne Hathaway is now taking credit for “The Idea of You” book making the best-seller list — well, sort of.The Oscar winner joked about her new film, which is based off the Robinne Lee romance book, in an Instagram Story Sunday.“Audience said ‘hold my book!!!’ ” she captioned a screenshot of the novel hitting the milestone. She circled “No.

Anne Hathaway only heard crickets when she asked the audience a question during her appearance Monday on “The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon.”The Oscar winner, 41, was promoting her new rom-com, “The Idea of You,” when she inquired: “Has anybody here read the book?”Spoiler alert: No.The crowd went silent as Fallon interjected, “No, we don’t read. This is ‘The Tonight Show.’ You want to go to Stephen Colbert if you want to get people to read books.

told ET on the red carpet.“Thought I’d come to something fun for a change,” Leno chimed in. “Everything is so controversial. Just to come to a funny, silly movie — it’s great.

“I’m Just Ken” at this year’s Oscars, but was persuaded to do so because of his daughters’ love for Barbie.The Canadian actor, who starred alongside Margot Robbie in the summer hit film, initially told the Academy he wasn’t interested in the live performance because anything could happen.“100 percent no,” Gosling said during his appearance Thursday night on the Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon.“There’s a lot of ways that could go wrong.”Gosling, 43, eventually agreed to put on the show, complete with backup dancers, musician Mark Ronson, and a surprise appearance by legendary “Guns N’ Roses” guitarist Slash.The performance has garnered hundreds of millions of views on social media, Spotify and Apple Music.Gosling earned an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor for his role in the Greta Gerwig film.The father of two later shared what his daughters thought when he brought them to the dress rehearsal for his now-viral performance.“Dad’s Ken-ning again,” Gosling joked. The Golden Globes winner shares the two girls with “The Place Beyond the Pines” co-star Eva Mendes.Gosling brought his daughters, 7 and 9 years old, to set to watch him play the Mattel doll-inspired character to give them context for what their father had been up to.“It was their interest in Barbie and their disinterest in Ken that sort of started all of this,” the Ken actor admitted.“It’s really been a team effort, and they were on the film and they came to set when I filmed the number,” Gosling said.

Conan O’Brien returned to “The Tonight Show” on Tuesday for the first time since exiting the job in 2010. O’Brien, who was on the show to promote his upcoming Max series “Conan O’Brien Must Go,” spent much of his time reminiscing with host Jimmy Fallon, 49, about his time on the show. “It’s weird to come back,” O’Brien, 60, told Fallon.