'He was visibly startled.'
He later became the host of Late Night with Jimmy Fallon from 2009 to 2014, before kicking off The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon in 2014, but has now been accused of creating a ‘toxic work environment’ there.
However, in 2011 he was also called out in Tina Fey’s memoir Bossypants for a tense moment that unfolded between him and Amy, 51, after sheRe-shared this week, the extract was noted in the book as ‘one in a series of love letters’ to Amy. ‘Amy Poehler was new to SNL and we were all crowded into the seventeenth-floor writers’ room, waiting for the Wednesday night read-through to start,’ it began.‘Amy was in the middle of some such nonsense with Seth Meyers across the table, and she did something vulgar as a joke.She continued: ‘Jimmy Fallon turned to her and in a faux-squeamish voice said, “Stop that! It’s not cute! I don’t like it”. Amy dropped what she was doing, went black in the eyes for a second, and wheeled around on him.
While Tina described Jimmy as ‘visibly startled’ Amy went ‘right back to enjoying her ridiculous bit’.She added: ‘With that exchange, a cosmic shift took place. Amy made it clear that she wasn’t there to be cute. She wasn’t there to play wives and girlfriends in the boys’ scenes. She was there to do what she wanted to do, and she did not f***ing care if you like it.’
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