The following is a list of recurring games, sketches, and other comedy routines from the NBC late-night talk show Late Night with Jimmy Fallon. The sketches feature host Jimmy Fallon, house band The Roots, announcer/sidekick Steve Higgins, the show's writers, celebrity guests, and audience members. Most of the skits below appeared only on Late Night, while some have carried over to The Tonight Show.

Weekly routines

Pros and Cons Every Tuesday (formerly Monday) on the show, Jimmy weighed the pros and cons of a topic that's currently in the news, with the pros being the setups and the cons being the punchlines. (e.g. Pro: With Tiger competing, this year's Masters promises to be the most exciting golf tournament ever. Con: That being said, it's still golf.) Special editions of the sketch included: "The reissue of the Rolling Stones' album Exile on Main St.", in which Jimmy was joined via satellite by Mick Jagger, Keith Richards and Charlie Watts; one in which the topic was "The New NFL Season", where Jimmy was joined by Justin Tuck of the New York Giants; and "The NFL Playoffs" with New York Jets placekicker Nick Folk.

#latenight Hashtags Nearly every Thursday (formerly Wednesday) on the show, Jimmy reads off viewer comments from a topic for discussion he started the night or the week before on Twitter. Topics have included "#MyParentsAreWeird", "#WhyDontTheyMakeThat", "#BeachFail", and "#MakesMeMad". As Jimmy frequently announces before he reads his favorite comments, each hashtag would usually become a trending topic on Twitter in the United States within a few minutes after its posting.

Jimmy previously created a spin-off named "Late Night Instagrams".

Thank You Notes Nearly every Friday on the show, Jimmy writes thank you notes. He claims that Friday is the day he catches up on "personal stuff" like checking his inbox, returning e-mails, and writing his weekly thank you notes. He explains that he is running behind and asks the audience if they would not mind if he took time out of the show to write them, and asks James Poyser to play some accompanying music (a sped-up version of U2's "October"). During the segment, Jimmy often tries to get James to laugh while James tries to maintain a straight face. The notes are sarcastic in tone and involve current events, people in the news, or things that annoy Jimmy (e.g. "Thank you, pony tails, for turning the backs of girls' heads into horses' butts").

The sketch airs on Thursday during the week of Thanksgiving, in deference to the holiday. The sketch aired on Thursday, March 28, 2013, because the show was off for Good Friday that year.

Jimmy also wrote out a special Winter Olympics-themed set of thank you notes during NBC's prime-time Olympic coverage on February 26, 2010 (a Friday); anchor Bob Costas "played" the usual thank you note-writing music (by pretending to play along on a keyboard while a pre-recorded track of the music played in the background). Costas and Jimmy reprised the bit with a Summer Olympics-themed set on August 10, 2012 (also a Friday).

Mayor Michael Bloomberg joined Jimmy behind the desk to write out some thank you notes of his own on Friday, December 13, 2013.

It was announced on January 31, 2011, that Fallon had signed a book deal to publish entries from the series as two books, the first of which, Thank You Notes, was released May 23, 2011. The sequel, Thank You Notes 2, was released on May 22, 2012. The new book also has a limited edition which has a sound chip that plays the "Thank You Notes" theme music (to which Jimmy replies "We don't even need James Poyser any more", then the camera cuts to Poyser looking depressed).

Former weekly sketches

Late Night Superlatives Similar to a high school yearbook, Jimmy shows pictures of NFL players and says what "Most likely to..." awards they received, to promote the players on the teams of that week's episode of NBC Sunday Night Football, which are simply based on what they look like. He also does it for random celebrities (including the cast of the new season of The Bachelorette), as well as NHL and NBA players, whose playoffs also air on NBC. For the final version of the skit on Late Night, NFL players listed the awards for the show's writers, before dousing Jimmy with Gatorade. After the skit, Jimmy then gave away tickets to go see that year's Super Bowl to a lucky audience member.

TV parodies 7th Floor West 7th Floor West is a parody of the MTV series The Hills, documenting Jimmy's arrival to Late Night and his initial struggles in the beginning of the show, such as whether to wear a red tie or a blue tie on his premiere episode.NBC.com - Late Night with Jimmy Fallon - 7th Floor West Episode 1, Part 1 Season 1 of the series dealt with Jimmy's passive-aggressive power struggle with A. D. Miles, Late Night'''s head writer. Future Saturday Night Live cast member Jenny Slate appeared as Jimmy's assistant who betrayed his trust by collaborating with Miles. New installments premiered every Monday during the summer of 2009, and have a storyline focused on continuity, much as The Hills does.

Season two finds Miles, having moved to the costume department in the season one finale, unhappy with his new role and wishing he was back among the writing staff. As revenge, he dresses Jimmy in ridiculous clothes in order to make Jimmy look like an idiot. During the season, Jimmy and Miles both run for the position of fire warden of the floor. In the series finale, Jimmy and Miles decide to end their silly feud and be friends again, Jimmy gives Miles his job in the writing department back, and they appointed fire-safety enthusiast Questlove to be fire warden.

Episodes Season 1 "Tie Me Up, Tie Me Down" (aired March 6, 2009) "What's Done is Done" (aired March 19, 2009) "It's Come to This" (aired April 14, 2009) "That is So Not O.K." (aired June 1, 2009) "Jimmy, I'm Jenny" (aired June 8, 2009) "He's Got A Lot of Nerve" (aired June 15, 2009) "I'm So Over This" (aired June 22, 2009) "Watch Your Back, Man" (aired July 13, 2009) "I Know What You Did" (aired July 20, 2009) "OK, Here's The Deal..." (aired July 27, 2009) "It's Already Done" (aired August 3, 2009) "Not So Fast..." (aired August 10, 2009)

Season 2 "The Past is the Past" (aired June 24, 2010) "It Can Only Be One of You" (aired July 27, 2010) "It's Time" (aired August 12, 2010) "That's A Wrap" (aired September 27, 2010)

Real Housewives of Late NightReal Housewives of Late Night is a recurring parody of the various The Real Housewives of... reality shows with five cast members playing the roles of their fictional "wives". The cast includes Late Night host Jimmy Fallon as power-mad Denise, announcer Steve Higgins as gravel-voiced chain smoker Lydia, Roots bassist Owen Biddle as alcoholic Renee, head writer A. D. Miles as uptight Dale (who is usually accompanied by her son Caleb, who is allergic to all food other than a special paste), and 'director' (in reality, writer) Bashir Salahuddin as compulsive eater Yvonne. Each segment continues from the last in an overarching story similar to 7th Floor West. The plot revolves around alliances and over-the-top rivalries between the characters resulting in exaggerated responses by the characters. Today Show's Fourth Hour hosts Kathy Lee Gifford and Hoda Kotb appeared on the set of their show during one episode.

When the show was in Indianapolis for Super Bowl XLVI, the housewives met up with some of the "wives" of the Indianapolis Colts players (actually the players themselves in drag), including Dallas Clark's wife Sherry, Pierre Garçon's wife Noelle, Antoine Bethea's wife Daris, Robert Mathis's wife Shay-Shay, and Dan Orlovsky's wife Marianne. During the episode, Denise inadvertently started a fight with the Colts wives when she mistakenly congratulated the Colts on making the Super Bowl (thinking the game was played at one of the teams' home stadium), and was informed they were actually the league's worst team that season, with their 2-14 record. This caused Denise and Yvonne to quickly resolve their differences and unite against the Colts wives, causing the Late Night wives to win the brawl.

Episodes Season 1 "Thick as Thieves" (aired September 14, 2009) "Surprise!" (aired October 1, 2009) "Let's Get Physical" (aired October 15, 2009) "The Renovation" (aired November 5, 2009) "Giving Thanks" (aired November 20, 2009) "What a Difference 'Today' Makes" (aired December 10, 2009) "The Gift" (aired December 23, 2009)Bonus footage from the first six episodes aired December 22, 2009Season 2 "We're Back" (aired February 24, 2011) "Glamour Photo Shoot" (aired April 7, 2011) "Real Housewives of Late Night in Indianapolis" (aired February 2, 2012)

6-Bee Named after Late Nights location at 30 Rock, Studio 6B, 6-Bee is a parody of the Fox series Glee. After Jimmy goes to an NBC accountant (played by Fred Armisen) to request money for cue cards, he is turned down because the $375 they would cost is too expensive. However, Jimmy discovers that the first place prize money for glee club sectionals (a flyer for which is conveniently posted in the hallway outside Studio 6B across from a row of lockers) is $380, so he decides to gather the Late Night crew – including A. D. Miles, Paula Pell, Bashir Salahuddin, and Abby Elliott from SNL – together to compete. As practice, they sing the Bon Jovi song "Livin' on a Prayer".

Later, Jimmy and the Late Night squad discover that the cast of the NBC show Parks and Recreation (including Amy Poehler, Rashida Jones, Nick Offerman, Aubrey Plaza, and Chris Pratt) will also be competing in sectionals – and Parks & Rec has recruited The Roots to be in their squad. Jimmy is so frustrated by the Roots' defection that he sings the Twisted Sister song "We're Not Gonna Take It" (which, eventually, both squads join in on).

Episode two of 6-Bee won an Emmy in the category "Outstanding Short Form Picture Editing" at the 2010 Primetime Creative Arts Emmys.

Episodes Episode 1 (aired February 1, 2010) Episode 2 (aired April 8, 2010)

Late Late is a parody of the ABC series Lost. It deals with the twelve survivors of an elevator crash on the day of the very first show of Late Night with Jimmy Fallon. After the crash, the twelve are trapped on a mysterious abandoned floor in the 30 Rock building. Late character Played by Lost analogue Jimmy Fallon Jimmy Fallon Jack Gorgon Fallon Jimmy Fallon ? Future Jimmy Jimmy Fallon ? Higgins Steve Higgins ? Ron Dempsey Anthony Jeselnik Sawyer Gerard Gerard Bradford Locke Bashir Bashir Salahuddin Michael Chip (with pet goldfish Carlton) Jahquan Wynder Walt (with pet dog Vincent) Arthur Arthur Meyer Hurley Jane Cody Lindquist Kate Eric Eric Ledgin ? Miles A. D. Miles Ethan / Ben Carlton the Bathroom Attendant ? Jacob / Man in Black Higgins' Father Questlove Bernard ? ? Rose ? Mick Jagger Desmond Arsenio Hall Arsenio Hall ?

Episodes "Where Are We?" (aired February 12, 2010) "Not Alone" (aired March 1, 2010) "Who Are You?" (aired March 16, 2010) "My Hairiest Adventure" (aired March 30, 2010) "Carlton" (aired April 28, 2010) "We Can Do This" (aired May 11, 2010) "And Here He Is..." (aired May 20, 2010)

Suckers On November 8, 2010, Suckers was a musical parody of several vampire shows and movies (the Twilight films, The Vampire Diaries, True Blood, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel, etc.). In the first episode, a new writer at Late Night, Angelique (Kate Simses), discovers that several of the show's writers, including Jimmy, Bashir Salahuddin, and Morgan Murphy, are secretly vampires, and is herself "turned" by Miles.

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