Dear Jimmy Fallon: so when you going to have jkOnTheRun on your little show?
Dear Jimmy Fallon,
Congratulations on landing the big Late Night gig, it’s a good show, and you are doing good things with it already. The “I’m a big geek” meme is original, and you are already doing a good job milking it to make things a bit different on your new show. Kudos for that idea.
Please take this letter in the spirit in which it was intended. You will not be taken seriously as a geek until you have Kevin and I as guests on Late Night. I understand you are new to your job and all; that’s why you have so far taken the “easy geek” route. Having Kevin Rose of Digg/ Diggnation and Joshua Topolsky of Engadget on Late Night was frankly an easy way for you to go. Sure, Digg is the biggest geek social media site on the planet, and engadget is the biggest gadget site. I realize that makes these guys an easy call to have as guests on your little show — but come on, that’s the easy way out.
The fact is, you are not going to be taken seriously as a geek until you have Kevin Tofel and I, James Kendrick, as guests on Late Night. Now before you rip into this idea, know that I understand that jkOnTheRun is not the biggest and flashiest gadget site out there. That’s why a move to have us as guests on Late Night could only be taken as solid proof that you are a real, certifiable geek. Taking the hard way, now that shows guts, and I’m sure you have them.
I’m pretty sure that Kevin and I have handled more gadgets than those other guys combined. I mean, come on, our tag line at jkOnTheRun is “…using mobile devices since they weighed 30 lbs.” Thirty freakin’ pounds! That shows how long we have been doing this geek stuff, and you can tap into that gadgety geek goodness on your show. That would sure get you tons of geek cred on the street. No question about that.
Make no mistake, Kevin and I are geeks all right, the exact sort you are already using to build up your geek meme on Late Night. But we’re not ordinary geeks, no sir, we are PROFESSIONAL geeks who do this for a living. We don’t sit around drinking beer and pretending to play on laptops. Nope we do this geek thing FULL TIME. We are a part of the most respected tech network on the Internet, GigaOM. You’ve heard of them, I’m sure. You need that if you are ever going to be taken seriously as the true geek of late night. Trust me on that.
I hope you realize that this entreaty is based on respect for you as a late night host. We want to see you succeed at this Late Night thing and we’ll do anything we can to help you in this endeavor. We’re there for you, man.
Take care,
James Kendrick, jkOnTheRun
UPDATE: I have tweeted this challenge to Jimmy Fallon. If you’d like to see us on his show then get your own tweet in too! @jimmyfallon
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I was actually expecting something similar after your remarks yesterday.
But you are right. There are geeks and there are Ultra Mobile geeks. But I think Kevin is much more good lookin’, making him a better candidate for the late night show :)
JK! Ha.
But I’m the smart one. :) It’s a package deal anyway.
it’s strange how the “new media” wants the attention and love of the “old media” :)
Hey it’s a free trip to NYC. :)
Am I the one who’s going to have to point out the white elephant in the room here?
You’ll have to enlighten me. What are you referring to as the elephant in the room?
I don’t know that Jimmy’s trying to appeal to the segment that has been into mobile gadgets “since they weighed 30 pounds”.
Nate, I’m a realist: we offer little to no appeal to *any* segment on Fallon’s show. ;)
Hope this works out for you guys…hehe!
You had me at “You’ve heard of them, I’m sure.”
I’m still chuckling.
Hey you guys need to think big. How about a regular segment on the show, say once a month, where you and Kevin can discuss and show off the latest tech stuff. Now that’s entertainment…….
well i for one wouldnt choose either of you… Matt Miller is the smartest and geekiest of the MoTR trio!
i mean come on who better to choose than the man who has more gadgets than he can juggle on two hands… AND feet =D
Please stop. It is so unprofessional. They only have Kevin and Alex because they are entertaining.
I agree with what Kevin has said. You two are good, but this letter is inappropriate and unprofessional. Just do what you love doing. Kevin is a the founder of Digg and was formerly on Screensavers and on Tech TV – their rep outdoes yours sadly. You guys have a good site but haven’t pioneered anything in your field like these guys did
JayPaq,
Surely this was done tongue in cheek and was not intended as an actual serious application to the Jimmy Fallon show (although I’m sure JK and Kevin would be more than happy to appear if they were asked).
It was not a formal letter, it was a post on JKontherun.com (with a link fired through Twitter).
I don’t think professionalism comes into this. Its entertainment. The post on JKontherun.com was written in a fun jokey way for us, the readership. Take it as it was intended!