{"id":91794,"date":"2023-09-11T01:01:26","date_gmt":"2023-09-11T08:01:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/?p=91794"},"modified":"2023-09-11T01:01:26","modified_gmt":"2023-09-11T08:01:26","slug":"is-tonight-toxic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/blog\/2023\/09\/11\/is-tonight-toxic\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Tonight Toxic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Is <strong><em>The Tonight Show<\/em><\/strong> a \u201ctoxic workplace\u201d?&nbsp; That\u2019s what 2 current and 14 former staffers allege in a <em>Rolling Stone<\/em> article.&nbsp; <strong>Jimmy Fallon <\/strong>is portrayed as often drunk or hungover, and erratic \u2013 a claim bolstered by the fact that there have been 9 showrunners in as many years.&nbsp; Things are allegedly different under <strong>Chris Miller <\/strong>\u2013 for however long he lasts.&nbsp; The article cites an incident where Jimmy Fallon chastised a staffer holding cue cards.&nbsp; <strong>Jerry Seinfeld <\/strong>was there and he allegedly told Fallon to apologize.&nbsp; Seinfeld has since weighed in.&nbsp; \u201cI teased Jimmy about a flub, and we all had a fun laugh about how rarely Jimmy is thrown off.&nbsp; It was not uncomfortable at all\u2026Idiotic twisting of events.\u201d&nbsp; Fallon has since apologized to his staff, saying, \u201cI\u2019m sorry if I embarrassed you.&nbsp; I never set out to create that type of atmosphere at the show\u2026There are things I\u2019ve done in the past that are embarrassing but I never mistreated anybody\u2026I want this show to be fun, it should be inclusive for everybody, it should be funny, it should be the best show, the best people.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is The Tonight Show a \u201ctoxic workplace\u201d?&nbsp; That\u2019s what 2 current and 14 former staffers allege in a Rolling Stone article.&nbsp; Jimmy Fallon is portrayed as often drunk or hungover, and erratic \u2013 a claim bolstered by the fact that there have been 9 showrunners in as many years.&nbsp; Things are allegedly different under Chris<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-91794","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breaking"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91794","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=91794"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91794\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":91795,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91794\/revisions\/91795"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}