Jimmy Fallon was never the most popular cast member on Saturday Night Live, and Fever Pitch remains a blasphemous blemish on the Boston Red Sox World Series victory in 2004. Oh, and have you guys seen Taxi with Queen Latifah? It was like someone farted on 120 pieces of paper and crammed three brass fasteners into it. But he’s made great strides as the host of Late Night, so much that I’m willing to call him the most consistently surprising late night host. I think that’s a compliment.

As we saw with his Super Bowl coverage, Fallon is a smart sports guy, and he blends his humor well with topical jock stuff. In fact, I’m actually surprised that it took him so long to think of turning Pearl Jam’s “Jeremy” into a song about New York Knicks guard Jeremy Lin. Hell, now I’m wondering if he was even the first to do it.

Am I going to have to spend the rest of the day scouring YouTube instead of doing regular work? Damn these sacrifices I make for investigative journalism.

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Denver Broncos quarterback and evangelical beefcake Tim Tebow was a guest on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon, as Fallon aired his show from Indianapolis this week with a Super Bowl XLVI theme. It was inevitable that Fallon would ask him what he thought of his recent “Tebowie” character, which, of course, was a hilarious combination of David Bowie and Tim Tebow that Fallon used to sing a new version of Bowie’s “Space Oddity.” Last night, Tebow played along for humor’s sake and got a nice dig in on Fallon by questioning his pitch on the song. At least I think that’s what he said, because the crowd wouldn’t shut up.

Seriously, it sounded like Tebow was performing on Def Comedy Jam, but even more remarkable was the zeal with which Fallon asked his questions. I’m surprised he didn’t conduct the interview while sitting on his lap and brushing his hair. But the ridiculous love for Tebow aside, I couldn’t help but giggle with delight when Fallon asked Tebow to sign a Broncos jersey and then fire it into the crowd with a t-shirt gun. Somebody had to have stopped and said, “Hey, this might cause a riot.” And then everyone laughed.

And after the Tebow video I’ve included the best of Fallon’s “Late Night at the Super Bowl” because I don’t stay up that late and watch most of his stuff online when I wake up in the morning and take my Ovaltine. And please do yourself a favor and watch the Real Housewives of Late Night in Indianapolis. Dallas Clark in drag. It’s Emmy material.

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