Jimmy Fallon will host the 2017 Golden Globes
Jimmy Fallon has been announced as the host for the next Golden Globe Awards.
NBC Entertainment Chairman Robert Greenblatt made the announcement during the Television Critics Association in Beverly Hills on Tuesday.
“This is the most spontaneous and uninhibited award show on television,” Greenblatt said. “And Jimmy’s playful, disarming comedic brilliance makes him the ideal host to enhance and elevate the sense of fun and irreverence that’s made the Golden Globes one of the premier events of the entire broadcast year.”
This will be Fallon’s first time hosting the awards, which are voted on by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association.
“Jimmy Fallon is an exceptionally talented and dynamic entertainer and we couldn’t be more excited that he’ll be hosting the 2017 Golden Globes,” said HFPA President Lorenzo Soria in a statement. “His charm, wit and incredible spontaneity will play exceedingly well both to everyone at the show as well as the millions watching at home from around the world.”
Fallon will have to live up to last year’s dynamic Globes host, Ricky Gervais. The 2016 Globes was watched by 18.5 million total viewers.
The “Tonight Show” host is currently dominating late-night against ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel and CBS’s Stephen Colbert.
The Globes nominations will be announced on Monday, Dec. 12.
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