Production
The program originates from NBC Studio 6B in the GE Building at 30 Rockefeller Center in New York City, the original home of The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson, which was not the studio from which Late Night had been broadcast since 1982, but which had housed the WNBC news studios since Carson had moved his show to Burbank, California, in 1972. Fallon's house band is hip hop/neo soul band The Roots, and his announcer is Steve Higgins, a producer for Saturday Night Live. The show is produced by Lorne Michaels' Broadway Video in association with NBC's Universal Media Studios.
Tapings begin at 5:30pm for same-day broadcast; audiences arrive as much as 90 minutes in advance, which allows for warm-up by a staff member ("try to find everything funnier than normal"); in between guests, Fallon does custom promotional clips for the NBC affiliates.
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