Mark interviews Jimmy Failla, weeknight host on WOR.

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🗓️ 19 February 2026

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Did Jimmy Kimmel and Stephen Colbert hurt late-night television? Jimmy argues that Colbert should devote more time to comedy to keep audiences laughing, while Jimmy Fallon takes a different, lighter approach. Did Prince Andrew get arrested for hiding information?

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0:00.0	Mark Simone is back on 710 WOR.
0:05.0	Well, Jimmy Fallon, a great talk show host, the excellent comedian.
0:09.8	He's on every night at 9 o'clock on WOR.
0:13.3	You can hear him from 9 to midnight's great show, very funny.
0:16.0	And in addition to five nights a week here on W.O.R. at 9 o'clock,
0:19.8	he does the best late night
0:21.6	show in television every Saturday night at 10. Fox News Channel, best monologue in TV. Donald
0:28.2	Trump raves about it. It's a great show. Watch it 10 o'clock Saturday night's Fox News
0:32.8	channel. Jimmy Fela, how you doing? I'm doing better than Colbert.
0:38.0	That's how I'm doing.
0:40.1	What a dumb stunt that was, Mark Simone.
0:43.1	Well, he lied to him.
0:45.2	He lied.
0:45.9	Yes.
0:47.4	He's like, yeah, they banned me from having this guy on the show.
0:51.4	And what I love about it is the lawyers blew him up as he was taping yesterday's
0:55.6	episode that or the night before they sent out the statement being like oh he could totally have him
1:00.7	on the show uh and they just chose not to which is like he's trying to get fired because he wants
1:06.5	to be basically he wants to host the oscars you know like Kimmel you know kisses everybody's
1:11.4	butt in Hollywood and that kind of makes him attractive to them he wants to get the Kimmel
1:16.1	you know leftovers when this whole shebang Shibu ends can you think of anything worse to do
1:21.4	with David Letterman's legacy than be trying to become Jimmy Kimmel's stunt double. Oh, rough.
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