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Showmen: Justin Timberlake & Jimmy Fallon (GQ’s Men Of The Year)

*christine S* — Tue, 15 Nov 2011 06:04:24 +0000

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Peggy Sirota

There’s a lot to be depressed about right now. Chronic unemployment has men with Master’s degrees scrubbing bathrooms at KFC. There’s a bunch of orange-y Republicans who look like the cast of The Expendables railing against government—one of whom might very well, and very soon, be in charge of our government. Here’s a real statistic: Forty percent of the country believes the end times are nigh. This might have something to do with the fact that, somehow, against all odds, despite the spectacular implosion of its leading man, Two and a Half Men continues its laugh track-supported war against American brain cells.

Yet even as the world turns to shit, Jimmy Fallon and Justin Timberlake—Jimmy and Justin, actually, since that sounds more like the boyish playmates that they are—are determined to give audiences something unabashedly joyful. And both of them have had good years making us laugh, with Justin headlining three movies, and Jimmy transforming late night (and the next morning) into a 21st century variety show. So GQ convened the two most thrilled-to-be-alive, irony-free, super-duper shamelessly happy men on the planet for a state of the union. And you know what? By the end of this conversation, we felt pretty warm inside.

GQ: How well do you know each other?
Justin Timberlake: We just met the other day.

Jimmy Fallon: We met at the photo shoot for this article. No, wait! We met during your N’Sync days. Like some MTV thing.

Justin Timberlake: You’re right. It was when you hosted the MTV awards in 2002.

Jimmy Fallon: Weirdly enough that was Justin’s debut as a solo artist, and the first time I hosted the VMAs. It was a huge deal for him. A lot of pressure. People were saying, is he going to do it? Can he do it? There’s no way he can keep the groove! And then he came out of a GIANT BOOMBOX. Do you remember this?

Justin Timberlake: Yep, I remember.

Jimmy Fallon: By the way, thank you. I appreciated that gift. And if anyone reading this has like 150,000 D batteries, please call me. I’d love to borrow them. It’s real hard to keep that thing juiced.

Justin Timberlake: That was your joke that night, right?

Jimmy Fallon: Yeah.

GQ: Wait, you’re giving me jokes you used at the MTV VMAs in 2002?
Jimmy Fallon: [laughing] Yeah. That’s what we do.

GQ: And then you became buddies?
Justin Timberlake: Yes.

Jimmy Fallon: Ehhh…

Justin Timberlake: Absolutely.

Jimmy Fallon: Of course. We’re super friends! I remember talking backstage during those VMAs. I was totally nervous and you were nervous and we both ended up having good nights. We’re good luck to each other—like each other’s rabbit foots.

GQ: And Justin was the first guest when you got your late night show, Jimmy, right?
Justin Timberlake: I’d never seen him more nervous.

GQ: Let’s talk about how you guys came up with “History of Rap,” the most viral video in network late night history.
Jimmy Fallon: We were in your dressing room backstage on SNL.

Justin Timberlake: We were just shooting the shit, right?

Jimmy Fallon: You were coming on my show later that week, and I asked, “What do you want to do?” We both thought, well we could sing something. I wanted to do Toto’s “Africa.“We could sing that song really well together.

Justin Timberlake: We should still do it! We should do Toto’s “Africa” but we should do it as characters.

Jimmy Fallon: I was thinking we’d do “Africa” as me and you at the age of thirteen. We’d be best friends and have a tape of us having a sleepover and singing “Africa.” We can wear wigs and braces .

Justin Timberlake: We were sitting there, and I said, “Do you remember that guy who did the history of dance?” He did every song that had a dance or was named after a dance. It was a viral sensation. Then we just started kicking around medley ideas. Jimmy was like, “What if we did the whole history of all hip-hop and fit in as many songs as we can?

Jimmy Fallon: We started improvising right there. We went from Jay-Z to “The Humpty Dance” to “How about this one?”

Justin Timberlake: Jimmy’s a great impressionist and that’s what makes it funny—Jimmy Fallon impersonating greats like Snoop and Notorious B.I.G. And, of course, the Roots. If I had the Roots on my show I’d be doing songs every day. Can you imagine if you had a total karaoke session with the Roots? By the way, you should have audience participation karaoke.

Jimmy Fallon: That’s a good idea. I’m writing it down.

Justin Timberlake: You should try to stump the Roots! Have random audience members come up and make requests. Is there a song they can’t play? They can play anything.

Jimmy Fallon: I think why those videos have gone so viral is partly because everyone knows and loves those songs. That alone is pretty cool. But when you have Justin Timberlake doing it, it makes it insanely cool. After we did the first “History of Rap,” we were on the phone and you were like “I’m in France now and it’s on the front page!” Le History of le Hip Hop. I was so excited, like “Dude. They know who I am in France?” And Justin just goes, “No.” Oh, of course. You’re Justin Timberlake. That’s why this is a huge hit.

GQ: But it also had to do with you web presence, Jimmy. You have more Twitter followers than TV viewers.
Jimmy Fallon: Why not, you know? It’s fun. They’re college kids, I was a college kid. You’ve got enough money for ramen noodle soup and Spaghetti-Os. I would have loved it if I got to talk to someone I loved on TV. If I got to tweet Letterman and he tweeted me back. That’s the world we live in now. It’s possible, anything’s possible. It’s so great.

GQ: Though Letterman still doesn’t tweet…
Jimmy Fallon: I think it’d be weird if he did. It wouldn’t be him. He is who he is, he knows what he’s doing. It would be odd if he tweeted like crazy. [laughs] Oh man, can you imagine that? But this is what I do. I’ve always done this. This is just who I am. I like video games, I like tech, I like being positive. I like doing energetic things. I like being absurd. Being silly. It wouldn’t fit if it was somebody else trying to do these bits, or if I tried to do somebody else’s, you know? Like if I tried to talk politics all week. It’d be weird. Like Jon Stewart already does that every day, and he does it great. He’s great at that. Let him do that.

GQ: You both seem ridiculously happy and excited…all the time.
Justin Timberlake: There’s a percentage of entertainers who are working so hard—and honestly it looks so exhausting—to act like they don’t care that much, that they’re not as excitable. But everybody is that excitable. This is a really exciting, fun job.

Jimmy Fallon: There’s something so fun about taking that risk and doing live stuff. I think we both have that in our DNA. So we’re like “Let’s go, man. Is this going to be good? I don’t know. But we’re about to go live in like ten seconds. Let’s perform the hell out of this.”

Justin Timberlake: And I’m not a comedian so I’ll probably get crucified for saying this, but I think with a lot of comedy the impetus behind it is: I’ve been rejected so many times and I’m bitter and now I’m going to talk about it. It’s almost as if The Social Network was a comedy. For me, being earnest and genuine is way easier than acting like you just don’t care, like you don’t want to be here, like this is a drag. There are just so many things in the world that are a drag. For me it’s like, This is a fucking wicked cool job!

GQ: In our comedy issue last year, Tracy Morgan said that cool is the enemy of funny. But you guys are both. How’d you circumvent that rule?
Jimmy Fallon: Tracy says a lot of things.

Justin Timberlake: Tracy also told me I’m five years late to be making babies. He was like [imitating Tracy Morgan]: “HEY, YOU SHOULD BE MAKING BABIES, JUSTIN.”

Jimmy Fallon: [laughing] Yeah, I got the making babies spiel, too.

Justin Timberlake: I JUST GO WHEREEVER I WANT AND I SPREAD MY SEEDS.

GQ: Justin, were you this funny when you were in N’Sync?
Justin Timberlake: What? What are you talking about? I think N’Sync is funny.

Jimmy Fallon: [laughing] Yeah, I’ll send you some video.

Justin Timberlake: The first job I ever had when I was ten was on a television show, and that show was the same format as SNL, it’s just that the writers were writing for kids.

GQ: The Mickey Mouse Club, right?
Justin Timberlake: Yes. That’s what it was called.

Jimmy Fallon: Dude, I was just talking to [Ryan] Gosling about that. Did Gosling really live on your couch when he was a kid?

Justin Timberlake: So he tried to make it seem like he was bohemian even back then?

Jimmy Fallon: Definitely, man. He said he was struggling and you helped him out.

Justin Timberlake: Ryan’s mom had to stay back in Canada and my mom was his guardian for a year so he could come down and be on the show. But Gosling got his own bed. He didn’t sleep on the couch. He said that?

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The 2011 GQ Men of the Year

*christine S* — Mon, 14 Nov 2011 16:09:34 +0000

From the Knockout to the Breakout, the Showmen to the King, we present the undeniable cover subjects who rocked our year. Check out the funny photos below and read their full interview November 15th.

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Vote for Bad Teacher & FWB!

*christine S* — Wed, 09 Nov 2011 19:49:30 +0000

Vote for Bad Teacher & FWB for favorite comedy movie! You can vote everyday. (more than once)

The 2012 People’s Choice Awards will be broadcast on CBS, January 11, 2012 @ 9 PM ET!

Click here to VOTE!

‘The Social Network’ Tops Key Art Awards

*christine S* — Thu, 20 Oct 2011 05:29:20 +0000

The trailer for David Fincher’s film about the early days of Facebook picked up a Grand Key Art award at The Hollywood Reporter’s ceremony honoring the best in entertainment marketing.

The trailer for David Fincher’s The Social Network, created by Mark Woollen & Associates, won the Grand Key Art award in the audio visual category at the 40th Annual Hollywood Reporter Key Art Awards on Wednesday night at the Cinerama Dome. It was the only project to win the top prize.

The trailer also earned gold awards for editing and music and The Social Networkwebsite by Imageworks Interactive, earned a bronze in the interactive category.

“We rebooted the awards this year,” The Hollywood Reporter Publisher and Senior Vice President Lynne Segall said during her introductory remarks. “We even reinvented the trophy.” The new Key Art award resembles a gold klieg light.

The Key Art Awards are Hollywood’s most recognized awards competition for advertising and communications. This year, THR teamed with the Clio Awards to change the judging methods. The five judging panels, made up senior level creatives in each medium, ranked the entries on three levels: gold, silver and bronze. However, each jury was not obligated to award a gold or silver to any work if they felt nothing was worthy of the ranking.

The eligibility period was also expanded to 20 months, including anything viewed by the public from January 2010 to August 2011.

Segall also acknowledged the momentary leak of the night’s winners online with a series of spoof one-sheets from The Social Network (“You don’t get to 2500 entries without making a few enemies.”), 127 Hours (127 Leaks) and The Fighter (The Leaker).

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Nominate Justin!

*christine S* — Wed, 19 Oct 2011 14:15:37 +0000

Voice your choice to determine this year’s nominees. The top five in each category will become the official nominees of People’s Choice Awards 2012.

You can vote for Justin & his movies in the following categories (click each link below):

Favorite Movie Actor

Favorite Comedy Movie (Select Friends with Benefits and Bad Teacher)

Favorite Movie (Put Friends with Benefits or Bad Teacher in the Other option)

Favorite Comedic Movie Actor (Put Justin Timberlake in the Other option)

Favorite Animated Movie Voice (Put Justin Timberlake as Boo Boo in Yogi Bear in the Other option)

Vote and spread the word! The People Choice Awards will be held at the Los Angeles Nokia Theater, Jan 12, 2012

Vote often to make sure your favorites make the top 5. Then come back on November 8th to start voting for the official nominees as chosen by YOU!

21st Annual EMA Awards Coverage

*christine S* — Sun, 16 Oct 2011 07:11:04 +0000

The Environmental Media Association celebrated the organization’s 21^st anniversary on Saturday, October 15^th, 2011 and recognized six films and television programs for their outstanding contributions to environmental causes and green initiatives. The event also honored Justin Timberlake. Norman Lear introduced Justin where he received the EMA Futures Award. Congrats again, Justin!

21st Annual EMA Awards-Red Carpet & On Stage-10/15/11

21st Annual EMA Awards-Red Carpet & On Stage-10/15/11

Justin Timberlake honored at 2011 EMA Awards

The winners for 2011 Environmental Media Awards are:

FEATURE FILM
Yogi Bear (Warner Brothers Pictures)

DOCUMENTARY
Revenge of the Electric Car (WestMidWest Productions)

TELEVISION – EPISODIC COMEDY
Futurama, “The Futurama Holiday Spectacular” (Comedy Central)

TELEVISION – EPISODIC DRAMA
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, “Fracked” (CBS)

REALITY PROGRAM – TIE
HGTV Green Home 2011 (HGTV)
Real Time with Bill Maher, Episode #188 (HBO)

TELEVISION – CHILDREN’S PROGRAM
Bubble Guppies, “Boy Meets Squirrel” (Nickelodeon)

Visit www.ema-online.org for more info!

Justin Timberlake at 2011 ENVIRONMENTAL MEDIA AWARDS Arrivals

*christine S* — Sun, 16 Oct 2011 05:37:36 +0000

Justin Timberlake (In Time – Friends with benefits – Bad Teacher – Yogi Bear – The Social Network) arrives at the 2011 ENVIRONMENTAL MEDIA AWARDS green carpet arrivals at Warner Studios in Burbank, Ca USA October 15, 2011.

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Watch Justin Receive The Futures Award Tonight!

*christine S* — Sat, 15 Oct 2011 15:29:40 +0000

Justin is set to receive the futures award for his environmental action. Here are the following links

you can watch:
www.livestream/ema (Link will/should work when it’s that time to watch)

www.facebook.com/EMAonline

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Justin Timberlake Wins 2011 Emmy For Outstanding Guest Actor In Comedy Series

*christine S* — Sun, 11 Sep 2011 01:44:58 +0000

Congrats to Justin!!

Outstanding Original Music And Lyrics
Saturday Night Live • Host: Justin Timberlake (Song Title: Justin Timberlake Monologue) • NBC • SNL Studios in association with Universal Media Studios and Broadway Video
Katreese Barnes, Music by
Seth Meyers, Lyrics by
Justin Timberlake, Lyrics by
John Mulaney, Lyrics by

(Correction: SNL was nominated for 2 songs: Andy Samberg’s not winner.)

Seth Meyers accepts for SNL saying: “Justin Timberlake wanted to be here. But we said, no, they really want to see the writers.”
Backstage, Meyers said that Justin Timberlake provided the idea of singing a song about not wanting to sing, and that gave the writers something to run with. Asked where he plans to keep his Emmy, Meyers said: “I’m just going to put it somewhere where Andy Samberg can see it.”

Deadline asked if Meyers and the SNL writing staff is looking forward to a fun 2012 election year: “Very fun. And I think, as comedy writers, what we’re seeing from the early GOP debates is what you hope for: characters. We’ve got what seems like a handful of characters, so that’s a nice start for us. Let’s hope they all stay in the race.”

Outstanding Guest Actor In A Comedy Series
Saturday Night Live • NBC • SNL Studios in association with Universal Media Studios and Broadway Video
Justin Timberlake, Host

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Emmys 2011: Justin Timberlake Named Outstanding Guest Actor for ‘Saturday Night Live’

Award marks singer’s second win of the night.

Justin Timberlake added to his growing Emmy collection Saturday night with a win for guest actor in a comedy series for Saturday Night Live.

The Social Network actor had won an Emmy earlier in the evening for original music and lyrics for his “Justin Timberlake monologue.” Seth Meyers accepted the award for him.

Saturday Night Live has proven an solid platform for Timberlake, who won outstanding original music lyrics for “D**k in a Box” in Sept. 2007.

Gwyneth Paltrow, Boardwalk Empire, The Kennedys and The Borgias were also winners at the Creative Arts Emmys, which took place at the Nokia Theater in downtown Los Angeles.

The Primetime Emmy Awards take place Sept. 18.

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