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NEW YORK — Jimmy Fallon’s eighth-grade yearbook at St. Mary of the Snow in Saugerties, N.Y., listed him as “most likely to take over for David Letterman.” Close enough: Fallon, 33, will succeed Conan O’Brien as host of NBC’s “Late Night” sometime next year. NBC on Monday made official a plan that’s been bandied about since 2003, when a network executive first broached the idea of doing a talk show with the former “Saturday Night Live” star.
“I’ve been doing a monologue in my living room the last three years, and it was embarrassing,” Fallon joked.
NBC plans to have O’Brien take over for Jay Leno at “The Tonight Show” next year. The Associated Press
