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Tweet Emmy Intros to Jimmy Fallon

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When Jimmy Fallon takes the stage this Sunday night to host the 62nd Primetime Emmy Awards, you can Tweet suggestions for his on-camera introductions of the show’s celebrity presenters. Fallon and his staff will pick their favorites from the suggestions and he’ll use them on the show.

Fallon has used this tactic on his late-night show before, usually to very funny results. Plus, it gives fans at home a deeper investment in the goings-on when they Tweet something from their living room and five minutes later it’s on live television, going out to millions of people. Jimmy Fallon has always been the most tech-savvy late-night talk show host, having embraced gadgetry and social media from the very beginning of his run on NBC‘s Late Night.

To submit your introduction suggestions to Fallon & Co. for the Emmys, just Tweet your line using the hashtag “#imontheemmys” or visit nbc.com/imontheemmys. The site will also show other fans’ submissions and the full list of presenters.

Jimmy Fallon to host Emmy Awards

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Jimmy Fallon has realized the latest fringe benefit from his job as host of Late Night: he’s signed on as the host of the 62nd annual Primetime Emmy Awards. The Emmy Awards will air on August 29th, on NBC.

Perhaps the most interesting aspect of this news is that it represents a new wrinkle in the Conan O’Brien/Jay Leno debacle. The last two times NBC aired the Emmy Awards — 2002 and 2006 — O’Brien was the host they hired for the job. After O’Brien moved on from Late Night to the Tonight Show — a story which we all know ends with O’Brien’s removal from that job so Leno could have it back — Fallon was hired to take O’Brien’s old seat at Late Night.

So effectively, NBC has replaced O’Brien with Fallon twice now.