But isn’t this article blaming Fallon’s supposed personal weakness i.e. drinking for his staff members problems?

What kind of red flags?

You’d think someone in HR would be well aware of rule #1 of workplace survival - Never Put It in Writing

In the last few years, we’ve seen exposés from the sets of The Ellen DeGeneres Show, The Kelly Clarkson Show, and Dr. Phil, featuring accusations of bullying leadership styles and deteriorating mental health among staffers.

The showrunner for Colbert’s Late Show for six years was Chris Licht, the guy who then went on to run CNN for a while with a strategy to have it skew more conservative, before he was fired after that disastrous Trump townhall.

HR is there to protect the company, not the employees. No matter what they say.

Seems we’re getting a lot of these-snowflakes-need-to-suck-it-up type comments. It would be nice if at some point people realized that mentality is why workplace cultures deteriorate to the point where people, often bleeding from a thousand cuts, start contemplating suicide. Yes, there is a degree to which people need…

The Rolling Stone piece mentions that when Fallon jumped from Late Night to The Tonight Show, showrunner Mike Shoemaker (Mikey the Shoe!) declined to join him and instead stayed with Meyers. I think that tells you a lot about the dynamics of working for Fallon vs. Meyers. 

Aren't most of the people who work for a show like The Tonight Show unionized? Other than collective bargaining what is the point of having a union if they aren't going to back you up when you have issues like this? Like if the employee got no where with HR isn't that why you would have a union grievance process? 

Fallon has the same problem that Ellen did; when your whole brand is built around being friendly and likable, it makes the moments where you don’t do that stand out in sharper relief. And when you’re relentlessly positive, it comes off as insincere.

Letterman and Conan could be very affable, but they could also not…

Speaking to the open secret involving his drinking, it was reported that after the WGA strike began, Fallon failed to show up to a staff meeting to address if/when they would be furlowed and what their employment situation would.  The rumor is he didn’t show because he was nursing a hangover from the night before.

So it’s starting to sound like talk shows are as bad as nonprofits when it comes to guaranteed workplace toxicity.

I think this contradicts that idea:

Never forget that Lorne Michaels’ entire strategy for taking over the Tonight show for NBC was to hire a host so talentless that they would never take over the show (like Carson, O’Brien or even Leno) and be able to bilk NBC out of a huge amounts of money. Fallon is there for one reason, he is utterly replaceable. Not…

This has been an open secret for years. I know multiple people who worked at that place, and boy does it sound like it sucks.

“We were very concerned about cancel culture at NBC due to Jimmy’s erratic behavior...in other words, Jimmy was so seldom funny we were constantly worried about the show being cancelled...he’d make Taxi 2 with Iggy Azalea but what would happen to us?”

Another clown who got popular off of other peoples' writing accused of being a POS. I’m shocked.

Behind the scenes? I feel a measure of trauma every time I try to youtube a sequence from his show. No thanks.

Didn’t there used to be a commenter on this site who went by that name? 9Showrunners9Years? They seemed okay.