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Jimmy Fallon has opened up about the downsides of his early fame on Saturday Night Live, revealing the devastating psychological impact of realizing that there were inevitably going to be “people [who] want you to fail.”
“It is the absolute worst. I hate it,” he said on a recent episode of The Diary of a CEO podcast. “I want everyone to like me. I can’t stand it. I go, ‘Oh, my gosh. What can I do to make you like me?’ I think the answer is you can’t. You can’t make everyone like you. You just have to do what you do. And do the best that you can at what you do. And be happy with yourself.”
Fallon continued, “You think that it’s just going to be, ‘Oh, this is cool. Everyone will be great.’ But then not everyone’s rooting for you… People’s jobs are to take me down and to put bad press out and stuff.”
Currently the host of The Tonight Show, Fallon was a cast member on SNL from 1998 to 2004. Though beloved for his impressions and stint co-hosting “Weekend Update,” he was also frequently criticized for his tendency to break character during skits.
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