NBC’s Jimmy Fallon: “President Obama is riding high this week. A lot of people thought he did a pretty good job with his State of the Union address on Tuesday, but not everybody's happy. In fact, Sarah Palin said that the Republican Congress has to be more aggressive with Obama and she added, ‘It's not only just the New England Patriots who are dealing with deflated balls right now.’ Then John McCain was like, ‘I told you that in confidence.’ … Four-time NASCAR Sprint Cup champion, our pal Jeff Gordon, announced yesterday that this will be his final season of racing. You could tell it was time for him to retire because during his last race he had his blinker on the whole time. … The other day, ESPN analyst Jerry Hamilton tweeted out a link about a football recruit and accidentally used a link to a porn website instead. Though to be fair, that's also how the Packers ended up drafting Ha Ha Clinton-Dix” (“The Tonight Show,” NBC, 1/23).
Following his monologue, Fallon aired his regular thank you notes segment. He said, “Thank you, the New England Patriots, for being accused of playing with deflated balls. Or as Hugh Hefner's wife put it, ‘Been there, done that’” (“The Tonight Show,” NBC, 1/23).
