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Jimmy Fallon now sits in the throne of late-night giants Conan O’Brien and David Letterman, but it’s been a tough week for the former Saturday Night Live star. Troy Patterson, the TV critic for Slate, reviews the first week of NBC’s “Late Night with Jimmy Fallon.”

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