{"id":107538,"date":"2018-03-01T22:17:33","date_gmt":"2018-03-02T02:17:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/?p=107538"},"modified":"2018-03-02T03:51:05","modified_gmt":"2018-03-02T07:51:05","slug":"first-look-darren-criss-appears-tonight-show-starring-jimmy-fallon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/2018\/03\/01\/first-look-darren-criss-appears-tonight-show-starring-jimmy-fallon\/","title":{"rendered":"Darren Criss Appears On &#8220;The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Update:<\/b>  &#8220;The Assassination Of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story&#8221; star Darren Criss appeared on Thursday&#8217;s &#8220;Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The actor, who was visiting the program for the first time in his career, joined host Jimmy Fallon for an interview.<\/p>\n<p>The interview aired as part of an episode that also featured Alicia Keys and Rudy Francisco.<\/p>\n<p>Video highlights from Criss&#8217; interview follow (available to view as of 3:35AM ET).  Photos from the taping are also embedded.<\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"https:\/\/player.theplatform.com\/p\/NnzsPC\/widget\/select\/media\/guid\/2410887629\/3677052\" width=\"710\" height=\"400\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_107539\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-107539\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Darren-Criss-Fallon.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"667\" class=\"size-full wp-image-107539\" srcset=\"https:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Darren-Criss-Fallon.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Darren-Criss-Fallon-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Darren-Criss-Fallon-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Darren-Criss-Fallon-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Darren-Criss-Fallon-200x133.jpg 200w, https:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Darren-Criss-Fallon-364x243.jpg 364w, https:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Darren-Criss-Fallon-758x506.jpg 758w, https:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Darren-Criss-Fallon-608x406.jpg 608w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-107539\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">THE TONIGHT SHOW STARRING JIMMY FALLON &#8212; Episode 0825 &#8212; Pictured: (l-r) Actor Darren Criss during an interview with host Jimmy Fallon on March 2, 2018 &#8212; (Photo by: Andrew Lipovsky\/NBC)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_107540\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-107540\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Rudy-Francisco-Fallon-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"667\" height=\"1000\" class=\"size-full wp-image-107540\" srcset=\"https:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Rudy-Francisco-Fallon-2.jpg 667w, https:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Rudy-Francisco-Fallon-2-100x150.jpg 100w, https:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Rudy-Francisco-Fallon-2-600x900.jpg 600w, https:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Rudy-Francisco-Fallon-2-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Rudy-Francisco-Fallon-2-364x546.jpg 364w, https:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Rudy-Francisco-Fallon-2-608x912.jpg 608w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 667px) 100vw, 667px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-107540\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">THE TONIGHT SHOW STARRING JIMMY FALLON &#8212; Episode 0825 &#8212; Pictured: Spoken Word Poet Rudy Francisco performs Complainers&#8221; on March 2, 2018 &#8212; (Photo by: Andrew Lipovsky\/NBC)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_107541\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-107541\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Rudy-Francisco-Fallon.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"688\" class=\"size-full wp-image-107541\" srcset=\"https:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Rudy-Francisco-Fallon.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Rudy-Francisco-Fallon-150x103.jpg 150w, https:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Rudy-Francisco-Fallon-768x528.jpg 768w, https:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Rudy-Francisco-Fallon-600x413.jpg 600w, https:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Rudy-Francisco-Fallon-200x138.jpg 200w, https:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Rudy-Francisco-Fallon-364x250.jpg 364w, https:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Rudy-Francisco-Fallon-758x522.jpg 758w, https:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Rudy-Francisco-Fallon-608x418.jpg 608w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-107541\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">THE TONIGHT SHOW STARRING JIMMY FALLON &#8212; Episode 0825 &#8212; Pictured: Spoken Word Poet Rudy Francisco performs Complainers&#8221; on March 2, 2018 &#8212; (Photo by: Andrew Lipovsky\/NBC)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><figure id=\"attachment_107544\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-107544\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Alicia-Keys-Fallon.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"667\" height=\"1000\" class=\"size-full wp-image-107544\" srcset=\"https:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Alicia-Keys-Fallon.jpg 667w, https:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Alicia-Keys-Fallon-100x150.jpg 100w, https:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Alicia-Keys-Fallon-600x900.jpg 600w, https:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Alicia-Keys-Fallon-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Alicia-Keys-Fallon-364x546.jpg 364w, https:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Alicia-Keys-Fallon-608x912.jpg 608w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 667px) 100vw, 667px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-107544\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">THE TONIGHT SHOW STARRING JIMMY FALLON &#8212; Episode 0824 &#8212; Pictured: Musician Alicia Keys during an interview on March 1, 2018 &#8212; (Photo by: Andrew Lipovsky\/NBC)<\/figcaption><\/figure><br \/>\n====<\/p>\n<p>This past January, Darren Criss appeared on &#8220;Late Night With Seth Meyers.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Thursday night, he visits a different NBC late-night talk show.<\/p>\n<p>The &#8220;American Crime Story&#8221; star appears on &#8220;The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Criss, who is making his inaugural appearance on the program, joins host Jimmy Fallon for an interview.<\/p>\n<p>Taped earlier in the day, Thursday&#8217;s &#8220;Tonight Show&#8221; also features appearances by Alicia Keys and Rudy Francisco.  Keys participates in an interview, while Francisco closes the show with a spoken-word piece.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The &#8220;American Crime Story&#8221; star made his first &#8220;Tonight Show&#8221; appearance.","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":107542,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[1048],"tags":[17,800,246,210,10591,485],"adace-sponsor":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Darren Criss Appears On &quot;The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon&quot;<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Update: &quot;The Assassination Of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story&quot; star Darren Criss appeared on Thursday&#039;s &quot;Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon.&quot; The\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/2018\/03\/01\/first-look-darren-criss-appears-tonight-show-starring-jimmy-fallon\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Darren Criss Appears On &quot;The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon&quot;\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Update: &quot;The Assassination Of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story&quot; star Darren Criss appeared on Thursday&#039;s &quot;Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon.&quot; The\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/2018\/03\/01\/first-look-darren-criss-appears-tonight-show-starring-jimmy-fallon\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Headline Planet\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2018-03-02T02:17:33+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2018-03-02T07:51:05+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Darren-Criss-Fallon-1-e1519956993121.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1000\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"500\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Brian Cantor\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@cantorpedia\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@headlineplanet\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/2018\/03\/01\/first-look-darren-criss-appears-tonight-show-starring-jimmy-fallon\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/2018\/03\/01\/first-look-darren-criss-appears-tonight-show-starring-jimmy-fallon\/\",\"name\":\"Darren Criss Appears On \\\"The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon\\\"\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/#website\"},\"datePublished\":\"2018-03-02T02:17:33+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2018-03-02T07:51:05+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/#\/schema\/person\/b530255b81ceb7463ea060a9b8a302c8\"},\"description\":\"Update: \\\"The Assassination Of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story\\\" star Darren Criss appeared on Thursday's \\\"Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon.\\\" The\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/2018\/03\/01\/first-look-darren-criss-appears-tonight-show-starring-jimmy-fallon\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/\",\"name\":\"Headline Planet\",\"description\":\"Music News &amp; Charts, TV News &amp; Spoilers\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":\"required name=search_term_string\"}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/#\/schema\/person\/b530255b81ceb7463ea060a9b8a302c8\",\"name\":\"Brian Cantor\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/5726265e0532f231e46bbddd41009383?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/5726265e0532f231e46bbddd41009383?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"Brian Cantor\"},\"description\":\"Brian Cantor is the editor-in-chief for Headline Planet. 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