At Home (Where Else?) With Jimmy Fallon

The late-night host makes a quarantine comeback, with an assist from his wife and kids.

- By Kathryn VanArendonk

I DON’T KNOW if we’ll ever have an audience again,” Jimmy Fallon says. He’s not happy about this, but he’s trying to be realistic now that he’s about three weeks into quarantining with his family at their house in Sagaponack. “How long has it been?,” he yells to his wife, Nancy Juvonen, who’s in the kitchen with their two daughters. “Twenty-one … Actually, it’s Friday, so 22 days!,” she yells back. I’m in my house in New Jersey; Fallon and his family are in New York. Over the now- ubiquitous Zoom app, Fallon recounts what it’s been like to turn The Tonight Show, a storied 66-year-old studio talk show, into a casual small-scale production from his home. “I miss it,” he says. “I miss the audience already.” But the alternative, which he cannot stand, is doing no show at all.