Created in 1982 to follow The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson, NBCs Late Night has had just three hosts in as many decades: David Letterman, Conan OBrien, and Jimmy Fallon. As the story goes (and it could very well just be a myth), Lettermans writers gave OBrien a large, plastic pickle when he took over Late Night in 1993. OBrien, in turn, gave it to Fallon (by way of messenger) when he became the host of Late Night in 2009. So for his January 28th show, just one week before his bow out from Late Night, Fallon passed the pickle to Seth Meyers, a Saturday Night Live alum whose own Late Night tenure is set to begin on February 24th.
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