In an interview on CNBC's "Squawk on the Street" promoting his new reality show "On Brand," Jimmy Fallon said that his plan on "The Tonight Show" is to "keep my head down and make sure the jokes are funny." He said that his show "has never really been that political." h/t Jack Dunn at Variety.

"We hit both sides equally, and we try to make everybody laugh, and that's really the way our show really works. Our monologues are kind of the same that we've been doing since Johnny Carson was doing 'The Tonight Show.'"

Stephen Colbert and Jimmy Kimmel have leveled pointed and highly critical satire at Donald Trump and the MAGA movement on their late night shows, and have both paid a price. Colbert's "The Late Show" was cancelled as of May in a move generally believed to be politically motivated

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