The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon!

An inside glimpse into 30 Rock's Studio 6B as I judge Jimmy and Tariq head-to-head in an omelet cookoff ...

Wherein I don The Dome of Silence during the omelet making.

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Last April, I got the following message from the assistant of my CAA agent:

Hi Michael,

Hope all is well! Kindly passing along the below interest for you to appear on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon.

If you're interested, please let us know what your availability looks like in the coming weeks/months and if you have any upcoming press planned.

Thank you so much!

Best,

Well, um, yes.

What follows is what it’s like to be on The Tonight Show. Here’s a link to the segment and I’ll also post it at the bottom of this email.

I learned Jimmy Fallon had my book From Scratch, loved the omelet chapter and my insistence that serving it with champagne was a kind of culinary perfection. He wanted me to come on to the show and teach him how to make a French omelet. A date was set: 6/25.