Jimmy Fallon, host of NBC's The Tonight Show, will be making this Twitch streaming debut this afternoon and he's bringing a very special guest onto the show: Among Us community manager Victoria Tran. Known for her relentless positivity and ability to sell you on pretty much any game concept, Tran has been making waves in the industry over the past few years for representing some wonderful indie games like Boyfriend Dungeon and Pupperazzi.
The stream will be taking place at 3:45 pm PST/6:46 pm EST over on Fallon's Twitch channel. Along with Tran, Fallon will be joined by Roots members Questlove, Tariq Trotter, and Captain Kirk Douglas as they play Among Us with Stranger Things stars Noah Schnapp and Gaten Matarazzo. This will be in promotion of Among Us' latest map which launched on March 31, 2021. If you happen to miss the stream, there's no need to fret. Portions of the show will be aired on The Tonight Show throughout the next week.
If you think Jimmy Fallon playing games sounds weird, it's actually not that far-fetched. Fallon actually debuted footage of both Super Mario Run and the Nintendo Switch on his program. Along with that, he used Nintendo Labo to create a remix of Aria Grande's "No Tears Left to Cry" that he performed with The Roots and Grande.
I may not be the biggest fan of Fallon's work, but I've always appreciated that he sticks his neck out for video games despite the mainstream public viewing them as children's toys. His transition to Twitch can only mean that he's going even farther into propping them up and that can only be a good thing.