Every Wednesday on the show, Jimmy reads off viewer comments from a topic for discussion he started the night before on Twitter. Topics have included “My parents are weird”, “Why don’t they make that?”, “Beach fail”, and “Aww hell no!”
Every Friday on the show, Jimmy writes thank you notes. He claims that Friday is the day he catches up on “personal stuff” like checking his inbox, returning e-mails, and writing his weekly thank you notes. He explains that he is running behind and asks the audience if they wouldn’t mind if he took time out of the show to write them, and asks James Poyser to play some accompanying music (a mellow piano riff). The notes are sarcastic in tone and involve current events, people in the news, or things that annoy Jimmy (e.g. “Thank you, pony tails, for turning the backs of girls’ heads into horses’ butts.”).
It was announced on January 31, 2011 that Fallon had signed a book deal to publish entries from the series as two books, the first of which, Thank You Notes, was released May 23, 2011.
