Editing Jimmy Fallon (section)

====Early seasons (1998–2000)====
[[File:FeverPitch2004 (cropped).jpg|thumb|Fallon in 2004]]
Fallon debuted on ''Saturday Night Live'' as a featured player at the beginning of the show's [[Saturday Night Live (season 24)|twenty-fourth season]] in September 1998.<ref>No byline (August 29, 2002), "Jimmy Fallon is here on MTV, there on 'SNL' and ...." ''USA Today''.</ref> He became a star by his fourth episode, when he performed [[Halloween]]-themed versions of songs by popular artists, as well as his Sandler impression.<ref name=rs/> Fallon became a celebrity, considered charming by his largely female fan-base, receiving numerous letters from fans, and becoming the subject of numerous fan-sites.<ref name="NYMagazine"/> He became the program's most featured mimic, doing popular impressions of [[Robert De Niro]], Jerry Seinfeld, and [[Howard Stern]]. He also starred as many original characters, including [[Nick Burns (character)|Nick Burns]], an [[IT support]] nerd, Pat "Sully" Sullivan, one of the [[The Boston Teens|Boston Teens]] with [[Rachel Dratch]], and in [[Recurring Saturday Night Live characters and sketches introduced 2000–2001#Jarret's Room|Jarret's Room]], a fictional [[webcast]] hosted by [[Stoner (drug user)|stoner]] college students Jarret (Fallon) and Gobi ([[Horatio Sanz]]). He was promoted to repertory player in his second season.<ref name="NYMagazine"/>

In his off-time, Fallon released a book comprising e-mail exchanges with his sister Gloria, titled ''I Hate This Place: A Pessimist's Guide to Life'' (1999), and played a minor role in the film ''[[Almost Famous]]'' (2000).<ref name="NYMagazine"/> During their time at ''SNL'', Fallon and Horatio Sanz often drank together. Sanz has described himself and Fallon as "super-functioning alcoholics", and said, "They say that kind of goes hand-in-hand with ''SNL'', some kind of substance-abuse issues, because it's so stressful you easily find yourself blowing off steam a lot."<ref name="vul2014"/> On one occasion, they spent a Friday night watching [[The Strokes]] perform a midnight show, staying up drinking until the early morning, despite having to do ''SNL'' that night.<ref name="39vul">{{cite news|url=https://www.vulture.com/2014/02/jimmy-fallon-tonight-show-host-hang-out-things-you-learn.html|title=39 Things You Learn About Jimmy Fallon by Hanging Out With Him|author= Jada Yuan|date=February 18, 2014|website=[[Vulture (blog)|Vulture]]|publisher=[[New York (magazine)|New York]]|access-date=May 5, 2015}}</ref> "We actually took what we thought being on ''SNL'' was, what people think is awesome about it, and we made it happen," said Sanz,<ref name="39vul"/> who said that he and Fallon got in more than a few bar fights.<ref name="vul2014"/>