NBC Clearing Roots Songs For Fallon

NBC is now checking the songs the Roots play on “Late Night with Jimmy Fallon” after the band performed an off-color song during Michele Bachmann’s show appearance last month. Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson of The Roots says now he’s “gotta clear a lot of the song choices” with the network. “It’s still a comedy show, so they promise not to step on my toes or that type of thing, but they definitely want to know the title of the song, the subject matter of the song, can it be seen as an insult?” he said yesterday. When the Republican presidential candidate appeared on the November 22nd show, the band played a snippet of a 1985 Fishbone song called “Lyin’ A** B**ch.” A day later the Minnesota congresswoman received a personal letter from NBC’s vice president for late night programming, Doug Vaughan; Fallon also apologized.