Arts & Entertainment

Jimmy Fallon Gives $100K To Hudson Valley High School

Part of the money will help the school's TV studio.

SAUGERTIES, NY — A late night television host has given back to his high school alma mater.

NBC’s Jimmy Fallon, the host of “Tonight Show,” graduated from Saugerties High School in Ulster County in 1992, and has donated $100,000 to its art program, with some of the cash benefiting the school’s television studio, the Daily Freeman said.

Fallon has mentioned the Ulster town in “SNL” sketches and “Tonight Show” monologues.

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