Late-night continues to fire on all cylinders for NBC, with its line-up of The Tonight Show starring Jimmy Fallon, Late Night with Seth Meyers and Saturday Night Live, now in its 41st season.

But with success comes scrutiny, and that’s what NBC Entertainment Chairman Robert Greenblatt faced on Wednesday’s TCA stage at the Langham Huntington Hotel in Pasadena, Calif.

After several medical mishaps that have been reported in the press, and most severely nearly cutting off his finger, Greenblatt told reporters gathered after his session that Tonight Show host Fallon “doesn’t have a drinking problem that any of us know about,” according to Variety. “He goes out and has fun and he’s had some accidents … We are always worried about his safety and health and yeah, there’s been conversations about that … the stories are exaggerated about all of it.”

NBC also announced that it has renewed Late Night host Seth Meyers through 2021. As part of his new deal, Meyers will host a primetime special next New Year’s Eve 2016 meant to go head to head with ABC’s longtime leader, Dick Clark’s Rockin’ New Year’s Eve with Ryan Seacrest, and Fox’s fest starring Pitbull.

Said Meyers via press release,“I can’t thank NBC enough for continuing to support our show and this more than makes up for my disappointment in not getting cast in The Wiz.”

After that announcement, a reporter asked Greenblatt if the deal was a sort of “insurance” policy, nothing that Tonight Show host Jimmy Fallon is “accident prone,” reports Deadline.

Greenblatt responded that “Jimmy’s gonna be fine for many years to come. I often say Jimmy is going to be there longer than me and many of you in your jobs.”

In February, the Tonight Show will broadcast five episodes from Stage One at Universal Studios, with guests including Will Ferrell, Jennifer Lopez, Christina Aguilera and Zach Galifianakis.

Addressing another issue that popped up around NBC’s late-night, reporters peppered Greenblatt with questions on the network’s decision to invite Republican Presidential candidate Donald Trump to host Saturday Night Live last fall, after having declared it would no longer associate with him after he made “derogatory comments” about undocumented immigrants last summer.

“He’s the frontrunner. The poll numbers are astounding. He’s everywhere,” Greenblatt said. “Every news show, every nightly show. He’s been on Fallon, he’s been on SNL. That reconciles quite easily with we’re not in business with him, but love him or not, he’s one of the most prominent political figures of our time.”

Greenblatt and NBC reality chief Paul Telegdy also noted that Trump’s appeared for much more time on other news programs, including NBC’s own Meet the Press and Fox News, and that “if we were in the business of never having anyone guest on the network that had views that disagreed with our views we would be out of business,” said Greenblatt.

In other news, Hairspray will be the next entry in what’s become NBC’s holiday tradition of airing live Broadway musicals. The last such broadcast, The Wiz, attracted an average 11.5 million viewers and became the most-tweeted about live special program in the short history of Twitter.

Greenblatt also said he didn’t expect to order more limited series based on Heroes, which returned this summer without much fanfare or tune-in.

While Heroes goes away, Friends is returning, at least for one reunion special, Greenblatt said. All six members of the cast of that storied sitcom — Jennifer Aniston, Courteney Cox, Lisa Kudrow, Matthew Perry, Matt LeBlanc and David Schwimmer — are reuniting for a two-hour special dedicated to the career of veteran comedy director James Burrows, which will air Sunday, Feb. 21 at 9 p.m. on NBC, reports Variety. It’s not quite the same as a Friends reunion, but it should make die-hard fans happy.

[Image courtesy of NBC. Photo by: Chris Haston]

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