On the eve of the release of a book blowing the lid off the TODAY show's internal politics -- including the network's decision to unceremoniously can Ann Curry and replace her with Savannah Guthrie -- NBC's Jimmy Fallon played the consummate company man, not asking his guest Guthrie a single compelling question about the troubled morning show she co-hosts.

As Breaking Celebrity News previously reported, Top Of The Morning: Inside The Cutthroat World of Morning TV, penned by New York Times reporter Brian Stelter, exposes the turbulent times at NBC since Meredith Vieira stepped down two years ago, Curry's nightmarish year as co-anchor, and how NBC brass eventually replaced her with Guthrie.

In one candid insight from the book,