Jimmy Fallon's Nightmare Ring Injury Makes Me Want to Throw Up
“It’s a thing called ring avulsion. A-V-U-L-S-I-O-N. If you Google it, it’s graphic images. Don’t Google it. But ring avulsion, it’s a real thing...,” Jimmy Fallon said last night, describing the gruesome hand injury that kept him away from his show for two weeks and will now fuel your paranoid nightmares for a…
Alleged Sexiest Man Alive Shakes It in a Soaking Wet Shirt
Unlike former Sexiest Man Alive Bradley Cooper, current Sexiest Man Alive* Chris Hemsworth embraces his sexiness, manliness, and alive-ness by doing silly shit like engaging in a water war with Jimmy Fallon while wearing a thin, white dress shirt.
Santa Claus Is Coming to Town and He's Bringing One Direction With Him
In this edition of Jimmy Fallon's ongoing "Famous Song Played with Classroom Instruments" series, British handsome man cabal with angel voices and regrettable tattoos One Direction joined The Roots and the goofy TV host to threaten you with holiday spirit. Santa Claus is coming to town—and he's bringing these scruffy…
Jimmy Fallon Gave Daughter the Ugly Sweater of Names
It's Christmastime in the city, and amid bad Mariah Carey performances and concurrent mass protests spurred by police injustice, little babies are being born to celebrities. The Baby Name Critic, a Lincoln Republican at heart, will focus today on the latter.
Brian Williams and Jimmy Fallon Found Some More News to Slow Jam
Brian Williams and Jimmy Fallon have a thriving musical partnership, wherein Fallon has someone on his staff remix clips of Williams into hip-hop cover songs, and Williams good-naturedly plays along. Once a year or so, Honey Bri-Bri also makes an appearance on Fallon's "Slow Jam the News" segment, where he returned…
Miranda Sings Is Really Helping Jerry Seinfeld With His Career
Seinfeld worked as well as it did largely because Jerry played the ultimate straight man at the center of a cast of weirdos. His character isn't funny without the George Costanzas of the world constantly freaking out around him, and they get funnier the more he futilely tries to reason with them. That's why a solo…
Jimmy Fallon's Bono Impression Is Better Than Bono's
U2 have postponed their scheduled week-long residency on the Tonight Show while they deal with the unknown person or persons trying to kill Bono, so Jimmy Fallon booked himself and The Roots to stand in for The Biggest Dad Band in the World last night.
Watch Mike Tyson Fight Himself in Mike Tyson's Punch-Out
Mike Tyson, of Mike Tyson's Punch-Out, was one of the most fearsome Nintendo bosses of any '80s kid's childhood. He hit extremely hard, and it was hard to hit him back. So it's understandable that the real Mike Tyson might be a little nervous to face himself in his 8-bit prime.
Daniel Radcliffe Is Surprisingly Dope at Rapping
Actor Daniel Radcliffe's ongoing quest to get you to stop thinking of him as Harry Potter brought him to the Tonight Show Tuesday, where he revealed his secret passion for fast, acrobatic raps.
Ira Glass Defends His Misbegotten Anti-Shakespeare Tweet
Ira Glass, famous voice of This American Life, sent the summer news cycle aflutter when he tweeted that "Shakespeare sucks." "It's as if Mister Rogers has tweeted, 'Kermit's an asshole," he told Jimmy Fallon of the ensuing think pieces and tweetstorms on the Tonight Show.
Ben Affleck's Kids Give as Much of a Shit as You Do That He's Batman
Last summer, the world reeled at the news that Ben Affleck had been cast as an especially sad version of beloved DC Comics superhero Batman. But with Batman vs. Superman: Dawn of Justice pushed back to 2016, everyone eventually stopped giving a shit. Also not giving a shit: Affleck's three kids.
Andy Samberg Is Surprisingly Good at Quickly Summarizing Movies
Andy Samberg stopped by the Tonight Show last night to talk about Brooklyn Nine-Nine and make you jealous of Joanna Newsom and their presumably perfect life together. (Have you seen their house?) (It's good.) While he was there, he and Jimmy played a delightful round of "5-Second Summaries."
