Jimmy Fallon suppresses giggles long enough to say he never purposely broke on SNL
SNL’s most infamous cackler sets the record straight on his incessant chuckling
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Saturday Night Live has been home many great catchphrases. Memorable punchlines like “I’m Chevy Chase, and you’re not,” “more cowbell,” and “you like-a the juice” made the show a cultural institution and an indelible part of the American lexicon. But perhaps SNL’s most endearing catchphrase comes from famed funnyman Jimmy Fallon. Now the host of The Tonight Show, audiences can still enjoy his most famous expression: “Hahahaha.” Funnily enough, Fallon’s signature phrase was almost always improvised. In a recent chat with Interview, he claims he “never did it on purpose.”
“I never did it on purpose, and I always felt bad if I did, but I tried my hardest not to,” Fallon said before blaming his co-workers for his outbursts. “People started knowing that I was an easy laugh, so Will Ferrell or Molly Shannon would go out of their way to make me laugh. We were playing, and I was just having a good time. There’s probably a bunch of sketches where I laughed that no one talks about, but there’s a few that got famous.”
And what kind of advice does Fallon have for the clowns of tomorrow: Stop laughing on stage. “I think you should not break,“ he said, offering no further explanation as to why they shouldn’t. Future funny people will look to him as an example and see his artistic stamp on the rest of his work. On The Tonight Show, he regularly puts his non-forced laughter to the test by yucking it up with Paris Hilton over their latest NFT purchases. This must be a “do as I say, not as I do” situation.
He offered some advice to aspiring comedians, though. If Mick Jagger wants to appear on SNL, try pitching something that’s been done “a million times” and goes against your boss’ wishes. Ahead of Jagger’s guest turn, Fallon said he suggested a bit “where I play Mick in a mirror.” It didn’t go over with his comedy overlord Lorne Michaels, who informed him, “That sketch has been done a million times. Groucho Marx did it, Lucille Ball did it. It’s just been done.”
Nevertheless, after pitching Jagger a “million ideas,” Fallon tossed out a clever one. “What about, you’re in the mirror, and I’m on the other side as you.” The rest is history. Jagger said, “Hey, that’s a funny idea,” and the sketch “destroyed.” See that? No laughing necessary. Well, unless you’re Mick. Mick can crack a couple of smirks.
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I dislike him
I have an almost pathological hatred of Jimmy Fallon.
Not an odd personal projection at all.
It isn’t. A few minutes of Fallon is enough to justify it.
He looks like the store brand Mike Myers.
Forget more cowbell, this is more bullshit.
mo’ betta’!
Moo bovine?
If you can make just one person laugh, that’s one more than Jimmy Fallon.
You sir have now exceeded Jimmy Failon.
Take your LOL and be happy.
Wasn’t there a performer who went to him and all but said he would beat Fallon’s ass if he giggled during their set and lo and behold he did not?
Wow, you guys are so edgy. Douchebags.
Tracy Morgan.
No problem. Tracy Morgan has never made me giggle.
Oh yes, thanks for that. Helped me find this.https://www.vulture.com/2007/09/tracy_morgan_hates_jimmy_fallon.html
never made me break the entire time he was on SNL either
Have you learned nothing? You’re supposed to shoehorn in a reference to him touching Trump’s hair and therefore getting him elected.
Jimmy Fallon is like when they bring an audience member on stage on Whose Line and basically their job is to laugh at all the funny people doing funny things around them. For six straight seasons.
I remember the laughing only becoming a big problem in his last season.
So he admits he just never was that good to begin with?
I do love how genuinely happy Mick is in that sketch.Also “whateva you call this de’CADE”
“SNL’s most infamous cackler sets the record straight on his incessant chuckling”
What record? Has there ever been a single person who thought he was doing it as an act, and not because he fucking SUCKS?
Old Stoneface Fallon. There was a rule in show business that if you got a laugh from ol’ Jimmy Fallon, by god you earned it.
Oh, fuck him.