Jimmy Fallon loves a great prank. The late night time speak present host is understood for enjoying tips on his followers and well-known mates, and most just lately made his means into The Voice auditions.
On March 7, Fallon pretended to blind audition for the NBC singing competitors’s coaches Blake Shelton, Kelly Clarkson, Niall Horan and Probability the Rapper, delivering a efficiency of Michael McDonald’s “I Hold Forgettin’ (Each Time You’re Close to).”
Clarkson, Horan and Probability all flip round to take a peek at who the mysterious singer is, however Shelton remained unfazed by the prank. Saturday Night time Stay alum then walks offstage and presses the nation star’s button for him. “You broke the foundations!” Shelton jokingly scolds him, grinning when he sees Fallon’s face.
Nonetheless, The Voice mischief is simply the tip of the iceberg in relation to Fallon’s pranks. We’ve rounded up 5 of our favorites, which you’ll be able to take a look at beneath.
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The Change of the Jimmys
When April Idiot’s Day got here round in 2022, Jimmy Fallon and Jimmy Kimmel knew precisely what to do. The 2 late-night hosts took inspiration from The Guardian Entice, as Fallon went over to the Jimmy Kimmel Stay studio in Los Angeles and Kimmel when to the Tonight Present studio in New York Metropolis for the day’s present.
“That is one thing we’ve been planning for years, it was a high secret operation,” Kimmel mentioned of the Jimmy-themed prank.
Watch it go down right here.
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Unintended ‘Sport of Thrones’ Spoiler
When Fallon had Maisie Williams as a visitor on The Tonight Present, the duo started speaking in regards to the ultimate season of Sport of Thrones, through which the actress performs Arya Stark.
Whereas chatting, Williams appears to unintentionally reveal that her character dies within the second episode of the ultimate season — which, we now know, isn’t true. She then appears to be like shocked and covers her mouth along with her palms. Fallon assures the visibly upset actress, telling her that they’ll re-film the phase. She then storms offstage, earlier than the duo reveal that the entire scene was an enormous April Idiot’s Day prank.
Watch it right here.
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Paul McCartney Elevator Prank
Fallon and Beatles legend Paul McCartney stunned individuals who thought they had been taking a run-of-the-mill tour of 30 Rockefeller Plaza by establishing scenes to look in when the elevator doorways opened on their ground.
The unsuspecting vacationers caught hilarious glimpses of the celebs lounging round in smoking jackets, performing magic or battling in ping pong.
Watch it on the three-minute mark right here.
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Dua Lipa Superfan
OK, so this one isn’t technically a “prank,” nevertheless it’s too cute to not embody. Papa Richy, an 80-year-old grandfather who loves Dua Lipa went viral on TikTok after his household gave him tickets to the Future Nostalgia singer’s live performance.
So, when Lipa appeared on the Tonight Present, Fallon put collectively a shock for Richy — assembly the pop star in particular person. The tricked the grandpa by making him imagine he was occurring a radio present when he was really strolling out onto the talk-show host’s stage along with his granddaughter Kadie Bernstein.
“I acquired to bop with Dua!” Papa Richy shouted to the viewers after all of it went down.
Watch the candy second right here.
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‘Ben & Jerry’s’ Shock
To have fun the discharge of his “Tonight Dough” ice cream taste, Fallon performed a enjoyable prank on followers who had been testing the deal with down in 30 Rock’s Ben & Jerry’s Scoop Store.
Workers on the store inspired followers to attempt to ice cream from a robotic arm connected to the wall. Little did they know, Fallon was contained in the robotic working the arm, and he later stunned the purchasers when he started speaking to them via a gap within the wall.
Watch it right here.
