Greg Gutfeld was an interesting booking on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon given some of his past comments on his own talk show on Fox.
But Gutfeld largely avoided talking politics, or his views on late-night, during his debut on the NBC show.
Coming out immediately after a segment where the Jonas Brothers were dressed as wizards, Gutfeld fell into Fallon’s arms and then quickly began telling an anecdote about when he and Fallon first met 15 years ago in an “illegal speakeasy” in Hell’s Kitchen. “We were wasted,” he begins. “Inside, it looked like a place where special ops forces water board terrorists.”
He said Fallon and his buddy were wrestling before Fallon ripped a cigarette out of his hand, before feeling bad and buying him a new pack. The group then departed for another bar. “It definitely happened,” said Fallon, who was seemingly only just about remembering this interaction.
Gutfeld then explained how he got to his show, via a few failed magazine jobs and then late-night series Red Eye.
“Everybody was drunk, even the cameraman. It airs at 2am, but they felt that it was too edgy for 2am, so they moved it to 3am,” Gutfeld said.
When asked by Fallon who was watching TV at 3am, Gutfeld replied “speed dealers” and “breastfeeders”.
Gutfeld then plugged his Fox Nation game show What Did I Miss?, which sees a group of people put into a house with no communications for weeks. “You ever wonder about the people that get sequestered for The Bachelor or Love Island? They miss all this news and they come out they have no idea like who was elected president, or that their husband left them for a maid,” he said. “Then when they come out, we quiz them on the news, fake or false. With Trump, you can’t tell. It’s like, for example, imagine somebody says to you, true or false, the president demands an annexation of Canada?”
