Gutfeld appears on Jimmy Fallon’s show after Trump said he’s next to go, shares wild encounter
Greg Gutfeld, arguably the king of late-night talk shows, given his ratings, appeared on “The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon” for the first time on Thursday, and he opted to play nice with his left-leaning old pal.
The inaugural appearance came on the heels of President Donald J. Trump responding to the news that CBS was canceling “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert” to say Fallon and Jimmy Kimmel are next to be canceled.
“Well, it hasn’t worked,” Trump said. “And it hasn’t worked, really, for a long time, and I would say pretty much from the beginning. Colbert has no talent…. Fallon has no talent. Kimmel has no talent. They’re next. They’re going to be going — I hear they’re going to be going.”
Gutfeld embraced Fallon as he walked out, lifting his feet off the ground. He then recounted a wild encounter that had happened in Manhattan 15 years earlier, suggesting they were both pretty drunk at the time.
“I walk in and I’m looking around and I’m like, ‘What the hell have I got into,’” Gutfeld explained. “And then I see you, you look at me and you have — your eyes just kind of explode, and you run towards me and you tackle me like you’re a giant Golden Retriever. You’re like on top of me and so we’re wrestling. We’re wrestling, and then you change and you start wrestling my buddy Andy and you’re wrestling him, and you guys get on the ground.”
“You guys are now on the ground wrestling, so I pull out a cigarette, I light a cigarette and I’m smoking it, and you stop and you come over to me and you grab it and you crinkle it and you go, ‘These things will kill you,’ and you threw it,” he added.
Gutfeld was complimentary of Fallon last week when talking about his upcoming appearance.
“Fallon seems like a great, genuine guy who wants to make people laugh instead of putting them to bed angrier than ‘The View’ at a salad bar. And unlike the other guys, Jimmy sitting with me proves he’s not afraid of upsetting his peers or afraid of my mesmerizing charm,” he said on his show.
The Fox News host then recalled that Fallon interviewed Trump during his 2016 presidential campaign — Fallon would say afterwards that he was “devastated” by the backlash the interview received.
“Remember, he was destroyed for humanizing Trump by messing up his hair,” Gutfeld said. “The angry mob wanted a brutal takedown, but Jimmy did something different. He had fun, which is criminal to the liberal hive mind. And so Fallon was eviscerated, an example of the media teaching everyone a lesson that ‘if you dare humanize Hitler, we’ll dehumanize you.’ But it’s a different time now. Things are changing. Maybe we can have fun with each other, even if politically we’re different.”
Gutfeld also discussed his latest project — a game show called “What Did I Miss?” — with Fallon, which is the only time Trump was mentioned.
“You never know what he’s going to do,” Gutfeld joked about the president’s unpredictability.
“You wouldn’t even have to sequester people,” Fallon quipped.
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