Jimmy Fallon’s Best Pranks: A Roundup – Billboard

Jimmy Fallon loves a very good prank. The late night time discuss present host is understood for taking part in tips on his followers and well-known buddies, 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 Chance the Rapper, delivering a efficiency of Michael McDonald’s “I Keep Forgettin’ (Every Time You’re Near).”

Clarkson, Horan and Chance all flip round to take a peek at who the mysterious singer is, however Shelton remained unfazed by the prank. Saturday Night Live alum then walks offstage and presses the nation star’s button for him. “You broke the rules!” Shelton jokingly scolds him, grinning when he sees Fallon’s face.

However, 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 take a look at under.

The Switch of the Jimmys

When April Fool’s Day got here round in 2022, Jimmy Fallon and Jimmy Kimmel knew precisely what to do. The two late-night hosts took inspiration from The Parent Trap, as Fallon went over to the Jimmy Kimmel Live studio in Los Angeles and Kimmel when to the Tonight Show studio in New York City for the day’s present.

“This is something we’ve been planning for years, it was a top secret operation,” Kimmel stated of the Jimmy-themed prank.

Watch it go down right here.
Accidental ‘Game of Thrones’ Spoiler

When Fallon had Maisie Williams as a visitor on The Tonight Show, the duo started speaking in regards to the remaining season of Game of Thrones, during which the actress performs Arya Stark.

While 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 shocked and covers her mouth along with her arms. 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 a giant April Fool’s Day prank.

Watch it right here.
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.
Dua Lipa Superfan

OK, so this one isn’t technically a “prank,” but it surely’s too cute to not embrace. Papa Richy, an 80-year-old grandfather who loves Dua Lipa went viral on TikTook after his household gave him tickets to the Future Nostalgia singer’s live performance.

So, when Lipa appeared on the Tonight Show, 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 together with his granddaughter Kadie Bernstein.

“I got to dance with Dua!” Papa Richy shouted to the viewers after all of it went down.

Watch the candy second right here.
‘Ben & Jerry’s’ Surprise

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 Shop.

Employees 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 shoppers when he started speaking to them by a gap within the wall.

Watch it right here.