Coronavirus: Jimmy Fallon and Jimmy Kimmel post monologues from home to entertain audience amid lockdown
As the regular late-night shows have temporarily suspended production in the wake of the novel coronavirus, Jimmy Fallon and Jimmy Kimmel took to their respective channels on YouTube to offer fans some light-hearted segments amid the growing fear of pandemic.
‘The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon’ host shot a video from his New York home with the help of his wife Nancy Juvoen who served as his cameraman.
He started the video saying, “Hi guys, this is Jimmy Fallon, and this is the ‘Tonight Show Home Edition’, I guess you can call it. We really don’t know what this is, but I wanted to put something out there for you guys so that we can just have some levity in these bizarre times.”
Fallon extensively spoke about the pandemic and its impact on day-to-day life, before putting his 6-year-old’ artwork on the display.
He dedicated the rest of the segment from his personalized show to read out a few jokes he has received from the writers, while he’s in self-quarantine.
Meanwhile, Jimmy Kimmel of ‘Jimmy Kimmel Live!’ also put out a similar video on his official channel on YouTube, calling it a “Quarantine Monologue."
He began saying, “We are not on live this week, for obvious reasons, but since I have nothing to do, and the fact that you’re watching this makes me assume you have nothing to do, I’m going to shoot a mini-monologue every day until we get back from my house where I am currently incarcerated — I mean, camping out, with my family."
Just like Fallon, Kimmel is also spending a lot of time with his children. Joking about having to watch a lot of Disney movies during his time at home, Kimmel said, "My blood type right now is Disney-positive, or Disney+, whatever they call it. We’ve watched Frozen 2 more times than the animators who drew it have watched Frozen 2.”
“I’m actually hiding in my office right now, from my children. We’ve run out of snacks, we’ve run out of crafts to do. We made macaroni necklaces yesterday — today I ate them for lunch. That’s how bad it’s getting,” he quipped.
Meanwhile, he also joked about Donald Trump giving himself a 10 on 10 on his coronavirus response and briefly touched upon St. Patrick’s Day saying, "I do want to say happy St. Patrick’s Day, not just to our Irish friends and the Irish-Americans watching, but all alcoholics, everywhere. Happy return of the potato famine, too."
Both the hosts concluded their videos saying they’ll continue providing entertainment through the YouTube channels until the production for their shows resumes.