Social Media Rumors of Jimmy Fallon Death Exaggerated to The Tonight Show tackled the Twitter gossip on Wednesday night’s episode.
Fallon opens with a revivalist gospel choir singing “He’s Alive!”, to which the late-night host responds with a refrain: “I’m Alive!”
He returns to the subject in his monologue. “I don’t know if you guys saw this, but #RIPJimmyFallon has been trending on Twitter for the last 500 hours ,” Fallon said. “To make matters worse, when they heard I was dead, Ticketmaster kicked me out of Taylor Swift tickets,” he joked referring to recent rumors about Swift tour tickets collapse.
He continued, “However, I was so moved when it happened that NBC immediately called and said, ‘How can we bring this Become another Law & Order ?’”
Fallon then spoke about his attempts to refute fake news on social media. “#RIPJimmyFallon is the second biggest trending on Twitter. I knocked it down as hard as I could. I even tried the hashtag #RIPPEDJimmyFallon. I thought it might help,” he said, showing a picture of his of Ryan Gosling superimposed over a photo of Ryan Gosling’s body as Ken in the Barbie movie.
Tuesday , more mischievous elements are online on Twitter# RIPJimmyFallon, users often tag photos of people other than Fallon.
The Tonight Show host tries to fight fake news and tweets at Twitter’s CEO Elon Musk seeking help to unhash. “Elon, can you fix this? #RIPJimmyFallon,” Fallon tweeted. Musk, who has taken a highly personal approach to content moderation since taking over Twitter, responded to Fallon’s tweet on Wednesday morning. Text “Fix what?”
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