Will FerrellandJimmy Fallongot up close and personal with oneTonight Showaudience member.
Ferrell’s appearance on the late-night show Thursday featured a funny moment when theSpiritedactor, 55, and host Fallon, 48, interpreted an audience member yelling “Slay!” in response to aJustin Bieberreference as the sound a sheep makes.
“Is that a thing? When you say ‘Justin Bieber,’ people go ‘Baah’?” Ferrell joked, prompting Fallon to say thatThe Tonight Showis “allowed to invite livestock to the show now.”
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Ferrell and the “Bengal tiger cub” mimicked a cat playing with a toy with a pen from Fallon’s desk as Ferrell jokingly explained that “this is how they learn to hunt.”
“Be careful, be careful,” Fallon repeated as the person on Ferrell’s lap jokingly hissed and pawed at the two comedians.
“I do, yeah, yeah, yeah,” the man said when Fallon asked if he likes talk shows, leading Ferrell to claim he taught the “tiger” to speak English.
“The scientific community is going crazy over this guy,” Ferrell said. “They’re going nuts. He’s, like, one of a kind. Because I’ve had so many Bengal tigers and none of them could speak English. This is the first one.”
Before Thursday’sTonight Showepisode aired on NBC, Fallon explained onTwitterthat the audience member featured in the segment was not a “plant” from the show.
“For those of you watching the show tonight - the audience member that Will Ferrell turns into a Bengal tiger is not a ‘plant’ it’s just Will’s genius brain moving 90 mph,” he wrote on Twitter. “Thank you to our fans from Austria.”
source: people.com
