Martin Short’s Jiminy Glick Grilled Jimmy Fallon About Always "Giggling" on SNL
The two comedians found themselves wrestling by the end of this hilarious 2014 interview on The Tonight Show.
If there’s one person who can make Jimmy Fallon hilariously lose his cool, it’s Martin Short’s chaotically condescending (and doughnut-obsessed) character, Jiminy Glick.
After the comedian and former SNL cast member first created the character for The Martin Short Show in 1999, audiences got to know Jiminy Glick in his own 2001 comedy series, Primetime Glick. Since then, the outrageous interviewer has been just about everywhere — including on Broadway, TODAY, and The Tonight Show. In 2017, for instance, both Martin and Fallon transformed when Glick interviewed Fallon as President Donald Trump on his first 100 days in office.
When the famously friendly Tonight Show Host sat down with Short’s legendary Glick in December 2014, their interview was full of laughs and... ended with the two comedians wrestling each other. But what led to the scuffle? Read on to relive the hysterical interview below.
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Martin Short’s Jiminy Glick interrogates Jimmy Fallon about “giggling” on SNL, Justin Timberlake friendship, and more
“I’m sitting with TV’s late night little rapscallion, the giggle boy himself,” Short said in his signature Jiminy Glick voice and costume as the camera panned to Fallon, already giggling in his chair.
“This is so exciting for me to be talking to you — because usually I talk to celebrities, so this is a nice change of pace! It really is,” Glick said savagely. “But I wanna know about your journey, I wanna know about how Jimmy [looks down to check his notes] Fallon got to where he is! But not too much detail, because I don’t actually care.”
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Fallon began to explain that he was born in Brooklyn before Glick cut him off. “Isn’t that wonderful! Poor Brooklyn, or Newsies Brooklyn?” he asks.
“It was more poor Brooklyn,” Fallon answered with a laugh.
“Poor Brooklyn! And I can assume from the grammar: limited education?” Glick quipped, making Fallon further crack up.
Glick went on to muddy up some details about the SNL alum’s accomplished career. “You get this job at The Tonight Show, and then say to American Idol, ‘I’m not gonna do it anymore.’ Could you not have done both?” Glick asked.
“That wasn’t me, that was Ryan Seacrest," Fallon pointed out.
“And you’re…?” a confused Glick asked, pivoting to one of his classic scandal-baiting setups. “You said just before we started you felt it was too soon for a woman to be president. What did you mean by that?”
As Fallon quickly corrected the hilariously audacious host, Glick switched things up with a compliment. “I loved you on SNL, you were so wonderful,” he tells Fallon. “I loved your character, Giggling Boy in the Background Guy. How do you create a character like that?”
“Well, it wasn’t supposed to be Giggling Boy in the Background Guy,” Fallon explained.
“How come he always was?” Glick prodded with a pointed finger, making Fallon giggle once again.
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The interview gained a bit of (staged) tension when Glick asked Fallon about his good friend, Justin Timberlake. “Is he your lover? Admit it! On national television, with an audience that’s limited!” Glick shouted.
“Okay, I’ve had enough. You’re just trying to get a reaction out of me!” an exasperated Fallon responded, and suddently, the two started to wrestle while emitting bleeped curse words.
But the tussle match ended when Glick realized he finally got Fallon to say the F-word. “It’s wonderful!” he smiles before signing off. “This has been Jiminy Glick and I’ve been talking to the wonderful … Jimmy Fallon.”
Martin Short is always hysterical on The Tonight Show
Out of makeup, Short is no stranger to partaking in some old-fashioned roasting of Fallon in his own signature style. Like he did during a 2024 appearance on The Tonight Show:
Short did the same during another 2024 appearance alongside is Only Murders in the Building costars Steve Martin and Selena Gomez (watch the full interview here).
"We're here because we love you," Short told Fallon at the top of their chat, before adding, "...and we're also here because Colbert has gotten a little pickier."
