{"id":54119,"date":"2025-08-09T00:04:11","date_gmt":"2025-08-09T00:04:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/54119\/"},"modified":"2025-08-09T00:04:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-09T00:04:11","slug":"greg-gutfeld-reminds-fallon-about-their-wasted-night-in-nyc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/54119\/","title":{"rendered":"Greg Gutfeld reminds Fallon about their &#8216;wasted&#8217; night in NYC"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Jimmy Fallon once grabbed a cigarette out of Greg Gutfeld\u2019s mouth, crinkled it up and tossed it to the ground, hollering at the Fox News personality, \u201cThose things will kill you!\u201d But it sounds like the place where they were hanging out had a shot at killing them too. <\/p>\n<p>The two late-night hosts were both \u201cwasted\u201d about 15 years ago when he and Fallon met for the first time at an illegal Hell\u2019s Kitchen bar run by a mutual friend \u2014 one who looked like \u201ca cross between a Viking and a larger Viking,\u201d <a class=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/entertainment-arts\/business\/story\/2021-02-10\/the-five-co-host-greg-gutfeld-gets-a-late-night-show-on-fox-news\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the \u201cGutfeld!\u201d host<\/a> said Thursday night on NBC\u2019s \u201cThe Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The bar looked \u201clike a place where special-ops forces waterboard terrorists,\u201d he added. \u201cThere was no bar &#8230; it was a cooler, like the kind you take to a beach.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDude, you\u2019re not making this up,\u201d Fallon said. \u201cI totally know what you\u2019re talking about. &#8230; I think I remember bringing beer into the bar and then him charging me for my own beer.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>           <img id=\"yt-img-E6bn0a6Dcns\" class=\"absolute\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/1754697851_375_hqdefault.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\"\/>                 <\/p>\n<p>The <a class=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/entertainment-arts\/business\/story\/2021-04-05\/greg-gutfeld-will-try-to-bring-late-night-laughs-to-fox-news\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">men\u2019s magazine editor-turned-satirist<\/a> recalled that their mutual friend operated that way. \u201cHe is very cheap, but if you want someone dead, he\u2019ll do it.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>So he walks into the illegal bar with <a class=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mediaite.com\/media\/tv\/red-eyes-andy-levy-has-the-most-accurate-take-on-obamas-coolness\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">his buddy Andy<\/a> Levy after the two had just finished taping something \u2014 perhaps \u201c<a class=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/archives\/blogs\/show-tracker\/story\/2011-06-14\/red-eye-w-greg-gutfeld-hits-1-000-episodes-and-way-more-twitter-fans\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Red Eye w\/Greg Gutfeld<\/a>\u201d \u2014 and Fallon sees him and then tackles him, he said, \u201clike a giant golden retriever.\u201d Then the NBC host grabs Andy and the two fall to the ground wrestling. So Gutfeld decides it\u2019s a good time to spark up a cigarette. <\/p>\n<p>But Fallon leaps up, rips it out of his mouth and shouts the aforementioned you\u2019re-gonna-die warning. \u201cI go &#8230; \u2018Dude, I\u2019m not rich. You\u2019re rich,\u2019\u201d Gutfeld said. \u201c<a class=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/entertainment-arts\/business\/story\/2024-11-19\/hbo-mark-ruffalo-fire-ellenville-ny-families-left-behind\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Cigarettes are expensive<\/a> in New York City.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>He said Fallon\u2019s face suddenly changed to one of sadness. \u201cAnd then you left.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Five minutes later, the \u201cSaturday Night Live\u201d alumnus came back toting a fresh pack of Parliaments, which he handed to the co-host of \u201cThe Five.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd I go, \u2018That was really sweet. You want me to die.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Gutfeld, who was on \u201cThe Tonight Show\u201d to promote <a class=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/show\/SCjF9ggpoyuyT6m2QqQsLlPw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">a new game show he\u2019s hosting<\/a>, then remembered the group piling into Fallon\u2019s car and tooling around to another bar that was, well, in the same building. \u201cWe literally drove from one door to another door &#8230; I think you wanted to impress that you had a driver.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>These are the things, apparently, that happen to the rich. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cYeah!\u201d Fallon said. \u201cWe had a nice ride, right?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A nice ride indeed. Short, but nice. Meanwhile, over on \u201cGutfeld,\u201d fill-in host Kat Timpf was talking about her erstwhile boss taking two full days off work to get a colonoscopy. Oh, how times have changed. <\/p>\n<p>And the tables have indeed turned quite a bit in the last 15 years: \u201cGutfeld!,\u201d which airs on Fox News at 7 p.m. local time and 10 p.m. Eastern and riffs on politics and the news of the day, is leading the nighttime chat show pack with \u2014 according to <a class=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/latenighter.com\/news\/ratings\/late-night-tv-ratings-q2-2025\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">LateNighter<\/a> \u2014 3.289 million viewers in the second quarter and 238,000 in the advertiser-coveted demographic of those ages 18 to 49.<\/p>\n<p>Fallon\u2019s \u201cTonight Show\u201d drew only 1.19 million viewers in the second quarter with 157,000 in the demo. That trails Stephen Colbert\u2019s <a class=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/entertainment-arts\/business\/newsletter\/2025-07-22\/what-stephen-colberts-cancellation-says-about-the-future-of-tv\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">\u201cLate Show,\u201d which has a year to go<\/a> before cancellation and leads the 11:35 p.m. broadcast pack with 2.42 million viewers and 219,000 in the demo in the second quarter, followed by \u201cJimmy Kimmel Live!\u201d with 1.77 million viewers and 220,000 in the demo. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jimmy Fallon once grabbed a cigarette out of Greg Gutfeld\u2019s mouth, crinkled it up and tossed it to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":54120,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[64,63,45005,33540,45010,134,45003,34255,45012,45009,45004,45011,6333,35062,45008,45007,427,45006,1547],"class_list":["post-54119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-bar","tag-cigarette","tag-demo","tag-entertainment","tag-fallon","tag-first-time","tag-fox-news-personality","tag-full-day","tag-greg-gutfeld","tag-mutual-friend","tag-nbc","tag-night","tag-second-quarter","tag-tonight-show","tag-tv","tag-viewer","tag-year"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54119","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54119"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54119\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/54120"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}