{"id":655417,"date":"2026-10-15T10:58:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-15T10:58:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/655417\/"},"modified":"2026-10-15T10:58:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-15T10:58:09","slug":"joanne-mcnally-is-heading-to-jimmy-fallon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/655417\/","title":{"rendered":"Joanne McNally is heading to Jimmy Fallon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>COMEDIAN JOANNE MCNALLY has hit back at criticism of her upcoming appearance on The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon, after some social media users questioned her decision to appear on the programme following its previous interview with Conor McGregor.<\/p>\n<p>McNally is set to perform stand-up on the popular US talk show on Monday, 19 October.<\/p>\n<p>Announcing the news on Instagram, McNally wrote: \u201cAMERICA!?\u201d before promising not to use her appearance to\u00a0\u201dcall gym men whores and slags cos they have the steroid induced neck to expose their slag ankles and socially defunct gym nipples\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The remark was a reference to US comedian Shane Gillis\u2019s Saturday Night Live monologue last week, in which he <a href=\"https:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/2026\/10\/14\/entertainment\/snl-shane-gillis-monologue\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">referred to women who go to the gym<\/a> as \u201cwhores\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Some social media users criticised McNally\u2019s decision to appear on the Tonight Show, pointing to Fallon\u2019s previous interview with McGregor in June.<\/p>\n<p>Fallon\u2019s interview with McGregor, who was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thejournal.ie\/conor-mcgregor-high-court-civil-case-6550030-Nov2024\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">found liable for assaulting Nikita Hand in a civil trial<\/a> in November 2024, was widely criticised for being \u201csoft\u201d on the former UFC fighter.<\/p>\n<p>Responding to the criticism, McNally shared a screenshot of comments questioning her decision to accept the booking.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cImagine expecting me to turn down an opportunity to do Jimmy Fallon [because] of Conor mc fucking Gregor, surely the man has ruined enough women\u2019s lives,\u201d McNally wrote.<\/p>\n<p>In the caption accompanying the post, she added: \u201cImagine every single woman was expected to deplatform\/silence\/shrink herself from all and any public platform or professional opportunity cos it had previously had a bad man on it \u2026 he\u2019s ruined enough women\u2019s lives\u2026 I\u2019ll be taking the opportunity.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>McNally received lots of support for her response, including a number of encouraging comments from fellow Irish celebrities.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf women had to boycott all the shows which have platformed misogynists, we\u2019d never be on ANYTHING,\u201d author Marian Keyes commented.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cStep into that spotlight, Joanne, you\u2019ve EARNED it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Presenter Roz Purcell also defended McNally\u2019s appearance on the US talk show.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe crazy expectation that a woman should sacrifice her own hard-earned career opportunities because of the actions of a man is absolute madness. What backward thinking,\u201d she wrote.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTime to show them the absolute best of us. G\u2019wan Joanne.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Television presenter Laura Whitmore also backed McNally, commenting: \u201cFinally the booking we all want to see represent us.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>McNally, who co-hosts the popular My Therapist Ghosted Me podcast with Vogue Williams and is currently starring in the BBC series The Celebrity Traitors, will appear on Monday\u2019s programme alongside actor Chris Pratt and television presenter Andy Cohen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"COMEDIAN JOANNE MCNALLY has hit back at criticism of her upcoming appearance on The Tonight Show with Jimmy&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":655418,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[47884,1714,93,61,1635,60,3721,45750,66804,906],"class_list":["post-655417","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-comedian","tag-conor-mcgregor","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-interview","tag-ireland","tag-jimmy-fallon","tag-joanne-mcnally","tag-talk-show","tag-the-tonight-show"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/655417","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=655417"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/655417\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/655418"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=655417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=655417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=655417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}