Greg Gutfeld Recalls Wild First Encounter With Jimmy Fallon

Fox News’ Greg Gutfeld shared how he first met fellow late-night host Jimmy Fallon during his Thursday appearance on NBC’s “The Tonight Show.”

After giving Fallon a warm embrace, Gutfeld joked that it “brought back memories.”

“This is hilarious – we’ve met before,” Fallon began.

“Yes, you have no memory of it,” Gutfeld replied. “Which is understandable, because we were wasted.”

The “Gutfeld!” host said the encounter happened about 15 years ago at an “illegal speakeasy” in Hell’s Kitchen owned by mutual friend Tracy, describing the inside as “like a place where special ops forces waterboard terrorists.”

“You’re not making this up. I totally know what you’re talking about,” Fallon said as the memory returned. “I think I remember bringing beer into the bar, and then him charging me for my own beer.”

“That’s Tracy. He’s very cheap, but if you want somebody dead, he’ll do it,” Gutfeld joked.

Gutfeld said they saw each other and Fallon’s eyes lit up.

“And you run towards me, and you tackle me, like you’re a giant golden retriever,” Gutfeld recalled. “You’re like on top of me. And so we’re wrestling. We’re wrestling. And then you change, and you start wrestling my buddy Andy, and you’re wrestling him. And you guys get on the ground. You guys are now on the ground wrestling.”

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“What?!” Fallon reacted.

“Yes,” Gutfeld said. “So I pull out a cigarette. I light a cigarette, and I’m smoking it, and you stop, and you come over to me, and you grab it, and you crinkle it, and you go, ‘These things will kill you!’ and you threw it. And then I go, ‘Dude, I’m not rich. You’re rich.’ Cigarettes are expensive in New York City. I yell, and all of a sudden, your face changed, and you looked sad, and then you left.”

But Fallon came back with a fresh pack just five minutes later and handed it to his future guest.

“I go, ‘That was really sweet. You want me to die,’” Gutfeld said, drawing laughs from Fallon and the audience.

“I’m sorry I tackled you,” Fallon later said with a grin.

“It was all very good-natured, and it was a great memory,” Gutfeld told him. “And I’m so glad I finally got to tell you!”

“I’m so happy,” Fallon replied. “That’s a true story… I remember. All the details you said are correct.”

The two also discussed Gutfeld’s FOX Nation game show, “What Did I Miss?”, where contestants who’ve been isolated for months try to pick real news from fake news, as well as Gutfeld’s winding path to his top-rated hosting roles on “Gutfeld!” and “The Five.”

Fellow late night host Stephen Colbert learned last month that his show will be canceled following the completion of his contract.

Not long after learning the news he hosted someone else who had been canceled, but she was canceled by the voters.

Former Vice President Kamala Harris faced a wave of criticism after her appearance on the “Late Show,” with some viewers even speculating she may have been intoxicated during the segment.

While others stopped short of calling her drunk, many blasted Harris for giving vague, rambling answers and offering no clear message about her political future or the Democratic Party’s direction.

“I think what people want are solutions, and she has not said a single one,” NOTUS White House Correspondent Jasmine Wright said on CNN. “And consistently, people want her to be descriptive about what she says is wrong. And I don’t think that that interview, she was able to do that. And it’s a shame because she’s had six months to figure it out.”