Watch: Jimmy Fallon Viciously Mocked by Twitter Users After ‘Cringe’ Song About New COVID Variant Goes Viral
It may be that Jimmy Fallon, host of “The Tonight Show,” is in a state of decline. COVID-19’s subvariant flavor of the month, XBB.1.5, is making waves as it accounts for a higher and higher percentage of cases…
It may be that Jimmy Fallon, host of “The Tonight Show,” is in a state of decline.
COVID-19’s subvariant flavor of the month, XBB.1.5, is making waves as it accounts for a higher and higher percentage of cases identified in the United States, according to The Wall Street Journal.
Fallon apparently thought the Covid-19 Omicron variant offshoot would be good fodder for a song. Quite a few denizens of the Internet disagreed.
The song, published to the show’s YouTube page Thursday, is mind-numbingly cringe-y.
Fallon engaged in a ham-handed song approximately one minute long that one has to assume is intended to be derivative of the B-52s, a band known for songs like “Love Shack” and “Rock Lobster.”
It largely involves Fallon just singing “XBB.1.5” over and over again, although he does manage to include such cutting insights as “sounds more like Elon Musk’s kid’s name” and “sounds like the password of your parents’ Wi-Fi.”