Jimmy Fallon’s Harvard injury, explained by Jimmy Fallon
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Jimmy Fallon’s year of survivable hand injuries continued over the weekend while he was in Cambridge. And this week, he lives to tell the tale.
Fallon was honored with the Elmer Award by the Harvard Lampoon Saturday. During the celebration parade in Harvard Square, he injured his hand holding a bottle of Jägermeister.
He said on The Tonight Show Monday:
We had a parade in Cambridge. I was on a chariot, and it had a horse take me through Harvard Square, and I was waving at everybody and it was really fun. … And so I said maybe I can present [the Harvard band] with some type of award. … So I said, ‘Give me a bottle of Jägermeister, I’ll present that to the band, that’s an award for them. So somebody gives me a bottle of Jägermeister. They get it from inside, I’m out in the street. I get it, and apparently some girl was going to kneel down and give me a flower or something. So she knelt down, and I didn’t see her.
And then he was like:
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Fallon spent the rest of Saturday night hiding his bloody hand before actually going to the hospital.
So now we know Jimmy Fallon is indestructible. And nothing says “indestructible’’ like Sesame Street Band-Aids.
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