Relationship With Stephen Colbert
After Stephen Colbert auctioned off a portrait of himself "enhanced" by artists Shepard Fairey and Andres Serrano for the charity DonorsChoose, he declared on his show, The Colbert Report, that his "BFF for six months," Jimmy Fallon, was going to match the auction price, $26,000. On the next night's Late Night, Fallon demurred, saying, "here's the thing: I never said that." Hearing that, Colbert came out on the Late Night stage and chided him, saying, "if you can't donate $26,000 of your best friend's money without asking him first, what's the point in being best friends?" In quasi-retaliation, Fallon announced that if his viewers would donate the $26,000 to DonorsChoose, Colbert would appear with the Roots to sing Rebecca Black's "Friday". (Fallon claimed he couldn't match the amount himself due to his money "being tied up in Soul Patrol Sweatshirts".) The viewers met the donation goal (as of April 2, 2011, 2,026 donors had pledged $63,902), with NBC Universal also matching the $26,000, and Colbert, along with Fallon, Black Thought, Taylor Hicks, and the New York Knicks City Dancers, performed the song on the April 1, 2011 show. During the performance, Seth Herzog held up a large placard with a QR code on it; the code led to a "secret" video where Jimmy thanked his viewers for their donations.
In a later segment of The Colbert Report, Colbert noticed that NBC used a picture of the "Friday" performance in Late Night's Emmy packet, and pointed out the irony of doing so since Fallon and Colbert would be up for Emmys in the same category. Colbert then did a "Thank You Note" to Jimmy for promoting his show. On a later episode of Late Night, Jimmy wanted to remain "fremmymies" (a portmanteau of "friend" and "Emmy") rather than "emmymies" and countered with his version of Colbert's "The Wørd" (which included "Who are we kidding – neither of us is gonna beat Jon Stewart"); the show then went to commercial with the logo Late Night with Jimmy Falbert.
When the six months was up, the pair became mortal enemies and went on each other's shows to feud. Anderson Cooper appeared on both skits (claiming Italian restaurant Sbarro gives out free tickets to both shows when you buy a slice of pizza) asking each host if he could be their new friend, to which both replied "No, Anderson, it's just too soon!"
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