Here’s Jimmy!
Jimmy Fallon returned to his stand-up roots at the Comedy Cellar this week.
The “Tonight Show” host — who has weathered recent reports of a “toxic workplace” at his NBC show — was spotted hanging with fellow funnymen Chris Rock and Mike Birbiglia at the iconic basement club on Thursday.
A spy says that Rock urged Fallon to get “back on the bike,” and take the stage.
“The crowd was in stitches!” said a source of Fallon’s act.
The talk show host first started stand-up when he was 17-years-old doing a bit that included a John Travolta impression.
More recently, the former “SNL” star was at the center of a Rolling Stone expose that he’d created a “toxic work environment” by being “erratic” and tipsy on the job.
He allegedly apologized to staffers after the report, telling them, “It’s embarrassing and I feel so bad… Sorry if I embarrassed you and your family and friends … I feel so bad I can’t even tell you.”
While he has laid low for a while from the public eye, it seems he is back on the scene.
Fallon was also up to his partying ways at a bash last weekend, we hear, following the Rolling Stones release of their new album “Hackney Diamonds.”
We hear the comic, who has done impressions of iconic Stones singer Mick Jagger on “SNL,” busted out his moves, and Brit accent, for Jagger himself at a Stones party at the Baccarat hotel.
“Jimmy stood in front of Mick as he was sitting down and did his impression,” says a spy. “It was hilarious.”
Earlier in the night the Stones performed at downtown venue Racket NYC, and there was also a surprise appearance by Lady Gaga. The starry crowd included Daniel Craig, Chris Rock, Mary-Kate Olsen, Christie Brinkley, Elvis Costello, Trevor Noah and rocker Tommy London.
Fallon told viewers the next day that he was so close at the show, “I was getting a lap dance from Mick Jagger,” before surprise guest Keith Richards appeared.
In September, Rolling Stone published a detailed report citing two current “Tonight Show” staffers and 14 former employees who claimed Fallon created a “glum atmosphere” at NBC’s “Tonight Show.”
Two employees told the publication that Fallon seemed drunk at work in 2017. Another pair of workers claimed to have smelled alcohol on the host’s breath in an elevator on separate occasions in 2019 and 2020.
Following the article, Fallon apologized to his staff in a Zoom call. But multiple staffers who currently work at “The Tonight Show” have come forward to defend him.
NBC previously told The Post in a statement, “We are incredibly proud of ‘The Tonight Show,’ and providing a respectful working environment is a top priority.”
