--- title: Aziz Ansari: Comedian Reads Love Texts With Jimmy Fallon description: On Wednesday's The Tonight Show, Aziz Ansari and Jimmy Fallon gave awkward romantic texts the dramatic reading they deserve. canonical: https://time.com/4438639/aziz-ansari-jimmy-fallon-read-texts/ author: Ashley Hoffman article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-08-04T14:55:49.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:35:05.120Z og:title: Aziz Ansari and Jimmy Fallon Read Awkward Romantic Texts og:description: This is where Aziz really shines og:url: https://time.com/4438639/aziz-ansari-jimmy-fallon-read-texts/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Aziz Ansari and Jimmy Fallon Read Awkward Romantic Texts twitter:description: This is where Aziz really shines twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Aziz Ansari and Jimmy Fallon Gave Awkward Romantic Texts the Dramatic Reading They Deserve by [Ashley Hoffman](https://time.com/author/ashley-hoffman/) ## Ashley Hoffman Aug 4, 2016 2:55 PM UTC by [Ashley Hoffman](https://time.com/author/ashley-hoffman/) ## Ashley Hoffman Aug 4, 2016 2:55 PM UTC On Wednesday’s _The Tonight Show_, [Aziz Ansari](http://time.com/aziz-ansari-modern-romance/) and Jimmy Fallon gave awkward romantic texts the dramatic reading they deserve. Reading from thirsty texts the show says are completely real, Ansari resumes his role as a renowned online [dating expert](http://time.com/aziz-ansari-modern-romance/). In one of the exchanges, Ansari reads a lengthy text from a forward-thinking man who envisions a beautiful future filled with happiness with the sweet girl he just met. Her reply as portrayed by Fallon: “no.” Ansari does his best ladies man voice, and also his best “not interested” face. This isn’t the first time Ansari has tackled [text miscommunication](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFR4PPxp2z8) on the dating game front. Watch above. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4438639/aziz-ansari-jimmy-fallon-read-texts/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4438639/aziz-ansari-jimmy-fallon-read-texts/"},"headline":"Aziz Ansari and Jimmy Fallon Gave Awkward Romantic Texts the Dramatic Reading They Deserve","datePublished":"2016-08-04T14:55:49.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:35:05.120Z","description":"\"Lol you gave me your number no more than five minutes ago\"","url":"https://time.com/4438639/aziz-ansari-jimmy-fallon-read-texts/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Television","jimmy fallon","The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon","aziz ansari"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Ashley Hoffman","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/ashley-hoffman/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4438639/aziz-ansari-jimmy-fallon-read-texts/","name":"Aziz Ansari and Jimmy Fallon Gave Awkward Romantic Texts the Dramatic Reading They Deserve"}}]}] ```