--- title: Betsy DeVosSkit Tonight Show Jimmy Fallon VIDEO description: Comedian Jo Firestone played the embattled Education Secretary in the Tonight Show clip canonical: https://time.com/4670455/betsy-devos-parody-video/ author: Melissa Locker article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-02-14T19:33:09.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:41:05.729Z og:title: Jimmy Fallon Shreds Betsy DeVos With Apology Parody og:description: “Our sincerest I’m sorrys go out to W.E.B. Du Bois,” said the fake DeVos og:url: https://time.com/4670455/betsy-devos-parody-video/ 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: Jimmy Fallon Shreds Betsy DeVos With Apology Parody twitter:description: “Our sincerest I’m sorrys go out to W.E.B. Du Bois,” said the fake DeVos twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Jimmy Fallon Shreds Betsy DeVos With Apology Parody by [Melissa Locker](https://time.com/author/melissa-locker/) ## Melissa Locker Feb 14, 2017 7:33 PM UTC by [Melissa Locker](https://time.com/author/melissa-locker/) ## Melissa Locker Feb 14, 2017 7:33 PM UTC Comedian Jo Firestone stopped by _The Tonight Show_ in character as [Secretary of Education](http://time.com/4637642/betsy-devos-confirmation-education-policy/?iid=sr-link1) Betsy DeVos”to apologize for typos that appeared on the Department of Education’s Twitter feed earlier this week. Firestone’s [DeVos](http://time.com/4663241/trevor-noah-betsy-devos-confirmation/?iid=sr-link9) said she was very sorry for the tweet that misspelled the name of Civil Rights activist W.E.B. Du Bois—and then for making another typo while apologizing for the typo. “A lot of people were screaming at me and making mad faces, so I prepared a formal apology,” the faux DeVos said. She then launched into a speech that was written on index card and included a lot of directions that weren’t meant to be read aloud. “Our sincerest I’m sorry’s go out to [W.E.B. Du Bois](http://time.com/4443840/web-du-bois-not-voting/?iid=sr-link1), as well as to W.E.B. Du Girls,” she said. It only [went downhill](http://time.com/4667274/betsy-devos-public-school-visit-protest/?iid=sr-link4) from there with DeVos struggling to name a single state, let alone their capitals. When Fallon asked “DeVos” about criticism that she was not qualified for the job, she tried to reassure him, “I am totally got this.” Based on this sketch, she does not. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4670455/betsy-devos-parody-video/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4670455/betsy-devos-parody-video/"},"headline":"Jimmy Fallon Shreds Betsy DeVos With Apology Parody","datePublished":"2017-02-14T19:33:09.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:41:05.729Z","description":"“Our sincerest I’m sorrys go out to W.E.B. Du Bois, as well as to W.E.B. Du Girls,” said a fake DeVos.","url":"https://time.com/4670455/betsy-devos-parody-video/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Television","jimmy fallon","The Tonight Show","Donald Trump","Late Night Television","Betsy DeVos"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Melissa Locker","jobTitle":"","url":"https://time.com/author/melissa-locker/"}],"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/4670455/betsy-devos-parody-video/","name":"Jimmy Fallon Shreds Betsy DeVos With Apology Parody"}}]}] ```