--- title: Jimmy Fallon Has Zero Chill While Interviewing Cardi B description: Cardi B rendered Jimmy Fallon nearly speechless with her wit and humor during an appearance on 'The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon'. canonical: https://time.com/5075645/jimmy-fallon-cardi-b-interview/ author: Cady Lang article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-12-21T16:35:48.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:49:25.069Z og:title: Jimmy Fallon Absolutely Lost It While Interviewing Cardi B og:description: Looks like Jimmy's part of the Bardi gang og:url: https://time.com/5075645/jimmy-fallon-cardi-b-interview/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt264d7466178838b5/6988f630929fad4a87beefd5/gettyimages-896320624.jpeg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon - Season 4 og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Jimmy Fallon Absolutely Lost It While Interviewing Cardi B twitter:description: Looks like Jimmy's part of the Bardi gang twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt264d7466178838b5/6988f630929fad4a87beefd5/gettyimages-896320624.jpeg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Jimmy Fallon Knows He's Not Worthy to Be in Cardi B's Presence  by [Cady Lang](https://time.com/author/cady-lang/)  ## Cady Lang Dec 21, 2017 4:35 PM UTC  THE TONIGHT SHOW STARRING JIMMY FALLON -- Episode 0794 -- Pictured: (l-r) Hip Hop Artist Cardi B during an interview with his Jimmy Fallon on December 20, 2017 -- (Photo by: Andrew Lipovsky/NBC/NBCU Photo Bank via Getty Images) THE TONIGHT SHOW STARRING JIMMY FALLON -- Episode 0794 -- Pictured: (l-r) Hip Hop Artist Cardi B during an interview with his Jimmy Fallon on December 20, 2017 -- (Photo by: Andrew Lipovsky/NBC/NBCU Photo Bank via Getty Images)NBC—NBCU Photo Bank via Getty Images  by [Cady Lang](https://time.com/author/cady-lang/)  ## Cady Lang Dec 21, 2017 4:35 PM UTC It’s very seldom that late night funnyman [Jimmy Fallon](http://time.com/5023187/taylor-swift-fallon-new-years-day/) is rendered speechless or without a wisecrack, but during Wednesday night’s episode of _The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon_, he seemed to be in perpetual awe of the ebullient, gregarious force of nature known as [Cardi B](http://time.com/5004551/cardi-b-interview/). Cardi, who’s currently promoting her upcoming single, “Bartier Cardi,” appeared on the show, in a green fur. From the get go, it was clear that Fallon was out of his league; after Cardi responded to Fallon’s congratulations on the [success](http://time.com/money/4959065/how-cardi-b-escaped-poverty-to-become-the-first-female-rapper-in-19-years-to-top-the-charts/) of her ubiquitous club banger [“Bodak Yellow”](http://time.com/4977994/cardi-b-bet-hip-hop-awards-2017-performance/) with a shimmy, smile, and a sassy exclamation, Fallon looked visibly shook and needed to pause for a moment before asking the Bronx rapper about her unique moniker, which she answered with candor. “My name come from…You know what? My sister name is Hennessy,” she said. “You know what I’m saying? My sister name is Hennessy, right? So, everybody used to call be Bacardi. So, I always call myself Bacardi, right?” the rapper, whose birth name is Belcalis Almanzar, said. “Then it was my Instagram name—like Bacardi, Bacardi B—but for some reason, my Instagram kept getting deleted; I think it was Bacardi that had something to do with it so I just shortened it to Cardi B.” While the pair also discussed Cardi’s recent engagement to fellow rapper, Offset of Migos, her plans for celebrating the holidays this weekend, and her feelings about the Grammys, Fallon remained in complete wonderment of Cardi. 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