--- title: Steve Carell and Jimmy Fallon: Sexual Healing Barber Shop Quartet description: Steve Carell and Jimmy Fallon sing Marvin Gaye's "Sexual Healing" with a barber shop quartet on the "Tonight Show." canonical: https://time.com/3629974/steve-carell-sexual-healing-barber-shop/ author: Eliza Berman article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-12-11T16:17:33.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:15:13.926Z og:title: Watch Jimmy Fallon and Steve Carell Sing “Sexual Healing” With a Barber Shop Quartet og:description: Steve Carell and Jimmy Fallon sing Marvin Gaye's "Sexual Healing" with a barber shop quartet on the "Tonight Show." og:url: https://time.com/3629974/steve-carell-sexual-healing-barber-shop/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blta1a16fb153d74866/69876e3855a859e4c7a84aca/screen-shot-2014-12-11-at-11-16-26-am.png?branch=production&width=1440&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Screen Shot 2014-12-11 at 11.16.26 AM og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Watch Jimmy Fallon and Steve Carell Sing “Sexual Healing” With a Barber Shop Quartet twitter:description: Steve Carell and Jimmy Fallon sing Marvin Gaye's "Sexual Healing" with a barber shop quartet on the "Tonight Show." twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blta1a16fb153d74866/69876e3855a859e4c7a84aca/screen-shot-2014-12-11-at-11-16-26-am.png?branch=production&width=1440&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Watch Jimmy Fallon and Steve Carell Sing 'Sexual Healing' With a Barbershop Quartet  by [Eliza Berman](https://time.com/author/eliza-berman/)  ## Eliza Berman Berman is a senior editor at TIME. Dec 11, 2014 4:17 PM UTC   by [Eliza Berman](https://time.com/author/eliza-berman/)  ## Eliza Berman Berman is a senior editor at TIME. Dec 11, 2014 4:17 PM UTC Steve Carell joined Jimmy Fallon on the _Tonight Show_ Wednesday night, reminding the audience that he is not, in real life, the scary character he plays in _Foxcatcher_. The pair took turns singing verses from Marvin Gaye’s “Sexual Healing” as a candy-striped quartet ably delivered a four-part harmony behind them. Running this song through the barbershop wringer extracts pretty much all of its soul — and sexiness, for that matter — and that seems to be the idea. The Ragtime Gals, as the group is known, has de-sexed such songs as “[Ignition (Remix)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r2LiFsdrXF4),” “[I Wanna Sex You Up](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DqEP4NmiYQ4)” and “[SexyBack](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UD8tGWIqA-c)” — the latter featuring its original singer, Justin Timberlake. It’s all part of the “friendly fun house” to which [_Entertainment Weekly_](http://www.ew.com/ew/static/longform/fallon/desktop/) attributes Fallon’s successful takeover of the _Tonight Show_, earning him the much-deserved title of “Entertainer of the Year.” Watch the full video here: _Read next:_ [_Watch Reese Witherspoon and Jimmy Fallon Sing Gibberish Christmas Carols_](http://time.com/3616045/reese-witherspoon-jimmy-fallon-christmas-carols/?xid=time%5Freadnext) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3629974/steve-carell-sexual-healing-barber-shop/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3629974/steve-carell-sexual-healing-barber-shop/"},"headline":"Watch Jimmy Fallon and Steve Carell Sing 'Sexual Healing' With a Barbershop Quartet","datePublished":"2014-12-11T16:17:33.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:15:13.926Z","description":"The 40-year-old virgin has come a long way","url":"https://time.com/3629974/steve-carell-sexual-healing-barber-shop/","keywords":["Newsfeed","jimmy fallon","The Tonight Show","Late Night Television","Foxcatcher","The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blta1a16fb153d74866/69876e3855a859e4c7a84aca/screen-shot-2014-12-11-at-11-16-26-am.png?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Eliza Berman","jobTitle":"Berman is a senior editor at TIME.","url":"https://time.com/author/eliza-berman/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blta1a16fb153d74866/69876e3855a859e4c7a84aca/screen-shot-2014-12-11-at-11-16-26-am.png?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Screen Shot 2014-12-11 at 11.16.26 AM","caption":"","creditText":"","representativeOfPage":true}],"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/3629974/steve-carell-sexual-healing-barber-shop/","name":"Watch Jimmy Fallon and Steve Carell Sing 'Sexual Healing' With a Barbershop Quartet"}}]}] ```