--- title: Julia Louis Dreyfus and Jimmy Fallon Play Whisper Challenge: Video description: Julia Louis Dreyfus and Jimmy Fallon play The Whisper Challenge on The Tonight Show With Jimmy Fallon Wednesday canonical: https://time.com/3815284/julia-louis-dreyfus-jimmy-fallon-uptown-funk/ author: Melissa Locker article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-04-09T16:55:00.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:18:32.578Z og:title: Watch Julia Louis-Dreyfus Try to Get Jimmy Fallon to Say 'Uptown Funk You Up' og:description: Without getting censored og:url: https://time.com/3815284/julia-louis-dreyfus-jimmy-fallon-uptown-funk/ 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: Watch Julia Louis-Dreyfus Try to Get Jimmy Fallon to Say 'Uptown Funk You Up' twitter:description: Without getting censored twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Watch Julia Louis-Dreyfus Try to Get Jimmy Fallon to Say 'Uptown Funk You Up' Without Getting Censored by [Melissa Locker](https://time.com/author/melissa-locker/) ## Melissa Locker Apr 9, 2015 4:55 PM UTC by [Melissa Locker](https://time.com/author/melissa-locker/) ## Melissa Locker Apr 9, 2015 4:55 PM UTC If you ever wanted to see the (fictional) President of the United States shout “Sausage penis!” on television, then this clip is for you. To promote the upcoming premiere of _Veep_‘s fourth season_,_ Julia Louis-Dreyfus stopped by _The Tonight Show_ Wednesday to play a game called “The Whisper Challenge” with host Jimmy Fallon. For the exercise in PG-rated silliness, the actress donned headphones blaring loud music and had to guess what unlikely phrase Fallon was whispering to her. The results were suitably ridiculous, as Fallon cracking up while Louis Dreyfus blurted out quasi-inappropriate phrases. It got even funnier when the roles were reversed, and Louis-Dreyfus had to try and get Fallon to guess the phrase “uptown funk you up” without using the f-word on network television. This sketch will tide you over until _Veep_ returns to HBO on Sunday, April 12 at 10:30 p.m. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3815284/julia-louis-dreyfus-jimmy-fallon-uptown-funk/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3815284/julia-louis-dreyfus-jimmy-fallon-uptown-funk/"},"headline":"Watch Julia Louis-Dreyfus Try to Get Jimmy Fallon to Say 'Uptown Funk You Up' Without Getting Censored","datePublished":"2015-04-09T16:55:00.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:18:32.578Z","description":"The Veep star plays a mean game of telephone","url":"https://time.com/3815284/julia-louis-dreyfus-jimmy-fallon-uptown-funk/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Television","jimmy fallon","The Tonight Show","celebrity","Veep","Julia Louis-Dreyfus"],"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/3815284/julia-louis-dreyfus-jimmy-fallon-uptown-funk/","name":"Watch Julia Louis-Dreyfus Try to Get Jimmy Fallon to Say 'Uptown Funk You Up' Without Getting Censored"}}]}] ```