--- title: Carrie Underwood Tries to Kick Jimmy Fallon, Andy Samberg description: Carrie Underwood Tries to Kick Jimmy Fallon Andy Samberg in the face on The Tonight Show canonical: https://time.com/4031034/jimmy-fallon-andy-samberg-facekickers-football-carrie-underwood/ author: Olivia B. Waxman article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-09-11T14:21:13.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-08-04T07:48:07.480Z og:title: Carrie Underwood Tries to Kick Jimmy Fallon, Andy Samberg og:description: Carrie Underwood Tries to Kick Jimmy Fallon Andy Samberg in the face on The Tonight Show og:url: https://time.com/4031034/jimmy-fallon-andy-samberg-facekickers-football-carrie-underwood/ 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: Carrie Underwood Tries to Kick Jimmy Fallon, Andy Samberg twitter:description: Carrie Underwood Tries to Kick Jimmy Fallon Andy Samberg in the face on The Tonight Show twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Watch Carrie Underwood Try to Kick Jimmy Fallon and Andy Samberg in the Face ## Video: 5 Elements of A Viral Video [Watch (HLS stream): 5 Elements of A Viral Video](https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/vgQtqA8c.m3u8) (1:31)  _Published 2015-06-22. 5 Elements of A Viral Video_  by [Olivia B. Waxman](https://time.com/author/olivia-b-waxman/)  ## Olivia B. Waxman Staff Writer Sep 11, 2015 2:21 PM UTC  by [Olivia B. Waxman](https://time.com/author/olivia-b-waxman/)  ## Olivia B. Waxman Staff Writer Sep 11, 2015 2:21 PM UTC On _The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon_ Thursday night, two former _Saturday Night Live_ stars — host Jimmy Fallon and actor Andy Samberg — started off the football season by kicking footballs at illustrations of each other’s faces. They also took turns trash-talking each other. The best part was when Andy kicked an illustration of himself instead of an illustration of Fallon. Country music artist Carrie Underwood then stepped in to relieve Fallon, but couldn’t even kick the ball. Needless to say, you would not want to draft any of these stars onto your fantasy football teams. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4031034/jimmy-fallon-andy-samberg-facekickers-football-carrie-underwood/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4031034/jimmy-fallon-andy-samberg-facekickers-football-carrie-underwood/"},"headline":"Watch Carrie Underwood Try to Kick Jimmy Fallon and Andy Samberg in the Face","datePublished":"2015-09-11T14:21:13.000Z","dateModified":"2026-08-04T07:48:07.480Z","description":"Kicking off football season","url":"https://time.com/4031034/jimmy-fallon-andy-samberg-facekickers-football-carrie-underwood/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Television"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Olivia B. Waxman","jobTitle":"Staff Writer","url":"https://time.com/author/olivia-b-waxman/"}],"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/4031034/jimmy-fallon-andy-samberg-facekickers-football-carrie-underwood/","name":"Watch Carrie Underwood Try to Kick Jimmy Fallon and Andy Samberg in the Face"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"5 Elements of A Viral Video","description":"5 Elements of A Viral Video","thumbnailUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/vgQtqA8c/poster.jpg?width=720","uploadDate":"2015-06-22T13:42:30.000Z","contentUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/vgQtqA8c.m3u8","embedUrl":"https://time.com/4031034/jimmy-fallon-andy-samberg-facekickers-football-carrie-underwood/","duration":"PT1M31S","potentialAction":{"@type":"SeekToAction","target":"https://time.com/4031034/jimmy-fallon-andy-samberg-facekickers-football-carrie-underwood/?jw_start={seek_to_second_number}","startOffset-input":"required name=seek_to_second_number"}}] ```