--- description: He poked fun at Angela Merkel, Donald Trump and more title: Watch Jimmy Fallon Joke About TIME's Person of the Year Issue image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blte1c80ac1ea6aba2b/698874f30a4a22c7ce9c7742/screen-shot-2015-12-11-at-9-33-37-am.png?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  * [Entertainment](/section/entertainment/) ## Entertainment Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # Watch Jimmy Fallon Joke About TIME's Person of the Year Issue  by [Tessa Berenson](/author/tessa-berenson/)  ## Tessa Berenson Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Dec 11, 2015 2:51 PM CUT  Jimmy Fallon during 'The Tonight Show' on Dec. 10, 2015. Jimmy Fallon during 'The Tonight Show' on Dec. 10, 2015.Screenshot  by [Tessa Berenson](/author/tessa-berenson/)  ## Tessa Berenson Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Dec 11, 2015 2:51 PM CUT Jimmy Fallon riffed on a bunch of TIME’s year-end issues and lists during _The Tonight Show_ Wednesday night. First, he broke out an imitation of German Chancellor Angela Merkel when he talked about [TIME’s choice for Person of the Year.](http://time.com/time-person-of-the-year-2015-angela-merkel/?xid=homepage "undefined") Fallon joked about Merkel’s staid expression on the magazine cover. “Can’t you see how excited I am?” he quipped in a dour German accent. **Read More:** [_Time Person of the Year 2015: Angela Merkel_](http://time.com/time-person-of-the-year-2015-angela-merkel/?xid=homepage "undefined") Then Fallon talked about TIME’s [list of the year’s most influential fictional characters](http://time.com/4138750/most-influential-fictional-characters-2015/ "undefined"), in which Kate McKinnon’s impression of Hillary Clinton came in third. “I guess she was edged out by Hillary’s version of Hillary Clinton,” he joked. And finally, of course, he brought up the now-famous clip of Donald Trump [dodging a bald eagle](http://time.com/4141783/time-person-of-the-year-runner-up-donald-trump-eagle-gif/ "undefined") during a TIME photo shoot.” After that Trump was like, ‘I’m now banning all bald eagles from America,” Fallon said after airing the clip. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4145640/jimmy-fallon-time-poy/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4145640/jimmy-fallon-time-poy/"},"headline":"Watch Jimmy Fallon Joke About TIME's Person of the Year Issue","datePublished":"2015-12-11T14:51:23.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-22T13:18:02.828Z","description":"He poked fun at Angela Merkel, Donald Trump and more","url":"https://time.com/4145640/jimmy-fallon-time-poy/","keywords":["Television","celebrities","jimmy fallon","angela merkel"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blte1c80ac1ea6aba2b/698874f30a4a22c7ce9c7742/screen-shot-2015-12-11-at-9-33-37-am.png?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Tessa Berenson","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/tessa-berenson/"}],"articleSection":"Entertainment","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blte1c80ac1ea6aba2b/698874f30a4a22c7ce9c7742/screen-shot-2015-12-11-at-9-33-37-am.png?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Screen Shot 2015-12-11 at 9.33.37 AM","caption":"Jimmy Fallon during 'The Tonight Show' on Dec. 10, 2015.","creditText":"Screenshot","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":"/section/entertainment/","name":"Entertainment"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4145640/jimmy-fallon-time-poy/","name":"Watch Jimmy Fallon Joke About TIME's Person of the Year Issue"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"Watch Donald Trump Dodge a Bald Eagle","description":"Last August, as Person of the Year runner-up Donald Trump was establishing himself as a real contender, the candidate agreed to pose with a bald eagle for a TIME cover story.","thumbnailUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/5CcEYNNO/poster.jpg?width=720","uploadDate":"2015-12-08T21:32:54.000Z","contentUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/5CcEYNNO.m3u8","embedUrl":"https://time.com/4145640/jimmy-fallon-time-poy/","duration":"PT1M","potentialAction":{"@type":"SeekToAction","target":"https://time.com/4145640/jimmy-fallon-time-poy/?jw_start={seek_to_second_number}","startOffset-input":"required name=seek_to_second_number"}}] ```