--- title: Gods of Egypt Star Gerard Butler Plays Slapjack: Tonight Show description: Gerard Butler and Jimmy Fallon slap each other with prosthetic hands canonical: https://time.com/4238678/gerard-butler-slapjack-jimmy-fallon/ author: Samantha Grossman article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-02-26T16:30:19.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:30:31.598Z og:title: Watch Gerard Butler and Jimmy Fallon Slap Each Other Silly og:description: With giant prosthetic hands og:url: https://time.com/4238678/gerard-butler-slapjack-jimmy-fallon/ 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 Gerard Butler and Jimmy Fallon Slap Each Other Silly twitter:description: With giant prosthetic hands twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Watch Gerard Butler and Jimmy Fallon Slap Each Other Silly by [Samantha Grossman](https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/) ## Samantha Grossman Feb 26, 2016 4:30 PM UTC by [Samantha Grossman](https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/) ## Samantha Grossman Feb 26, 2016 4:30 PM UTC On Thursday, _Gods of Egypt_ star Gerard Butler stopped by _The Tonight Show_ _,_ where he talked very enthusiastically [about NASCAR](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HlmhYeNyfaQ) for a while. Host Jimmy Fallon also invited the Scottish actor to play a game of “Slapjack.” Butler obliged. If you’ve never witnessed this game, “Slapjack” is just like regular blackjack, but at the end of each round, the winner gets to slap the loser with a giant prosthetic hand. We have to admit there is something delightfully entertaining about watching adult men smack each other with over-sized hands. At one point Butler knocks Fallon out of his seat. The most recent adult man to join Fallon for this ridiculous game was [Ryan Reynolds.](http://time.com/4044207/jimmy-fallon-ryan-reynolds-hand-face/) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4238678/gerard-butler-slapjack-jimmy-fallon/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4238678/gerard-butler-slapjack-jimmy-fallon/"},"headline":"Watch Gerard Butler and Jimmy Fallon Slap Each Other Silly","datePublished":"2016-02-26T16:30:19.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:30:31.598Z","description":"With giant prosthetic hands","url":"https://time.com/4238678/gerard-butler-slapjack-jimmy-fallon/","keywords":["Newsfeed","celebrity"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Samantha Grossman","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/"}],"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/4238678/gerard-butler-slapjack-jimmy-fallon/","name":"Watch Gerard Butler and Jimmy Fallon Slap Each Other Silly"}}]}] ```