--- title: Jimmy Fallon Turned a Bernie Sanders Debate Into a Rap Video description: “This is what you do do" canonical: https://time.com/4296808/jimmy-fallon-turned-a-bernie-sanders-debate-moment-into-a-rap-video/ author: Entertainment Weekly article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-04-16T16:36:55.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-22T16:48:27.666Z article:section: Entertainment og:title: Jimmy Fallon Turned a Bernie Sanders Debate Moment Into a Rap Video og:description: “This is what you do do" og:url: https://time.com/4296808/jimmy-fallon-turned-a-bernie-sanders-debate-moment-into-a-rap-video/ 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: Jimmy Fallon Turned a Bernie Sanders Debate Moment Into a Rap Video twitter:description: “This is what you do do" twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Jimmy Fallon Turned a Bernie Sanders Debate Moment Into a Rap Video by [Nick Romano / EW](https://time.com/author/entertainment-weekly/) ## Nick Romano / EW Apr 16, 2016 4:36 PM UTC by [Nick Romano / EW](https://time.com/author/entertainment-weekly/) ## Nick Romano / EW Apr 16, 2016 4:36 PM UTC During the CNN Democratic Debate on Thursday night, [Bernie Sanders](http://www.ew.com/article/2016/04/08/bernie-sanders-seth-meyers-ya-bernt) said, “This is what you do do.” That was all Jimmy Fallon needed to remix and recut that segment into rap song of the same name for _The Tonight Show_. Viewers at home were quick to jump on this line on Twitter, whether or not that was actually what the candidate meant to say. “No wonder Bernie is the No. 2 candidate,” Fallon joked. Watch the rap remix below. [_This article originally appeared on EW.com_](http://www.ew.com/article/2016/04/16/tonight-show-jimmy-fallon-bernie-sanders-rap-video) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4296808/jimmy-fallon-turned-a-bernie-sanders-debate-moment-into-a-rap-video/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4296808/jimmy-fallon-turned-a-bernie-sanders-debate-moment-into-a-rap-video/"},"headline":"Jimmy Fallon Turned a Bernie Sanders Debate Moment Into a Rap Video","datePublished":"2016-04-16T16:36:55.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-22T16:48:27.666Z","description":"“This is what you do do\"","url":"https://time.com/4296808/jimmy-fallon-turned-a-bernie-sanders-debate-moment-into-a-rap-video/","keywords":["Television"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Nick Romano / EW"}],"articleSection":"Entertainment","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":"/section/entertainment/","name":"Entertainment"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4296808/jimmy-fallon-turned-a-bernie-sanders-debate-moment-into-a-rap-video/","name":"Jimmy Fallon Turned a Bernie Sanders Debate Moment Into a Rap Video"}}]}] ```