--- title: Watch Mark Wahlberg and Jimmy Fallon Slingshot Watermelons description: The 'Tonight Show' host and 'Deepwater Horizon' actor took aim at a giant target in Rockefeller Plaza with the last of summer's watermelons. canonical: https://time.com/4502692/mark-wahlberg-on-jimmy-fallon/ author: Raisa Bruner article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-09-21T15:59:06.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:36:48.180Z og:title: Watch Mark Wahlberg and Jimmy Fallon Slingshot Watermelons og:description: The host and 'Deepwater Horizon' actor took aim with summer's final watermelons. og:url: https://time.com/4502692/mark-wahlberg-on-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 Mark Wahlberg and Jimmy Fallon Slingshot Watermelons twitter:description: The host and 'Deepwater Horizon' actor took aim with summer's final watermelons. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Watch Mark Wahlberg and Jimmy Fallon Give Watermelon Slinging a Shot  by [Raisa Bruner](https://time.com/author/raisa-bruner/)  ## Raisa Bruner Sep 21, 2016 3:59 PM UTC  by [Raisa Bruner](https://time.com/author/raisa-bruner/)  ## Raisa Bruner Sep 21, 2016 3:59 PM UTC On Tuesday’s _Tonight Show_ with Jimmy Fallon, the host did just that, putting together a competition with guest and [_Deepwater Horizon_ actor](http://time.com/4495029/deepwater-horizon-kate-hudson-movie-clip/?iid=sr-link1) Mark Wahlberg. In a large setup on New York’s Rockefeller Plaza, the two took turns seeing who could achieve optimum accuracy with summer’s final fruit. To no one’s surprise, [Marky Mark](http://entertainment.time.com/2014/01/08/late-night-highlight-young-mark-wahlberg-looks-a-lot-like-justin-bieber/?iid=sr-link8) turned out to be naturally talented at the test of strength, casually hitting the central target rings without breaking a sweat and handily beating the host at his own game. It’s not quite [watermelons exploding](https://www.buzzfeed.com/tasneemnashrulla/we-blew-up-a-watermelon-and-everyone-lost-their-freaking-min), but you have to give it to Fallon for consistently coming up with wacky ways to showcase his guests’ secret skills. Watch above. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4502692/mark-wahlberg-on-jimmy-fallon/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4502692/mark-wahlberg-on-jimmy-fallon/"},"headline":"Watch Mark Wahlberg and Jimmy Fallon Give Watermelon Slinging a Shot","datePublished":"2016-09-21T15:59:06.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:36:48.180Z","description":"Marky Mark's a natural","url":"https://time.com/4502692/mark-wahlberg-on-jimmy-fallon/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Entertainment","Television","celebrities"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Raisa Bruner","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/raisa-bruner/"}],"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/4502692/mark-wahlberg-on-jimmy-fallon/","name":"Watch Mark Wahlberg and Jimmy Fallon Give Watermelon Slinging a Shot"}}]}] ```