--- title: Neil Patrick Harris Played Egg Russian Roulette description: Neil Patrick Harris and Jimmy Fallon played the diabolically funny game egg Russian roulette. canonical: https://time.com/4680279/neil-patrick-harris-egg-jimmy-fallon/ author: Melissa Locker article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-02-23T16:45:15.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:41:21.070Z og:title: Neil Patrick Harris Egging Jimmy Fallon in the Face Is Great og:description: No one wins this game og:url: https://time.com/4680279/neil-patrick-harris-egg-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: Neil Patrick Harris Egging Jimmy Fallon in the Face Is Great twitter:description: No one wins this game twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Watch Neil Patrick Harris Egg Jimmy Fallon in the Face by [Melissa Locker](https://time.com/author/melissa-locker/) ## Melissa Locker Feb 23, 2017 4:45 PM UTC by [Melissa Locker](https://time.com/author/melissa-locker/) ## Melissa Locker Feb 23, 2017 4:45 PM UTC Talk about a series of unfortunate events. When Jimmy Fallon challenged [Neil Patrick Harris](http://time.com/4259050/neil-patrick-harris-count-olaf-netflix-unfortunate-events/?iid=sr-link5) to a game of Russian roulette with eggs, no one won. Harris swung by _The Tonight Show_ on Wednesday to help promote his new Netflix show, [_A Series of Unfortunate Events_](http://time.com/4592213/netflix-a-series-of-unfortunate-events-trailer/?iid=sr-link1), in which he plays the evil and conniving [Count Olaf](http://time.com/4633471/a-series-of-unfortunate-events-netflix-neil-patrick-harris/?iid=sr-link3). For some reason, Harris let Fallon talk him in to playing Russian roulette with eggs. To play the game, Fallon and Harris were presented with a dozen eggs. Ten were hard-boiled and two were raw and only the gods of chance would know the difference, at least until Fallon and Harris smashed them into their own faces. The two stars took turns praying, pleading, and then cracking eggs on their heads waiting to see if luck was shining down on them. It was diabolical—and diabolically funny. If only the [Baudelaire orphans ](http://time.com/4575128/lemony-snicket-series-of-unfortunate-events-trailer/?iid=sr-link2)had been able to see it. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4680279/neil-patrick-harris-egg-jimmy-fallon/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4680279/neil-patrick-harris-egg-jimmy-fallon/"},"headline":"Watch Neil Patrick Harris Egg Jimmy Fallon in the Face","datePublished":"2017-02-23T16:45:15.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:41:21.070Z","description":"Are we sure Count Olaf didn't come up with this diabolical game?","url":"https://time.com/4680279/neil-patrick-harris-egg-jimmy-fallon/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Television","jimmy fallon","The Tonight Show","Neil Patrick Harris","Late Night Television"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Melissa Locker","jobTitle":"","url":"https://time.com/author/melissa-locker/"}],"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/4680279/neil-patrick-harris-egg-jimmy-fallon/","name":"Watch Neil Patrick Harris Egg Jimmy Fallon in the Face"}}]}] ```