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Some political observers praised Fallon for asking tough questions while others said the appearance fell flat._  by [Megan McCluskey](https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/)  ## Megan McCluskey Staff Writer Mar 23, 2017 5:05 PM UTC Some political observers praised Fallon for asking tough questions while others said the appearance fell flat.  by [Megan McCluskey](https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/)  ## Megan McCluskey Staff Writer Mar 23, 2017 5:05 PM UTC [James Corden](http://time.com/4710747/james-corden-london-attacks/) doesn’t agree with those who criticized Jimmy Fallon for [tousling President Donald Trump’s hair](http://time.com/4496425/donald-trump-hair-jimmy-fallon-tonight-show/) during his [September interview](http://time.com/4032423/donald-trump-jimmy-fallon/) on _The Tonight Show_. While speaking at PaleyFest Wednesday, the _Late, Late Show_ host came to the defense of his fellow late night pundit, asserting that he felt many were too quick to judge Fallon. “There was the thing that happened with Jimmy Fallon and he got quite a lot of criticism,” he said, according to [_Vanity Fair_](http://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2017/03/james-corden-jimmy-fallon-donald-trump). “I felt that was really unfair because I don’t think anyone asked him the right questions.” Corden went on to reveal that he would have played a game with Trump if the then-candidate had appeared on his show during the election cycle. “The game I wanted to play if he came on the show was called ‘Stand By It or Take It Back,'” he explained. “I would read Donald Trump things that he had said on the campaign trail. I would say, \[he’d\] have two paddles, you can stand by it or take it back. If you take it back, you take it back forever. If you stand by it, you’ve got to tell me why, and I felt like that was such a good game.” ## Transcript [00:00] Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump [00:02] started off his Tonight Show appearance by [00:04] interviewing himself, played by Jimmy Fallon. It's gonna [00:07] be huge! [ LAUGH ] But some people thought the [00:11] appearance didn't really turn out to be that huge! [00:15] Trump rolled out some of his predictably vague [00:18] talking. Talking points about bringing respect back to [00:21] America. Fallon didn't ask many hard questions, which [00:24] led Politico to write, Trump got exactly what he [00:26] wanted: an easy ride. Although after one of Trump's [00:30] signature monologues, Fallon did push back a bit. [00:33] What question did I ask? I don't even know, was that [00:36] [ LAUGH ] Something. Did I ask about stadiums? I don't [00:39] know what the hell just happened. The Wall Street [00:41] Journal praised Fallon, saying, it took a comedian to [00:44] ask Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump [00:47] some hard questions about his improbable rise to [00:50] front- runner status in the nominating contest. The [00:53] Journal may have been referring to moments like this [00:56] How are you gonna create jobs in this country. I'm [01:00] just gonna do it. Right. But [01:04] how? 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