--- title: Steve Martin and Martin Short Loved Teasing Jimmy Fallon description: Comedians Steve Martin and Martin Short stopped by Jimmy Fallon's show to roast him mercilessly while promoting their show. canonical: https://time.com/5530616/steve-martin-martin-short-jimmy-fallon/ author: Raisa Bruner article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2019-02-15T17:11:11.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:57:31.705Z og:title: Steve Martin and Martin Short Loved Teasing Jimmy Fallon og:description: Steve Martin and Martin Short dropped by Jimmy Fallon's show to tease him og:url: https://time.com/5530616/steve-martin-martin-short-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: Steve Martin and Martin Short Loved Teasing Jimmy Fallon twitter:description: Steve Martin and Martin Short dropped by Jimmy Fallon's show to tease him twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Steve Martin and Martin Short Could Not Stop Thoroughly Roasting Jimmy Fallon > Sponsored content. 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Every edition is assembled by TIME editors rather than generated automatically.  by [Raisa Bruner](https://time.com/author/raisa-bruner/)  ## Raisa Bruner Feb 15, 2019 5:11 PM UTC  by [Raisa Bruner](https://time.com/author/raisa-bruner/)  ## Raisa Bruner Feb 15, 2019 5:11 PM UTC Leave it to legendary comics [Steve Martin](http://time.com/5514044/steve-martin-roger-stone-saturday-night-live/) and [Martin Short](http://time.com/5237702/martin-short-on-stephen-colbert/) to put [Jimmy Fallon](http://time.com/5406839/bts-on-jimmy-fallon/) in his place. On Thursday night, the two comedians stopped by Fallon’s [_Tonight Show_](http://time.com/5023009/jimmy-fallon-returns-tonight-show-paying-tribute-mother-death/) and took their place on the couch — but instead of subjecting to being interviewed, as most of Fallon’s guests often do, they took it upon themselves to mercilessly tease Fallon and even themselves in an uproarious improv comedy skit. “I wanted to do the show one more time before my beauty phase. I’m promoting my new movie which has not been offered to me yet,” Martin joked about his appearance on Valentine’s Day night. “This is the greatest show on television because there is no host in late night that pretends to care the way you do,” Short riffed at Fallon. “I mean no one captures phoniness the way you do, it’s such a gift.” Martin went on: “You proved that tall, handsome white men can make it in show business. And you have such a clean image. And that’s hard to do in today’s world.” Then he added: “I suggest that whatever you’re paying the National Enquirer, you should double.” Martin and Short have been on a [joint comedy tour](https://www.ticketmaster.com/steve-martin-martin-short-tickets/artist/1591479) together, called “Now You See Them, Soon You Won’t,” currently roving the east coast and heading to the midwest later this month, and also have an Emmy-nominated Netflix special. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/5530616/steve-martin-martin-short-jimmy-fallon/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/5530616/steve-martin-martin-short-jimmy-fallon/"},"headline":"Steve Martin and Martin Short Could Not Stop Thoroughly Roasting Jimmy Fallon","datePublished":"2019-02-15T17:11:11.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:57:31.705Z","description":"Comedians Steve Martin and Martin Short stopped by Jimmy Fallon's show to roast him mercilessly while promoting their show.","url":"https://time.com/5530616/steve-martin-martin-short-jimmy-fallon/","keywords":["Newsfeed","celebrities","Late Night Television"],"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/5530616/steve-martin-martin-short-jimmy-fallon/","name":"Steve Martin and Martin Short Could Not Stop Thoroughly Roasting Jimmy Fallon"}}]}] ```