--- title: Kim Kardashian Plays 'Show Me Your Phone' on Jimmy Fallon description: Kim Kardashian handed over her cellphone to Jimmy Fallon for a hilarious (and surprising) round of "Show Me Your Phone." canonical: https://time.com/5675674/kim-kardashian-on-jimmy-fallon/ author: Cady Lang article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2019-09-12T14:51:33.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T08:00:15.713Z og:title: Kim Kardashian Plays 'Show Me Your Phone' on Jimmy Fallon og:description: The reality tv star also shared her texts with Kanye og:url: https://time.com/5675674/kim-kardashian-on-jimmy-fallon/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt527d408105a8f38c/698a02c297cdff61dd6b9834/kim-kardashian-jimmy-fallon-show-me-your-phone.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 2000 og:image:height: 1125 og:image:alt: The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon - Season 6 og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Kim Kardashian Plays 'Show Me Your Phone' on Jimmy Fallon twitter:description: The reality tv star also shared her texts with Kanye twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt527d408105a8f38c/698a02c297cdff61dd6b9834/kim-kardashian-jimmy-fallon-show-me-your-phone.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Kim Kardashian Hands Over Her Phone to Jimmy Fallon So We Can All Learn About Her Search Habits > Sponsored content. 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So it should come as no surprise that seeing the contents of her phone was a source of excitement for Jimmy Fallon and his viewers when Kardashian West appeared on [_The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon_](https://time.com/5633602/jimmy-fallon-timothee-chalamet-puppet/)for a friendly game of “Show Me Your Phone.” The game, which is fairly self-explanatory from its title, began with Kardashian West and Fallon each randomly selecting an app on the other’s phone from which they would have to reveal their most recent activity. For Kardashian West, this meant showing her last text exchange with her husband, Kanye West, which was a message about the ranch that they recently acquired in Wyoming. For Fallon, however, things got a little more personal: he had to show the latest version of a song he was working on about a colonoscopy. One of the most memorable moments of the night, however, was when Kardashian West had to show Fallon the last thing she searched for on the Internet, which led to her explaining the difficulty of using the restroom while wearing shape wear — the more you know! Watch [Kim Kardashian](https://time.com/5568130/kim-kardashian-lawyer/) on Jimmy Fallon for the full “Show Me Your Phone” segment below. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/5675674/kim-kardashian-on-jimmy-fallon/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/5675674/kim-kardashian-on-jimmy-fallon/"},"headline":"Kim Kardashian Hands Over Her Phone to Jimmy Fallon So We Can All Learn About Her Search Habits","datePublished":"2019-09-12T14:51:33.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T08:00:15.713Z","description":"The reality tv star also shared her texts with Kanye","url":"https://time.com/5675674/kim-kardashian-on-jimmy-fallon/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Late Night Television","onetime"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt527d408105a8f38c/698a02c297cdff61dd6b9834/kim-kardashian-jimmy-fallon-show-me-your-phone.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Cady Lang","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/cady-lang/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt527d408105a8f38c/698a02c297cdff61dd6b9834/kim-kardashian-jimmy-fallon-show-me-your-phone.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon - Season 6","caption":"The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon - Season 6","creditText":"NBC—NBCU Photo Bank via Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"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":"https://time.com/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/5675674/kim-kardashian-on-jimmy-fallon/","name":"Kim Kardashian Hands Over Her Phone to Jimmy Fallon So We Can All Learn About Her Search Habits"}}]}] ```