Jimmy Fallon comes out…

Jimmy Fallon comes out… December 5, 2011

… as a Papist, I mean. Or at least he used to be a practicing one till he went back and found a band and a man that wanted to hold his hand.

GROSS: Do you still go to church?

Mr. FALLON: I don’t go to – I tried to go back. When I was out in L.A. and I was kind of struggling for a bit. I went to church for a while, but it’s kind of, it’s gotten gigantic now for me. It’s like too… There’s a band. There’s a band there now, and you got to, you have to hold hands with people through the whole Mass now, and I don’t like doing that. You know, I mean, it used to be the shaking hands piece was the only time you touched each other.

GROSS: Mm-hmm.

Mr. FALLON: Now, I’m holding hand[s] – now I’m lifting people. Like Simba.

Read the full article and interview here.


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