Key Highlights
- Fallon has faced criticism since December for repeating the same "it’s so cold" joke about the new mayor across multiple episodes without acknowledging the reused punchline."It was so cold in New York City this morning, walking to work, I saw a Wall Street stockbroker spooning with Zohran Mamdani," Fallon said for the first time Dec.
- 9, going on to repeat some variation of the joke on at least two additional episodes of "The Tonight Show." BILL MAHER CALLS MAMDANI A 'STRAIGHT UP COMMUNIST,' WARNS DEMS WILL 'LOSE MORE ELECTIONS' IF THEY DENY IT New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani appears alongside host Jimmy Fallon during the monologue on "The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon" on Jan.
- 26.
- On Monday’s taping, Mamdani leaned into the running gag, repeating the cold-weather punchline after a major winter storm hit New York City.
- BROADCAST BIAS: LATE-NIGHT COMEDY DEATH SPIRAL SHOWS HOW LEFTIST HATE KILLED ITS HUMORFallon opened his monologue with more cold-weather jokes, saying at one point, "It's so cold, President Trump got a space heater installed in his MRI machine." Mamdani then walked onto the stage to applause, despite not being listed as a scheduled guest.
