The Jimmy Fallon Affair
So an odd thing happened last night.
On holiday in New York, we'd had a fantastic cheesy tourist day and ended up in a bar near our hotel. It was quiet in there, and a bit tucked away from the main strip. The four of us had a drink each and we're chatting, when this guy came up and politely asked if he could join us.
He had a hoodie with "visionary" on it, which I thought said "missionary", and with his polite demeanour and the odd (for a Brit) thing of sitting with strangers, I assumed he was about to try to convert us to Jesus.
But instead he asked us if there was anything we'd like to ask him as an American. None of us had interview questions so we were kinda stumped by this. So he started talking about himself anyway.
"So let me tell you about myself. You guys play Call of Duty? I'm a famous internet sensation, I'm Banks. If you guys know any 13, 14, 15, 16 year olds they'll definitely know me. I've just come off The Tonight Show. You know, with Jimmy Fallon? You guys get that? I was on that tonight. I'm from Boston, not New York.
So you brits, huh? You Brits like a drink and you're all here drinking. You know what else I've heard you Brits like? You like coke. You like blow."
Then it dawned. He was a Z Lister Jay with no Silent Bob looking to sell party drugs to the most boring looking tourists in the whole of NY. I googled him, he was indeed telling the truth about being an internet star, although he comes across as a much less polite young man online.
We fell asleep during the Tonight Show so couldn't verify if that was true. Maybe if I'd have bought some coke I'd have made it up to see him!