Jimmy Fallon doesn’t think Tucker Carlson will ever return to Fox News like he always has. During his opening monologue Tuesday night (Feb Tonight show The host used the perfect breakup song to describe the conservative media personality’s messy split from the news network: Taylor Swift’s “We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together.”
Fallon started the part by noting Fox News’ decision to let Carlson go after several lawsuits, one of which exposed him for disparaging his peers. Another complaint filed in March by his ex-employee Abby Grossberg accused him of sexism Tucker Carlson tonight.
“When Tucker was asked about the breakup, he had some very interesting things to say,” Fallon joked, before editing to a heavily edited video that stitched together clips from episodes of Carlson’s show. Complete with background music, the final product shows him “singing” the chorus of Swift’s 2012. smash.
“We’re never getting back together / You talk to your friends, talk to my friends, talk to me,” Carlson says mechanically in the clips’ Mod Podge.
“There you are,” Fallon shrugged after the video ended. “Thanks for clearing that up.”
As of Monday (April 24), Carlson had been a top-rated anchor on Fox News since 2016. He has yet to comment on his departure, while Fox has only released a brief statement in which he “appreciated his service to the network as a host and before that as a contributor.”
Watch Jimmy Fallon’s hilarious rendition of Taylor Swift’s We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together above.
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