Jimmy Fallon plays Nicolas Cage as Joe Exotic in latest gag for The Tonight Show at home: ‘Not only am I the Tiger King, I’m also the king of husbands’
With the news that Oscar-winning actor Nicolas Cage is set to portray Netflix sensation Joe Exotic from the hit docuseries Tiger King, interest in the eccentric personality has been renewed yet again.
And getting in on the fun on Tuesday was Jimmy Fallon, who posted a zany and hilarious video snippet of himself as Cage as Exotic, in a wild clip that was part performance piece, part extended monologue and part music video.
It must be said that Fallon, 45, does a surprisingly good job mimicking Cage’s vocal ticks and trademark kooky behavior, even if his rendition of the currently incarcerated zookeeper is somewhat less successful.
Getting in on the Tiger King fun: On Tuesday, Jimmy Fallon posted a zany and hilarious video snippet of himself as Nicolas Cage as Joe Exotic, after it was announced that Cage was cast to play the zookeeper in an upcoming series
In the clip, which Jimmy promoted on Twitter as well, the late night host is dressed in the requisite animal print shirt, along with the unmistakably ‘Exotic’ blond mullet and handlebar mustache.
He starts off by saying, ‘My pets are the same as your pets, except mine have 3 INCH TEETH AND WEIGH 400 POUNDS!’ in typical Cage-like fashion.
Jimmy goes on to sit at a desktop computer and yell at arch nemesis Carole Baskin, just as Exotic did in the documentary.
In the clip: The late night host is dressed in the requisite animal print shirt, along with the unmistakably ‘Exotic’ blond mullet and handlebar mustache
Fallon starts off by saying: ‘My pets are the same as your pets, except mine have 3 INCH TEETH AND WEIGH 400 POUNDS!’ in typical Cage-like fashion
Down to the details: Jimmy goes on to sit at a desktop computer and yell at arch nemesis Carole Baskin, just as Exotic did in the documentary
Fallon hits many of Exotic’s most trademark quirks in the clip, always dressing it up with Nic Cage-isms, like when he yells at a police officer over the phone for reminding him that he’s ‘not supposed to murder a woman murdered in Florida,’ or when he ruminates on the spirit of tigers.
A particularly amusing passage comes when Jimmy says to himself, ‘What am I doing?! I’m marrying two men at once!
‘Not only am I the Tiger King, I’m also the king of husbands.’
A particularly amusing passage comes when Jimmy says to himself: ‘What am I doing?! I’m marrying two men at once! Not only am I the Tiger King, I’m also the king of husbands’
At one point: He yells at a police officer over the phone for reminding him that he’s ‘not supposed to murder a woman murdered in Florida’
Soon, the hilarious clip devolves into a brief music video, in which Fallon-as-Cage-as-Exotic sings, ‘I looked at a tiger, the tiger looked right back, made me cry tears that were white, orange and black’.
As previously reported, Cage, 56, has been cast in a new eight-part scripted series based on the life of Joe Exotic, born Joseph Allen Schreibvogel.
The project is separate from the previously announced series also inspired by Netflix’s Tiger King, in which SNL star Kate McKinnon has been cast in the role of Big Cat Rescue owner Carole Baskin.
As previously reported: Cage, 56, has been cast in a new eight-part scripted series based on the life of Exotic, born Joseph Allen Schreibvogel
King of husbands: The former zookeeper (center right, between ‘husbands’ Travis Maldonado, center, and John Finlay, right) is currently serving a 22-year jail sentence but is asking Donald Trump for a pardon