Jimmy Fallon and Aziz Ansari perform awkward text chats with candles, sexy music

Aziz Ansari performs text chats with Jimmy Fallon

(Image credit: The Tonight Show)

published 4 August 2016

Jimmy Fallon's "First Textual Experience" bit is poorly named, but the result is reliably funny. On Wednesday's Tonight Show, Fallon and Aziz Ansari read text exchanges that careen between awkward and cringe-inducing. "You should know that all of these texts are 100 percent real," Fallon said at the beginning, candles and roses setting the scene, along with love music from The Roots. We'll have to take his word for it, but they are realistic enough to make you grimace in a "that could have been me" way, and laugh because it wasn't (probably). The one about the angle is especially good. Watch below. Peter Weber

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Peter has worked as a news and culture writer and editor at The Week since the site's launch in 2008. He covers politics, world affairs, religion and cultural currents. His journalism career began as a copy editor at a financial newswire and has included editorial positions at The New York Times Magazine, Facts on File, and Oregon State University.

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