{"id":537691,"date":"2026-06-16T08:49:11","date_gmt":"2026-06-16T08:49:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/537691\/"},"modified":"2026-06-16T08:49:11","modified_gmt":"2026-06-16T08:49:11","slug":"late-night-jon-stewart-jimmy-fallon-jimmy-kimmel-react-to-knicks-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/537691\/","title":{"rendered":"Late Night: Jon Stewart, Jimmy Fallon, Jimmy Kimmel React to Knicks Win"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tJimmy Fallon<\/a>, Jon Stewart<\/a>, Seth Meyers and Jimmy Kimmel<\/a> used their respective late night shows on Monday to have their own New York Knicks<\/a> celebration parties to mark the team winning their first NBA Championship<\/a> in 53 years.<\/p>\n

\n\tNBC\u2019s The Tonight Show stole are march on its rivals by securing the champion Knicks as special guests on Monday\u2019s episode, with the orange-tie-sporting Fallon joking in his monologue \u201cof course, it\u2019s the Knicks so they won\u2019t really show up till the second half.\u201d It was a New York type of night with Fallon revealing the audience was made up Knicks superfans, and that the musical guests were Staten Island legends the Wu-Tang Clan. \u201cIt sounds like Game 5 in San Antonio in here!\u201d remarked Fallon as the crowd burst into an impromptu \u201cLet\u2019s Go Knicks!\u201d chant. <\/p>\n

\n\tThe Knicks\u2019 No.1 booster Spike Lee joined Fallon on stage to introduce the trophy-wielding team to a cacophany of cheers from the home crowd. Fallon split the main interview segment in two, speaking to NBA Finals MVP and Knicks captain Jalen Brunson, starting forward Karl Anthony Towns (KAT) and coach Mike Brown first<\/a>. Fallon began the first interview by reminding the audience that the last time Brunson appeared on the Tonight Show, he promised that if the Knicks won the championship he would bring the trophy to the show on his next visit. \u201cHe\u2019s a man of his word,\u201d said Fallon. Brunson admitted that winning hadn\u2019t really sunk in yet and both KAT and Brunson then spoke about the feeling of playing in Madison Square Garden during Games 3 and 4 of the Finals and the noise and energy inside the arena as victory crept closer. <\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cWhen we get the fans involved, and we give them something to cheer for it\u2019s something special,\u201d said KAT. With sports<\/a> being so superstitious, Fallon inevitably asked about KAT\u2019s fiancee Jordyn Woods and her lucky game-day \u201cTux Clutch Mini\u201d bag<\/a>. Fallon also brought up the WWE wrestler Danhausen who \u201cuncursed\u201d the Knicks before the Finals, asking Brunson whether he believed that\u2019s what happened. \u201cAt first I was a little skeptical, but you have to believe it now,\u201d joked Brunson. <\/p>\n

\n\tIn the second interview<\/a>, Fallon spoke to the Knicks\u2019 small forward Josh Hart, guard Mikal Bridges and forward OG Anunoby, the latter of who has now arguably become the greatest British basketball player ever. Inevitably, Fallon started the segment with OG\u2019s tip-heard-around-the-world that secured an unlikely and historic come-from-behind victory in Game 4. \u201cI saw a man flying,\u201d said Bridges about the \u201ccrazy play\u201d, praising OG\u2019s athleticism and ball control on the seemingly impossible shot. The second interview was far more light hearted and dwelt on OG\u2019s memeable stoic personality and Hart repeatedly untying Fallon\u2019s sneakers during actual Finals games. <\/p>\n

\n\tThe Tonight Show ended with a spirited set from the Wu-Tang Clan, who Knicks fans will tell you truly uncursed the team after Donald Trump\u2019s visit for Game 3 and the horrendous first half in Game 4 with the rap supergroup\u2019s half-time performance during that game in the Garden preceding that insane comeback. <\/p>\n

\n\tOver at The Daily Show, Stewart teased his audience that he was going to \u201cfocus the entirety of the show today on the complexity of what a new nuclear enrichment inspection regime will look like.\u201d But to the crowd\u2019s delight, he was just joking.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe host, who was overjoyed about the Knicks\u2019 win<\/a>, kicked off Monday\u2019s show continuing his celebrations by recapping the lively chaos that unfolded across New York City Saturday night.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cBy the way, do you ever be sitting at home and you\u2019re watching this kind of footage and you wonder to yourself: who the are these people out in the streets of New York losing their minds? Well, funny story. The little guy on top of that other guy\u2019s shoulders, he works here,\u201d Stewart said, revealing that the man featured in the respective clip was Scott Hercman, one of The Daily Show\u2018s writers.<\/p>\n

\n\tHercman then made an appearance on stage with Stewart; however, he was still sitting on someone\u2019s shoulders, just like in the viral video of him celebrating in the NYC streets Saturday night. \u201cI\u2019m very superstitious, so I\u2019m up here until next year\u2019s finals,\u201d Hercman quipped.<\/p>\n

\n\tStewart continued, \u201cIt was an incredible night all across the city. Everyone was out celebrating. They were in the streets. They were in the subways. We had drum lines. We had bagpipes. We had fireworks, and we had an MTA bus driver breaking it down.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tHe then pointed out that the Knicks victory brought out many \u201cappearances by the entire NYCU,\u201d referencing the Marvel Cinematic Universe.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cThere was Spider-Man and there was also Spider-Man and then there was, of course. Spider-Man and oh no, Spider-Man,\u201d Stewart quipped. \u201cAnd then there was Batman and, of course, back to Spider-Man.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tLater in the episode, the host also poked fun at himself as he posted a video on his own social media over the weekend of his joyous reaction to the game\u2019s results. He was spotted at an outdoor watch party with his friends and family. <\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cThere was truly no place I would have rather been than right on the streets of New York. And shout out to the unsung MVPs of the night: the people who had the genius idea to go out on their fire escapes and project the game onto the sides of buildings,\u201d he joked before shouting out the \u201calways MVPs who keep this city safe and clean for the rest of us to enjoy.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tOn ABC\u2019s Jimmy Kimmel Live!, Kimmel opened his Monday night monologue with \u201cthe best five-game NBA Finals series ever.\u201d After rattling off all post-Game 5 stabbings, injuries and arrests in the aftermath of the Knicks\u2019 win, Kimmel joked that \u201cpeople worried Mayor Mamdani was going to destroy New York, no one would have guessed it would be fans of the Knicks.\u201d Kimmel then played a clip of Knicks fans getting a little too rowdy, including destroying school buses and putting Elmo\u2019s head on a spike. \u201cYou know you\u2019re in a festive mood when you set fire to a school bus, and nobody has a problem at all!\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tOn Late Night, Seth Meyers dedicated the first half of his \u201cCloser Look\u201d segment to the Knicks\u2019 Finals win. \u201cI don\u2019t know where you\u2019re watching tonight, but wherever you are, I guarantee it\u2019s not as much fun as New York City is right now,\u201d said Meyers. \u201cNo offense, but New York City is currently a cross between Mardi Gras, Coachella, and that rave from The Matrix. We got Knicks in 5, World Cup Fever, the Puerto Rican Day parade, we got block parties, we got watch parties. We\u2019ve even got guys balancing trash cans on their heads for some reason.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tMeyers added, \u201cThe vibes are so immaculate here in New York City that any given night you could be out for a walk in Brooklyn, and you could see Spike Lee being paraded through a raucous crowd like he was basketball Santa Claus.\u201d The host then spent some time giving Lee some extra love for so publicly sticking with the Knicks through feast and mainly famine.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cIt all feels bigger than just sports,\u201d said Meyers. \u201cIf you\u2019re in New York City right now, whether you live here or you\u2019re just visiting, you could jump on the F train and at any moment be surrounded by people in Knicks gear or Brazil gear, or Morocco gear or even Mets gear. And if you\u2019re from abroad and you don\u2019t know what the Mets logo is, it\u2019s the one on the hats of the sad people.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jimmy Fallon, Jon Stewart, Seth Meyers and Jimmy Kimmel used their respective late night shows on Monday to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":537692,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[265],"tags":[18,117,19,17,9163,7613,38647,202251,231073,27257,132,49608,128],"class_list":["post-537691","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-eire","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-jimmy-fallon","tag-jimmy-kimmel","tag-jon-stewart","tag-knicks","tag-nba-sports","tag-new-york-knicks","tag-sports","tag-the-daily-show-with-jon-stewart","tag-tv"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/116758929126190433","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/537691","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=537691"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/537691\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/537692"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=537691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=537691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=537691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}