Nick Jonas, Jimmy Fallon Talk Olympics, Sing ‘Jorts’ With Will Ferrell
Nick Jonas remembers the “Disney Games” in a really particular means: “like Love Island on crack.”
Jonas, who tells Jimmy Fallon he skipped the 2024 Summer Olympics opening ceremony to go to The Tonight Show, appeared on NBC’s late-night present Friday, July 26. (The singer talked about plans to move to Paris for the video games in a while, with good friend/designer Ralph Lauren, who dressed him for his marriage ceremony with Priyanka Chopra in 2018.)
“You never competed in the Olympics,” Fallon identified. “You did, however, compete in the Disney Games.”
“What do you remember about this time of your life?” the host requested the Jonas Brother.
“So much hair,” joked Jonas, taking a look at a photograph circa his youthful Disney star days.
“For those that don’t know,” Jonas defined, “the Disney Channel Games were basically the Olympics, but they would bring in 100ish Disney Channel stars from all over the world and make us compete in silly games.”
Then he revealed the place the true enjoyable got here in: “What it really was, was like Love Island on crack. They would put a bunch of teenagers in the Disney park after hours and just say, ‘Let’s see what happens.’”
Friday’s episode of The Tonight Show, with musical visitor Ice Spice performing “Did It First/Think U The Shit (Fart),” additionally had a bonus: a pre-taped section starring Will Ferrell, Nick Jonas and Jimmy Fallon performing a tune about jorts, a candy summer time staple for the trio.
In the musical sketch about jorts, Fallon and Ferrell deliver the fundamentals — “I’m in my jorts/ I’m in my jort shorts/ I’m in in my jorts/ Jean shorts/ That means jorts” — and Jonas jumps in to jazz issues up.
“I wear my jorts every day of the week/ They start at my hips and they end at my knees/ And if you see me you’ll know that I’m in ‘em/ They’re jorts and they’re short and they’re totally denim,” he sings on the spot, vying to hitch the jorts troupe.
Watch Jimmy Fallon’s newest interview with Nick Jonas, plus their “Jorts” sketch with Will Ferrell, beneath.