# Jimmy Fallon's mustache: not helping. **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [June 30, 2017, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jimmy-fallons-mustache-not-helping/790207 "2017-06-30T16:57:19Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![WordMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e8c25b/32.png) [@WordMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WordMan)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2017, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jimmy-fallons-mustache-not-helping/790207/1 "2017-06-30T16:57:19Z")
So, up front, I am a Colbert fanboy. But I am catching pictures of Fallon’s 'stache. Nice and thick, but he’s no Ron Swanson. How do Fallon fans feel? ---
**Author:** ![CarnalK](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnalk/32/486_2.png) [@CarnalK](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CarnalK)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2017, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jimmy-fallons-mustache-not-helping/790207/2 "2017-06-30T19:23:31Z")
I watch his show often enough. It’s silly and lighthearted which works because I’m generally not in the mood for a political discussion with my wife at 11pm. The moustache lark seems right in line with the usual tone of the show. Let’s not forget Colbert’s head shaving stunt if you want a comparison. ---
**Author:** ![Barking\_Dog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ccd318/32.png) [@Barking\_Dog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Barking_Dog)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2017, 9:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jimmy-fallons-mustache-not-helping/790207/3 "2017-06-30T21:40:13Z")
That mustache makes him look like a pornographer. It’s a tad unsettling. ---
**Author:** ![Rushgeekgirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rushgeekgirl/32/3715_2.png) [@Rushgeekgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rushgeekgirl)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2017, 9:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jimmy-fallons-mustache-not-helping/790207/4 "2017-06-30T21:50:20Z")
Did he lose a bet or something? ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2017, 9:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jimmy-fallons-mustache-not-helping/790207/5 "2017-06-30T21:56:41Z")
Jimmy Kimmel with a beard: [yes.](https://img.buzzfeed.com/buzzfeed-static/static/2015-10/19/16/enhanced/webdr06/original-21182-1445287306-16.png?downsize=715:*&output-format=auto&output-quality=auto) Jimmy Fallon with a mustache: [no.](http://media.gq.com/photos/594428f79a3d125c2320fda6/3:2/w_560/fallon-mustache.png) ---
**Author:** ![Enter\_the\_Flagon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/b9bd4f/32.png) [@Enter\_the\_Flagon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enter_the_Flagon)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2017, 3:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jimmy-fallons-mustache-not-helping/790207/6 "2017-07-01T03:00:55Z")
> [@Little\_Nemo](#): > > Jimmy Kimmel with a beard: yes. Huh, the poster behind him - without the beard - looks like Jimmy Kimmel as played by Larry Hagman. > [@](#): > > Jimmy Fallon with a mustache: no. Have we gotten to the part where he whispers “Rosebud”? ---
**Author:** ![hajario](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hajario/32/171_2.png) [@hajario](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hajario)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2017, 3:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jimmy-fallons-mustache-not-helping/790207/7 "2017-07-01T03:18:17Z")
If anything it makes me more want to bash his skull in with a brick. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2017, 3:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jimmy-fallons-mustache-not-helping/790207/8 "2017-07-01T03:34:02Z")
> [@Enter\_the\_Flagon](#): > > Have we gotten to the part where he whispers “Rosebud”? [I was thinking more “Pucker up, buttercup.”](http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-7wRiNojR1m0/TnUGwp33wdI/AAAAAAAAEq8/pl2Sm16P9nQ/s1600/FerrisBueller_102Pyxurz.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![ftg](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ftg/32/2801_2.png) [@ftg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ftg)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2017, 1:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jimmy-fallons-mustache-not-helping/790207/9 "2017-07-01T13:12:46Z")
Makes him look like a 3rd rate used car salesman. One of those guys so bad at it they don’t even know the difference between a 6-cylinder and an 8-cylinder. Once in a while someone buys the car out of pity. ---
**Author:** ![WordMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e8c25b/32.png) [@WordMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WordMan)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2017, 1:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jimmy-fallons-mustache-not-helping/790207/10 "2017-07-01T13:39:33Z")
> [@hajario](#): > > If anything it makes me more want to bash his skull in with a brick. Pleasant. :rolleyes: It doesn’t work, and I peer Colbert, but I don’t, you know, want to bash him with anything. ---
**Author:** ![WordMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e8c25b/32.png) [@WordMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WordMan)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2017, 2:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jimmy-fallons-mustache-not-helping/790207/11 "2017-07-01T14:32:06Z")
> [@WordMan](#): > > Pleasant. :rolleyes: > > It doesn’t work, and I peer Colbert, but I don’t, you know, want to bash him with anything. It (the mustache) doesn’t work, and I _prefer_ Colbert. Sigh. ---
**Author:** ![Walken\_After\_Midnight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/b487fb/32.png) [@Walken\_After\_Midnight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Walken_After_Midnight)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2017, 10:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jimmy-fallons-mustache-not-helping/790207/12 "2017-07-01T22:31:58Z")
I think it would look better if the moustache was more Gomez from the Addams family, and less John Bolton. So a bit [like this](http://i.imgur.com/iVRK3IF.jpg). ---
**Author:** ![Battle\_Pope](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4bbf92/32.png) [@Battle\_Pope](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Battle_Pope)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2017, 1:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jimmy-fallons-mustache-not-helping/790207/13 "2017-07-02T01:01:24Z")
> [@Little\_Nemo](#): > > Jimmy Fallon with a mustache: [no.](http://media.gq.com/photos/594428f79a3d125c2320fda6/3:2/w_560/fallon-mustache.png) > **[Ron Swanson](https://parksandrecreation.fandom.com/wiki/Ron_Swanson)** > > Ronald Ulysses "Ron" Swanson is a fictional character portrayed by Nick Offerman in the NBC comedy-drama Parks and Recreation. He is the former husband of two women by the name of Tammy Swanson and is the current husband of Diane Swanson. He was... ---
**Author:** ![Rocketeer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rocketeer/32/4437_2.png) [@Rocketeer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rocketeer)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2017, 6:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jimmy-fallons-mustache-not-helping/790207/14 "2017-07-02T18:34:47Z")
> [@Walken\_After\_Midnight](#): > > I think it would look better if the moustache was more Gomez from the Addams family, and less John Bolton. So a bit [like this](http://i.imgur.com/iVRK3IF.jpg). Oh, yeah! ---
**Author:** ![Reddy\_Mercury](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/43a26b/32.png) [@Reddy\_Mercury](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Reddy_Mercury)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2017, 8:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jimmy-fallons-mustache-not-helping/790207/15 "2017-07-02T20:42:07Z")
A more cultivated mustache ala Walter Cronkite would look fine. The weird “mustaches are all bad” crap needs to stop. ---
**Author:** ![WOOKINPANUB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wookinpanub/32/132_2.png) [@WOOKINPANUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WOOKINPANUB)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2017, 12:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jimmy-fallons-mustache-not-helping/790207/16 "2017-07-03T12:19:35Z")
Can someone explain what the 'stache thing is all about? All I can find - and I think I heard him mention it - is the “summer of the 'stache” or something. Is there more to it, say a charity or a political statement? [QUOTE=Reddy Mercury] A more cultivated mustache ala Walter Cronkite would look fine. The weird “mustaches are all bad” crap needs to stop. [/QUOTE] Did anyone say “all mustaches are bad”? I think they are generally not a good look for most men and Jimmy is no exception. Of course his is obviously extra bushy and porn like for comic effect (right?). ---
**Author:** ![Reddy\_Mercury](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/43a26b/32.png) [@Reddy\_Mercury](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Reddy_Mercury)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2017, 5:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jimmy-fallons-mustache-not-helping/790207/17 "2017-07-03T17:30:53Z")
> [@WOOKINPANUB](#): > > Can someone explain what the 'stache thing is all about? All I can find - and I think I heard him mention it - is the “summer of the 'stache” or something. Is there more to it, say a charity or a political statement? > > Did anyone say “all mustaches are bad”? I think they are generally not a good look for most men and Jimmy is no exception. Of course his is obviously extra bushy and porn like for comic effect (right?). The attempted social shaming that comes with anyone who dares wear one needs to stop. There are some men who look better with them than without them (such as myself, who can’t pull off a beard or a goatee and who looks too young cleanshaven). Mustaches are not all about “porn and child molesters.” Mustaches were worn long before porn existed. This Gen X hatred of them because their dads wore them…you need to let it go. ---
**Author:** ![Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/son_of_a_rich/32/5439_2.png) [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Son_of_a_Rich)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2017, 1:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jimmy-fallons-mustache-not-helping/790207/18 "2017-07-05T13:51:59Z")
> [@Walken\_After\_Midnight](#): > > I think it would look better if the moustache was more Gomez from the Addams family, and less John Bolton. So a bit [like this](http://i.imgur.com/iVRK3IF.jpg). Less Gomez Addams, and more John Waters. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2017, 3:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jimmy-fallons-mustache-not-helping/790207/19 "2017-07-05T15:52:03Z")
> [@Reddy\_Mercury](#): > > The attempted social shaming that comes with anyone who dares wear one needs to stop. There are some men who look better with them than without them (such as myself, who can’t pull off a beard or a goatee and who looks too young cleanshaven). Mustaches are not all about “porn and child molesters.” Mustaches were worn long before porn existed. This Gen X hatred of them because their dads wore them…you need to let it go. No, society doesn’t work like that and it never has. If you want to defy social rules, you’re free to do so. But society is still going to judge you by its rules. You, like everyone else, has to make a fundamental choice in life. You either live within society’s expectations or you live with society’s disapproval. ---
**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2017, 3:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jimmy-fallons-mustache-not-helping/790207/20 "2017-07-05T15:58:59Z")
> [@Little\_Nemo](#): > > No, society doesn’t work like that and it never has. If you want to defy social rules, you’re free to do so. But society is still going to judge you by its rules. > > You, like everyone else, has to make a fundamental choice in life. You either live within society’s expectations or you live with society’s disapproval. OK, dad. Can a borrow the car anyway? [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jimmy-fallons-mustache-not-helping/790207.md?page=2)