Jimmy Fallons frequent musical sketches have seen the Tonight Show host impersonate Neil Young, explore the History of Rapand create such a fervor for lip sync battlesthat he needed to start its own spinoff. On Monday nights episode, Fallon and guest Jack Black took their shared love of music to a new extreme, literally, when the pair busted out hair metal wigs and sweet falsetto for a shot-for-shot remake of thevideo for Extremes 1991 chart-topping ballad.
In the remake, Black portrays Extreme singer Gary Cherone while Fallon, acoustic guitar in hand, takes on the role of Nuno Bettencourt. This isnt some next-level lip sync battle either; Black and Fallon actually sing in perfect harmony as they perform the Extreme II: Pornograffiti lighters-raising smash. The remake even stays true to the originals black-and-white palette.
The shot-for-shot remake also captures some of the Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris-directed videos finer details, from the dude with his feet up apathetically reading a magazine to Bettencourts nail-polished left hand and fixed stare into the camera to Cherones long hair slung over his right shoulder.
For comparison, heres Extremes original More Than Words video:
Fallons shot-for-shot remake is also the best ode to the More Than Words video since Weird Al Yankovic used it for the basis of his You Dont Love Me Anymore in 1992: