Jimmy Fallon and James Corden put on a highly anticipated show at one of New York’s most star-studded spots.
After having dinner with Lorne Michaels at Emilio’s Ballat, former “SNL” star Fallon and former “Late Late Show” host Corden “took the stage in a secret bar in the back” of the upscale restaurant, a spy told Page Six.
According to a source, “The Eric Newman Jazz Band was playing in the club room, and then Fallon and Corden were on stage exchanging Sinatra and Tony Bennett songs!”
We hear that Corden, 47, who is currently starring in Art on Broadway with Bobby Cannavale and Neil Patrick Harris, “absolutely nailed it with ‘My Way,’ and Jimmy followed up with the smooth, heartfelt ‘I Left My Heart in San Francisco.'”
Fallon, 51, host of The Tonight Show, has a history of humming Tony Bennett songs.
He made a surprise appearance on “The Voice” in 2023, appeared in the audience wearing a fake beard and sunglasses, and hummed the same song.
Upon hearing this performance, coach John Legend exclaimed at the time, “I got emotional!”
(Bennett died in 2023 at the age of 96.)
Corden has previously been known to also perform Sinatra songs. In 2017, he reworked a version of “LOVE” by the board president to protest the ban on transgender military service.
The “Peter Rabbit” star even sang Sinatra’s “Me and My Shadow” in a duet with Stephen Colbert on the 2015 broadcast.
Other celebrities who have partied in the esteemed restaurant’s private back room in the past include Rihanna, Brad Pitt and Leonardo DiCaprio.
Taylor Swift famously had girls’ nights out with Blake Lively, Brittany Mahomes and Sophie Turner after the Game of Thrones star split from Joe Jonas. (However, Jonas is close friends with the restaurant’s owner family, and once called Emilio’s Ballato one of his favorite restaurants in New York.)
