Jimmy Fallon is the host of The Tonight Show on NBC, but Thursday’s show might as well have been one of those cable shopping shows where products that exist, but don’t need to are pitched to the audience. Specifically, Fallon welcomed the finalists of Netflix's Squid Games: The Challenge and took the occasion to have one of those finalists—Sam Lantz— hype his “gender-inclusive beard care.”
Fallon observed that “I can't help but notice, but you have a beautiful beard. You're going into the beard, kind of, business.”
Lantz, with his James Garfield-like beard, elaborated, “Yes, yeah I have a gender-inclusive beard care brand, caring for facial hair that -- any -- anybody can -- anybody can grow facial hair they don't have to identify as, you know, a man.”
He also mourned that “a lot of the beard care brands out there right now are just kind of narrow-focused to, you know, a Viking, you're a lumberjack, you're a warrior and, you know, beards are beautiful. Beards make you beautiful.”
Squid Games may be a souped-up version of first grade games, but for Fallon and Lantz it is perhaps a good thing Netflix does not make you take a first grade science test.
Here is a transcript for the December 7-taped show:
NBC The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
12/8/2023
12:25 AM ET
JIMMY FALLON: And I can't help but notice, but you have a beautiful beard.
SAM LANTZ: Thank you.
JIMMY FALLON: You're going into the beard, kind of, business.
LANTZ: Yes, yeah I have a gender-inclusive beard care brand, caring for facial hair that -- any -- anybody can -- anybody can grow facial hair they don't have to identify as, you know, a man. And a lot of the beard care brands out there right now are just kind of narrow-focused to, you know, a Viking, you're a lumberjack, you're a warrior and, you know, beards are beautiful. Beards make you beautiful.
