Rachel Dratch Hilariously Interrupts Jimmy Fallon's Monologue with Impersonation of Viral Australian Breakdancer Raygun
The Aussie breaker went viral for her breakdancing routine at the 2024 Paris Olympics
Australian olympic breakdancer, Raygun, has made her way to The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon!
During his opening monologue on Monday, Aug. 11, host Jimmy Fallon was in for a surprise when Rachel Dratch crashed his bit dressed as the breakdancer, who has since gone viral for her performance at the 2024 Paris Olympics.
"Breakdancing made its Olympic debut, and everyone’s still talking about the competitor from Australia named Raygun,” Fallon, 49, said as he played a short clip of the dancer sweeping her body across the floor and hopping like a kangaroo. "She actually received zero points for that."
As the audience expressed their sympathy for Raygun, the late night host pondered, "You have to wonder where Raygun is right now,” before music from her Olympic routine began to play and the curtains behind him opened.
To everyone's shock and delight, Dratch, 58, stepped out dressed identically to Raygun's Olympic uniform. The comedian began performing her own take of the viral performance and could be seen swimming her arms and popping poses.
"Wow Raygun!" Fallon burst into laughter. "I have to ask you this, how are you feeling since your performance?"
Without a word, Dratch took to the floor and began sweeping her body in circles before hitting her final pose with her arm propped on her hip.
“Raygun, I see, you speak through your dance moves. I understand," Fallon said as Dratch rose to her feet and encouraged him to join her as she broke out into bunny hops. After joining her for a few seconds, Fallon tried his own hand at breakdancing on the floor.
On Aug. 9, the Australian dancer (whose real name is Rachael Gunn) garnered worldwide attention after she showed off some of her unique breaking moves at the women's b-girl competition at the Olympics. After competing against Team USA's b-girl Logistx, 21, France's Syssy, 16, and Lithuania's Nicka, 17, she eventually lost her Round Robin-style competition.
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According to her Olympics profile, the 36-year-old is a university professor in Australia and was a jazz and ballroom dancer before she got into breaking. She even studies breaking in her work as a professor, according to her biography page for Macquarie University, located in Sydney. She works as a lecturer, studying "the cultural politics of breaking."
"It is such an honor and a privilege to be, you know, one of sixteen women from around the world competing in breaking’s debut at the Olympics," Gunn said in an Instagram video at the time. "I hope that seeing breaking at the Olympics inspires a whole new generation of breakers."
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