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Jimmy Fallon Asked What People Are Doing While Bored In Quarantine And Here Are 30 Of The Funniest Answers
Boredom sparks creativity. Think about it. As you’re laying there in a fetal position, saving lives by staying home, your restless mind is running errands. You start daydreaming in no time—wandering around the house like a lone pirate planning on terrains to conquer.
So when Jimmy Fallon announced his new hashtag challenge #ImSoBored|, it was destined to hit close to home. “Tell us a funny thing you’ve done to pass the time in quarantine,” asked the comedian on Twitter.
From giving names to canned soups, to cooking three-course meals and pretending it’s a cooking show, there’s nothing we wouldn’t do out of boredom. Check out the most hilarious answers below and upvote your favorites!
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I am organising a bake off between my daughter and myself during our isolation, I have a list of all kinds of activities. Today I made a volcano with my son and watched it erupt.
This time The Tonight Show, the third longest running show on NBC, got a quarantine rendition. Since Fallon’s show, Jimmy Kimmel Live! and other late-night shows have suspended production due to the pandemic, the comedian turned to an impro solution. The low-tech "At Home Edition” episode aired live from Fallon’s home.
But hosting the show in such close proximity to his 5 and 6 year-old daughters was definitely a change from his usual setup. Fallon called the situation “controlled chaos.” The veteran comedian explained to People that “'[Frances and Winnie] don't know they're being seen by millions of people. They just want to play. They know what I do but they've never seen it live.” The show also featured DIY props and hand-drawn cue cards.
The idea to create a DIY version of The Tonight Show from home came after Fallon’s wife Nancy Juvonen suggested that they do something together. “My wife said, ‘We’re all quarantined in the house together, this is the time, you have to put something out there. Let’s do a show from here.’” Nancy offered to be a cameraman and the rest is history. “It’s a good way to get the word out,” recounts comedian.
Fallon's special edition series aims to raise funds for a different charity every night, from Feeding America and Save the Children to Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS and No Kid Hungry. “It isn’t about ratings or anything else, it’s about—we’re here to help,” said Fallon. The special celebrity guests have included Kim Kardashian West and Jon Bon Jovi. The former vice president Joe Biden is said to be booked to Zoom into the NBC show on April 1st.
There is a lot of cat watching going on in many countries at the moment hehe !
This should totally be a thing worldwide. What an excellent way for them to get exercise without it costing a fortune.
My nanna had her kitchen renovated a couple of years ago. When they cleared the cupboards out of the old kitchen, they found food from 1995 and 1998 etc.
We cleaned out my nanna's house after she passed... Found canned dinosaur.
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After my Grandma died in 2009, we were clearing out her kitchen, and found a tub of whole nutmeg with a best before date circa 1972! (she moved house in 1992). It still had one nutmeg inside the unmistakably 70's cardboard tube packaging. I can't laugh at her for being a pack-rat though, we laugh-cried so much on finding it that I couldn't bear to throw it away, this nutmeg that went out of date 8 years before I was born, so I kept it as a memento.
Same. We cleaned out my grandmother's pantry and we found food from the late 1900s in there.
When you throw the "1900's" in there even if it's the late part of it it sounds a hundred years old.
Load More Replies... My husband put away some canned goods. He was aghast to find canned chili from 2019 and threw it away. Tsk tsk. Amateur.
We moved into a condo back in 2009. We were preping it to sell two years ago and I was repainting everything, including the shelfs in the closet which were too high for use to use. While on a ladder, I found a pipe and sever thongs. People that owned the condo before must have had fun.
When my husband's mom died, we found some spices that expired in the 70's. His parents had moved many times between the 70's and the house they lived in when she passed but, apparently, she kept packing it up and moving it with them... sometimes to different states...
I still have some of my original Spice Island spice jars from 1972. I wash them out each time they're empty and refill from the bulk buy store. The jars last forever, not so much the lids when you drop them.
I have a friend who has laundry supplies in her basement from the 1900s.
word of advice. Don't open anything that has an expiration date of >1 ago. Especially if its molasses from 2001. Please, heed this warning. -A survivor
Umm.. Ok, it was Oregano ;-) Sure it was. :-)
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My SIL bought a used couch and found a bottle of HIdden Valley Ranch Dressing in it with an expiration date from 2008...
When I was old enough to go through the larder I found gravy browning from the 1950s. This was in 1980. It had been through at least 6 house moves, including to and from Spain
I have bottle of fresh custard in my shed fridge from Christmas 2017. We laugh and leave it, it's still sealed.
I have had an unopened bottle of syrup since 1999 and plan on being buried with it
Like the handwritten worksheets out teachers used to make and "crank out" on the mimeograph machine... (amazed I remembered what one of those was called). Mimeograph...d1f6dc.jpg 
Man I hate that heinz ketchup bottle. You try and squeeze gently so a little comes out but nothing so you squeeze a smidgen more and you end up with s**t loads everywhere.
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Me too. Then after I just read your post I scrolled up to make are they didn't shorten the list yet.
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I'm so bored I'm not skipping any Panda posts. Even the dreaded " Disney character " ones.
Have we had "Artist reimagines Disney Princesses as Lockdown activities" yet? WE WILL
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I'm only bored because there are other people at home. I'm NEVER bored if I'm by myself as I can do what I want! With other people around all the time it's just awful
When I lived with my ex and kids, I couldn't wait for them to leave ..90% of time I cleaned to music..
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Wow hey nothing? this is a hand-drawn animation right here
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I got ordained and started marrying all my daughters stuff animals. I give Pusheen and sunshine bear a year tops.
Showed this to my wife and she cracked up and then explained it to me.
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I'm so bored I even read the comments under the posts to pass the time
My home kind of hugs me. I feel good here. I was doing already quarentena as a normal lifestyle before becoming trendy and cool. I love my house and to be home. Stay home people.
I don't get it. I'm never bored at home. So many books to read, movies to watch, puzzles to do. I'd be happy staying at home all year! Sadly I still have to go to work.
I'm so bored I drew every shot from Star wars the force awakens trailer and filmed it to make a recreation of it with my drawings and doodles. That only took 2 days so now im bored again.... :/
Reduced from 54 to 30? Please cut soie more--that's what editors are supposed to do. But you get credit for not calling them 'hilarious.'
I'm so bored, I'm actually looking at the entirety of YouTube's suggestions based on their algorithm. I am still (3.5 days later) amazed at the stuff it actually thinks that I would like... hmmmm....maybe I;m worse than I thought.... -Rev Dr M, former politician & college professor, still a single parent & otaku
I work at a Senior Independent Living facility and everyday we have new rules and guidelines to follow. I'm exhausted every day and wish I could stay at home, but am also grateful for being employed, working with great people, and great residents that are getting cabin fever.
Some people cannot work from home or go out to work because of the nature of their job or maybe can't go out for health reasons and we don't all have children.
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I've been working on a nonfiction book - and I have gotten a lot done on it. I may be ready to find a publisher soon.
I'm so bored that I handmade a weaving loom and am now weaving a tapestry. :D
I was bored last week, so i ordered season 3 of Chicago Hope on amazon. It arrived this morning, so now im binge watching it
I am definitely NOT bored! I'm too busy working :-/ I WISH I had the leisure to be bored!
....you are not bored, Annemarie and Demi, and look, people on Bored Panda don't like it. Unbelievable!
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I'm so bored I... wait... I'm not bored. I'm an adult that doesn't need others to entertain me constantly ánd can actually entertain myself indoors. Guess those are skills long forgotten by a large part of mankind.
But you are on Bored Panda so you must be a little bored. I'm not saying Bored Panda is boring, I'm saying Bored is literally in the name and it's a great way to kill time.
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Me too. Then after I just read your post I scrolled up to make are they didn't shorten the list yet.
Load More Replies... I'm so bored I'm not skipping any Panda posts. Even the dreaded " Disney character " ones.
Have we had "Artist reimagines Disney Princesses as Lockdown activities" yet? WE WILL
Load More Replies... I'm only bored because there are other people at home. I'm NEVER bored if I'm by myself as I can do what I want! With other people around all the time it's just awful
When I lived with my ex and kids, I couldn't wait for them to leave ..90% of time I cleaned to music..
Load More Replies... Wow hey nothing? this is a hand-drawn animation right here
Load More Replies... I got ordained and started marrying all my daughters stuff animals. I give Pusheen and sunshine bear a year tops.
Showed this to my wife and she cracked up and then explained it to me.
Load More Replies... I'm so bored I even read the comments under the posts to pass the time
My home kind of hugs me. I feel good here. I was doing already quarentena as a normal lifestyle before becoming trendy and cool. I love my house and to be home. Stay home people.
I don't get it. I'm never bored at home. So many books to read, movies to watch, puzzles to do. I'd be happy staying at home all year! Sadly I still have to go to work.
I'm so bored I drew every shot from Star wars the force awakens trailer and filmed it to make a recreation of it with my drawings and doodles. That only took 2 days so now im bored again.... :/
Reduced from 54 to 30? Please cut soie more--that's what editors are supposed to do. But you get credit for not calling them 'hilarious.'
I'm so bored, I'm actually looking at the entirety of YouTube's suggestions based on their algorithm. I am still (3.5 days later) amazed at the stuff it actually thinks that I would like... hmmmm....maybe I;m worse than I thought.... -Rev Dr M, former politician & college professor, still a single parent & otaku
I work at a Senior Independent Living facility and everyday we have new rules and guidelines to follow. I'm exhausted every day and wish I could stay at home, but am also grateful for being employed, working with great people, and great residents that are getting cabin fever.
Some people cannot work from home or go out to work because of the nature of their job or maybe can't go out for health reasons and we don't all have children.
Load More Replies... I've been working on a nonfiction book - and I have gotten a lot done on it. I may be ready to find a publisher soon.
I'm so bored that I handmade a weaving loom and am now weaving a tapestry. :D
I was bored last week, so i ordered season 3 of Chicago Hope on amazon. It arrived this morning, so now im binge watching it
I am definitely NOT bored! I'm too busy working :-/ I WISH I had the leisure to be bored!
....you are not bored, Annemarie and Demi, and look, people on Bored Panda don't like it. Unbelievable!
Load More Replies... I'm so bored I... wait... I'm not bored. I'm an adult that doesn't need others to entertain me constantly ánd can actually entertain myself indoors. Guess those are skills long forgotten by a large part of mankind.
But you are on Bored Panda so you must be a little bored. I'm not saying Bored Panda is boring, I'm saying Bored is literally in the name and it's a great way to kill time.
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