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Jimmy Fallon Bans Dancing and Kevin Bacon Gets Footloose

After Jimmy announces that The Tonight Show has banned dancing, Kevin Bacon breaks the rules with an epic entrance on March 21, 2014 (Photo by: Lloyd Bishop/NBC)

On the March 21, 2014 episode of The Tonight Show, host Jimmy Fallon proclaimed dancing has been banned on the late night series. Why? To set up an epic Footloose-inspired dance number by Kevin Bacon. Bacon was on the show to talk about his series The Following and to celebrate the 30th anniversary of Footloose and, of course, his response to the ban on dancing was to perform “Footloose.”

He even ended the performance wearing a red tuxedo!

This post was last modified on October 22, 2023 6:34 pm

Rebecca Murray: Journalist covering the entertainment industry for 23+ years, including 13 years as the first writer for About.com's Hollywood Movies site. Member of the Critics Choice Association (Film & TV Branches), Alliance of Women Film Journalists, and Past President of the San Diego Film Critics Society.
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