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Video: Tom Hanks Performs <em>Full House</em> Slam Poetry, Texts With Bruce Springsteen
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Ben Yakas
Published Oct 24, 2012
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America's Most Beloved Thespian, Tom Hanks, has been on quite a roll lately: dropping F-bombs on Good Morning America, pulling out a Long Island accent on SNL, growing curious facial hair for Broadway, taking hilarious photos with fans. Now, you can add two more notches to that belt: texting with Bruce BROOOOOOCE Springsteen, and performing slam poetry about Full House on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon. Watch below, Gibbler.
Before that ode to a house full of men, Hanks entertained Fallon with his anecdote about getting a text from Springsteen ("Tommy! Thinkin' of blowin' out 'Wrecking Ball' on the Fallon show this Friday. Come join me on guitar. Help out a brother!"), and how he missed his chance to appear on Fallon's show with guitar in hand. Watch it below.
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Ben Yakas is a former Gothamist reporter.
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