If you're going to try and catch The Boss mid-concert, the absolute last thing you want to do is drop him.
Well, apparently Stephen Merchant came close. Appearing on The Tonight Show on Tuesday, he told Jimmy Fallon a story about going to a Bruce Springsteen concert, witnessing some crowd-surfing from the singer himself, then going back the next night with the plan of being one of the lucky audience members to "touch the great man."
The problem? "I forget that I'm six foot seven," says Merchant in the clip above, going on to describe "a moment in time that I'm taking the full weight of Bruce Springsteen."
Luckily, The Boss remained undropped. The lesson? If you're a man of Merchant's stature, crowd surfing support should only be given while in a mild crouching stance.
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