Jimmy Fallon and Tom Cruise hardly make it through this spy movie scene without losing it

It's weird, but watching people try not to giggle rules.
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Shannon Connellan
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Jimmy Fallon and Tom Cruise hardly make it through this spy movie scene without losing it
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Jimmy Fallon and Tom Cruise have done their fair share of silly skits on The Tonight Show over the years. And their newly made-up Mission: Impossible scene is just as harebrained.

In a segment on Monday night's show, Fallon and Cruise acted out a dramatic spy movie scene they'd written together playing the "Mad Lib" game. Adhering to the segment rules, Cruise answers Fallon's random questions, and then the two use them as dialogue in a made-up movie scene.

Cruise's answers are quite bizarre — his response to a hypothetical spider crawling up his leg was a cool "come here, darling," — so make for a pretty strange scene. But it's worth watching just for the pair to try and keep a straight face during their fictional train ride.

Want more Mad Lib Theater? Check out older versions by John Cena, Benedict Cumberbatch and Chris Pratt for starters.

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Shannon Connellan
UK Editor

Shannon Connellan is Mashable's UK Editor based in London, formerly Mashable's Australia Editor, but emotionally, she lives in the Creel House. A Tomatometer-approved critic, Shannon writes about entertainment, tech, social good, science, culture, and Australian horror.


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