“The family group chat is going crazy.
They’re just like, ‘How could this happen?
Parents are so greedy!
Issa Rae on ‘The Tonight Show’.Todd Owyoung/NBC
People take this too seriously!’
And I’m dead silent.”
Issa Raeis recalling the time she very nearly made her young nephew lose his school fundraiser.
“My sister hits me up and is like, ‘Oh, they’re selling popcorn at the school.
“My sister doesn’t ask for anything, so I’m like, ‘Yeah, bet.'”
The maize race quickly became a family affair.
I’ll call him, like, Zulu or something.
[My brother’s] like, ‘Zulu’s so smug.
But I’m getting in this competitive spirit too.”
At that point, she was prepared to win the contest for her nephew by any means necessary.
“He gets to No.
And then I realized…
I gave it to Zulu.”
“And Zulu was in first place!”
she exclaimed as the audience let out a loud collective gasp.
“The family group chat is going crazy.
They’re just like, ‘How could this happen?
Parents are so greedy!
People take this too seriously!’
And I’m dead silent.”
Meanwhile, Rae frantically got on the phone with her bank.
“I was calling American Express like, ‘kindly, can we cancel?
This is fraud!'”
He got second place.
He dropped down in the numbers."
“Well, because I put him over the edge!”
Rae said, trying to defend her actions.
“I wasn’t about to do my nephew like that!
Technically my nephew won fair and square.”
“He did not win fair and square!”
an outraged Fallon replied.
“This is a terrible lesson to teach your nephew!”
“You know what’s crazy?
He didn’t even care.
My sister was like, ‘You got second place!’
And he was like, ‘Oh, okay,'” Rae said.
“[He] had no concern.”
Watch Rae discuss her popcorn snafu in the clip above.
