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Elizabeth Holmes raised more than $700 million doing a Steve Jobs impression and ended up with an 11-year sentence. A comedian moved in with her 34 days before she reported to prison, to figure out if she was still doing it. Nathan Fielder got a 174-minute movie out of that, You Can See Everything, and he still can't tell. Neither can Amanda Seyfried, who won an Emmy for playing Holmes in The Dropout and shows up in the film to weigh in. This week Jamie Lee Curtis, an Oscar winner, did an impression of that impression on Fallon's show. She wore the black turtleneck and held the unblinking stare, and she did the baritone too, the one former Theranos employees say used to slip when Holmes had a drink. Across the table, Jimmy Fallon played Fielder, a comedian whose entire career is playing a slightly fictional version of himself. The sketch skipped right past Fielder's question and assumed everybody in the room was doing a bit. That's four layers of performance in one two-shot. The replies keep asking how Fallon is this good. Go watch his 1998 SNL audition. It's eight minutes of impressions (Seinfeld, Chris Rock, Travolta, Gilbert Gottfried), and his Adam Sandler pulled a rare laugh out of Lorne Michaels at a point when nobody else was doing Sandler yet. That one impression got him hired. Then came 17 years of hosting, the games, the laughing at his own guests, and the impressions mostly stopped getting airtime. Funny thing is, the casting has a second joke in it. Fallon is the guy who famously couldn't get through More Cowbell without cracking up, and Fielder's whole method is holding a silence until the other person cracks first. So the most famous breaker in SNL history spent a sketch studying the one comedian built on never breaking.