Exclusive | From Jimmy Fallons bachelor party to Bono and Johnny Depp: Beloved NYC bar raises glass to colorful history

Jimmy Fallon hit a “Fever Pitch” of excitement at this Manhattan watering hole — so much so that he ended his bachelor party by planting a kiss on the owner.The Mean Fiddler is celebrating its 20th anniversary in the Theater District by raising a glass to its colorful history and the parade of celebrities who have walked — or crawled — through its doors, including the “Tonight Show” host.Fallon celebrated his 2007 bachelor party by watching a UFC fight with his entourage of about 25 guys –including his brother-in-law, his father-in-law and his brothers — whom the owners set up in the downstairs bar, where a regular happened to be celebrating her 30th birthday.“At the end of the night, he comes up and gives me a kiss on the lips and I’m like, ‘Oh my God, this is the first time a guy ever kissed me,'” co-owner Patrick McNamee recalled.“He says, ‘Man, I love you, this place rocks.'”“I love that story because then he just hung out with them, got drunk and ended up playing beer pong ..

.and singing karaoke,” added Patrick’s brother, Mike.The brothers, natives of Dublin, Ireland, opened the pub — the former “raunchy gay bar” Stella’s — on West 47th Street and 8th Avenue in 2006 — and have served up spirits to countless famous faces.“Bono came in with Johnny Depp, hammered,” Patrick, 60, said.“Pierce Brosnan used to sit here every day writing.

I remember asking him, ‘How come you actors sit at the bar with the stool turned this way, at a 45-degree angle?’ He said it was so people wouldn’t recognize them.Then I looked at him and said, ‘Did you learn that in acting school?'”The Irish brothers, who have since opened 11 more Manhattan hot spots, welcomed more celebrities at The Fiddler before they renovated it in 2019.“I know this sounds mad, but the more divey we were, the more celebrities we got,” Mike, 51, said.“We still get them, but not like before.”Many stars saunter in before or after Broadwa...