Dr. Oz removes Jimmy Fallon's mole on TV

NEW YORK, Feb. 19 (UPI) -- Dr. Oz removed a mole from his fellow talk-show host Jimmy Fallon's hand on "The Dr. Oz Show" stage, the U.S. show's producers said.

After a biopsy, the mole was determined to be not cancerous.

"Jimmy arrived in a hospital gown and, despite some nerves, he put his trust in the hands of Dr. Oz and physician Dr. Arthur Perry," the show's producers said in a news release Friday. "As he sat in the operating room chair and doctors made incisions and sutures, Jimmy turned his eyes away, unable to watch. He sang verses of the national anthem and cracked jokes as the audience squealed and chanted in support: 'Jimmy! Jimmy!' When the audience was silent during certain moments of the surgery, Jimmy pled for their support."

"We had to struggle to get him downstairs to the studio after wrestling him to the ground. He yelled and screamed throughout this. God knows why. It was a tiny little needle," Dr. Oz, a cardiothoracic surgeon whose full name is Mehmet Cengiz Oz, joked in a statement. "What a cry baby. I didn't even get his co-pay. I'm going to send him a bill. A big bill."

Fallon held the laser while Perry removed an under-eye scar, an old childhood wound, from Dr. Oz's face.

The segments are to air in Wednesday's edition of "The Dr. Oz Show."