Tom Hanks Says Colonoscopy Parties With Martin Short, Steve Martin Have Them Competing for the Bathroom

For Tom Hanks, Martin Short and Steve Martin, it really stinks when you come in last place.

During the 69-year-old actor’s Monday, June 8, appearance on Jimmy Kimmel Live!, host Jimmy Kimmel asked Hanks about the trio’s colonoscopy parties.

“About every five years, that magic date comes around, and we get together and eat clear Jell-O and compete as to who is gonna be able to be the last one to go to the bathroom,” the Toy Story actor explained. “And it is mano a mano, man.”

Explaining that he, Short, 76, and Martin, 80, usually sit around playing cards, they “take this stuff that induces the sluice mechanism to get that whole digestive system clean.”

Then they wait for what happens next. “We’re all just fighting and playing cards because the first one to go gets the last choice of when you go in to get the colonoscopy,” he said. “The last one to go gets a choice.”

“So everybody is like, ‘No, I’m… I gotta go!‘ And then you go, and you can’t hold it,” Hanks continued.

After Hanks was asked who’s the strongest between the three of them when it comes to holding their bowel movements, the Forrest Gump actor revealed that he has “a colon of iron.”

“Hey, everybody, get them checked!” he told the crowd.

“I get them every year, just for the hell of it,” Kimmel replied jokingly. “Steven Spielberg directs my colonoscopies.”

Short and Martin previously talked to Kimmel, 58, about their colonoscopy parties.

“We go to Steve’s house around 5 p.m. the night before — we call it Colonoscopy Eve in Canada — and it’s catered,” Short said. “There’s Jell-O. There’s not much — you have to purge all that. And then we toast.”

“By 10 p.m., the bathroom looks like Day 14 of a Carnival cruise,” Short added.

“I thought the bathroom ended up looking like a Jackson Pollock [design],” said Martin, referring to the abstract artist.