Four days a week, Jimmy Fallon performs for a TV audience of millions of people as the host of NBC’s “The Tonight Show.” But stepping onto the stage of the Hudson Theater in front of about 1,000 theatergoers made him nervous in a whole new way.

After taking his first bow in All In: Comedy About Love by Simon Rich on Tuesday, Jan. 28, the comedian opened up in a video shared with PEOPLE about the experience while backstage at the Hudson Theatre in New York City, giving a sweet shout-out to his late mother, Gloria.

Show” host, producer and New York City icon, Jimmy Fallon, will make Broadway debut tonight as he joins the all-star cast of All In: Comedy About Love by Simon Rich. Learn more about the production.

Show" host Jimmy Fallon made his Broadway debut in the all-star cast of "All In: Comedy About Love" by Simon Rich on Tuesday (January 28), calling it "exhilarating" and "exhausting." Real Madrid first club to generate 1 billion euros revenue in a season,