Whether or not comedians invented the mic drop, they have arguably played a larger role in popularizing it than their hip-hop counterparts. In 2008, Saturday Night Live—whose cast members have played an especially large role in popularizing the mic drop—introduced the little-noticed Bobby Moynihan character “Obnoxious Microphone Guy.” The character only does one thing: steal the microphone from the emcee, scream “Whaaaaat!” into it, hold it out, and drop it to the floor.

Mic drops have also made at least two notable appearances on the Amy Poehler-starring Parks & Recreation. In an April 2011 episode, the character Jean-Ralphio (Ben Schwartz) told Tom (Aziz Ansari) to drop the mic at the end of his best man speech. A few months later, Ben Wyatt (Adam Scott) was shown dropping the mic at the end of a speech at the model U.N.

In recent years, awards show have gotten in on the act. To close out the 2011 Tonys, Neil Patrick Harris recapped the night’s events in rhyme and topped it off by tossing the mic. At the 2012 BET Awards, Kanye West capped off his GOOD Music performance with a mic drop.

Even on the night that Obama dropped the mic on Fallon, he wasn’t the only one to do it: Just a few channels away you could spot a mic drop from Utah Jazz player Enes Kanter.