Chance the Rapper joked he almost kept the seat next to Martin Short on the plane and made his daughter sit alone so he could talk to the comedy legend

• Chance the Rapper joked that he almost kept his plane seat next to Martin Short.
• The comedy legend offered to switch seats so the rapper could sit next to his daughter.

Chance the Rapper joked he almost kept the plane seat next to Martin Short after the comedy legend offered to switch so the rapper could sit next to his daughter.

On February 26, Chance and his daughter, Kensli, 7, were flying from Los Angeles to Chicago after Chance had been filming "The Voice" on the west coast for a month and a half.

"We get on the plane and realize that our seats aren't together," Chance told Jimmy Fallon on "The Tonight Show" Monday.

He said he was looking around the cabin, doing the "awkward dad" move where he would look around and see if anyone would realize he was trying to shuffle seats to sit with his daughter without having to directly ask anyone to swap.

"But before I could even, like, make the suggestion, this kind older gentleman gets up and he's like, 'The girl can have my seat,' and I looked at him in his face and I'm like, 'Are you Martin Short?' And it was Martin Short! It was the Martin Short!" Chance told Fallon.

Chance said he "super freaked out," and that his daughter was excited, too, because she loves Short from "The Santa Clause 3."

Chance ended up taking Short up on his offer so he could fly next to his daughter, but he was tempted to keep the seats as they were once he realized who was next to him.

"I almost told him that it was fine and that I would just sit next to him," Chance admitted.

"He was really, really nice," Chance said of Short, adding, "And I don't think he knows who I am. So I think he just did it, which is hilarious, but also, it's like, that's a really kind gesture."

Fallon then asked Chance whether he's a talker on flights or if he prefers to keep to himself.

"If I'm sitting next to Martin Short I'm a talker for sure," Chance said.

The interaction first went viral on the day of the flight when Chance tweeted the story to his 7.9 million followers, with a photo of Short as Jack Frost.

"I really ain't wanna inconvenience anyone by asking them to swap seats, but before I could say anything this kind older gentleman offered his seat to Kensli so we could sit together," Chance said in the Tweet. "We both said thank you and as he stands up, I realize it's THE Martin Short!!"

"SHOUTOUT TO JACK FROST," Chance said.