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  • -Welcome to "The Tonight Show," everybody. I'm Jimmy Fallon.

  • Thank you so much for tuning in. I appreciate it.

  • There's a lot of important news we got to get to,

  • so let's get to the monologue.

  • But first, we have a great show tonight.

  • Robert De Niro is here,

  • Oscar-winning film legend Robert De Niro.

  • He's doing something cool with his Tribeca Film Festival,

  • which had to be moved because of the pandemic.

  • He has now a new idea that Jane Rosenthal came up with

  • which is drive-ins,

  • Tribeca drive-in movies.

  • It's a great idea. I'm going to talk to him about that.

  • Then James Blake, tennis legend and also best-selling author,

  • talks about his experience with mistaken identity

  • and his experience with the police

  • that happened a few years ago in New York.

  • Do you remember that, honey? -Mm-hmm, yeah.

  • -Yeah. It's wild.

  • His story is insane.

  • So I'm happy that he came on the show to talk to me about that.

  • And then one of my all-time favorites, honey, yours, too,

  • our pal Lenny Kravitz is closing out the show tonight with his --

  • Come on. -Classic.

  • -Can you get cooler than Lenny Kravitz?

  • Can you get cooler?

  • -I think his daughter, but that's it.

  • -Yeah, she's cool. -[ Laughs ]

  • -Yeah, yeah, yeah.

  • But he is so cool. -It runs in the family.

  • -Gosh. He's one of those guys

  • where it's like, you can give him a wardrobe

  • and me the same exact wardrobe,

  • and you'll see the extreme of "Who wore it better?"

  • It's like, he can just do it, man.

  • You could put a dollhouse

  • and say, "Dude, make that into something cool."

  • He'll just, like, hold it. He'll hold --

  • I'm just looking at a dollhouse,

  • 'cause we have dollhouses all over the house.

  • But anyways, he is just the best --

  • Anyways, he's doing the song "Believe" tonight,

  • which is great, and I appreciate him doing that.

  • I do love Lenny Kravitz.

  • Guys, let's get to some news here.

  • Well, guys, apparently the long-running TV show "Cops"

  • which many people have considered racist,

  • has just been canceled.

  • So now if you want to watch a bunch of drunk people

  • embarrass themselves, you'll have to watch "The Bachelor"

  • or "Real Housewives" or "Below Deck"

  • or "Below Deck: Med"

  • or "Below Deck Sail--" No, just kidding.

  • Most people are glad "Cops" has been canceled,

  • although it's tough news

  • for stoners who love watching shirtless guys

  • try to fail to hop a fence.

  • "Cops" was a crazy show.

  • It actually had more naked and afraid people

  • than "Naked and Afraid."

  • "Cops" first aired in 1989,

  • but really, they just aired the same three episodes for 30 years

  • and nobody noticed.

  • It's not just TV shows that are being canceled.

  • Some movies are being removed from streaming platforms

  • until they can return with historical context.

  • -This morning, an American cinema classic,

  • "Gone with the Wind," has been temporarily pulled

  • by the streaming platform HBO Max.

  • For years, the movie has been considered controversial

  • for its depiction of black people

  • and its glorification of slavery.

  • -A lot of conservatives were upset,

  • to which everyone else said,

  • "Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn."

  • To anyone who is upset,

  • really? You're going to watch a four-hour movie from 1939

  • this weekend? That's what you're planning on doing?

  • You had the whole time during the quarantine.

  • But this weekend is when you were going to watch

  • "Gone with the Wind"?

  • In the meantime, if you still want to watch

  • something super offensive, "Cats" is available on demand.

  • No, that's -- Come on.

  • Yep, by pulling the film,

  • HBO Max accomplished something very important --

  • They got people to talk about HBO Max.

  • And what actually is it?

  • Meanwhile, Quibi is so desperate for attention,

  • they were like, "We'll take it.

  • We're going to break it up into 300 parts."

  • And it's not just entertainment.

  • Now businesses are also dealing with these issues,

  • some better than others.

  • -CrossFit CEO Greg Glassman has resigned after outrage

  • over a controversial post about George Floyd.

  • A tweet Saturday linked Floyd's death to the pandemic.

  • -Yeah, the CEO of CrossFit stepped down.

  • Actually, first, he stepped up and then down and then up again,

  • then down, then up, and then he stepped down finally.

  • Then when he left the building, instead of driving off,

  • he just flipped a giant tire home.

  • What was he thinking?

  • He mocked the protests and the coronavirus in one tweet.

  • He shouldn't be the CEO of CrossFit.

  • He should be the president of the United States.

  • Yep, he hit coronavirus and police brutality.

  • He just needs to weigh in on gender,

  • and he'll finish the triathlon of offending people.

  • Well, it seems like things are slowly changing.

  • In fact, the Army says that it might rename

  • forts that are named after Confederate officers

  • like Fort Bragg and Fort Hood.

  • Yeah, they want new names that everyone can get behind,

  • so they did a poll on what Americans love right now,

  • and I think they solved their problem. Take a look.

  • Fort Bragg is being renamed Fort Free Guac.

  • Fort Hood is changing to

  • Fort Coming Up With A Good Comeback In The Moment,

  • And Not In The Shower The Next Day.

  • Fort Benning will be

  • Fort Getting The Capri-Sun Straw Into The Pouch On The First Try.

  • And finally, Fort Pickett will be Fort BTS.

  • Let's see how that works.

  • A lot of people are saying

  • the only way to achieve racial justice is to go out and vote.

  • But take a look at what happened

  • when people tried to vote in Georgia yesterday.

  • -Georgia's election is being called a catastrophe,

  • particularly in largely minority areas.

  • The Secretary of State is opening an investigation

  • after reports of long waits, voting machines not working,

  • and a lack of ballots in some areas.

  • -You know you did a bad job with your election

  • when you make Iowa's election look good.

  • Seriously, it's not a good sign

  • when "The Masked Singer" is better at running an election

  • than an entire state.

  • And finally, everybody,

  • hopefully this might lift up your spirits.

  • The Dalai Lama is actually releasing an album

  • featuring some of his teachings and mantras set to music.

  • And actually, he even released a song

  • to help people deal with what's going on in the world right now.

  • Let's take a listen.

  • [ Man screaming, heavy metal music playing ]

  • Alright, stop, stop. That's --

  • Are we sure that's the right song?

  • I mean, we're in a quarantine, so the producers --

  • Anyway, we're doing what we can.

-Welcome to "The Tonight Show," everybody. I'm Jimmy Fallon.

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