Placeholder Image

Subtitles section Play video

  • -Thank you and welcome, welcome,

  • welcome to "The Tonight Show."

  • [ Cheering and applause ] Yeah, you're here.

  • [ Whistling ] Thank you very much.

  • Well, guys, as much as we'd like to move on,

  • former President Trump is still in the news.

  • We thought we drove him to a farm upstate,

  • but he somehow found his way back home to the headlines.

  • [ Laughter ]

  • Yeah, last night, House impeachment managers

  • delivered the impeachment article against Trump

  • to the Senate.

  • If you missed it, here they are walking it over.

  • [ Camera shutters clicking continuously ]

  • [ Laughter ]

  • [ Laughter ]

  • Okay, alright, okay, yeah, okay.

  • [ Laughter ]

  • After 45 minutes, they were like,

  • "Wait, does anyone know where we're going?"

  • It's like, "No. I'm following you.

  • I thought you --" [ Laughter and applause ]

  • Yeah, it turns out half of them were delivering the articles.

  • The other half were just getting in their steps.

  • [ Laughter ]

  • I say forget impeachment.

  • Just having Trump make that walk

  • would be punishment enough.

  • [ Laughter ]

  • It looked like a wedding, when the deejay says,

  • "Table 6, you can go to the salad bar."

  • [ Laughter ]

  • Yeah, the walk was pretty long and drawn out.

  • It kind of reminded me of something, though.

  • [ George Baker Selection's "Little Green Bag" plays ]

  • ♪♪

  • Yeah

  • [ Laughter ]

  • ♪♪

  • -♪ Lookin' for some happiness

  • But there is only loneliness

  • To find

  • [ Cheering and applause ]

  • [ Whistling ]

  • -I knew it.

  • [ Laughter ]

  • Well, speaking of the former president,

  • sources in touch with Trump have said he's...

  • [ Laughter ]

  • Well, he was already out of his mind,

  • so I guess, now, he's just bored.

  • [ Laughter ]

  • Apparently, playing 36 holes of golf every day

  • isn't as exciting when you're not ignoring a global pandemic.

  • [ Laughter ]

  • But today, Trump's aides were trying to cheer him up.

  • They were like, "Good news, sir.

  • Your trial starts in two weeks."

  • [ Laughter ]

  • Meanwhile, President Biden's very busy

  • and, today, he spoke with Vladimir Putin

  • for the first time since taking office.

  • As soon as the call began, Trump was like --

  • [ As Trump ] I feel a disturbance in the force.

  • [ Laughter ]

  • But this is good -- Biden actually pressed Putin

  • on last year's massive Russian cyber attack.

  • Putin denied it, but it got weird when he was like --

  • [ As Putin ] By the way, nice purple tie.

  • He's like, "Wait. We're not on Zoom.

  • How did you know that was...?"

  • [ Laughter ]

  • I think you can tell Putin was used to talking to Trump

  • because, out of habit, he ended the call with --

  • [ As Putin ] Love you, too.

  • [ Laughter ]

  • [ Applause ]

  • Some tech news -- I saw that Apple has issued

  • a new warning to customers. Listen to this.

  • -An important health warning for all iPhone users.

  • Apple warns customers that the smartphones could interfere

  • with medical devices, most notably, pacemakers.

  • This is bad news for all the grandmothers

  • who like to connect their iPhone to a chest mount

  • when they do base jumping. You know what I'm saying?

  • [ Laughter ]

  • It'll be weird when a guy is like, "I love this phone.

  • Hey, Siri, turn off my pacemaker."

  • [ Laughter ]

  • And get this -- I saw that Tyson Foods is releasing

  • heart-shaped chicken nuggets for Valentine's Day.

  • Or, as I always say, if you want to keep it classy,

  • go with the standard scratch-off ticket and beef jerky.

  • [ Laughter ]

  • Seriously, that makes an edible arrangement

  • look like a diamond necklace.

  • [ Laughter ]

  • Yeah, you can sprinkle the nuggets on your bed

  • and then uncover her eyes and watch her as she says,

  • "I'm going to stay at my sister's."

  • [ Laughter and applause ]

  • But they're on your side of the bed, honey!

  • [ Applause ]

  • [ Laughter ]

  • I could hold you up by your legs

  • and you could just eat them off like a --

  • [ Laughter ] like a nugget stand,

  • like a keg stand, but like a --

  • Like an anteater.

  • [ Laughter ]

  • Look, I won't judge, but if your Valentine's Day plan involves

  • the words dipping sauces,

  • you might want to rethink things.

  • [ Laughter ]

  • Speaking of food, Panera has created

  • a new Red Bull glove for customers.

  • [ Laughter ] -[ Clapping ]

  • -Yes! -For customers who drink

  • iced coffee in the winter.

  • Look at that thing again. Look at that.

  • [ Laughter ] Look at that.

  • Actually, I think the gloves are going to be a huge hit.

  • Check out who I saw wearing them today.

  • There you go.

  • [ Laughter and applause ]

  • He had a double loaf.

  • Have you guys seen the slow Zoom interviews

  • that Vanity Fair does?

  • They ask celebrities personal questions

  • and a camera very slowly gets closer to their face.

  • They've done it with RuPaul, Tyra Banks.

  • They just did one with Billie Eilish.

  • And I actually did one, too, but,

  • they had me do a fast Zoom, instead.

  • Here, take a look.

  • -Fast Zoom interview with Jimmy Fallon.

  • Take 1. [ Clack ]

  • -What's your favorite brand of toothpaste?

  • -Um, gosh.

  • [ Laughter ]

  • Crest? [ Beep, clack ]

  • -What's your favorite late night snack?

  • -Probably, uh --

  • it's probably frozen pizza, probably frozen pizza.

  • [ Laughter ] -What's your favorite ice cream flavor?

  • -I like mint chocolate chip.

  • -What kind of sandwiches do you like?

  • -Hey, get -- This is how the interview goes?

  • [ Laughter ] [ Beep, clack ]

  • Hey, is my publicist here?

  • [ Laughter ]

  • Is this -- No, no, I don't want to do --

  • [ Laughter ] [ Bleep ]

  • [ Speaks indistinctly ]

  • -How many slices will you eat,

  • if you're left to your own devices?

  • [ Laughter ] -I'd eat like two slices of pizza.

  • -Great interview. Thank you so much.

  • [ Laughter, whistling, and applause ]

  • -And, finally, a 12-year-old in Canada set a new world record

  • when he stacked 693 Jenga blocks

  • on top of a single vertical Jenga block.

  • Here's a photo. Look at this.

  • -Oh! -What?!

  • -That doesn't look like Jenga.

  • That looks like a wooden shawarma spit.

  • [ Laughter ]

  • Yeah. The Jenga stack was cool,

  • until his little brother walked by and just went --

  • [ Blows sharply ] [ Laughter and applause ]

  • [ Whistling ] Thank you so much for watching.

  • We have a big show tonight.

  • She's a guest star

  • on Season 4 of "Search Party" on HBO Max.

  • Susan Sarandon is here!

  • [ Cheering, whistling, and applause ]

  • Plus, we're going to talk about his charity,

  • the JJ Watt Foundation.

  • From the Houston Texans, JJ Watt is here!

  • [ Cheering, whistling, and applause ]

  • And tonight is the night we have a performance

  • from Thad Cockrell, everybody.

  • [ Cheering, whistling, and applause ]

  • And we're very excited about this.

  • This is -- Oh, look at this.

  • Pink vinyl. [ Audience murmuring ]

  • "Ooh la la, Sasson."

  • This is the song that I heard

  • in a hardware store

  • in quarantine, my first trip out in quarantine.

  • I went to the hardware store and I heard the song

  • and it sounded like

  • a George Harrison type of vibe or something to it.

  • And I just Shazam'd it and I go, "What is this?"

  • Swingin'.

  • If we're going to go down, we're going to go down swinging.

  • It is so good.

  • ♪ 'Cause if we go

  • Let me just play a little because you're going to --

  • Already, just crank up your TVs already.

  • Say about one 130, get in there, 120?

  • ♪♪

  • Oh, no, no. Earlier.

  • -♪ End that way ♪ -Here we go.

  • -♪ Just stay ♪ -Here we go. 1, 2, 3.

  • -♪ If I'm gonna go down

  • ♪ I wanna go down swingin' ♪

  • ♪ I wanna go down hard

  • -I mean, dude, he hit the notes and everything. I was like --

  • Wah da dee

  • And I was just doing that in the hardware store.

  • [ Laughter ] ♪ I wanna go down

  • I should've been in the hammer section.

  • -Yeah. -You know?

  • [ Laughter ] But I wasn't.

  • I was in the --

  • I was in the screwdriver/ light switch section.

  • [ Laughter ] -Yeah.

  • -I don't really know my way around.

  • -I was wondering what you were

  • doing in the hardware store.

  • [ Laughter ] -What do you mean,

  • what I was doing in the hardware store?

  • I'm doing what any -You just needed --

  • -You needed someplace -man of the house does.

  • -to drive your truck to, just --

  • [ Laughter ]

  • -Well, my driver took the truck there and...

  • [ Laughter ]

  • ...I said, "Pierre, you're going a little fast,

  • [ Laughter ] don't you think?"

  • -French driver. -I said, "Slow down."

  • I have a French driver, yeah.

  • [ Laughter ]

  • I was like, "Slow down.

  • You're making me a little sick.

  • My caviar's about to come out."

  • [ Laughter ]

  • No, yeah, I took the truck.

  • You know, I do like, you know, like --

  • you know, like you slide into the window

  • to get in the truck.

  • -Yeah. -Yeah. I go in through the roof,

  • the sunroof. [ Laughter ]

  • -Really? -Yeah.

  • I leave the sunroof open and I hop into it

  • like Super Mario.

  • [ Laughter ] -On a 4x4?

  • -It's a 4x4, yeah. -Wow.

  • -I mean -- -That's impressive.

  • I don't know. 4x4? Sure.

  • [ Laughter ] Four wheels.

  • 4x4 -- like yeah. -It's a hell of a jump.

  • You have an incredible vertical, if you do that.

  • -It's a cube. It's 4 foot by 4 feet truck.

  • -Oh.

  • -Oh, no. I jump from the second floor.

  • [ Laughter ]

  • I jump out the bedroom window and land in my truck.

  • And then, it's already gotten onto a song

  • and I cruised out, went to the hardware store

  • to get a light switch, like this, like a lamp switch.

  • -Hm.

  • [ Laughter ] -Yeah.

  • That wasn't a "Hm."

  • That wasn't an interesting "Hm."

  • That was a "Hm" of doubt. -Yeah.

  • It was a "Hm" of doubt.

  • -Yeah. No, I know what this is.

  • To put those clicker light switches on this,

  • you only cut one of the wires, not both of them.

  • You leave the other one connected

  • and then, what it does is it connects the, you know, the --

  • negative charge. You want to keep.

  • [ Laughter ] -Got it. Got it.

  • -You want to keep the positive. -Really?

  • -You want to keep that positive

  • charge going, yeah. -Want to accentuate

  • the positive. -Make sure you unplug before you

  • even mess around with this stuff, kids.

  • -Nice. -Nothing metal in your hands or anything.

  • -What's that? -No electricity, no metal

  • in your hands. -No. Don't.

  • Stay away from water,

  • any liquid, stuff like that.

  • Just your basic electricity knowledge.

  • [ Laughter ] And so I did that.

  • I was working. I was ready to work on that like a project

  • and then my mind was blown.

  • I heard the song, "Swingin'," by Thad Cockrell.

  • I go, "I never heard Thad Cockrell,"

  • and then I looked him up.

  • I guess he's been around, so. But, anyways,

  • I was feeling that spirit of like,

  • because we were doing the show from home,

  • which is just like,

  • everybody's trying to get through the day

  • and it was like, "We just got to put on the best thing

  • we can possibly do with what we got, you know?

  • Don't give up. Let's keep pushing. Let's go."

  • And I was feeling that spirit and then I heard that song.

  • It spoke to me. I loved it.

  • I asked our booker, "Can we book him?"

  • And tonight he's on the show, playing with The Roots tonight,

  • which is very exciting.

  • [ Cheering and applause ] It's exciting.

-Thank you and welcome, welcome,

Subtitles and vocabulary

Click the word to look it up Click the word to find further inforamtion about it