And featuring the legendary roots crew. Questlove 723 steve and now, here he is, jimmy fallon [ cheers and applause ] jimmy oh, my goodness. Whoa looking good out there a hot crowd tonight [ cheers and applause ] new york city, baby welcome, everybody, welcome, welcome, welcome to the tonight show. Thank you for being here. You made it. [ cheers and applause ] a show of hands, how many of you are visiting new york city just to get further away from north korea . Is that [ laughter and applause ] yeah, tensions with north korea continue to rise. And you can tell trumps nervous because hes been wearing a make America Great again helmet. Steve really . [ laughter and applause ] jimmy yeah. Thats not good. Thats not a good sign. Actually, i read that the u. S. Has a plan to launch a a cyber attack on north korea. Its pretty serious. They say it could affect both of north koreas computers. [ laughter and applause ] all two of them . Oh, yeah. Its pretty scary, though. The news organizations are actually telling people what to do in case of a nuclear attack. They say people should immediately stay inside and keep watching netflix. [ laughter and applause ] dont do anything. Just dont dont change anything. Just stay inside. Dont never walk. Never leave. Well, today trump said that if north korea doesnt get its act together, theyre going to be in big trouble. [ laughter ] [ audience oohs ] it got worse when he said, now, look, im not mad. Im just disappointed. [ laughter and applause ] im sorry, dad get this, a spokesperson for north korea called President Trump a senile man who cant think rationally. [ light laughter ] but it turns out they just stole that from trumps twitter bio. [ laughter and applause ] steve really . Jimmy he put that in there himself. Steve thats what he wrote down in his bio . Jimmy i dont know. Listen to this though, i read that you can now go on airbnb and rent trumps childhood home where he lived until he was four. [ light laughter ] so at least theres one house where he lasted four years. [ laughter and applause ] [ audience ohs ] steve heyo ho wall. Jimmy i saw that the [ laughter ] i saw that the new head of the tsa was sworn in at 10 30 a. M today. Well, he got in line at 8 00, but didnt get to the podium until 10 00. [ laughter and applause ] hes like belts come off, shoes stay on, you idiot the shoes stay on i dont know. I dont ipad go right through, laptop i dont know, man. [ light laughter ] the rules keep changing in this thing. [ laughter ] some Business News [ laughter ] they do. I dont know the rules. Steve come on, just jimmy tell me whats up. Ill take everything off. I dont care, man. [ laughter ] go through all my stuff. Ive nothing to hide. [ light laughter ] dont take your laptop out. Close it. Dont open it. Whats wrong with you . Belts come off, shoes come off. There you go. I dont know the rules. [ laughter ] some Business News. After months of poor sales, the ceo of lego was just recently replaced. [ audience oohs ] well, it turns out that there are some new lego products that just didnt catch on with the kids. Ill show you a few examples. For instance, they tried to sell lego vacationing putin. Steve okay. Jimmy that didnt work no, they [ laughter and applause ] they didnt so then they tried lego o. J. Gets parole. Steve wow. Jimmy that didnt work either. [ laughter and applause ] then they tried lego nuclear crisis. Steve oh jimmy and then you go, thats just weird. [ laughter and applause ] and finally, the most unpopular was lego fired white house staffer. Im not surprised. [ laughter and applause ] that was the kids dont know what theyre doing. So this is cool. I saw that the music video for despacito is now the most watched Youtube Video ever with over three billion views. [ cheers and applause ] three billion views. That is very impressive. It is impressive. Jimmy who said that . Me, terry gross. Jimmy oh, hey [ cheers and applause ] terry, hi hi, terry hi, jimmy. Sing the song. Jimmy what . [ laughter ] you know what, sing the damn song. [ laughter ] jimmy you want me to sing despacito . Thats i dont want it. [ cheers and applause ] i dont want it. I dont want it. These guys want it, right here. [ cheers and applause ] jimmy i dont really know i dont know it. I dont really know it that well. I dont think so, terry, please. My birthdays coming up. In six months. [ laughter ] you do not mess with me on this day. Jimmy im sorry, terry, but you cannot make me sing the song. No, but i can [ cheers and applause ] listen up, fallon, if you dont sing that song Jimmy Anthony anderson . Me and terry gross are going to make you look scary gross. [ light laughter ] [ applause ] jimmy okay, fine. [ cheers and applause ] [ singing in Foreign Language ] [ cheers and applause ] [ cheers and applause ] there. There are you happy . [ cheers and applause ] yes. Yes. We good. Jimmy thank you. Thank you very much. And finally, everybody this made me laugh. During last nights st. Louis cardinals game, someone ran out of stands and across the field. And when security tried to remove him, he put up a pretty good fight. Check it out. Theres a critter on the field, there. Thats a cat it is. Its a cute one. Oh, hes got him. Watch out. You know ah there you go [ laughter ] jimmy the cats friends were like, dude, you only had two bud lights. I mean, what is he doing . [ laughter ] guys, we have a great show tonight. Give it up for the roots [ cheers and applause ] [ cheers and applause ] jimmy we have got a a fantastic show tonight you just saw our guests. We love this guy. Hes so funny, so talented. Nominated for an emmy. Steve oh jimmy for his hit show blackish. He also hosts to tell the truth. Anthony anderson is here steve come on jimmy tonight [ cheers and applause ] always brings it. Steve i love him. Jimmy i love that guy. Also joining us tonight, she is a legend. The host fresh air on npr, terry gross is stopping by steve yeah [ cheers and applause ] jimmy she wanted me to sing despacito. I love her. Oh, shes great. Plus we have great new music. Oh, we love her. I havent seen her in a while. Im so happy shes back. Kesha is here, you guys steve oh [ cheers and applause ] jimmy this is the album. Look at this album cover. This is a fantastic this might be my favorite album cover of the year. This is just fantastic. Look at it. So much going on. A spaceship. Steve spaceship. Jimmy and eyeballs. Theres all sorts of stuff. [ light laughter ] steve what is that in the middle . Jimmy and the song is beautiful. Praying. Have you heard it yet, higgins . Steve i love it. Jimmy she has a great voice. Oh, my goodness. Listen to this. This is the jam. I hope youre somewhere praying praying jimmy powerful. Steve ooh. Jimmy yeah. [ cheers and applause ] kesha is here anthony, terry, kesha and i are all going to play a game of password. Steve ooh. [ audience oohs ] guys, it is time for tonight show hashtags. [ cheers and applause ] Hashtags Hashtags jimmy guys, we do this thing every wednesday where i send out a hashtag and we ask you guys to respond to that topic. And since President Trump is on vacation right now, i sent out a hashtag called mycrayvacay. [ laughter ] i asked you guys to send us a a funny, weird, or embarrassing vacation story. We got a huge response. Within 30 minutes it was a a trending topic in the u. S. , so thank you for getting involved. [ cheers and applause ] and now i thought id share some of my favorite mycrayvacay stories from you guys. Here we go. This first one is from tuggythebug. [ light laughter ] steve tuggy the bug. Jimmy she says, once on a a family camping trip, we stopped for the night in the dark and set up camp. The next morning we discovered we were in somebodys front yard. [ laughter and applause ] a house . Steve can i help you . Jimmy thats why they have such good wifi there. Yeah. Steve oh, my gosh. [ laughter ] jimmy this ones from because13whynot. She said, my dad wore a a hawaiian shirt and still got super burnt through the shirt but only where the flowers were. [ laughter and applause ] he still had the pattern on him shirtless. He takes his shirt off. The real tommy bahama. Steve yeah. Blass. Jimmy this ones from teacherspecial. She says, when i was a kid my dad drove to us disney world and miami. He hated the drive so he sold the car and we flew back. [ laughter and applause ] steve yeah thats a dad jimmy do you want to steve that is a dad. Jimmy take a weekend on this . Steve yeah. Jimmy you dont want to sleep this one out . Steve im selling it. Jimmy sell the car. Were out of here. Steve were flying back. [ light laughter ] jimmy this ones from billwinsbig. He says, on our first airplane ride, mom pushed the call button and said into the ventilation fan, ill have the chicken. yeah [ laughter and applause ] steve i want some chicken jimmy this is from dreamergirl2017. She says, once my family went to canadas wonderland and i lost my dad. When we found him, he was another family. [ laughter and applause ] wonderland. Steve i wonder jimmy this is from lucyconley123. She says, during our Family Vacations, anytime dad shouts holiday, the rest of family has to shout celebrate no matter where we are. Holiday celebrate holiday celebrate jimmy thats what im saying. All part of the family right there. All right here we go. [ cheers and applause ] this last one is from tabbyter. She says, my son got all his clothes oh, they sent us a photo with this one. Its great. My son got all his clothes soaking wet at the beach, so i had to dress him in a walmart bag for the ride back to the condo. Look at this kid. [ laughter and applause ] thats fantastic there you have it. Those are tonight show hashtags. To check out more of our favorite go to tonightshow. Com hashtags. Were playing password after the break. Stick around, everybody [ cheers and applause ] this golden opportunity features leather, wood and glass. Raw elements made premium by lexus. Experience unparalleled luxury at the lexus golden opportunity sales event before it ends. Chose from the is turbo, es 350 or nx turbo for 299 a month for 36 months if you lease now. Experience amazing at your lexus dealer. [b[cup hits floor]r] [tray clatters on table] [improvised musical sounds] [improvised musical sounds] [bell rings] welcome to our school so Many Americans struggle with finances. Starting today, state farm is here to help. Giving us all the chance to simply sit down and learn. Visit letsstarttoday. Com or talk to an agent. [ cheers and applause ] jimmy very funny. Steve welcome back to the tonight show, everybody. Its time to play password [ cheers and applause ] jimmy yahoo. [ cheers and applause ] steve well, our first team tonight, shes a multiplatinum recording artist with a new album called rainbow, and he is the host of the tonight show. Its kesha and jimmy fallon. [ cheers and applause ] jimmy that comes out tonight. At midnight. Jimmy midnight tonight, rainbow drops. Right now. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Steve boom, and their opponent [ cheers and applause ] their opponents, he is the host of to tell the truth on abc, and she is the host of fresh air, on npr. Say hello to anthony anderson, and terry gross. [ cheers and applause ] now, the rules of the game are very simple. Jimmy all right. Steve i will give each of you a password, and then you will give a one word clue, thats one word only to get you partner to guess that password. The team with the most points after four words wins. Any questions . Jimmy well, i was just wondering if there are great. Fantastic. Were going to start. First clue goes to kesha and terry. Jimmy okay. Okay, dont look. Okay. Steve the password is kesha, why dont you start us off. One word. I suck at this. Okay. Jimmy thats four words. Alright. [ light laughter ] alright, lets focus. Come on. We can do this. We can do this now, come on. Okay, okay. Jimmy connection. Okay, okay, okay. [ laughter ] chipotle. Jimmy burrito. [ cheers and applause ] steve oh, oh jimmy thats what you choose . Thats what you i play the trumpet every time i go. Jimmy she plays the trombone steve oh my gosh. Next clue goes to anthony and jimmy. Jimmy alright. Alright. Steve the password is anthony, you are up first. [ laughter ] okay. You feel it . You got it . You got it . All right. Foshizzle. Oh [ laughter ] and i cant say jayz. No. Foshizzle. Jimmy is that a hyphenated word . No. Just one word. [ laughter ] its one word. I should know what that cool. No. No. Jimmy thats kind of oh no. Jimmy youve got this. I dont know if do i do. Jimmy ready . Okay. Yeah [ laughter and applause ] [ laughter ] jimmy ready . Ready . Yeah. [ laughter ] he said i know what he said. Jimmy foshizzle, yeah. I know, and you said yeah. No. No, no jimmy no. I didnt say yeah. Jimmy he said, yeah yeah oh, wait. Jimmy yeah. Like like yeah, yeah, yeah. Is there a time limit . Ludacris . Jimmy no, no, no, no. Whatd you say . I said ludacris. Oh no. Jimmy no, no. Thats ludicrous. Okay. You remember my first clue, right . Yeah. Alright. Say it. Foshizzle. Manizzle. [ laughter ] got to make it one word. Uhhuh. Yes say it stop say it [ laughter ] i dont know. Jimmy oh. [ laughter ] steve okay. 3 points, jimmy. 3 points. Jimmy alright. Ready . I think so. Jimmy i got it, ready . Steve do you want to go through the clues that have been given . Jimmy no. No, no, no, no. Jimmy dog. Snoop . [ cheers and applause ] steve oh woo, all right. Jimmy they gave that one to me. That was a tough steve the score is 90. Jimmy snoop. Dog . You should have said, like weed. Had i just said dog, you would have said snoop . [ laughter ] Jimmy Anthony, not now. Not now. Not now. He beat me with dog, im like really . Steve alright, kesha and terry. The password is got it . Oh steve terry, you start us off. Okay. Okay mule. Donkey [ cheers and applause ] steve whoa, this is a barn burner 96 or 69. Jimmy . Jimmy pass. [ laughter ] steve the password is alright jimmy, why dont you start us off . Look at that score, man. [ laughter ] jimmy no. Thats not. Come on man. [ cheers and applause ] jimmy caliente hot . [ light laughter ] steve ow, hot mmm, hot [ laughter ] salsa. Jimmy what did you say . Salsa jimmy salsa, okay no. Oh ive got this i think. Jimmy you do right . I dont know. [ laughter ] im so nervous. [ light laughter ] jimmy it is caliente, hot. Species. [ cheers and applause ] steve oh he gets a point, right . He gets a point, right . Oh big deal. Jimmy oh i said that. I mean i definitely said it. Jimmy i didnt say it wasnt feces, i said he said species. Jimmy species, like that old scifi hit. [ laughter ] we get those points right . We get the points right . Look at the score look at the score [ cheers and applause ] jimmy look at the score. They won [ cheers and applause ] unbelievable. Our thanks to kesha, anthony anderson, terry gross [ cheers and applause ] keshas performing for us later in the show. Her album drops at midnight tonight, and were talking to anthony after the break. Stick around everybody. [ cheers and applause ] hey, is this our turn . Honey. Our turn . Yeah, we go left right here. woman vo Great Adventures are still out there. Well find them in our Subaru Outback. avo love. Its what makes a subaru, a subaru. Get 0 apr financing for 63 months on all new 2017 Subaru Outback models. Now through august 31. Schick hydro ® vs a lube strip. With seven hydrating gel pools. That give you 40 less friction. Its designed like no other razor to protect from irritation. 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[ cheers and applause ] jimmy our first guest tonight is Emmy Award Nominated for his fantastic work on the very popular Comedy Series blackish which returns for season four, tuesday, october 3rd at 9 00 p. M. On abc. He also hosts the hit game show to tell the truth, a new episode airs monday, august 21st at 10 00 p. M. , also on abc. Please welcome my pal, anthony anderson. [ cheers and applause ] jimmy thank you for being with us tonight. Congrats on the emmy nom. Thank you. Jimmy want to talk about all that stuff. And thanks for playing the game with me. I really, that was such a a party, pal. I didnt know we could cheat at the game though, jimmy. [ light laughter ] jimmy yeah, yeah, exactly. I just screwed up. I dont know where my brain was going. Im sorry. I couldnt think of the little yellow bird from charlie brown. Jimmy woodstock. Yeah, not charlie, yeah woodstock. I was going to say woodstock and hopefully she would say snoopy. But, i couldnt get woodstock out. Jimmy oh yeah. I was thinking i was going to say tabasco, but then i thought she was going to be on that salsa ride. Yeah, i was going nosey, investigate, snoop. Jimmy that thought didnt get me anywhere. [ laughter ] so, i want to get to talking about the shows. But, first of all, i want to hear about the golf trip. I know youre a golfer. Ive golfed with you before. Youre a great golfer. I love playing with you. You went out on a foursome, golf, recently. Yes. I was on a Family Vacation in cabo. Phone rings. Look at it, oh chris paul calls me. Whats up . You see pete, whats up . He said, yo man, where are you at . Because of the international ring. I was like, im Family Vacation in mexico. He was like, oh, never mind. I was like, no, everything cool . He was like, yeah. Whats up, tell me. Hes, i was going to invite to you play golf with barack and me tomorrow. [ audience oohs ] i was like, i can be on a a plane in a minute [ light laughter ] jimmy everybody out of the pool, all right, cool. All right, bye. Then i was like, oh, man, i cant do it. Im on a Family Vacation man, thanks for the invite. And i hung up. And my wife and my kids were looking at me, there. And they were like, what are you talking about . Call him back and tell him youre on your way [ light laughter ] and i was like, you sure . He was like, yeah. Okay. Hey, hey, dont give my spot away im on my way home. I called to get an airline ticket. Its 5 35 in the afteroon. The last plane leaving cabo is at 5 45. [ audience ohs ] no way im going to make it. So, i hang up. And i said, guys, theres no more flights leaving. And my daughter is like, dad, you got to go. Its president obama. You got to go. And i was like, the only way to go is if i charter a plane. She was like, its a a renegotiation year. Youll get it back. [ laughter ] jimmy shes a genius. Wanna be my agent . I was like, okay. [ light laughter ] jimmy so emmy nominated. Go for it, man. So, long story short, it was most expensive round of golf ive ever had to play in my life. Jimmy you, chris paul, barack obama, and Michael Phelps playing golf. [ applause ] that was our foursome. That was our foursome. Jimmy how cool is that . Yeah, it was cool. President obama talked trash all day. Jimmy did he really . Five and a half hours, nothing but trash talk. Jimmy does he really, talk trash . Yeah, yeah, i was like, man, if these secret Service Dudes wasnt here right now [ light laughter ] he talked trash all day and took all of our money. Jimmy wait. He won . He won, hes a great golfer, man. He doesnt hit the ball long off the tee but hes a straight as an arrow, man. 22030 yards every time. Played one ball the entire time. Didnt lose a ball. It went straight as an arrow, very consistent. Jimmy oh, thats not me. Yeah, he took 700 from phelps, he took 600 from chris paul, he took 300 from me. Jimmy the president . Yeah. I was like, man, is this even right . I was like, youre the president can you take money from civilians . [ laughter ] he was like, anthony, im a a civilian now. So yes, i can take it. [ light laughter ] i was like all right. Jimmy how fun was that . Great time. Jimmy and hows phelps . Hes just great, right . Phelps was great, man. Yeah, he raced a shark. [ light laughter ] jimmy i know, exactly. Or a cartoon shark. [ talking over each other ] jimmy he tried to do it. Yeah. Jimmy lets talk about the shows. To tell the truth, there is a a new episode august 21st. Youre great at that. Thank you. Jimmy you like doing that . I love it, man. But what i love most about it, i get to work with my mother every day. Jimmy you really do. Yeah, yeah. [ applause ] jimmy your mom is on the show. Yeah. Mothers on the show. She started as a score keeper, and my mother really cant count past six. [ light laughter ] so, we had to take that away from her. So now shes just my sidekick. Jimmy she was there when you got word that you got nominated for an emmy. We were in rehearsal on to tell the truth and we got word that i got the nomination this year. And my mother, being my mother, opened up her purse and pulled out a single bottle of champagne and two red cups. [ light laughter ] it was like, baby, lets celebrate two red plastic cups. [ light laughter ] she had two red plastic cups in her purse. Jimmy and a bottle of champagne is more impressive. I think the bottle of champagne came from her he best friend, drunk bobby. [ light laughter ] no, thats my moms best friend. My mother has an entourage right now. Drunk bobby is the ring leader. [ light laughter ] jimmy oh my goodness. Drunk bobby is the ring leader. She got one that travels with her that works on her wigs. [ light laughter ] and then she got my mother is a property manager at the Senior Citizen complex. So, at any given time shell have two to three 80 to 90yearold women hanging out with her. [ light laughter ] jimmy thats the entourage. Thats the entourage. Jimmy thats the entourage. Want to give a shout out to where they are . Whats up, bell flower Senior Citizen complex. [ cheers and applause ] my momma. Jimmy hi, bell flower and lets talk about blackish. You got nominated. [ cheers and applause ] thank you. Jimmy didnt see it coming. Thank you. Jimmy you deserve this emmy. Youve been in the business, you earned this. Thank you. Jimmy come on. I appreciate it. Jimmy, just go out and vote [ light laughter ] tell your 18 million theyre not part of the union. Jimmy they can do it, yeah tell them to vote. Tell them to write a petition. Jimmy you got to do it. I just want to see your speech. Yeah man, it is very humbling. Its very humbling. Jimmy but the show got nominated as well. Show got nominatied. Tracy ellis ross is nominated. [ cheers and applause ] wanda sykes is nominaed as a a guest star on our show. Yeah. Jimmy how exciting is that . Its exciting, man. Jimmy its a big show. It is reaching a lot of people. Thank you. Jimmy i have this thing, i saw you posted this online. I just thought it was pretty cool. You were at the airport and somebody slipped you a napkin and it said, hey man, i dont want to bother you. I just wanted to say youre awesome, and thank you. My friend uses your show to teach social justice. Thanks, alex. [ cheers and applause ] yeah, yeah. So, heres the cool part. That right there is why we do our show. And so i went over the alex. You know, he was leaving. I said, are you the one who left me this note . He was like, yeah. I was like, call your friend. So he called, he face timed the professor, and shes a a professor at a college, i believe in pennsylvania someplace, if im not mistaken. And we face timed in about five minutes. She just talked about how she uses it as a tool to teach her students. And told me to keep doing what were doing. So thank you, alex, thank your friends. Thank you america, for watching our show. [ cheers and applause ] jimmy how cool is that . Yeah. Jimmy hey man, im excited about it for the emmys. Im rooting for you, man. Thank you, baby. I appreciate that. Jimmy anthony anderson, everybody [ cheers and applause ] watch him on blackish, and to tell the truth. Well be right back with terry gross. Stick around, everybody. Its time for a getaway. The lincoln summer invitation is on. Now get our best offers of the season. On the agile mkc. On the versatile midsize lincoln mkx. Or go where summer takes you in the exhilarating mkz. The lincoln summer invitation sales event. Ask about complimentary pick up delivery servicing. 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You got me, mark. We just want fast internet for one, simple rate. For all the streaming and the shopping and the newsing, but most of all. For the this. Internet for one everyday simple price and no extra monthly fees. [ cheers and applause ] jimmy our next guest is in her 30th year hosting a daily npr show. Shes a recipient of the National Humanities medal, and her show fresh air is among the most downloaded podcasts on itunes. Please welcome terry gross [ cheers and applause ] its so great to be here. Jimmy oh, you look fantastic. Thank you so much for coming on the show. Is it odd for you to be interviewed by people . Well, its odd to be interviewed visibly, because i have the super power of invisibility on the radio, and you lose it on tv. Jimmy you do. Yeah. I got the i was honored. I got to be interviewed by you. Also, questlove as well, and [ cheers and applause ] it was so much fun, but you dont see you in the interview. I went into a phone booth, that was what i remember, and they shut the door, and i put head phones on and you go, hey jimmy . [ light laughter ] i go, hey terry, how is it going . I thought i was being interrogated. It was a dark room, and where were you . I was in new york. Were you in new york . Im in a studio in philadelphia, and theres a big window in which you can see on to the street, but i like to be in a dark room, listening to the guests. Jimmy yeah. So i close the shades, i dim the lights, and i listen. Jimmy wow, is that the magic of it . Is that why its so good . Well, you know jimmy great i mean youve got you can get really personal when youre not being face to face sometimes. You know, its like pure the person is going right into my ear, and also i get to look at my notes. Do you use notes . Jimmy yeah sure. [ light laughter ] i mean i have them. Yes, i do have them. Yeah. I cant work without them. I always have notes and i always feel like, if i have notes, and im looking at my notes, and im breaking eye contact with the guest, the guest thinks im not paying attention which isnt true. But they dont know that. Jimmy thats right. So its nice when im invisible. I can have them in my ears and look at my notes and everything is good. Jimmy gosh, youre a pro. I mean look at this photo here, this is you interviewed bruce springsteen. So you read his book just to get some notes on bruce and when you interview him look at how much work, look at this poor book. [ laughter ] i mean look at how things are dogearred and notes and what i do is i dog ear each page that i want to remember something on and i circle what i want to remember and then type notes based on what i circled. Jimmy how great is that . So youve been doing this for thirty years . Nationally, and then longer than that locally. Jimmy lets talk about something thats not fresh air. I want to know about your husband. He is a jazz critic. Hes a jazz critic whos written for a lot of publications, several books, and i met him at a record store. Mutual friend of ours worked at the same record store he did, which was on the university of pennsylvania campus. It was just a few blocks away from where the Radio Station used to be. So id go in there to buy records, and i knew that he had huge record collection, and this was in the 70s. So it was like all vinyl. It wasnt a question of like, is it cd or vinyl . Jimmy yeah, exactly, its all nothing but. Do you remember name of the store . It was a small chain called listening booth. Anyways, so i thought you know the show has been local, three hours a day, five days a a week. I had a lot of time to fill. Jimmy wow, thats a lot of time. Its way too much time. Jimmy this interview here, that were doing, this is seriously six minutes, right. Jimmy six minutes, yeah. [ light laughter ] three hours . No way, man. So i had regular feature. So i thought, wouldnt it be great if i asked francis to do a regular feature in which he played something very rare, something out of print, a jazz recording that only he would have, and he would write a few words and say a few words about it. So he wrote me this script. It was so beautifully written. His use of language was so great that i started falling in love with him, and his writing, and his taste in music all at the same. [ audience aws ] jimmy but now you cant fire him, replace him for three hours. [ laughter ] now hes my boyfriend. And i didnt want to tell anybody at the station either because i thought bad idea to have a relationship with somebody youre working with. You know. Jimmy but you fell in love. Yeah, well what can you do . Jimmy what can you do . Thats so great. So eventually people knew and it was all okay. Yeah. Jimmy oh my gosh. I love that. We do a thing on our show, some of the writers, we do a night of knicks and jazz. Well go see a knicks game, and then well go see some jazz, and then you guys should pal around with us if youre around. [ light laughter ] oh, thank you. Jimmy yeah, wed love to have you. Its fun. One night we did knicks, and jazz, and jazz. We went to wow. That sounds likes when louis c. K. Eats a meal, and then eats another meal on his show. [ light laughter ] jimmy exactly. Its almost too much, but it wasnt. It was just enough. It was great, but anyways youre more than welcome to come. I want to know, do you have any stories where an interview just didnt go well . Oh, yeah. I mean that happens, and people have walked out on me, too. Jimmy walked out on you . Most famously jimmy theyre not even there with you. [ light laughter ] no, thats the thing. Jimmy its a magic act. No, thats the thing. You cant chase them down the hall and grab them and bring them back in when its remote. So, like one example is most famously, bill oreilly walked out on me. He accused me i asked him a few challenging questions about whether he used a microphone to settle scores or to get even with people. Before i was even done with the question he accused me of throwing every defamation in the book at him, and then made a little speech about, this is npr. I know what this is. I know what youre doing. 30 minutes of defamation. And then he said, if you think that if you think thats fair, terry, you should get out of this business. And im thinking, one of us still has a program. [ cheers and applause ] jimmy thats pretty good. Very good. I love that. [ cheers and applause ] terry gross. You can catch fresh air daily on npr, or check out the podcast. Kesha performs after the break. Stick around, everybody. How was that . [ cheers and applause ] when youre close to the people you love, does psoriasis ever get in the way of a touching moment . If you have moderate to severe psoriasis, you can embrace the chance of completely clear skin with taltz. 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But first, she is a a multiplatinum worldwide superstar whose longawaited new album, rainbow, is available now. It came out. Its available right now [ cheers and applause ] performing her new hit, praying, give it up for kesha [ cheers and applause ] well you almost had me fooled told me that i was nothing without you but after everything youve done i can thank you for how strong i have become cause you brought the flames and you put me through hell i had to learn how to fight for myself and we both know all the truth i could tell ill just say this is i wish you farewell i hope youre somewhere praying praying i hope your soul is changing changing i hope you find your peace falling on your knees praying im proud of who i am no more monsters i can breathe again and you said that i was done well you were wrong and now the best is yet to come cause i can make it on my own and i dont need you i found a strength ive never known ill bring thunder ill bring rain when im finished they wont even know your name cause you brought the flames and you put me through hell i had to learn how to fight for myself and we both know all the truth i could tell ill just say this is i wish you farewell i hope youre somewhere praying praying i hope your soul is changing changing i hope you find your peace falling on your knees praying oh sometimes i pray for you at night oh someday maybe youll see the light oh some say in life you gonna get what you give but some things only god can forgive i hope youre somewhere praying praying i hope your soul is changing changing i hope you find your peace falling on your knees praying [ cheers and applause ] jimmy kesha [ cheers and applause ] catch her on the rainbow tour kicking off next month. Well be right back, everybody. [ cheers and applause ] introducing xfinity mobile. A new kind of network for the way we get around today. With americas largest most reliable 4g lte combined with the most wifi hotspots. Xfinity mobile. Call or go to xfinitymobile. Com. [ cheers and applause ] jimmy my thanks to anthony anderson, terry gross. Kesha once again [ cheers and applause ] and the roots, right there, from philadelphia, pennsylvania. [ cheers and applause ] come on, philly. Stay tuned for late night with seth meyers. Thank you for watching. Have a great night. I hope to see you tomorrow. Byebye, everybody. [ cheers and applause ] [ cheers and applause ] announcer from 30 Rockefeller Plaza in new york, its late night with seth meyers. Tonight howie mandel senator from illinois Tammy Duckworth author aaron schatz featuring the 8g band with venzella joy. [ cheers and applause ] ladies and gentlemen, seth meyers. Seth good evening, im seth meyers this is late night, how is everybody doing tonight . [ cheers and applause ] fantastic to hear it. In that case, lets get to the news. According to reports, President Trump has resisted giving his newly appointed white house chief of staff, john kelly, veto power over his tweets