somebody asks you where you re from and you answer, i m from chicago, nobody s going to give you a patronizing response like, oh, chicago s charming. hey, chicago. more likely it ll be wow, chicago or oh, chicago. they ll be impressed. chicago is the town, a city that doesn t ever have to measure itself against any other city. other places have to measure themselves against it. it s big, it s outgoing, it s tough, it s opinionated and everybody s got a story. i took a walk through this walk through this beautiful world felt the cold rain on my shoulder found something good in this beautiful world i felt the rain getting colder as late afternoon gives way to evening in chicago s old town, it s time to drink. though to be fair, almost anytime it s time for a drink at the old town ale house. the chorus assembles to give their opinions on matters of the day, subjects of great import to this city on the lake, this city of broad shoulders, this
[laughter] [drum roll] jesse: for years, the late night stopover has been a presidential staple. republican, democrat, doesn t matter. because comedy is bipartisan where it s supposed to be: you can jimmy fallon play a round with trump on one show and slow jamming the news with barack obama on the other. there will be no third term. i can t stay forever. besides, daddy has got a hawaiian vacation booked in about 232 days. but who is counting? if comedy isn t your thing, don t worry. we have a couple of presidents who know how to drop a wicked baseline. it wasn t just the smooth stylings of slick willie or richard nixon that made these presidential cameos part of tv history. it was the fact that they made themselves the butt of the joke. oh no, i don t think we could get dick nixon to stand still for a sock it to me. sock it to me? jesse: nixon isn t the only one with a sense of humor. george bush had a good laugh when giving us the top ten things he wanted
i heard somebody yell, she s not breathing, and they called an ambulance. and that s kind of all that i remember. and when i came back a few days later like i walked in the door, everybody was like yeah, you re better! and then a couple of the regulars were like that guy, that guy said that thing. and i was like what did he say? and he said, when you were on the floor foaming at the mouth he said, they said it got really quiet and he said, i ll have what she s having. so yeah, so that was fun. but i found out later what was really interesting about was that right away my mind is the american cheeseburger, it s the sort of feeling you get when you eat it. but you remember you re sitting with a friend and enjoying a memory that takes you back to long ago when you were young. and as we follow paul backstage, watching him slowly sip his coffee. hey, what s going on daniel? you remember that comedy
gunned down. the more than 50 percent surge in homicides. nine people shot to death and at least 60 others wounded. however much you might love chicago, want to celebrate its general awesomeness, its character, its architecture, its food. there s no getting away from the ugly fact that chicago s south side is also currently the murder capital of america. why do you think people are killing each other in such large numbers in chicago and not in new york? let s be clear, it s only a few spots, it isn t the whole city. it s not the whole city. to be honest, chi-raq is englewood. right, it s a pretty staggering body count. the sad part is that it s been like this, right. and the only reason the story now is that white people looking at it. and it s like oh, that s terrible, it s like it s been like this for 30 years. how come it wasn t terrible 30 years ago when you probably actually could did something about it? does a hip-hop artist have any obligation really to speak abo
didn t have anything to do with january 6th. correct. january. jesse: you weren t close to tnchts correct. jesse: they wanted to humiliate you and make a out of you. it s a real disgrace. you mentioned they wanted to use this thing tonight to smear trump. it s more than that they want to tee up a felony charge. because if an individual is charged with a felony, they cannot become president. isn t that what that is about making sure trump does not get reelected in 2024? well, look, they know that past could be prologue. i think the discredited russia hoax, which began in 2016 and the two impeachments took their toll on the president. and so if they can continue these discredited smear campaigns, they can prevent him either politically through public opinion or actually through prison from regaining the ostled office. jesse, you are absolutely right.