Musical guest, Pharrell Williams and kim burrell. And featuring the legendary roots crew. Questlove 587, Alberta Steve and now, here he is, jimmy fallon [ cheers and applause ] jimmy oh [ audience whooping ] a dog pound, my dog pound. Steve yeah. Jimmy welcome welcome to the tonight show, everybody. Youre here. You made it. [ cheers and applause ] thats what im talking about. Big show tonight. Its going to be fun. You guys, this weekend is santacon, which is the annual bar crawl where people dress up like santa claus for a day of drinking. [ cheers and applause ] thats right, a drunken bar crawl wearing a santa suit, or as the real santa calls that, december 26th. [ cheers and applause ] i did read that a growing trend among families is giving their kids a few small presents ahead of christmas to break up the tension of getting everything on christmas day. They actually have an interesting name for this. Hanukkah. [ laughter and applause ] theyre calling it hanukkah. Great name. This i
[ light laughter ] [ cheers and applause ] hell find the time. Hell still find the time. During trumps sunday morning news interview he is expected to discuss the agenda for his first 100 days in office. Said trump, wait, i have to be president for a hundred days . [ laughter ] im running a business. Trump adviser, kellyanne conway, told reporters today that donald trump is a huge elton john fan. That can be cured, said mike pence. [ laughter ] [ cheers and applause ] i know youre an elton john fan now. But together we can beat this. [ laughter ] Donald Trumps team is reportedly desperate for an alist celebrity to perform at his inauguration. With one official saying they can quote, do better than kid rock. Besides kid rock is going to be too busy with his new job as secretary of state. [ laughter and applause ] a new study found that women in the arts earn an average of 20,000 per year less than their male colleagues. Which explains why this woman looks so mad at her husband. [ laught
Into into every song that comes out. Please make some noise for the greatest band. [ cheers and applause ] jimmy oh, yeah. You look great, man. Good to see you. Thank you, man. Jimmy as always, i saw on either instagram or something, you were just traveling in paris. Yes, sir. Jimmy were you with david blaine there or . Yeah. Jimmy yeah, does he did he scare you . Well, look, hes a hes a a friend to a lot of us. But hes the only friend you know that, like, just swallows frogs and regurgitates them at will. Jimmy he freaked us out. He came on he was the best. Ive never seen magic like this in my lifetime. I was frightened. My legs were weak. He was playing he was like, look at these cards. Yeah. [ laughter ] jimmy think of a number. And i go, okay. Im thinking of a number. And he goes and he throws up a frog. And i go, oh my god [ laughter ] i almost passed out. I go, i love this dude. But, ive never had that feeling in my life. Well, as a magician, he has the uncanny ability of making
Za, the gift for now, for always. Discover it at kay, . . [ cheers and applause ] jimmy welcome back, everybody. I forgot to ask questlove a Robert De Niro impression. You know, its like little bit. You know how you do that . I think the worst person to do a Robert De Niro impression is tina fey. [ light laughter ] and shes terrible. And she and i go and shell admit it, and she comes, and she goes like [ light laughter ] she just doesnt understand what to do. But then, i saw questloves impression of Robert De Niro, and i just want to show it to you. This is the worst impression ive ever seen, of Robert De Niro. [ laughter ] [ cheers and applause ] hes so it looks nothing like its my favorite thing ive ever seen. Oh, thats good. [ light laughter ] not only is our next guest a a grammy awardwinning artist, he also produced the new film, Hidden Figures, which opens in select theaters december 25th and nationwide on january 6th. [ applause ] ladies and gentlemen, please welcome Pharrell Wi
I go, i love this dude. But, ive never had that feeling in my life. Well, as a magician, he has the uncanny ability of making things disappear and reappear, and disappear. Jimmy yeah. Where was he during the election . [ laughter ] [ cheers and applause ] jimmy i gotta ask him that. What are you doing what are you doing with adidas . Youre doing a thing called, uh, is it hu . H. U. . Yeah, hu. Jimmy hu. And and what is that . Just another collaboration . Youre always doing something cool with adidas. Man, its just a lot its like a platform that allows me to, like, tap into different cultures, so they can tell their stories. And at the same time, were, like, making apparel that is about performing not just physically, but spiritually, and like emotionally. And hu is short for health ultimatum, you know. Its its honestly, like, i think your leader should be the person you see in the mirror. Jimmy thats interesting. Yeah. Jimmy yeah, ive seen i i cant pull off any of this. [ laughter ] we