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Steve from Rockefeller Center in the heart of new york city, its the tonight show starring jimmy fallon. Tonight join jimmy and his guests Michael Strahan, brene brown, musical guest patty smyth, and featuring the legendary roots crew and now here he is, jimmy fallon [ cheers and applause jimmy oh hi, everybody. Hello. Thank you, thank you, thank you so much. Welcome to the tonight show, everybody. We are here from studio 6a in new york city. [ cheers and applause thank you so much for watching thanks for being here. Lets get to the news and jokes. Well, guys, its been five days since the election was called, and President Trump still has no plans to concede. Pretty soon were going to need Vladimir Putin to stage an intervention [ laughter ] look, it actually isnt my birthday we were worried about you. [ light laughter ] yeah, we could be working on the pandemic or the economy, but instead we had to lure trump out of the white house like a cat burrowed under the couch. [ laughter ] tru
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