Jimmy looking good hi, welcome, everybody welcome. [ cheers and applause have a seat, please. Welcome, welcome, welcome, welcome, welcome to the tonight show, everybody. You are here you made it. Thank you very much for being here [ cheers and applause we have a great show tonight greg kinnear is my guest tonight. Steve oh [ cheers and applause jimmy Phoebe Wallerbridge is here. Steve oh [ cheers and applause jimmy phoebe stars in the hit Comedy Series fleabag, which is also the name of a hotel near penn station. Steve oh [ laughter ] jimmy lets get some news. A new poll about the 2020 election just came out. And it shows joe biden, Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders are leading the pack, even though theyre all over 70 years old. [ light laughter ] so far the only thing they agree on is that the next debate should be at 4 30 [ laughter ] little late. Not everyone is doing so well. A poll also found that bill de blasio is polling lower than 1 . [ light laughter ] thats horrible. Steve thats bad jimmy to give you an idea how bad that is, thats polling lower than kale. [ laughter ] thats how low thats how low that is. It is hes polling so low steve how low is he polling . [ laughter ] jimmy hes polling lower than that squirt of water that comes out of your ketchup bottle steve whoa [ laughter ] jimmy thats lower than sliding into damp bowling shoes. [ audience ohs ] that is lower than having a q and no u in scrabble [ light laughter ] thats lower than filming concerts with an ipad. You know what im saying [ laughter ] no one likes that. Speaking of long shots, another democrat, andrew yang just released his spotify playlist of his quote, favorite jams. [ light laughter ] when tas jams, Bernie Sanders was like, strawberry smuckers [ laer i saw that andrew yangs playlist includes the song dont you forget about me. Which is cool, because thats also his Campaign Slogan steve oh, really [ laughter ] jimmy too late all right, anyway. Well, another new poll in New Hampshire found that seven of the 2020 candidates are polling at 0 . So we did some digging and it turns out theres a lot of other political polls with some alarming results. Ill show you what i mean. For example, when asked, whats the best president ial ticket to defeat trump . 20 said, biden and kamala. 20 said, bernie and booker. And 60 said hobbs and shaw. Steve ohpe buttigieg in one year . 50 said, still campaigning. The other 50 said, playing Kevin Mccallister in disneys remake of home alone. [ laughter ] steve oh really [ applause ] jimmy then when a poll asked, what chance do we have of balancing the budget within a decade . 33 said, 0 chance. 33 said, less than 0 chance. 34 said, the same chance bill de blasio has of being elected president. [ laughter ] [ applause ] [ light laughter ] damp bowling shoes heres another one when asked, whats the biggest threat facing our nation . 10 said, a trade war with china. 10 said, iran. And 80 said, burger kings new meatless whopper. [ laughter ] finally when asked, do you think joe biden has trouble communicating . 99 said, yes. While joe biden said, for my answer, go to joe 30330 or 3003330. Hey, season of American Crime story will be about the clintonlewinsky scandal steve oh [ audience ohs ] jimmy sounds good. Monica will be played by beanie feldstein linda tripp will be played by sarah paulson. And the blue dress will be played by the white and gold dress. [ laughter ] [ applause ] whos the director of that show laurel. [ laughter ] jimmy some more tv news. In an interview this week, marie kondo admitted that sometimes her own house can get a little messy steve oh [ audience ohs ] jimmy really [ light laughter ] marie kondo has a messy house. Thats like oprah saying, can i have a ride . I dont have a car. [ light laughter ] guys, the number one movie in the country is still fast furious presents hobbs shaw. These movies are huge. In fact, the franchise is doing so well, theyve already announced some brand new sequels. Check out this promo i saw today. Hobbs shaw is just the beginning for the fast furious franchise hobbs shaw present fast furious 11. Fast hobbs vs furious shaw. 2 hobbs 2 shaw. Hobbs shaw. Shaw. Hobbs furious. Fast presents shaw furious. Fobbs and faw 2 hash 2 shurious. And fast and furious 12 tokyo drift. Jimmy yeah, unbelievable thats exciting. [ cheers and applause steve wow. Jimmy hey, guys, its august, which means a lot of people are trying to sneak in some lastminute summer vacations. I mean sometimes you dont even realize people are out of the office until you get their away message. Do you know what im talking about tariq . Tariq ha, ha absolutely, jimmy. You are correct. [ light laughter ] jimmy come on. Let me guess tariq is on vacation so hes replaced himself with a cardboard cutout tariq ha, ha no, i am not a cardboard cutout its me, the real tariq. [ light laughter ] jimmy tariq, thats clearly not true these lines are all preordered tariq my lines are not prerecorded. Im the real tariq from the roots. And im definitely not on vacation in the galapagos. [ laughter ] jimmy okay, fine if these lines arent prerecorded, you should be able to answer anything i ask whats seven plus seven . Tariq 14 jimmy whats seven times seven . Tariq 48, wait, no, 49 [ light laughter ] jimmy wow, i guess im just seeing things. I am sorry i doubted you, tariq. Tariq its okay, jimmy at first, when you suggested i was a cardboard cutout, i was offended in fact, i was so flustered i had trouble answering a simple math problem [ light laughter ] jimmy i apologize. Tariq thank you. You know, this job can be pretty stressful sometimes, which is why i snuck away to the galapagos. [ light laughter ] jimmy thats fine. Everyone needs a break every wait a second tariq wait, no, 49, 48 wait, no, 49, 48 [ light laughter ] wait, no, 49, 48 wait, no, 49, 48 wait, no, 49, 48 wait, no, 49, 48 wait, no, 49, 48 wait, no, 49, 48 [ clapping ] wait, no, 49, 48 wait, no, 49, 48 wait, no, 49, 48 [ cheers ] wait, no, 49, 48 wait, no, 49, 48 wait, no, 49, 48 wait, no, 49, 48 jimmy all right. Very good. Tariq 49, 48 jimmy yeah, we turn his mic down thanks [ laughter ] this is crazy. A guy in california who went to jail for pretending to be a doctor just got his medical license in the caribbean and is now an actual doctor here in the u. S. [ audience ohs ] meanwhile his patient was like, okay, not the best story to tell during my prostate exam but still good for you [ laughter ] congratulations. And finally people in los angeles are upset that one of their neighbors painted giant emojis on the front of their house. Look at this this is a real photo yeah [ light laughter ] its getting pretty tense. This morning the owner opened their door and found this. Yeah, we have a great show, everybody. Give it up for the roots come on. [ cheers and applause appuse jimmy we have a fun show tonight. Greg kinnear is here steve yeah [ cheers and applause jimmy Phoebe Wallerbridge is here. [ cheers and applause we got great music from big sean [ cheers and applause hey, guys. I always say our show is lucky to have the greatest band in late night, the roots right there. There they are [ cheers and applause but it isnt always fun and games. From time to time we put the roots to the test. We pick people from our audience and have the roots make up songs about them on the spot it is time for freestylin with the roots. [ cheers and applause its time to freestyle with the roots jimmy okay, roots. You guys ready to do this . Raise your hand you want the roots to write a song about you. Yeah, yeah you want to go or do you want to go . Can she go . Jimmy yeah, sure [ light laughter ] how are you doing . Hi. Jimmy how are you . Im good. How are you . Jimmy im fantastio ho that . What is your name . Jess. Jimmy jess, where are you from the poconos jimmy hey, cool. I dont think i know anyone from the poconos thats awesome pocono area jimmy the pocono area. Yeah. Jimmy got to catch them all. You know what im saying [ laughter ] well, we had a very hot summer so far temperatures feeling up to 110 degrees. What is your favorite way to stay cool . Lounging at the pool. Jimmy yeah, ill take that pool time. I love that. Thats what i do too roots, we got our pal jess here from poconos or poconos area, poconos adjacent and her favorite way to stay cool is this summer is to lounge by the pool, man and just stay cool for this first song, old town road is one of my favorite jams [ light laughter ] number one on billboards hot 100 for the 18th week in the row. Can you guys do like an old town road type of song . Okay its reall all the same and you know why we came in jess would be the nam on this freestylin game shes poconos adjacen so shes really no fool and her favorite wa the thing to d is lounge by the pool keeping coo shes just chillin doing nothing shes in the pocono hustlin shes just chilling by the poo and doing nothing shes in th poconos area hustlin jimmy thank you very much. [ cheers and applause thank you very much. I appreciate it. Please stay standing. Im going to cut through if you dont mind im going to cut through if you dont mind how are you doing buddy . Good. Jimmy hello. How are you doing . Nice to see you. Im going to cut through sorry to bother you. I know youre watching the show how are you doing . Nice to see you. How are you . Hello. Nice to see you. Oh, wow. I like that. Thank you. Oh, here we go the side well, heres the side [ cheers and applause you want to hold that . Okay. Jimmy very good. What is your name . My name is alexa. Jimmy alexa, very good alexa. Everyone at home right now, all their devices are [ laughter ] whats your middle name . Siri okay [ laughter ] hey, fast furious presents hobbs shaw is the number one movie. What was your first car . Oh, a Ford Explorer jimmy not bad. [ cheers ] Ford Explorer. [ laughter ] got one clap from here [ laughter ] Ford Explorer. Do you remember what year it was . 2002. Jimmy yes, fantastic thats pretty recent i like it. If you had an air freshener hanging in your car, what would be the scent be . Whats your favorite freshener scent . Lavender. Jimmy what [ light laughter ] i dont know. Jimmy lavender, wouldnt that put you to sleep . No, its pretty you know jimmy i think its relaxing yeah, exactly you know jimmy i want to stay alert well, i mean you know, when people frustrate you, you have to be relaxed on the road, you know you get it you dont want yell at them. Jimmy youre yelling at me [ laughter ] i wish i had lavender right now. Im guys, we have amazons echo alexa [ light laughter ]rst r was a fd explorer, 2002 and if she had an air freshener hanging in her car it would be a lavender air freshener because, you know, things ever frustrate you. And people get in the way. And you want to calm down, you got to put lavender in your car. And there you go for this one, in honor of hobbs shaw, can you guys do a fun driving, beach boys type, i get around type of vibe. Alexa siris here and she loves who we are 2002 explore that was her first car she loves air freshener in the shape of a tree and lavende is what her favorite scent would be shes getting dow shes getting down shes getting down alexa siris here and she loves who we are a ford explore was her first car and she loves lavende cause it smells like star she puts in her ca and drives real far shes getting dow shes getting down shes getting down [ cheers and applause jimmy thank you very much. Im happy. Thank you for being here come on. That was funny here we go how about you . Wow. Just turn around this is pretty good pretty good shirt [ light laughter ] that actually is [ cheers ] [ applause ] thats what im talking about. What is your first name . I know your last name. Right [ laughter ] jackson. Jimmy jackson canada yup [ laughter ] its what i go by. Jimmy jackson, a lot of kids are working summer jobs right now. What was your very first job i was working as a bar back jimmy oh, thats not bad all right, was it fun . Yeah, i got free pizza. Jimmy all right, cool. If you could go back and say one thing to your boss at that job, what would it be . Right in the camera. Pay me more [ laughter ] jimmy thats right [ cheers and applause pay me more. Roots, we have jackson canada here his first job was a bar back he liked it, because he got free pizza and if he could go back and Say Something to his boss, he would say, pay me more. Okay Billie Eilish had a huge er a lot of people have been iebe can you guys do a fun bad guy kind of song Billie Eliish . Hey hi jackso whats up my guy theres a lot of kids givin different summer job a try hey what was your first jo probably your worst job actually its not so ba you were a bar back if you could go bac and say one thin to your boss what would it be you would say for sur hey ma you should pay me more hey tariq its nice to meet ya you got lots of free pizza and you know that were the future on the tonight show feature and its a freestyle while watching meanwhile canada is on your bac and the roots are never whac jimmy just walked down the steps and came back over at your desk so we could keep rocking fresh yo its me and brother quest love this son will never sto jackson youre loving pop jimmy give it up for these guys thanks to the roots. [ cheers and applause well be right back with greg kinnear, everybody. [ cheers and applause own little world. 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I have in a couple of weeks, ive got over the course of four days, about 96 hours, i have my wifes birthday, i have a 20year anniversary, i have my moms 85th birthday i have my oldest daughter turning 16 and my youngest daughter turning ten jimmy holy mackerel. Can i borrow some moneyim oh my god. Wow. I know that you have three daughters. We were talking about that you have a beautiful wife backstage. What do they do in the summer . Because theyre 10 and yeah, theyre 10 hold on, theyre 10, 13, 16 there you go and, you know, were busy, its busy times summer running around. Jimmy vacation no, just taking them to activities, museums. A little bit of travel jimmy they dont go to camp or anything . They dont do camp. I in fairness, i made a a terrible mistake regarding camp i told them my own camp story which was a bad move jimmy okay that was a mistake. I told them about i went to this camp tippecumseh in virginia when i was a kid, and, just your [ laughter ] jimmy theres an owl, theres an owl i slightly changed the name to avoid a lawsuit so you did not go to camp tippecumseh. Jimmy no, no, theyre theyre like, i almost went to that place. [ laughter ] dude, no, its actually kind of like one owl was loose and it was like ooh. [ laughter ] it wasnt a fully committed, whoo. It was an animal call jimmy yeah, it was i guess its a camp story, so its fine they probably went to camp so, at any rate, thank you for setting the mood so im at camp tippecumseh and its pretty much a standard camp you know, you go into these little cabins and kids are all you got your friends and meet some other kids and theres always one resident pain in the ass. Jimmy yeah, yeah, yeah a little smart ass, other than me. And there was this kid chizzy and he there was a counselor, a guy named clay whos kind of the, you know, buffed out counselor jimmy now are you changing all the names . No, im not im back on im back on facts. Jimmy so theres two real people named chizzy and clay chizzy and clay were real names. [ laughter ] jimmy wow, id see that movie. Tippecumseh was a slight jimmy fast and the furious, chizzy and clay. [ light laughter ] theyre not getting along theres a lot of antag, thes [ light laughter ] he was that guy. Jimmy i love that guy. You know, yeah. You would like him, you would have fit right into cabin six. [ light laughter ] so were there everybody is doing their thing but i can tell there is a relationship here between these two that is headed for trouble. And the days go by, you do the flag football, capture the flag, and one day, we are doing archery. Clay is teaching us how to shoot bows and arrows. Jimmy sure and chizzy is not around. And clays upset and hes like, has anybody seen him . Hes getting a little worked up and sure enough, about a half mile away, over the ridge comes this little dot of a person and hes screaming, you know, clay, youre an idiot, you know, im going to report you to the counselors. Its little chizzy and hes coming toward us and clay takes a bow from the kid next to him and an arrow jimmy oh, gosh and he pulls it back about as far as he can and he just lets it go and i dont think he was trying to actually i dont think he was trying to do anything. I think he was just trying to send out kind of a warning flare, if you will jimmy yeah, yeah sure, sure, yeah and im only 11 years old and im watching this thing and i dont know anything about aerodynamics but im like, thats got good trajectory [ laughter ] jimmy its got some heat on it and it proceeds to soar through the air and just in one of those moments where the world stops spinning on its axis, the arrow goes through this young mans arm, little chizzy [ audience ohs ] yeah, yeah he pulls up the