Roots crew. Questlove 543 steve and now, here he is, jimmy fallon [ cheers and applause ] jimmy hey welcome, everybody thank you looking good. Hot crowd tonight. Hot crowd. Welcome, welcome, welcome. [ cheers and applause ] welcome to the tonight show, everybody. I am so excited. We have sting on the show tonight. [ cheers and applause ] he has a new album. Sting has a new album coming out. Also from saturday night live, Kate Mckinnon is here as well. [ cheers and applause ] steve kate jimmy im telling you, she does the best impression of Hillary Clinton ive seen since, well, Hillary Clinton. [ laughter ] i mean, but still [ cheers ] hers is up there. Guys, there are now about six more weeks left in the election. And we know that, because this morning trumps hair popped out and saw his shadow. [ laughter and applause ] that usually means steve i didnt know that. Wow. Jimmy that usually means actually the second president ial debate is just 11 days away. And this one will have a town hall format. The first question will be, why did you have to do this in our town . [ laughter and applause ] can you do it somewhere else . And get this, it was Just Announced that americans will be able to submit questions online for the next debate. When Russian Hackers heard this, they were like, thats right, the americans will be submitting the questions. [ laughter and applause ] thats right. The dust is still settling from mondays debate, which wound up being the most watched debate in u. S. History. In fact, i read that disney hosted a viewing party for journalists at a hotel in los angeles. Yeah, and several disney characters actually shared the issues that are most important to them this election. Let me give you an example. Steve really . Jimmy chip and dale said, samesex marriage. Thats what they want. [ laughter and applause ] steve got it. Jimmy eeyore said, making sure my benefits cover group therapy. [ laughter and applause ] elsa said, whatever hillary wants. Us ice queens gotta stick together. [ light laughter ] [ audience groans ] [ applause ] i know, can you believe elsa said that . Steve how rude of her. Jimmy and finally steve shes rude. Jimmy the beast said, whatever trump wants. Us furryheaded mansion dwellers gotta stick together. [ laughter and applause ] it was very interesting. Steve wow. Jimmy seems like everybody was watching the debate. And get this, its reported that the taliban even had a a debate viewing party. But for the first time, it looks like theyre torturing themselves. [ laughter ] [ applause ] very Interesting Times we live in. I saw that president obama called in to Ryan Seacrests radio show yesterday to encourage listeners to vote. Yeah. Even though hes the busiest person on the planet, he made the time to take president obamas call. [ laughter and applause ] i thought that was nice of Ryan Seacrest to do. This was very interesting, president obamas upcoming south by south lawn festival at the white house will have a a virtual reality, psychological experiment that will make you feel like youre in a small jail cell. Or as obama calls it, the oval office. [ light laughter ] [ applause ] some more political news. Yesterday a group of Democratic Senators sent a letter to yahoo asking why they took so long to report the hacks of 500 million users. Thats how little faith they have in yahoo email, they sent a letter to yahoo [ light laughter ] [ applause ] finally, a little sports news here. Tom brady is on the last week of his nfl suspension, and he was photographed in italy tanning naked. [ cheers ] yeah. Just what we need, another tom brady ball scandal. You know what im saying . [ laughter ] we have a great show tonight, we do. Give it up for the roots [ cheers and applause ] [ cheers and applause ] jimmy thank you very much big, big show tonight. Thank you very much. Hey, guys, ben affleck is going to be on the show next week. And i want to do this fun thing with ben. Im going to need your help. Its called kid theater. So if you have a kid ages 5 to 10, i want you to have them write a story with the title the accountant. Thats the name of bens new movie. Now its important you dont tell them what the actual movie is about. Just have them write a short scene, one or two pages with two characters talking to each other. Just give them the title the accountant and let their imagination do the rest. [ light laughter ] when theyre done, just take a a photo of their script or scan it and email it kidtheater tonightshow. Com. Were going to choose our favorites and ben and i will act them out on the show. Its gonna be really fun. [ cheers and applause ] kid theater. Steve i love it. Jimmy oh, its really fun. Its been a great week so far. Theres more ahead, tomorrow night, she is hosting the season premier of saturday night live this weekend, Margot Robbie will be here steve oh [ cheers and applause ] jimmy plus, im so honored to say this, the Vice President of the united states, joe biden will be joining us as well. Steve whoa. [ cheers and applause ] jimmy and we have music from metallica oh, my goodness. [ cheers and applause ] that is a big show. Steve wow. Jimmy then on friday, we have nathan lane, james marsden, nikki glaser, and thank you notes. Its going to be a great week. But first, we have a fun show tonight. He is a 16time grammy awardwinner. This is his new album, 57th 9th. The one and only sting is here tonight [ cheers and applause ] cant beat sting. Were going to catch up with sting. Then he and i are going to sing about some peoples embarrassing and regrettable text message exchanges in something we call first textual experience. [ laughter and applause ] and then sting is going to sing a fantastic song off the new album, 57th 9th. I cannot wait for that. Im so happy. Thank you for being here, sting. Plus [ cheers and applause ] shes so funny and talented. From saturday night live and the new movie masterminds, Kate Mckinnon is on the show. Steve yeah [ cheers and applause ] jimmy saw her at the emmys. I was so happy she won. Steve shes a delight. Shes just a delight. Jimmy shes theres only been three other winners, i think, of saturday night live cast members that won emmys. Shes the fourth. Her, gilda radner, chevy chase, and dana carvey. Its amazing. Good for Kate Mckinnon. So happy for her. [ cheers and applause ] so talented. Hey, guys, were in week four of the nfl season, and the big sunday night football matchup is between the Kansas City Chiefs and the pittsburgh steelers, right here on nbc. Now, as you know, at the end of every season, they give out awards like most valuable player. But they also give out awards during the season, sort of like the ones in high school yearbooks, like most likely to succeed, class clowns, stuff like that. So with that in mind, its time for tonight show superlatives. Here we go. [ cheers and applause ] tonight show superlatives jimmy our first player is jordan devey. Hes a guard for the Kansas City Chiefs. He was voted most likely to star in a cw show called jeb bush the college years. [ laughter and applause ] steve wow. Jimmy id watch that. Steve id watch that. Jimmy sounds like a good show. Next up is chiefs quarterback tyler bray. He was voted most likely to have a giant bottle on his night stand that says not werewolf pills. [ cheers and applause ] hes not a werewolf. Steve no, hes not. So dont think he is. Jimmy next up is steelers wide receiver Antonio Brown. He was voted most likely to make that pen click noise when you push the top of his head. Steve wow. [ laughter ] jimmy rare award. Steve thats very rare. Jimmy they dont normally give that out. Steve bic. Jimmy next up is jaye howard. He was voted most likely to say no, just no, while watching rick perry on dancing with the stars. [ applause ] next up is steelers linebacker vince williams. [ laughter ] he was voted most likely to suddenly appear behind you at home depot, and say paint fan, huh . [ laughter and applause ] steve paint fan . Jimmy next up from the chiefs is mitch morse. He was voted most likely to look at a hard boiled egg and say, dad . [ laughter ] odd. Steve thats an odd award. Jimmy next up is chiefs running back knile davis. He was voted most likely to end a conversation by saying, great, talk to you later. Then stand silently like this for the next two hours. [ applause ] [ light laughter ] next up is eric murray. He was voted most likely to star in a Disney Channel show called everything eric. [ light laughter ] [ applause ] finally from the chiefs is parker ehinger. 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And the studios i use are in Hells Kitchen, three little studios, and every day i would stop at this intersection because the traffic is busy. Jimmy oh, sure, yeah. So, it was a little way of reminding myself that i live in new york, and i love the city. Jimmy thats good. [ cheers and applause ] i love Hells Kitchen. I know Hells Kitchen fairly well. It is its kind of that one section of new york thats not really developed yet. Like overdeveloped. Because the zoning wars, you cant build over six stories. So, its old new york. Jimmy yeah, yeah, yeah, cool, and you just walk to work. You just do that as sting . Yeah. [ laughter ] its my civic right, and people are very comfortable. Jimmy its your civic right, yeah. I know youre allowed to. [ laughter ] but you dont have to. Youre sting. Yeah, but i like to walk. Jimmy but you could wear a a jet pack to work if you want. You could do no. [ laughter ] jimmy i mean, you do that type of stuff. If you live in the suburbs, you cant walk to work. You have to get on a train, or get in a car. But to walk is a great privilege for me. Jimmy do people recognize you . Yeah, they do. Jimmy yo, sting whats up . [ laughter ] thats exactly what they say. Jimmy yo, youre standing too close to me, man hey [ laughter ] roxanne jimmy yeah, hows roxanne doin, man . [ laughter ] exactly what i get. Jimmy exactly, yeah. I do love it. Jimmy you do like it . Yeah. Yeah. Jimmy its probably humbling, too, that people yell and scream at you all the time . You just say, yeah. [ laughter ] i love it. Jimmy how does sting go about coming up with a new album . Do you have a pile of songs . Youre like, hmm, i do this one, now. Its like picking out clothes . Normally, yeah. But this one, i had nothing. I called my musicians up, Dominic Miller on guiter, Vinnie Colaiuta on the drums. I come to the studio. Ive got nothing. So then, the three of us played like the middle of ping pong, threeway ping pong. Jimmy yeah. Ideas come, and then weve shed them into a song form. Then i go for my walk back home over 57th and 9th. I think of what the music is telling me. Jimmy what dont you write roxanne, man hows roxanne doin man . [ laughter ] and youre like, ugh, i just wrote a song. Its nothing to do with roxanne. Shut up leave me alone [ laughter ] thats what i would do if i were you. [ laughter ] im not you, yeah, yeah. No. Jimmy no, im not you, yeah. But dont but youre jimmy dont you get Writers Block . Do you ever get i think everybody gets Writers Block, you know . My work is seasonal. Ill spend a season writing and recording music, then i go on tour, and then i dont do anything. So, you know, its not Writers Block really. Its just jimmy you just did that broadway that gigantic. I did five years on the last ship, yeah. Jimmy yeah, and then, so, it was, like, your first time having the down time. Yeah. Jimmy youre always just a a busy. I like to work. Jimmy yeah. I dont like not working. Jimmy but do you think when you do these songs, you go, im gonna play this for 50,000 people, 100,000 people . Or do you go, im doing this because i got to get it out of brain, or im doing it for me, or i really play for my band, you know . Jimmy yeah. I want us to enjoy making music together, so theyre the first port of call, then i play it to trudie at home. Jimmy yeah. And if it passes that test jimmy you got to play it for the wife. Its okay, yeah. Jimmy yeah. Whats the biggest crowd you have ever played in front of . Id say probably half a a Million People in poland. They lost count. [ cheers ] jimmy holy moly. You counted everyone . Wow. It must be like a what was do you remember the smallest venue youve ever played . Yes, it was in poughkeepsie, new york. [ cheers ] jimmy i love poughkeepsie, yeah. At a club called the last chance saloon, and there was tumbleweed in the alleyway. [ laughter ] jimmy oh, my god. And three people turned up. Jimmy really . Now, this was the police . There were three of us on stage, and three people in the audience, but they were jimmy yeah. In different parts of the theater, like one up here. I said, guys, just come down to the front. [ laughter ] and i introduced them to each other [ laughter ] jimmy just stand together and pretend to be to the band, and we did our show, and we got five encores. [ laughter ] jimmy did you . [ cheers ] amazing. Jimmy they just loved you that night, yeah. But two of them jimmy but, i know that place, the chance. Two of them are deejays. Jimmy what is that . So, yeah, they started to play our records. Jimmy is that right . Yeah. Jimmy i love that. I love that story, in poughkeepsie. Man, you go from three people to half a Million People, yeah, absolutely, yeah. Not overnight, but yeah. [ cheers and applause ] jimmy ive seen you many times in concert, and you know how to do it, man. Youre fantastic. If you havent seen sting live well, you have actually. [ laughter ] youre about to see him tonight, yeah. People at home, they dont know that you [ sighs ] every time when you come on, when youve been on the show, you warm up the crowd [ cheers and applause ] an amazing crowd. This is one of my favorite bands, so jimmy yeah, they are one of the best bands ever. We love the roots so much. Any opportunity to sing with them is welcome. Jimmy youre going to sing the first single off the new album. What is this song called . Its called, i cant stop thinking about you. Its not about you. Jimmy what is the name of the song . [ laughter ] you beat me to it, yeah, yeah. Sorry. Jimmy i cant stop thinking about you, yeah. You did write about me, oddly. It was just why . [ laughter ] what was it from our last experience where you couldnt stop thinking of me . No. Jimmy was from it me yelling at you, following you on the streets . That isnt true. No, its not true. Jimmy why dont you play roxanne, man . [ laughter ] put out the red light [ laughter ] can you feel it . Jimmy ive been to your concert. Yeah, yeah. Jimmy im not quite done yet, yeah. But i do a youre going to do this song for us tonight, and before you do this, every time you come on, we try to do something fun with you. We ask you, and you politely say yes, even though i know you dont want to do it, but [ laughter ] i was wondering if i could play a game with you tonight that you would be involved us sure. Jimmy yeah, thank you. [ cheers and applause ] he cant stop thinking of me, and this is why his new album, 57th and 9th, drops november 11th [ cheers and applause ] more sting when we come back stick around, everybody come on inthousands ofk barrels lay silent aging, building a fuller smoother flavor that only comes from being aged four long years at jim beam our history is made from the inside how will you make yours . 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