And featuring the legendary roots crew. Questlove 795 steve and now, here he is, jimmy fallon [ cheers and applause ] jimmy oh, my goodness. [ cheers and applause ] welcome welcome, everybody. Welcome, welcome, welcome, welcome to the tonight show. This is it, baby. [ cheers and applause ] youre here. You made it. The tonight show. Heres what people are talking about. We the gop tax bill. And i read that itll save President Trump 15 million a a year. [ light laughter ] trump heard that, he said, wow, did i switch to geico . [ laughter and applause ] i knew that i knew that would help. This is nice, though. After yesterdays vote, trump told reporters that they could stay and take part in a prayer with ben carson. [ light laughter ] first carson bowed his head, then three hours later he went [ snoring ] what . [ laughter and applause ] yeah, everything good . No ones here, okay, good. In the meantime, the white house is all decorated for christmas. There is a 350 pound gingerbread replica of the white house in the state dining room. Its pretty realistic. There is even a tiny omarosa being escorted out by the secret service. Steve aw [ laughter and applause ] jimmy its just really its perfect. Its cute. Its cute. There is a gingerbread white house that weighs 350 pounds, but then they left trump alone with it for a few minutes and now it weighs 250 pounds. [ laughter and applause ] i got hungry and ate the west wing. But christmas is only a few days away, which means its the perfect time to watch some classic holiday movies. You can tell that trump loves them. Hes actually been spending time practicing lines from his favorite holiday movies. Take a look at what i mean. Could you tone it down a a bit . Could you tone it down just a little . [ laughter ] were all in this together. Were all in this together. As dead as a doornail. The things dead as a a doornail. Most people hate me. They hate me with a passion. Cry, baby, cry. Let the baby cry. Get him out of here. Get him out of here. Oh, my god oh, my god kevin kevin ah arrr jimmy isnt that amazing . [ cheers and applause ] amazing. Steve wow. Jimmy guys, this is pretty crazy, a city in missouri just made a 177foot tall christmas stocking. Wow. Now comes the hard part, finding a 90foot package of disposable razors and an 80foot scratch off ticket to stuff inside of it. [ applause ] maybe its no, i lost. Finally, i want to say happy birthday to samuel l. Jackson who turns 69 years old today. [ cheers and applause ] he didnt he didnt blow out his candles, he just yelled at them until they put themselves out. [ cheers and applause ] we have a great show tonight. Give it up for the roots, everybody. [ cheers and applause ] [ cheers and applause ] jimmy we have got a huge show tonight. We love this guy, hes so funny, so talented. From the new movie, downsizing, Jason Sudeikis is here tonight. [ cheers and applause ] steve whoa jimmy were going to catch up with him. And then jason and i are going headtohead in a new competition with some very special guests. Steve oh. [ audience oohs ] jimmy yeah, cant wait, its going to be fun. Also the star of at home with amy sedaris, our buddy amy sedaris is stoping by. [ cheers and applause ] steve oh jimmy amys great. Amys going to tell us about her hit show. Then shes going to help out steve oh. Jimmy thats happening tonight. And we have standup from a a great comedian, oh, my goodness. I see him every year at comics come home, denis learys Charity Event he does in boston. Hes so funny. Hes one of the best comedians working right now. Robert kelly is here tonight, you guys. Steve whoa [ cheers and applause ] jimmy guys, we have exactly two shows left before we go on christmas break, which means its time for that beloved tonight show tradition. Its time for 12 days of christmas sweaters. Here we go. 12 days of christmas sweaters two days left [ cheers and applause ] jimmy thats right, every show between now and christmas, well be giving one lucky audience member a shackatoshish christmas sweater from the countdown to christmas cabinet. Now since there are two shows left, lets open door number two. [ drum roll ] [ cheers and applause ] oh, my goodness. [ cheers and applause ] now lets see whos going home with tonights sweater. Everyone, look at your seat number. If i call your number, i need you to jump up and let me know where you are. Quest, can i get a drumroll please . [ drum roll ] who wants the sweater . Its a good one [ cheers and applause ] 237 [ cheers and applause ] nice you are very lucky, oh, my im doing great. Jimmy nice to see you man. My pleasure. Jimmy what is what is your name . Jack barkley. Jimmy jack barkley, very good. Jack, where are you from . Texas. Jimmy from texas. [ cheers ] we love texas i just saw that recently it snowed in texas, so this is really great. Youre going to need a sweater. Yeah, of course. [ light laughter ] jimmy this is do you have anything like this gonna keep me very warm. Jimmy oh, yeah, this is very and its very heavy. I got to say that. Thats the one thing thats great. I think its the bejeweled bowties on the sides. Do you want to try it, to see if it fits . Id love it so much. [ cheers and applause ] jimmy just get in there. There you go. Now put it up. Thats good. [ laughter ] this is great. Jack jack, come on, buddy. Come on, buddy. There you go, all right, dont hurt yourself. There you go. [ cheers ] getting them through. No there you go. Yeah, look at this. This is fantastic. Are you kidding . Oh, my gosh. Look at that. Isnt it great . [ ch a you look fantastic thank you. Jimmy am i right or am i right . [ cheers and applause ] thanks again, my man. I appreciate it. Stick around. Well be right back with Jason Sudeikis, ladies and gentlemen. That looks great [ cheers and applause ] for those who know what theyre really building. Always unstoppable. And roomba from irobot gets to work using two multisurface brushes and powerlifting suction to grab and remove everything from fine dust to large debris. You and roomba from irobot. Better together. cough its just a cough. If you could see your cough, youd see just how far it can spread. Robitussin soothes in seconds and delivers fast, powerful cough relief for hours. giggling robitussin dm max. Because its never just a cough. Well its a perfect nespresso hold on a second. Orge. Mmm. [mel torme sings comin home baby] hey there. Want a lift . Where are we going . No dont tell me. Let me guess. Have a nice ride. How far would you go for coffee thats a cup above . Nespresso. What else . It all starts with a wish. The final days of wish list are here. Hurry in and sign and drive off in a new lincoln with zero down and a complimentary first months payment. [ cheers and applause ] jimmy our first guest is a a very funny and talented actor starring alongside matt damon and kristen wiig in the new film downsizing which opens tomorrow. Please welcome the always entertaining Jason Sudeikis, everybody [ cheers and applause ] jimmy you feeling the funk. Woo jimmy Jason Sudeikis, everybody. Welcome back to the show. [ cheers and applause ] nice to see you. Nice to be seen. Jimmy how is the family . Are the kids excited for christmas . Alive. Alive and well. Jimmy jimmy yeah, youre doing your job. Yeah. Are they excited . Yeah, i think so. I mean, daisy is one. So shes psyched about food and most things. Jimmy anything, yeah, yeah. Shes a baby. Yeah, yeah. But, otis is three and a a half. And he understands that gifts are exchanged. That he is going to be getting a bunch of new toys. Were filling up a box tomorrow of all the toys that need to go elsewhere, give them to some other kids to make room for some stuff. Jimmy yeah. But i dont think he hes at an age where he knows santa is a thing, but we cant use him as like the great disciplinarian that santa is for most households. [ light laughter ] jimmy yeah, not yet. No, he thinks santa, like, i buy the toys and santa just he just thinks santa is like a a fedex guy. [ laughter ] jimmy hes just delivering presents. Delivering presents, like jimmy so you order them through santa . Yeah, exactly. Or he thinks that jeff bezos is santa, and then santas like an elf. [ laughter ] jimmy yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah i got you. So its like, you know, hey, if you do that, you know, if you push your sister, santas not going to bring you what you want. Hes just like [ laughter ] so we wont overnight it, big deal. Yeah. Jimmy yeah. Yeah, exactly, right. Yeah, priority overnight isnt a thing dad . Oh, man. Howd you learn that . Jimmy has he met santa . Have you ever no, he hasnt met santa yet. I think thats part of the problem. We havent introduced him to the mythology yet. Jimmy yeah, you have to you know, he knows the grinch, he knows the joker from batman in the 60s. [ light laughter ] you know, he knows those iconic jimmy important important things, yeah. Were jimmy every kids gotta know the joker. You know, and jesus. Jimmy its all very nice. Of course, of course. All the biggies. In that order. Those are the three. But then we [ laughter ] thats the holy trinity in our house. [ laughter and applause ] sure. Jimmy they agree. They agree, they agree. And hows the hows the beautiful baby . Hows daisy . Shes good. Shes cute as pie. And shes in her visually, adorable. Audibly shes a shrieker. [ light laughter ] she shrieks. She shrieks incessantly. In a good mood, bad mood. She realizes that people look at her when she shrieks, so now her dna, unfortunately. Jimmy so, shes like yelling or . Oh no, its like a shriek. Im talking about like i mean, i cant do it, because im a grown man. [ light laughter ] but like, id have to do it on the inhale. Itd be like [ shrieking ] [ light laughter ] jimmy really . Do you remember the sound daryl hannah made in splash . Jimmy splash . When she says her name. Anybody here over 30 . [ laughter ] tom hanks used to do comedies. Jimmy oh my gosh, yeah, yeah, yeah. And so, yeah. I mean, its awful. And we were on a plane recently. We went on vacation, we went to hawaii. Which is a lovely place, and then on the plane ride home liv and the baby were two rows away from me. Then there was a random duo a couple older ladies and then otis and i a row ahead. And i could hear the shrieking starting and i knew it was going keep going until she everybody died or something. I dont know. Jimmy yeah. [ laughter ] shes very persistent. And then so, but the women behind me didnt know that i was with the people behind them. So theyre whispering and just cori oh my god and then one of them just looks over to the other one just, just put something in her mouth [ laughter ] and im like i turn over. And like, sort of look. And again and then i got up and just sort of walked over and kissed my baby so they know, oh yeah. Quit talking trash. Jimmy yeah, exactly. I can hear you. Jimmy stick up for the baby, yeah. But i mean, literally peoples tans were falling off, it was so loud. [ laughter ] their leis were wilting. Jimmy man. [ talking over each other ] you know, like a time lapse. But you know, the jimmy hawaiian leis oh, it was horrible. It was horrible. The vacation was null and void by time we landed. Jimmy did you have you ever done this on the show, because i know this. Whats that . Jimmy im not sure if anyone knows this. But youre a very good whistler. I appreciate that, thats nice. [ laughter ] jimmy have you ever done that on the show . Have i ever made you whistle on the show . No, no ive never whistled. Yeah, i didnt realize i was a a good whistler. I did a play last year, we did a stage version of dead Poets Society downtown at jimmy thats right. Congratulations on that. That was great. Well, that was a blast, yeah. No, i mean, it didnt we didnt go to broadway but, thank you. [ laughter ] jimmy you didnt want to you didnt want to go. Didnt want to go. Jimmy you didnt want to go to broadway. Didnt want to go its too busy. Jimmy its too busy over there. Too many people. Jimmy its so much better off broadway. Is that still a benchmark for like, having done something well . Jimmy absolutely not. Okay good. Thats what i thought. Thats all right. Jimmy no one knows about broadway. Thats where people end their careers. Like springsteen. You know, hes on the way down. [ laughter ] bette midler, you know, its like, does anybody even go see that anymore . Jimmy no, and theres empty houses. Yeah, exactly, so we didnt make it to the great white way. But i whistled a lot in that. And people were like after the show, you know, you try to take them through the highs and lows of that story. Jimmy yeah. And then people would be like, i didnt know you were such a good whistler. Jimmy yeah. [ light laughter ] thats all im like, thats all you get out of that . [ laughter ] you dont want to seize the day . Just like, hey man. Jimmy thats all you got out of my performance . Is that im a great whistler. [ light laughter ] its the first thing i did in the show. Jimmy but it is yeah. Yeah, it opens with is it ode we did a little ode to joy. Jimmy ode to joy. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Jimmy but, it was fantastic. Yeah, you want jimmy can you give me a a taste of it . Want me to, like jimmy yeah, that would be great. [ cheers and applause ] i believe its public so, we wont have to pay for this. [ light laughter ] jimmy i believe it is, too. [ whistling ode to joy ] jimmy i mean [ cheers and applause ] [ whistling ode to joy ] [ cheers and applause ] ring tone. Thats a ring tone right there. Thats a ring tone. Thats a ring tone. Jimmy Jason Sudeikis, right there. Thats real money. [ applause ] jimmy professional whistler. Jason sudeikis. I do it just cause i love it. Jimmy exactly. [ light laughter ] the kids just love it. You know, if i get paid, id never work a day in my life. [ light laughter ] if i got paid to whistle. Is this mine . Jimmy yeah, thats yours, yeah. Thank you. Jimmy no, problem. Ooh, a handle. [ light laughter ] jimmy oh its good, its strong moonshine. [ light laughter ] lets talk about downsizing. Lets yeah. Jimmy did you get to hang with our pal . Wiigy . Kristen wiig . No. Jimmy you didnt . We were separate ships in the night. Ships in the night. Jimmy see, isnt that wild. Yeah, no, its one of those things about movies. You remember growing up youd see people ivi be like, i bet theyre the best friends now. And like no, you never see each other. Jimmy yeah. But especially when, like, my guy is like i play a a downsized person which is this idea that we, you know, shrink ourselves to like five, eight inches. Jimmy yeah. And so, yeah. So, all my scenes were with a a green screen. Jimmy was it really . [ light laughter ] yeah, like, i did one scene with matt damon and then jason bourne, you know, had to take a flight to paris or something, and im talking [ laughter ] jimmy you never saw him again. Talking to a yellow x on a a big like this damn thing. Im just talking to a curtain. Jimmy but the idea of it really is if people can choose to downsize to five inches yeah. Jimmy tall, to have a guaranteed a better a better life, yeah. Jimmy a better life. Yeah. Its their way of solving the problem with overpopulation. And so, yeah, if you you got miniaturized like that, then you can have all the spoils of the world. And my character and the woman that plays my wife, maribeth monroe, she were Old High School friends of his. So we come back to the 25th reunion and get carried in a a glass case. And its kind of like oh, look. We were treated like br jimmy well you were the first people to downsize. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Especially in that small town in nebraska. Jimmy so a local celebrity. Theyre like, oh, you gotta talk to me yeah. Jimmy about downsizing, what happened . Like, are you loving it . Yeah, yeah. Jimmy youre like, oh, lifes great, yeah. No. Jimmy its very, very good. I want to show a clip. Here is Jason Sudeikis and matt damon in downsizing. Take a look. So the decision to well, thats the thing. Downsizing takes the pressure right off. Especially money pressure. Well and plus, it must feel good to know youre really making a difference. You mean all that crap about saving the planet . Yeah. Downsizing is about saving yourself. And now, carol and i, we live like kings. Im still living in the same house i grew up in. I mean, audrey is dying for us to move. But were really strapped. Listen, theres a lot of small communities cropping up out there. But, dont mess around. Leisureland is where you want to be. Best houses, best appliances, best doctors. Its got all the great restaurants. The kids love cheesecake factory. And leisurelands got three of em. Ooh, sorry, maybe back up a a little . I think there might be too much garlic in the salsa here. Oh yeah, right. Jimmy there you go. Jason sudeikis right there. [ cheers and applause ] downsizing opens tomorrow. When we come back, jason and i are going headtohead in a new competition with some special guests. Stick around, everybody. [ cheers and applause ] i cant believe it comes in. How great this tastes vegaaaan. Enjoy i cant believe its not butter in its vegan and its organic toasting dad im not one but heres to. To many more years of friendship. And feasts crowd [laughing, cheering] to presents a mi familia que lo es todo. To being right here, right now, with you. Sfx dog bark. And you. Toasting dad i guess what im trying to say is, heres to family. Were proud to bring your family amazing value every day. T. J. Maxx. Marshalls. Homegoods. Family is the greatest gift. Nosy neighbor with a glad bag, full of trash. What happens next . Nothing. Only glad has febreze to neutralize odors for 5 days. Guaranteed. Even the most perceptive noses wont notice the trash. Be happy. Its glad. Its a better place, since you came along since you came along your touch is sunlight through the trees your kisses are the ocean breeze everythings alright when youre with me and i hold my favorite thing i hold the love that you bring and the colors are golden and bright again theres a song in my heart, i feel like i belong its a better place since you came along [ cheers and applause ] jimmy welcome back, everybody. Im here with Jason Sudeikis downsizing is his film. The Winter Olympics are right around the corner you guys and i can not wait. So in honor of my absolute all Time Favorite winter olympic sport, of course, talking about curling, it is time to play a a game of bar curling. Here we go, ladies and gentlemen. [ cheers and applause ] jimmy now, jason and i are going tod two of the best curlers in the world. Please give a warm tonight show welcome to u. S. Olympic curling Team Superstars and real life siblings, becca and Matt Hamilton, ladies and gentlemen [ cheers and applause ] jimmy thank you. Youre going down. Jimmy no way, man. Im so happy honored to have you here. Thats Jason Sudeikis. Welcome to the show. Guys, your musical is amazing. Jimmy no, no, that thank you, thank you. I wrote it myself. Jimmy no, these are olympians. These are different hamiltons . Jimmy yes, diffe