Comedian Orlando Leyba and the featuring the legendary roots crew and now here he is, jimmy fallon [ cheers and applause [ cheers and applause jimmy oh, wow come on, now oh my goodness welcome, everybody welcome, welcome, welcome to the tonight show. This is it, youre here [ cheers and applause you guys, im so excited about this eddie murphy is my guest tonight. [ cheers and applause i love eddie so much in fact, earlier today i realized his career really sums up what President Trump is going through right now. [ light laughter ] ill show you what i mean. You see, 48 hrs ago, trump got impeached. In fact, things got so bad he even considered trading places with mike pence. [ laughter ] yep, trump had no idea bribing ukraine would boomerang back at him [ laughter ] and now impeachment will be a stain that follows him for the rest of his life. [ laughter ] yeah, trump was sending hundreds of tweets people thought that he was delirious. [ laughter ] in fact, trump was so mad he considered fleeing to mexico, but he couldnt make it over the wall thats blocking everyone from coming to america. [ laughter and applause [ cheers and applause well, you guys, christmas is just a few days away [ cheers and applause yeah, its that magical time of year when dad goes through eight rolls of scotch tape wrapping one gift. [ laughter ] thats right christmas is almost here, and if you really want to have some fun, put a giant red bow on your neighbors car and then take your wife out to see it [ laughter and applause i do it every year [ cheers and applause this year i saw that red lobster is selling an ugly holiday sweater featuring a pouch to keep your biscuits warm [ laughter ] well, every guy is like, that doesnt mean what i think it means, does it . [ laughter ] oh, and i saw that this saturday is the first day of winter winter will end on march 19th or hopefully sooner. It all depends on if Pete Buttigieg sees his shadow [ laughter and applause meanwhile, i saw that Elizabeth Warren is on the cover of this months Rolling Stone magazine. [ light laughter ] not to be outdone, Bernie Sanders is on the cover of kidney stone magazine and [ laughter and applause its a good article. Steve really wow. Jimmy you guys, its the end of the year and people are already thinking about their new years resolutions and that includes people in washington. We actually got ahold of some of them, and theyre pretty interesting. Ill show you what i mean. For example, congressman matt gaetz his new years resolution is to continue my secret side job as the mascot for the patriots. [ laughter and applause next up, here is jerry nadler. His new years resolution is to wear my pants lower so my nipples stop chafing on my belt. [ laughter and applause finally, heres Bernie Sanders his new years resolution is to stop combing my hair by sticking a soup spoon into a a light socket. Steve wow. [ laughter and applause [ imitating being electrocuted ] jimmy finally, everyone, this is our last show of the decade [ cheers and applause thank you for being here, which means its time to revisit the funniest moment of the past ten years. Thats right, im talking about when lou dobbs tried to say the name of a mexican city [ laughter ] back in 2018, please roll the clip the caravan of mostly Central American immigrants is now in the mexican city of washblasa tonight. [ laughter ] jimmy we have a great show give it up for the roots right there. [ laughter ] [ cheers and applause [ cheers and applause jimmy we have a fun show tonight eddie murphy is here [ cheers and applause the great greta gerwig is here steve wow. [ cheers and applause jimmy and we have standup from Orlando Leyba [ cheers and applause guys, this is our last show before we go on christmas break, which means its time for that beloved tonight show tradition. Its time for 12 days of christmas sweaters. [ cheers and applause 12 days of christma sweaters one day left jimmy thats right every show between now and christmas, were giving one lucky audience member an aweinspiring christmas sweater from the countdown to christmas cabinet. Now, since this is our last show, lets open door number one. [ drum roll jimmy its been a pleasure thank you so much. Oh, my gosh its been a joy. Jimmy thank, youre great. Never been sweater. [ laughter ] jimmy no, never been sweater. Yeah. Jimmy yeah, thank you. Better [ drum roll go [ drum roll oolala [ cheers and applause [ cheers and applause jimmy how how does this work what am i doing . Does that go over . Does that go down . [ light laughter ] well, i dont know how this works, but this is i think its that. It is that, okay look at that that is just that is a sweater that a human being will wear. [ bells jingling ] [ cheers and applause beautiful. Now, lets see whos going home with tonights sweater everyone look at your seat number [ cheers and applause 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 me to pick their number [ cheers and applause this is it the big one it is 203 [ cheers and applause whoa, right here oh, my gosh. Front row. Yes jimmy wow. 203, the front row its the first front row of this whole season. [ light laughter ] this is fantastic. What is your name . Julia jimmy julia, where are you from westchester, new york jimmy yeah, i love westchester. This is it gets a little chilly, especially the past couple of days its been cold, you need a good sweater just to cozy up. And if you got to the store, Something Like that, you know. You got to go to starbucks, whatever you just want to throw something on, this is the perfect thing to throw on. Its gorgeous jimmy yeah i mean, you look good in white already, but i mean it matches. Jimmy yeah, it kind of matches. Would you, like to try this on sure. Jimmy sure, hold on. Could you hold this . This take two hands to do this [ cheers and applause [ laughter ] are you almost done jimmy are you there . Yeah, im in. [ laughter ] jimmy sorry about that youre fine jimmy no, its all right try it again [ laughter ] its so easy once you get it on the first time its almost no, i think its all right, try it again. There you go, dive in. All right. Are you okay can you breathe . Yes [ light laughter ] jimmy all right. Thats very important. Okay, good yes jimmy oh, was it backwards yes jimmy oh, its backwards, all right. It looks it looks good. [ cheers and applause it looks good backwards as well turn around. Okay. Jimmy doesnt that look great . [ cheers and applause yeah, one shoulder its a little love good, good yeah. You can take your sleeves out and swap it around too thats how much fun and versatile the sweater is its fantastic you look great in it thank you jimmy it looks so good congratulations. [ cheers and applause thanks again to our lucky audience member. Stick around well be back with more tonight show, everybody. Please turn your seat around [ cheers and applause man and woman [burst of talking to animals] vo it feels good to give back. attendant thank you so much. woman oh, you are so welcome. vo you can choose the aspca to get two hundred and fifty dollars from subaru when you get a new subaru, like the all new outback. vo 2 get 0. 9 on a new outback during the subaru share the love event. Save on last minute gifts with target holideals by sam smith] save on samsung tvs. Save on toys. Save on sweaters for the family and more. Doors open until 10pm christmas eve. Only at target. You sure you dont want me to come with you . Im very sure. Because i can. laughs make good choices. You make good choices. I am. Fiber is good for digestive health. Good choices never tasted so good. Kelloggs raisin bran. chef beaker no no no. Not de bunoney. De pepe. Es verde pepe. beaker ohhh chef not de flour. De pepe. beaker ah. Ah chef yeah de pepe beaker ah ah ah fozzie vo portal from facebook. Wrap up your Holiday Shopping with the bat jcpenney z out sale for 5 days only shop nike and adidas. Keurig and nutribullet. And up to 80 off jewelry. Or take an extra 20 off with your jcpenney credit card jcpenney and i like to question your im yoevery move. N law. Like this left turn. Its the next one. You always drive this slow . How did you make someone i love . That must be why youre always so late. I do not speed. And thats saving me cash with drivewise. My son, he did say that you were the safe option. And thats the nicest thing you ever said to me. So get allstate. Stop bossing. Where good drivers save 40 for avoiding mayhem, like me. This is my sons favorite color, you should try it. [mayhem] you always drive like an old lady . [tina] youre an old lady. [ drathis holiday. Ahhhhh ahhhhh a distant friend returns. Elliott. You came back and while lots of things have changed. Wooooah woah its called the internet. Some things havent. Get ready for a reunion 3 million light years in the making. Woohoo yeah [ cheers and applause jimmy welcome back, everybody. Today is friday, and thats usually when i catch up on some personal stuff you know, i check my inbox, return some emails and of course, send out thank you notes. And i was just running [ cheers and applause i was running a bit behind today. So, i thought if you guys wouldnt mind, id just like to write out my weekly thank you notes right now is that okay with you guys [ cheers and applause steve wow. Jimmy james, can i get some thank you note writing music, please oh hes in [ laughter ] steve festive. Jimmy hes in the holiday spirit, yeah thank you, poster for star wars the rise of skywalker, for looking like every middle School Yearbook photo from the 90s [ laughter and applause i love this one. Thank you, cats. Despite the fact that your trailer has been out for months and the musicals been out for decades, i still have no idea what youre about. [ laughter and applause steve memories jimmy are they from space . Steve are they jimmy are they aliens from space . Steve yeah, alien cats jimmy i dont know man steve something to do with t. S. Eliot, i dont know jimmy thank you, pine needles under the christmas tree, for looking like the grinch just manscaped in my living room. [ laughter and applause grinch youre a foul one youre a clean one [ laughter ] manscaped [ laughter ] jimmy thank you. Steve your pen broke jimmy i dont know, man. Steve doesnt matter [ laughter ] jimmy thank you, giving someone socks for christmas, for basically saying, the thing i remembered about you is that you have feet. [ laughter and applause thank you, gingerbread men, for being delicious cookies that are forced to live in a house made from their own skin [ laughter and applause steve enjoy jimmy thank you, annual family christmas letters with way too much detail. Im glad uncle walts vasectomy went well, but next year lets just say merry christmas. [ applause ] uncle walt steve uncle walt [ light laughter ] jimmy thank you, fruitcakes, for combining something people sort of like with something people really like to make something no one likes. There you go, everybody. [ laughter ] those are my thank you notes. Well be right back with eddie murphy [ cheers and applause you try baking a pie. Wnongenemodi. Nongen. Oh, triscuit is nongenetically modified. Nongenemodiscuit. Triscuit is nongmo project verified. Triscuit. Make scuit happen. 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Ahh thanks isabel, its too early cmon everybody its for all of you. Ha ha girls. You just tap it. What is this . Nana fell in love. Oh dad look at your hair nana. [deep exhale] ahhh shes right there absolutely brilliant, both of you. Thank you [ cheers and applause jimmy our first guest is one of the Biggest Box Office stars in the world he is getting critical acclaim for his work in dolemite is my name, which is streaming now on netflix tomorrow night, for the first time in 35 years, hes returning to host saturday night live with musical guest lizzo. Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome, the one, the only, eddie murphy [ cheers and applause [ cheers and applause jimmy oh, thats got to feel good. Hey jimmy eddie murphy, welcome [ cheers and applause hey, thank you so much. Thank you. Jimmy welcome, welcome, welcome to the show. Yeah, man, thank you. Jimmy thank you for coming by whats it like what has this week been like youre back on snl. Is it like going back to school or yeah, it is a lot like going back to your Old High School or going back to college. Because its the exact same system in place. Its kind of surreal jimmy i mean, cause this is gosh, this is probably 35 years is that right . 35 years since ive been back jimmy man, oh man. I went for the 40th jimmy yeah, thats right 35 years since ive actually done the show. Jimmy wow. Do you remember do you remember your audition for the show yeah, i do remember [ laughter ] jimmy what was it . Do you remember, what did you do they had it was just one guy in the office. It was a guy named neil levy he was lornes nephew. And hes just sitting in the room by himself. And i went in his office and he just said, make me laugh. Jimmy really yeah. Jimmy did you make him laugh . I guess so. Im here [ laughter ] [ applause ] jimmy i guess so right, yeah. Actually, in reality, he did not laugh. He didnt laugh. I did my thing and he just kind of sat there and looked at me [ light laughter ] and then he said, okay, thank you. Then i left. Then about a week later, they called me. And it was him and a woman named liz welch. And they said, make us laugh. And i did all my shticks i was doing standup, so i was able to do impressions so i did this is how long ago it was, i did a jimmy carter impression. [ laughter ] thats how long ago that was jimmy wow. Jimmy carter, and muhammad ali and Howard Cosell and they just kind of looked at me and stuff and then they left then i came back a third time. And it was mike zanella, liz welch and neil levy. And i did my little stuff. And they just looked at me and mike zanella was in the back and he did like this at one point. [ laughter ] jimmy that counts . That counts as a laugh that was my big laugh but then i got the show after that jimmy so you get on the show, youre 19. 19 years old eddie murphy, what was it like . What was the after parties like i only went to an after party once jimmy really yeah, cause i was 19. And its 198081 so i was the only black person up there and i was the only teenager up there. So i was like, i dont want to party with them. [ laughter ] i want to go i want to go there was a club called bentleys. And i would go to bentleys. [ cheers ] yeah, you know bentleys i would go to bentleys. That would be jimmy you heard of bentleys . Yeah, that was the hotspot back in the 80s jimmy oh really . Yeah, i would go there. And i only i went to an after party once because johnny cash hosted and johnny cash said to me, when they were talking about the party, he said, you coming to the party, eddie . [ laughter ] [ applause ] i said, i dont know. He says he goes, june and i sure do love you. [ laughter ] jimmy oh my gosh but i went and i hung out with johnny cash thats the one party i went to jimmy oh my god. Thats the best. I want to show you some of your most iconic characters here. I want to show everyone here this is you have you have buckwheat. You have Little Richard simmons. You have velvet jones. Ah, yes of course. Jimmy mr. Robinsons neighborhood james brown celebrity hot tub and gumby. I mean, these are iconic [ cheers and applause i mean, my favorites i memorized every one. Its the older people in the audience clapping. [ laughter ] jimmy no, no, no, everybody and the young people are going like, why he got that green [ bleep ] on . [ laughter ] jimmy no, no is there anything is there any character here that we might see maybe this weekend on saturday night live . Yeah. You might see a couple of those people jimmy really yeah. Yeah [ cheers and applause jimmy really im so excited about this. Im freaking out theres so many questions i want to ask. cause i saw you on the comedians in cars with Jerry Seinfeld oh, i love that show. Yeah jimmy dude, you were great yeah. Jimmy you were so funny on that and you Start Talking about standup and you said yeah, youre thinking about maybe doing it getting back into it 2020 . Are we gonna see eddie murphy do standup . Yeah, thats the plan, to get back on the stage and do standup again [ cheers and applause lets wait to hear what it is before you clap. [ laughter ] jimmy but where do you work it out and what do you do do you go to clubs you got to go do it like the Old Fashioned way. You got to go to the club and hop up, and do a little jimmy do you just surprise people or do you say well, i havent started yet but well, not surprise you got to go up into the comedy clubs and do sets you got to jimmy you really got to put the work it. Theres no way around it. You must thats whats cool, standups, you have to no matter how big you get or what you do, you get a new act, you got to go back to square one and start all over again jimmy so, youre writing stuff down in a notebook where did you used to write your standup . I never wrote stuff in a notebook i get stuff from, like well be talking, and ill say something. Then ill be like, thats funny. Im gonna take it to the stage. I never like wrote stuff down on paper jimmy really yeah. Jimmy so you dont have any of your act . When theres the eddie murphy museum, we dont have any words written. I have no old little thing, no little stuff. No memorabilia jimmy nothing you jotted down not even the stuff even those suits, like the raw and the delirious suits i had on raw and delirious. Jimmy you got to have that i dont have that stuff jimmy youre joking me no. cause i didnt know [ laughter ] jimmy but someone does have it they must, right i dont know what the happened to the purple one but the red suit was destroyed one night. We went to keenen