And featuring the legendary roots crew. Questlove 582 pennsylvania steve and now, here he is, jimmy fallon [ cheers and applause ] jimmy oh, hey Everyone Welcome thank you very much thank you very much. Hot crowd. Hot crowd tonight. Welcome welcome, everybody. Welcome, welcome, welcome, welcome to the tonight show. This is it. Youre here. Thats the show. [ cheers and applause ] the tonight show. This is it. Thank you for being here. Heres what everybodys talking about. Of course, the Holiday Season is in full swing, and i saw that macys has hired over 80,000 seasonal employees. Yeah. So, good news, the busiest shopping time of the year is being run by people who have had exactly one day of training. [ laughter and applause ] so, thats good. So you you want the wrapping on the outside of the box . [ laughter ] im just saying you didnt ask me for that. Just doing my job. [ laughter ] actually, american businesses added a total of 216,000 jobs over the last month, as stores hire workers for the holidays. And this is nice, i heard that mall santas are now able to have their checks direct deposited right to the liquor store. [ cheers and applause ] isnt that nice . Isnt that sweet . Its a nice its a sweet thing for the holidays. Of course, Rockefeller Center is jammed with people here to see the christmas tree. [ cheers and applause ] oh, yeah. Isnt it beautiful . If you go outside, you hear the festive sounds of jingle bells, holiday music, and every parent yelling, stay with me [ laughter and applause ] stay with me, dont no, i cant carry you. I dont i dont know if they have a bathroom. Does anthropologie have a a bathroom . I dont know. Ill just buy a dish towel. [ laughter ] get to some news here, i saw that donald trump is considering sarah palin to be his secretary of veterans affairs. Yeah. Palin says shes great at helping veterans, and john mccain was like, wrong. [ cheers and applause ] yesterday, jill stein officially requested a hand recount of 4. 8 million ballots in michigan. But donald trump says hes going to fight it, by shouting out other numbers while theyre trying to count. [ laughter ] 70. 19. Start back at 1. This is interesting, i heard that a new study found that celebrity endorsements actually tend to put off customers and hurt sales. Tariq thats right, jimmy. Thats why i dont endorse anything. [ light laughter ] jimmy good for you. Good for you, tariq. Tariq i wont sell out to the man. You cant buy me, jimbo. [ laughter ] jimmy uh, okay. Tariq thats right. You cant buy me, but you can buy my new grill. [ laughter ] [ cheers and applause ] the tariqi torch personal grill. Jimmy oh, wow. Tariq its like the George Foreman grill, except it doesnt let all the grease slide out where its wasted. cause grease is the word, you heard . Here, let me demonstrate. Jimmy no, tariq, im sorry. Wait a second. Im so, so sorry here, but what are you doing . Tariq not now, jimmy. See, the tariqi torch personal grill keeps all the fat trapped right on top of your hot meats. That means more flavor for you to savor. It makes grilling easy, peasy, and greasy. Take it from me, tareezy. [ cheers and applause ] jimmy tareezy . Tariq thats right, jeezy. Jimmy all right. Well, can i at least get one of those burgers . Tariq no. This thing takes about three hours to heat up. This is this is just prop meat. [ cheers and applause ] jimmy prop meat . Give it up for tareezy, everybody. [ cheers and applause ] you did something different. Yeah. Hey, guys, of course football season is in full swing and i saw that the nfl has been trying new ways to make watching football more fun. Yeah. And i dont know if youve noticed this, but the referee calls are now all autotuned. [ laughter ] i think its pretty catchy. Take a look at this. False start offense number eight five yard penalty third down off sides defense number 95 Holding Number 64 that penaltys declined rushing the passer number 94 defense that penaltys accepted 15 yards first down [ cheers and applause ] jimmy first down. First down. Oh, i thought this was pretty cute. Michael phelps shared a video where he gives his sixmonthold baby his first swim lesson. [ audience aws ] i gotta say, the kid really seems to have his dads focus. Take a look at this photo here. Look at this baby. [ laughter and applause ] and finally, this is one of those videos we saw online that just really made us laugh. Its these two italian grandparents that are facetiming with their granddaughter. And shes walking to the library home from the library, or something. I guess she was walking alone and her grandparents were not happy about this. But check this out. Whats the matter . My god, gaby, what are you, crazy . New york to new jersey my ass. See, you got grandma upset. What did i do . Oh, my god. Shes gone see, thats the library. Where . Thats the library. Listen. The library. Why dont you walk with somebody . Shes frozen oh no, shes not. Oh yes, she is. What is she doing outside . Shes in the library. [ laughter and applause ] jimmy shes at the library we have a great show tonight, you guys. Give it up for the roots [ cheers and applause ] [ cheers and applause ] jimmy hi, everybody. Welcome, welcome. Its been a great week so far. And theres more ahead. Tomorrow night, our pal Chelsea Handler will be here. [ cheers ] john legend. John legend will be here. [ cheers and applause ] and were all going to play a a game of charades, so be sure to tune in for that, and of course thank you notes. So its going to be a good show tomorrow night. [ cheers and applause ] tune in. But first, we have a big show tonight. Shes getting tons of award buzz for her fantastic performance in the new movie, la la land. Its a musical. Shes unbelievable in this in this picture. Man, oh man. Emma stone is here. Steve yeah [ cheers and applause ] jimmy just amazing. Just i cant wait to to talk to her. Later in the show, emma and i are going to play a singing edition of the whisper challenge. Steve oh. Jimmy plus from the walking dead, Jeffrey Dean Morgan is stopping by. [ cheers and applause ] people love walking dead. Oh, and we have great, great, Great Holiday music from Kacey Musgraves. Look at this. [ cheers and applause ] a very Kacey Christmas. Nice green vinyl. Steve green vinyl. Jimmy oh la la, green vinyl. Ho, ho, ho. Steve green vinyl jimmy guys, it is time for tonight show hashtags. Here we go. [ cheers and applause ] Hashtags Hashtags jimmy now this is a this is a game that we play on twitter, where i send out the topic, and you send in the tweets. So, since its the Holiday Season, and soon people will be having their Office Christmas parties, i went on twitter and sent out a hashtag called officepartyfail. [ light laughter ] we got a ton of great ones, so now id like to share my Favorite Office party fail tweets from you guys. Here we go. This first ones from barneys5. She says, a coworker was so drunk, our boss had to get her out. We put her in a cab. She got out at the next street and came back. Steve yeah. [ laughter ] jimmy partys not over. Lauras back. Steve [ vomiting sound ] [ laughter ] jimmy [ slurring ] back with a vengeance. In 3d. This ones from garvey1977. He says, i woke up with a a bruised knee and flashbacks of performing the worm in front of all the company executives. [ laughter and applause ] i think i did the worm. I think i did the worm last night. Steve at least i hope i did the worm. [ laughter ] jimmy oh, you did the worm all right. [ laughter ] this is worm. [ light laughter ] jimmy this ones from abbotlucas. He says, my coworker mooned the camera in the party photo booth, not realizing all the photos would be put on facebook the next day. [ laughter ] hey, whos the bald guy . Whos the bald twins that work here . I dont know. [ laughter ] this ones from cagirlinadcworld. Steve cagirlinadcworld. Jimmy she says, i had never been to a sushi restaurant. I was eating edamame and realized that i was eating the ones people had already chewed. [ audience ohs ] steve nice [ laughter and applause ] steve ew jimmy ew ew, thats so gross i hate edamame [ laughter ] tastes like saliva [ laughter ] i cant believe you did the worm last night [ laughter ] this ones from kdubs117. She says, our christmas bonus was a 25 gift card to the place we worked. [ audience oohs ] steve the company store. Jimmy yeah, scrooge, man. This ones from everyonesayimboss. He says, wore a red shirt and black tie to our christmas dinner party. Turns out, so did the wait staff. Steve oh. Jimmy at least you leave him a tip. [ applause ] [ light laughter ] i cant believe i did the worm last night. This last ones from soytodobueno. He says, we had a pinata. Instead of candy, we filled it with minibottles of booze. Alcohol and glass flew everywhere. Thats a nightmare. There you have it. Those are our tonight show hashtag. To check out more of our favorites, go to tonightshow. Com hashtags. Well be right back with emma stone [ cheers and applause ] the microsoft cloud helps us stay connected. The microsoft cloud offers infinite scalability. The microsoft cloud helps our customers get up and running, anywhere in the planet. Wherever theres a phone, youve got a bank, and we could never do that before. The cloud gave us a single platform to reach across our entire organization. It helps us communicate better. We use the microsoft clouds advanced analytics tools to track down cybercriminals. This cloud helps transform business. This is the microsoft cloud. 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[ cheers and applause ] jimmy our first guest is an Academy Awardnominated actress who stars alongside ryan gosling in the new movie la la land, which opens in select theaters december 9th and everywhere december 16th. You must see this film. Shes so great. Everyones great. Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome the lovely and talented emma stone [ cheers and applause ] jimmy oh, welcome back. You look gorgeous. Thank you. Jimmy thank you so much for being here. Thank you for having me. Jimmy and i want to get into the movie so we can talk about this, because im just flipping out about it. It looks so great. I saw it the other night, and its like, its just unbelievable. Aw. Jimmy so, just i cant even no words. Anyway, i have to say words. Thank you. Jimmy yeah. Thank you. Jimmy youre hosting saturday night live for the third time this weekend. Yes. Jimmy thats the best. Yes. Jimmy i love that youre back. Its so fun. Jimmy yeah. And its been five years since i was there, so it feels like a its really, its really exciting to be back. Jimmy the last time i saw you was at the saturday night live 40th. Yes. Jimmy which was unbelievable. Actually insane. Jimmy that whole day that you said was crazy because you were also doing chicago . Cabaret. Jimmy cabaret. I was doing cabaret. Jimmy sorry. I mean, kind of, like, same era. Jimmy starts with a c. It starts with a c, same era. [ laughter ] it was my last day of cabaret, and the so the matinee then they, like, took me out of sally bowles and put me in, kind of, Roseanne Roseannadanna. Jimmy oh, i remember that. And then, i came to the 40th. Jimmy theres a picture of you and tina and amy and jane curtin. Mmhmm. [ laughter ] [ cheers and applause ] jimmy there you go. I mean, come on, dude. Dude how fun i mean, and you were amazing in that. I go, oh, how fun. No, you were. It was so good. No, it was just nice to do a a tribute to her, but i would not say that i have a very good Roseanne Roseannadanna impression. Jimmy yes, you do. But, it was such an insane day because i was, like, just ending the play and then being there and looking around, and they were it was, like, everywhere you looked, there were people that you had never seen in person before. Jimmy yeah. But you had seen pictures of before. Jimmy yes. And then, you know, we wound up at that party. Jimmy right. You were at that party. You know. Jimmy yeah, i was you hosted that party. Jimmy was i there . Yeah, you were there. Im pretty sure you were there. [ light laughter ] jimmy im pretty sure i was. Were you . Jimmy was i there . The after party will go down in history as the most legendry after party ever. It was total insantiy. Jimmy i couldnt believe it. I just dan aykrod and jim belushi was there, and paul mccartney. They were calling me onstage, and they would go, jimmy fallon, come up here and host this and run this. So, and you did. Jimmy and i was, like they just we just you did it so well. Jimmy no, no. Dude, it went it got insane. It got insane. I was dancing, and i stepped on a piece of glass, and i didnt know it. And so then, i just kind of was, like, oh. And looked, and my heel was, like i mean, my foot was bleeding everywhere. And i sat down, and i was like, what do we do . And someone took a knife, pulled the glass out of my foot. And then, someone went, do you want to come on stage with prince . And i was like, yup [ laughter ] and they just took me a minute later, and i was like with a a tambourine onstage, and it weird. I was like with a bleeding foot. Jimmy what a day for you, yeah. It was a crazy day. Jimmy that was wild. It was all one day. Jimmy you i know you love saturday night live because growing up did you ever you never auditioned, right, for saturday night live . I didnt no. I did not audition for snl. Jimmy no. But i did, when i was 12, i auditioned for all that. Do you know all that . Jimmy of course i know all that. [ cheers and applause ] it was no big deal. Jimmy no big deal. No, it wasnt a big deal. Jimmy really, wait. You auditioned for all that . I went to an open call for all that. We drove out from arizona, and i auditioned for all that when i was 12 years old. Jimmy and what did you have to do . Well, it was i guess it was sort of like like snl, except for i didnt know that you had to have characters. So, i thought they were going to give us sketches. And then, like, five minutes before i went not room, they said, you need to have three characters when you come in the room. So, i was like, okay. And then, i made up a couple of characters. Jimmy do you remember any of the characters that you i remember that one was a a cheerleader that couldnt spell what she was cheering. [ light laughter ] so i was like, be aggressive, be ar and then, and then there was another one that was actually pretty nuts that was a baby sitter who is possessed. [ light laughter ] so as shes reading books to the kids, shes like, and then goldilocks and the [ demonic voice ] three bears [ laughter and applause ] jimmy now, come on i was just like jimmy thats fantastic [ girly voice ] sorry about that. Sorry about that. And then, i would keep reading. I would keep reading the book. Jimmy oh, my gosh. So it was a pretty special experience. Jimmy but you did not you didnt get that, but i did not get that. No. Jimmy im happy that you didnt get its shocking, right . Its shocking. [ laughter ] jimmy no, you shouldnt with that. Come on. But, im happy because where you ended up is just so great, and gosh, youre fantastic. Oh, man. Jimmy and you know what. We love you here. But man, oh man, oh man, oh man, la la land was just a a home run, dude. Aw. Jimmy you hit you knocked the cover off the ball. It is unbelievable, and i dont want to spoil anything for anybody because its just so different and fun. And whos the writer, the director . Damien chazelle. Jimmy Damien Chazelle . This guy . Yeah, he wrote and directed whiplash. Jimmy holy mackerel. Hes incredible. Jimmy i just loved every second of it. You were so good. It reminded me, too, because youre a struggling actress in the movie, and ryan gosling is a struggling jazz musician. Yes. Jimmy thats all i can really say, right . Yeah. Jimmy i dont want to spoil it. But it was probably back to auditioning and having to drive and go to auditions, and you have to try to dress for the part and not getting it, and whew. I know. Jimmy but in the kind of romantic way, i was like, i remember those crazy times. It was so, like, oh, life is just terrible right now. yeah. [ laughter ] jimmy but it makes you just go, i appreciate it. And i remembered all i remembered not having clothes. Yeah. Jimmy like, i have, like, two outfits. I mean, i had no money. So i would go, and somebody would say, thats what you think a bike messenger looks like . And i would go, no, this is my only outfit. I have, like, two [ laughter ] yes. Thats the thing is a lot of time you have to dress up like the character, like, do your own costumes for the character so you have to own all these pieces of clothing to look like the people. Jimmy yeah, i would just to borrow from my roommate. Im like, do you have a a Leather Jacket . I have to be a bike gang member. Do you have some scrubs . [ laughter ] can i borrow your scrubs . Jimmy scrubs, yeah. You have scrubs, right . Jimmy yeah, with my roommate hopefully you have a doctor as a roommate. But man, oh man, you the dancing in this. Oh. Jimmy you dance, you sing, you act. Youre so charming. You are unbelievable in this movie. Thanks. Jimmy i loved it so much. Thanks, jimmy. Jimmy i know, i know. Im freaking out. Gee. Jimmy im gushing. [ cheers and applause ] but man, oh man, you are going to love this film. Aw. Jimmy it is so fun. Aw. Jimmy and just moving, and it makes you laugh. It makes you cry. And you guys have the best chemistry. And its so different than anything ive ever seen. And this is what you get when you put the work in. You put so much work, and you can tell everybody worked so hard on this. Congrats on this one, man. Thank you so much. Jimmy wow, im, like, blown away. [ cheers and applause ] i want to show a clip. That is so awesome. Thank you so much. [ cheers and applause ] jimmy it is just great, buddy. I have a clip, but this is not a singing scene because i didnt want to show any singing. Yeah, no. You dont want to ruin anything. Jimmy i dont want to ruin that part. No, of course. But, when you see it, youre going