Ellie goulding, and featuring the legendary roots crew. Questlove 712 iowa steve and now, here he is, jimmy fallon [ cheers and applause ] jimmy oh, my goodness yes [ cheers and applause ] oh, we got a great show tonight. Welcome, everybody. Welcome. Welcome, welcome, welcome, welcome, welcome, welcome, welcome, welcome, welcome to the tonight show. This is it, baby. [ cheers and applause ] you made it. Youre here. Well, heres what people are talking about. Some big political news. Today President Trump went on twitter and announced that he is banning transgender people from serving in the military. [ audience boos ] trump said he understands this is a very sensitive issue, so he made sure to choose his emojis very carefully. [ laughter and applause ] actually, trump says that hes banning transgender people from serving because of high medical costs. If he cares so much about high medical costs, maybe he should pass a health care bill. [ cheers and applause ] if he cares so much and trump was talking to reporters yesterday, after the Big Health Care vote, and people noticed that he didnt seem to know how many senators there are. [ light laughter ] when told it is two for each state, trump said, im going to need another clue. [ laughter and applause ] fifteen . Of course, another big story is trumps feud with attorney general jeff sessions. And when he was asked about what will happen to sessions, trump said, time will tell. [ light laughter ] when asked if he was just stealing lines if his magic eight ball, trump said, ask again later. [ laughter and applause ] you go wait, this is all meanwhile the state Department Says secretary of state Rex Tillerson is, quote, taking a little time off. Wow, tillerson, spicer, maybe sessions. You know things are bad when the white house is losing more characters than game of thrones. [ laughter and applause ] this is a lot of people. And trump held a big rally in ohio last night. I saw that he rubbed melanias back while she was introducing him. It was the first time someone has ever shivered in 80 degree weather. [ laughter and applause ] its kind of warm. Thats right. Trump gave a speech in youngstown, ohio. And everyone is talking about a a pretty big comparison that he made. Take a look at this. With the exception of the late, great abraham lincoln, i can be more president ial than any president thats ever held this office. That i can tell you. [ laughter ] [ audience groans ] jimmy then he said, i wont be, but i can. [ laughter and applause ] after watching trumps speech, cnns ana navarro made a pretty interesting comparison of her own. Watch this. Guys, ive never done hallucinogenic mushrooms, but when i watch one of these trump rally speeches, i feel, okay, this is what it must be like to be high on hallucinogenic mushrooms. [ laughter ] [ cheers and applause ] jimmy when wolf blitzer heard that, he was like, just tell me what you need and how much. And you go wait, wait a a minute. [ laughter and applause ] and trumps new Communications DirectorAnthony Scaramucci addressed all the leaks that have been coming out and asked staffers, you want to sell postcards to the tourists or do you want to work in the west wing . And the staffers said, wait, is that postcard thing a real option . [ laughter and applause ] i love postcards. As i mentioned earlier, trump has decided to ban transgender people from serving in the military. It is very controversial. So here to address this issue is tonight show correspondent, patti harrison. Patti, thank you for joining us. [ cheers and applause ] thanks for having me. Now, jimmy, im a transgender woman. And as a trans person, its hard to articulate exactly how i feel. But guess if i had to describe it, id say, donald, youre so stupid. You are so stupid. Youre lucky youre so hot. Jimmy wait a second [ laughter ] lucky youre so hot. Patti, when did you first hear about trumps decision . Well, when i saw the headline this morning, at first i just read, donald trump bans transgender people. And i was like, yeah, that sounds like him. [ light laughter ] but then i realized it was just in the military and i was shocked, because i assumed he already did that. [ laughter ] now, i dont necessarily want to serve in the military, but i want the right to serve. You know, its like, i dont want to go to your baby shower, but i want the invite. [ laughter ] but you know, i dont even think trump knows what transgender means. He probably thinks transgender people are those cars that turn into robots. [ laughter ] jimmy it might be so. Patti, before you go, do you have any final thoughts about all this . Well, first i want to say that there are amazingly brave trans people who should be allowed to serve, like kristin beck, a retired navy s. E. A. L. With a purple heart, bronze star, and countless service awards. [ cheers and applause ] and yet trump says transgender people in the military would be a tremendous disruption. And i get it. If you constantly draw attention to yourself, spend all day distracting everyone, and cost tax payers millions of dollars, the perfect job for you isnt the military, its the president of the united states. [ laughter ] [ cheers and applause ] jimmy thank you very much. Patti harrison, everybody. Thank you, patti. [ cheers and applause ] youre lucky youre hot. Thats a yeah, yeah. [ light laughter ] heres a local story, you guys. The mta wants to improve the subway here in new york by removing seats from trains to fit more people. [ light laughter ] and after that, theyre going to ask riders to lie down and spoon each other so they can pack even more inside. [ laughter and applause ] ill be the inner spoon. Thats right. The mta wants to remove seats from trains to fit more people. Even worse, Southwest Airlines heard that and said, thats a a great idea. Can we do that . And you go, no. You cant do that on a plane. [ laughter and applause ] and finally, i saw that a woman in texas bought a 300 vacuum from target, but got home and realized the box contained dirty towels, rocks and a can of chili. [ light laughter ] or as thats known over at walmart, a gift basket. There you guys go. [ laughter ] we have a great show tonight. Give it up for the roots [ cheers and applause ] [ cheers and applause ] jimmy guys, we have got a a great show tonight. He stars in the new movie, detroit. John boyega is here, you guys. Steve oh [ cheers and applause ] jimmy well talk about that movie. That is a wow, that movie. Oh, my goodness. And the roots wrote a song. You have a song on the sound track. Tariq yeah. Jimmy and it is beautiful. [ cheers and applause ] beautiful song. Plus, from the popular youtube show, good mythical morning, rhett link are joining us. [ cheers and applause ] we love those guys. Theyre just so fun. We always do something fun. So, tonight well be playing a a game called, will it hotdog. Will it hotdog. [ light laughter ] steve will it hotdog. Jimmy yes, will it hotdog. Thats what were playing with tonight. And we have great music from kygo and Ellie Goulding [ cheers and applause ] i love these guys. Guys, you know how they say a a picture is worth a thousand words. Well it is also worth one meme. Steve really . Jimmy ill show you what im talking about. It is time for this week in memes. Here we go. [ cheers and applause ] this week in memes this week in memes yeah jimmy now first up, lets take a look at this photo of attorney general jeff sessions. [ light laughter ] this meme is called, when despacito comes on at da club. [ laughter and applause ] steve heyoh jimmy next is a photo of donald trump. His meme is called, when all your friends talking game of thrones but you a westworld boy. [ laughter and applause ] heres a photo of Angela Merkel with Emmanuel Macron [ light laughter ] and donald trump. Their meme says, when theres only one jalapeno popper left on da plate. [ laughter and applause ] heres a photo of kim jongun. His meme says, when you hit dat final cup in beer pong. Oh, thats, yeah. [ applause ] next is the photo of ted cruz. His meme says, when you try to get more info on the party tonight, but nobody will tell you anything. [ laughter and applause ] you can tell me. Next is the photo of Queen Elizabeth and justin trudeau. Their meme says, when your tinder date looks different from their profile photo. [ laughter and applause ] heres a photo of a gorilla. His meme says, when you on the toilet without your phone. And you go, wait [ laughter and applause ] steve that gorillas on the toilet. Jimmy and finally, heres another photo of kim jongun. His meme says, ermagherd, perper werk. There you go. [ laughter and applause ] thats this week in memes. Well be back with john boyega, everybody. [ cheers and applause ] scuse me. Mind if i sit here . 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Jimmy because last time you were here, it was before the force wakens came out. Yeah. Jimmy and who knew . Who knew how big the movie of course its the biggest movie ever created but [ laughter ] yeah, thank you for coming back. No worries. Jimmy has life changed completely since i saw you last . I mean, just a little bit. [ laughter ] just a little bit. But yeah, i mean, scheduling is different now. I dont have my own time like i used to. I get to travel all over the world and meet great people. You know, its good, man. I like it. Jimmy have you been working nonstop since then . Yes, i have. I went from star wars 8 to detroit and then went from detroit to pacific rim and then went from pacific rim to a play. And then here i am. Jimmy there you go. [ cheers and applause ] you know where you are, yeah. No breaks at all. No breaks. Jimmy but, you finished also the last jedi. Yes. Jimmy so thats out. So we just found out even that that was the title of the film. Do they let you know besides the scenes youre in what the movie is about . No. I think they have that thing will smith had in those men in black films that makes you forget everything. [ laughter ] seth yeah, exatly, yeah. So yeah, we dont get to know about the little secrets. But its nice. We get to be a part of the surprise like you guys. Jimmy i mean, but, i mean are you just going around now just signing lightsabers . Do you own a like a lot of i would think that you would have a collection of lightsabers in your house. I mean i do. But it is limited. Because any time i have like family members over, my parents are kind of just like, yeah, you should give one of the lightsabers to the kids. And thats when my face becomes more straight than it has ever been. [ laughter ] and then i have to like forcefully just go, oh, may the force be with you. [ laughter ] jimmy that was mine. That was uncles. That was mine. Jimmy but whats going on with the new director, you and rian johnson are having a a little back and forth on twitter. Yeah. We always do. Jimmy yeah, because you i guess you took you forced yourself to take a little break. A week and two days out of a a year and a half. I forced myself to take a week and two days and rian johnson wasnt happy with that. [ light laughter ] jimmy heres your problem. Because you posted a photo or someone posted a photo on instagram, and it just looks like paradise. This is you just relaxing. Yep. Jimmy and heres your director who says, back to work, boyega. What are you doing . [ light laughter ] i mean that looks like paradise. Yeah, you know, after that, i had like hundreds of messages from star wars fans saying, you got reshoots youve got to go back jimmy youve got to go back we want this movie on time come on, man. So, i had to leave. Jimmy you had to leave because, yeah. But now, youre i was supposed be at adr that day as well so, you know. Jimmy also, i was like, where do you get you know how to pose. I mean you got one of those i mean youre a good looking dude. Thank you man, thank you. Jimmy you know how to do this. You know how to do the pose. Thank you, thank you. [ cheers and applause ] jimmy and i go yeah. Gq. This is gq. This is gq. Jimmy this is major. Thats crazy. Thats big. Jimmy it is big, but then i go, oh, i looked back in some wikipedia, and i saw that you were a model. Oh, man [ laughter ] jimmy you were the stock photo in every college brochure. Disclaimer, i needed the money. [ laughter ] jimmy here you are right there. This is yeah. Everyone. [ cheers and applause ] guys, girls. Every race represented. [ light laughter ] heres you working hard at a a computer, maybe. Yeah. [ laughter ] jimmy be honest, is there anything on that screen . Yeah, the computer wasnt on. It wasnt on. [ light laughter ] jimmy it wasnt on at all, yeah. It wasnt on. Jimmy i like this one, too. This is you and the gang. [ laughter ] going through some homework . I think its so ridiculous. I mean, these photos are, you know, for you know, college awareness, getting students through college and stuff. And they said we want to make you guys look more natural. And they decided to give us a a piece of paper between us. [ laughter ] and i said like, this is a a commercial for the brokest school ever. Jimmy you can only afford one piece of paper. Yeah, only one piece of paper. Jimmy per 12 students. [ light laughter ] i mean, everyone is over like, oh yeah, thats a great problem there, john. Yeah, i know how to solve that one, yeah. Yeah, yeah. [ laughter ] jimmy how much money did you make off this . I made 50 pounds. Jimmy hey, not bad. Not bad, not bad. 50 pounds. And i used it to invest back into my drama school. I had 300 pounds to pay for the term. And that 50 pounds, it went a a long way. Jimmy yeah, it certainly did. And thank god you went to that thing, cause youre a a fantastic actor. Thank you. Thank you. Jimmy ive got to talk about detroit. Because man, oh, man, this is a i dont know how to describe it, except i would say maybe important. People should see what this is. Honestly, i couldnt believe that was real. Yeah. Jimmy that this really happened. 1967, you were just at the premiere last night, in detroit. Yeah. Jimmy the 50th anniversary of when this incident went down at a motel in detroit. And i go, i cant believe its real. Its based on reality. Yeah, it is a tough watch. It is a tough watch. And it was tough to shoot. But its a necessary message. Unfortunately, were still having a conversation 50 years. And i think it is important to bring it up. A movie like this for awareness. Jimmy thats the thing, it kind of hurt me too, but i think its kind of still relevant. I think its still out there and we have to just talk about this because even on the Police Officers side, you know, there are good cops as well. Yeah. Jimmy but you play a man thats kind of in between. Youre a Security Guard across the street and youre trying to stop all just violence in general. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Jimmy it is bizarre. And it is based on a real guy. Yeah, its based on a real guy called melvin dismukes, and at the time, he was working two jobs, one of which was a a Security Guard for a Grocery Store and he just decided to kind of, you know, have a a conversation and try to help out and ended up at this motel. And you know, was a witness to all of these atrocities. And he is very complex position that he was in. To have to witness all the horrific things that were going down. But at the same time, you know, having to try as much as possible to help out. And it, you know, the tables end up turning, you know, in his face. And it is not something that he could escape. He was finally victimized for it and thats not something thats the coolest situation. Jimmy yeah, and it was Kathryn Bigelow did this. Directed this. Who, zero dark thirty and the hurt locker. Yeah, yeah. Jimmy so it is, its just, man. Its almost, at one point it is almost like a kidnapping. Yeah. Jimmy its just horrible. It is a tough watch. And it is just necessary right now. Where, you know, were having issues with race relations, were having issues with social unrest. And it is a conversation that needs to be had. And i think this movie, you know, explores racism in a very complex way. Jimmy yeah, its definitely, definitely important. And the music the band, the dramatics, are in it, who i know dramatics, whatcha see is whatcha get. Yeah. Jimmy but the roots wrote a a song for this film. For this soundtrack. An original. [ cheers and applause ] an original song that will, it is just a beautiful, beautiful song. And done so well. It sounds like its questlove made in 1967. Jimmy it really does. It is fantastic. Great job. Thank you for that, by the way. Thank you. Jimmy that is honestly much appreciated. [ applause ] jimmy when you perform, youll be performing now on our show . Questlove yeah, well do it next week. Jimmy tune in to watch, because it is a great song. You did a great job. Questlove thank you. Jimmy i want to show everyone a clip. Heres john boyega in the new movie,