[ cheers and applause ] . Steve from studio 6b in Rockefeller Center in the heart of new york city, its the tonight show starring jimmy fallon. Tonight, join jimmy and his guests Meg Ryan Nick Kroll and john mulaney magician dan white and featuring the legendary roots crew. Questlove 526 steve and now, here he is, jimmy fallon . [ cheers and applause ] jimmy oh, my goodness [ cheers and applause ] that is a hot crowd that is a beautiful, beautiful, beautiful new york city crowd. Welcome, everybody welcome, welcome, welcome, welcome, welcome, welcome, welcome welcome to the tonight show. This is it. You made it. [ cheers and applause ] thank you very much. We got a fun show. Guys, heres what people are talking about. With the election getting closer, it seems like more groups are speaking out to share their support for the candidates. In fact, i read that the announced that its endorsing hillary clinton. Hillary said she has a lot of respect for actors because she has been auditioning for the same role for 25 years. [ laughter and applause ] steve hey jimmy and this is kind of sweet. I saw that Paul Mccartney and jon bon jovi sang hey jude at Hillary Clintons fundraiser this week while she danced with bill. [ laughter ] hilary and bill said they were excited to dance to the song until they realized that hey jude is over seven minutes long. [ laughter and applause ] i got to sit down. I got to this is crazy. [ laughter ] meanwhile, there was some confusion this week over whether donald trump discussed who would pay for his proposed border wall when he met with the president of mexico. Trump said it didnt come up, while mexicos president said that he flat out rejected it. Well, listen to what trump said about it in his speech the other night. Mexico will pay for the wall. [ cheers and applause ] they dont know it yet, but theyre going to pay for the wall. Mexicans, remember, no spoilers. [ laughter and applause ] all right . Because dont ruin it. [ applause ] dont ruin it for them. They dont know it. [ laughter ] hes just screaming now. The audio is all screwed up. Steve yeah. Jimmy he doesnt even do a a mic check theyre going to pay the wall steve wall [ laughter ] jimmy and get this. Former Texas Governor nd current dancing with the stars contestant rick perry recently said that [ laughter ] th n its not even a joke. [ laughter ] thats real life, yeah. Former Texas Governor and current dancing with the stars contestant rick perry recently said Donald Trumps wall will actually be part electronic. [ audience oohs ] well, that got us wondering if an electronic wall would even work, so we set up an invisible electric wall in our hallway and decided to test it out. [ laughter ] one of our writers, patrick borelli. Patrick, are you there . Thanks, jimmy. That has over 6,000 volts. [ yelling ] jimmy oh, my god patrick. Patrick, patrick, are you okay . Oh, god. I mean, ive felt better. Oh, i dropped my microphone over there. Let me get it. Jimmy no, be care oh jimmy oh, patrick. Oh jimmy oh my goodness patrick. Feel a little woozy. Jimmy pat patrick [ laughter ] hes delirious. Steve yeah, hes delirious. Jimmy patrick, are you okay . Please tell me youre okay. Looks like the wall works, jimmy. [ laughter ] jimmy all right, good. There you go. Back to yt jimmy all right. [ applause ] but trumps got other problems to worry about. It turns out his modeling agency, Trump Model Management [ laughter ] again these arent even the jokes. This is real. [ laughter ] steve yeah. Jimmy these are this, this real talk. Realtalk man. [ laughter ] steve realtalk. Jimmy yeah. It turns out his modeling agency, Trump Model Management, is being sued by a former model to say the Agency Charged them extremely high rent while they barely made any money. Up marrying trump. Steve really . [ laughter and applause ] jimmy yeah. Steve heyoh ho jimmy and politico reports that in 2008, donald trump ventured into a mixed martial arts business that blended boxing, wrestling and karate. You can tell hes pretty into prize fighting. In fact, hes been trying to give the upcoming election a a catchy nickname like the thrilla in manilla or rumble in the jungle. [ laughter ] let me give you a few examples. First up theres the hair versus the square. [ laughter ] the tan brute versus the pants and [ laughter and applause ] finally, i think this is the one hes going to go with mr. Cheeto versus mrs. Delete [ cheers and applause ] id pay to see that. Heres a crazy story. A Real Estate Agent in montana says his kids were helping him set up an open house on sunday when they found a naked couple in one of the bedrooms. [ light laughter ] his daughter said it was disgusting, while his son said, i want to be a real estate pipe down, charlie check this out. A purple squid was just spotted off of the coast of california, and is going viral because it looks like it has googly eyes. We didnt do anything. This is a real photo. Take a look. [ laughter ] thats real. Yeah, real talk. [ laughter ] steve hashtag. Jimmy but you know, that squids not the only animal with really big eyes. Of course, theres the south american tree frog theres the slow loris. [ audience aws ] and of, course the horny weiner. [ laughter and applause ] it might be extinct. We have a great show you guys. Give it up for the roots. [ cheers and applause ] . . [ cheers and applause ] jimmy what was that jam . Is that something i know . Questlove that was . Too late for goodbyes . Julian lennon. Questlove julian lennon. Jimmy yeah. All week, we have been doing Toots Thielemans songs. Jimmy oh. Questlove yeah. Jimmy it also could have been electric avenue a little bit. Questlove it could have been. . Who is to blame in one country the best damn show to be done . . Good god . . Were gonna rock down to electric avenue and then we take you higher oh no . . There is violence . [ laughter ] jimmy oh, yeah. Steve oy oy jimmy guys, come back again next week. Im very excited about this. Clint eastwoods gonna be here. [ cheers and applause ] thats my man steve come on Jimmy Michael strahan will be here Ariana Grande and james spader will all be here steve wow [ cheers ] jimmy thats a good week. Then, we have great musical performance from mike posner and really cool jack white. Steve yeah [ cheers and applause ] i love me some jack white jimmy hes doing a really have her on the show. From the new movie ithaca, meg ryan is here tonight. [ cheers and applause ] oh. Who doesnt love meg ryan . I love meg ryan. Meg and i are going to play a a game of pictionary with some very special guests. Steve real talk. Jimmy well, yeah. Real talk. [ laughter ] well, the special guests are actually our next guests. [ laughter ] they are two of the funniest guys around. They are about to make their broadway debut. Im so excited for these guys. Theyre super funny. In the show, oh, hello, on broadway. Joining us steve yeah [ cheers and applause ] i love those dudes jimmy theyre good dudes, very funny. Steve delightful. Jimmy very funny guys. And, to close out the show tonight, one of the best magicians around, this guy always freaks me out. I love him so much. Hes so good, i mean in a good way, you know, where youre like, how do you do that . You know, um, dan white is back to perform a card trick [ cheers and applause ] thats going to blow your mind. Its really good. Um, today is friday, and thats when i usually catch up with i return some emails, and of course, i send out thank you notes. And i was running a bit behind. [ cheers and applause ] can i write out some thank you notes right now . Do you guys mind if i [ cheers and applause ] james, can i get some thank you note writing music please . . [ laughter ] . Steve its like forlorn. Jimmy yeah, hes a very confident, very peaceful man. Steve hes daydreaming. Jimmy very peaceful man. [ laughter ] steve hes asleep. Those are painted on his eyelids. Jimmy no, hes not sleeping. Thats his normal face. Steve oh. [ laughter ] jimmy hes that calm. He makes you think that hes sleeping. Steve yeah, he does, man. Jimmy he makes you think steve the human ambien. Jimmy yeah. Steve real talk. Jimmy hes a like a human ambien. [ laughter ] human ambien. Steve but hes awful cute. [ laughter ] . Jimmy thank you bachelor in paradise for not being called herpes island. [ laughter and applause ] we were thinking about that. Steve i do thank them. . Jimmy thank you, back to at schoolteachers and say, theyre your problem now. There you go. [ applause ] you raise them. . [ laughter ] thank you, credit cards with the chip, for giving me the added bonus of having a long awkward silence with the cashier every time i make a a purchase. [ laughter ] [ cheers and applause ] hows it going . Steve oh, i swipe it. Jimmy hi. Oh, no. Dont swipe it. [ laughter ] . Thank you, new study that found that students perform better in school if they have an attractive teacher. [ laughter ] so, if youre an english teacher and your students are failing, you ugly. [ laughter and applause ] hey steve thats rude. Jimmy thats rude steve thats rude jimmy who would write that and send it out . Steve and laugh . Who are you thanking . Jimmy i dont know. Rude wake up call. [ laughter ] . Jimmy thank you, hangman, for taking a guessing game way too seriously. [ laughter and applause ] kill me . I dont know. Ill take a guess. Steve yeah. Jimmy oh, great. I dont know what it was. . Thank you, mattress commercials, for making it seem like its totally normal to hang out on a mattress without sheets. [ laught its so comfy. Oh, my gosh. I can have my glass of red wine. Steve red wine. [ laughter ] im a seven. Hes a three. [ laughter ] hes an english teacher. [ laughter and applause ] . [ light laughter ] . Jimmy thank you, envelopes, for being stationary that you french kiss. Well be right back with meg ryan [ cheers and applause ] . This ones got detachable keys it comes with a pen so you can write as you please this mac doesnt have any of that its less useful like a hat for your cat you can see things like theyve never been seen this mac doesnt quite compare its slower, heavy, and a bit square fold it in half, hello when you start lighter than air, you can doodle a heart yes its plain to see the surface pro 4 is made for me [bell rings] on the first day of school, i learned. It only takes some thing small its a golden opportunity. To discover what we learn on the track, doesnt stay on the track. [engine revving] it just finds more streetlegal form. For a limited time get some of the best offers of the year on our complete line of f sport performance vehicles. At the lexus golden opportunity sales event. Get up to 5,000 customer cash ends september 5th. See your lexus dealer. Tmobiles coverage is unstoppable. We doubled our lte coverage. Without using any of your data. From skylines to coastlines, out in the country, deep in the city. We got you covered. 311 million americans and counting. And we wont stop. Z23egz zvpz . [ applause ] jimmy our first guest is making her directorial debut and starring in the new movie ithaca which is in select theaters and available on demand september 9th. Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome, meg ryan. . [ cheers and applause ] jimmy come on meg ryan they love you. I love you. Hi, jimmy. Jimmy thank you so much for coming on show. I appreciate it. Thanks for having me. Jimmy we met years ago. Do you remember this . Jimmy you do remember . How do you forget that . Jimmy i dont forget that. But im me and youre you, yeah. It was a legendary Madison Square garden show. Jimmy it was an amazing show. Amazing. It was a show where the stage was bouncing. Do you remember that . Jimmy it was the most electric thing. It was crazy. Jimmy it was the first time i ever used like kind of connections to get like good tickets to a show. I did, i remember kelly curtis is their manager. Yeah. Jimmy and i worked i hung out with him when he did almost famous i got to meet him and i go, hey, can i have tickets to pearl jam . And he goes like, sure. Youll sit on the side of the meant like the left side or the right side. Like Madison Square garden. Ill be on some side. No. Jimmy i was actually on the actual side of the stage. Yeah. Jimmy eddie vedder was like right where the camera is. And when the stage started bouncing around i remember the band looking over and like him looking over going well maybe we should stop this. It was like out of control. Jimmy its like an earthquake. And i remember you were just losing your mind. Jimmy well i lost my mind because i go where do i sit . Arms were going everywhere, dancing everywhere. He was on a beer cooler. Jimmy no thats what im saying. He goes where do i sit . And he goes, just sit here. Theres a cooler full of beer and you can have as much beer [ laughter ] and i thought maybe i died. And then meg ryan sits next to me. Im like what is going dear diary, i had the greatest day of my life today. Eddie likes throws out a a tambourine. Jimmy you caught the tambourine. And i caught the tambourine jimmy i totally remember that. I still have the tambourine. Jimmy i totally remember that it was so cool. Oh alright, so i want to talk about you are now a director. Mhm. Jimmy directorial debut ithaca. Yes. Jimmy what is it like directing a movie . And directing yourself . Well its a really, like, its a really good way to get to know what the other people jimmy oh yeah, its a lot of work. Because as an actor you go you dont know, you dont know anything. Jimmy oh yeah, yeah. I mean, its hard work as well, but hard work. We did it for 22 days. Its a teeny little movie. Its a coming of age story set in 1942 about this kid who wants to be the fastest telegram deliverer in the west. And jimmy what made you want to do this story . Well, its a really, really simple story. And its about very complicated things. And i thought i could handle it. Like, its a poetic story too. It was beautifully shot. Jimmy tom hanks makes a a little cameo. Tom hanks is in there. Jimmy your old buddy tom hanks. Your son is in it as well. Jack. My son jack quaid is in the movie. Jimmy how fun is that . I know. Lot of little kids in the movie. Jimmy the cutest little kids. The cutest little kids who dont respect you like at all. [ laughter ] jimmy they dont . No, not even remotely. Jimmy they dont. There was one incredibly cute kid in the movie spencer howell, plays little ulysses and i loved him so much. There was nothing that he did ever that i didnt want to watch in the editing room. I mean, i would watch him run sometimes my editor would just like keep his face look at him. He was my screen saver. He jimmy just because he made you happy . He is so cute. Wait until you see his face. And he comes to new york he has lunch with me. Hes 5 years old when we shot the movie and halfway through the lunch i realized he didnt remember who i was. [ laughter ] jimmy are you kidding me . Nothing. Like, drew a complete blank. Jimmy well, i guess he was so little. Hes like yeah i guess that happened. Yeah, two months ago is a a long time ago. [ light laughter ] jimmy maybe i met you at camp. Yeah, i dont even know where great directors, oliver stone, you worked with my man, rob reiner. Obviously when harry met sally. Yeah, rob runs a really fun set. Jimmy hes the most fun human being. Yeah, hes really fun. And when i remember about working with him is hed stand off and right next to the camera like billy would be on one side and hed be on the other. And hed laugh silently and wear these white sweatshirts and be heaving around. Jimmy i was like, must be hard for you to keep a straight face. Yeah you cant keep a a straight face. And then at the end of something funny he would go, yeah, thats really funny. Jimmy yeah. Like super serious. Scene of course obviously everyone remembers this right here. Ill have what shes having. [ cheers and applause ] jimmy i know, its just iconic. Its just iconic. But what was he like directing this one . Did he have any say or you just improvised and went for it. Oh no he had a lot of sounds. Jimmy he was doing the sounds . Yeah, no, he was shouting out sounds. Eventually all the people in the deli. We did it all day so i got sounds from everybody. Jimmy wait, wait, wait. So when you were doing the oh, oh, oh everybody was doing it. No more like oyour honorhh [ laughter ] jimmy in katzs deli thats fantastic. Yeah. Jimmy have you ever been back . No, i cant show my face there, jimmy. Jimmy what are you talking about . I could never go. Jimmy you could get like a a free pastrami sandwich probably if you go in there. I dont know. Jimmy i would like to go in there. Ill go in with you next time youre on the show. You and i will go. Jimmy yeah, weve got to go. Okay. Alright, thats a deal. Jimmy yeah, youre right. No, yeah, maybe yeah youre right. So its actually its out september 9th in select theaters and on demand which is the new way to do it. Yeah. Jimmys and i want to show everyone a a clip here because youre in it as well. This is called ithaca. Lets take a look. How much to san antone. Uh, half as much as jersey. So that makes what, so half of 50 cents . A quarter. 25 cents. Thank you. Alright, great. Here you go sir. Oh. Here it is. Youre going to have to pardon my pal, fat, here. Hes just uh, hes just you see maam fat here and i were shipping out tomorrow and he is just a little nervous. Thats all. Thats not my name at all. Jimmy stick around. Meg ryan and i are playing pictionary when we get back. It will be great. [ applause ] . Its stunningly beautiful, a Perfect Blend of performance and design. The worlds thinnest laptop, sir you need to turn that off now. The new hp spectre with intel core i7 processor. Hp. Keep reinventing. I am sebastian artois. Brewmaster. Risktaker. Stella artois be legacy every day starts better with a healthy smile. Start yours with Philips Sonicare, the no. 1 choice of dentists. Compared to oralb 7000, Philips Sonicare flexcare platinum removes significantly more plaque. This is the sound of Sonic Technology cleaning deep between teeth. Hear the difference . Get healthier gums in just 2 weeks vs a manual toothbrush innovation and you. Philips sonicare. Save now when you buy Philips Sonicare. Philips sonicare. . . . . . . Heart rate one fifty six. Alright, hows this for a tv show. Sous chef. Lawyer by day, prepcook by night. Also, his name is sous. No. Sloppy joseph. A middleaged man whos trying to get his life together, but he cant hes to sloppy. Huhhh no here you go. I got this. I get cash back so its like everythings on sale. With the blue cash everyday card from American Express you get cash back on purchases with no annual fee.