Roots crew. Questlove 551, hoboken. Steve and now, here he is, jimmy fallon . . . . [ cheers and applause ] jimmy oh, hey welcome great thank you very much oh, you make me feel good. Welcome, everybody. Welcome, welcome, welcome, welcome, welcome, welcome [ cheers and applause ] welcome to the tonight show. This is it. You made it to the show. Youre the show. Thank you very much for being here. Heres what people are talking about. Between donald trump and Hillary Clinton. And the audience was made up of undecided voters, or as theyre also known, the worst people to be in line behind at baskin robbins. [ laughter ] can i have the oh, im not even sure if i want ice cream right now. Actually, one of the audience members from the debate last night is going viral. His name is ken bone. [ cheers and applause ] you know ken bone . Hes cute. Yeah, everybody likes ken bone. There he is. [ laughter ] yeah, we like ken bone. Yeah. Hes gotten so big that he was interviewed by cnn this morning, and he was actually asked about his sweater. Check this out. He told my booker, nyjah, why you chose to wear that red sweater. Can you share with us . Yeah, i had a really nice olive suit that i love a great deal, but apparently ive gained about 30 pounds, and when i went to get in my car the morning of the debate, i split the seat of my pants all the way open, so the red sweater is plan b. B. [ cheers and applause ] and america is moving on to plan c and electing ken bone for president. We like that guy. [ cheers and applause ] thats what im talking about. Ken bone for president steve ken bone. . Ken bone ken bone . [ laughter ] jimmy you might remember that during the first president ial debate, people noticed trump was sniffing a a lot. [ laughter ] trump blames it on a faulty microphone. Thats what he said. Well, last night was a new debate, brandnew microphone. So im sure that took care of the problem. Is here with us tonight. [ sniffing ] [ laughter ] four years later. [ sniffing ] talking about you, hillary. [ sniffing ] . . Okay, donald. Jimmy there you go. [ laughter ] you see this at one point, another man in the audience asked Hillary Clinton and positive thing that they respect about each other. At which point, both candidates claimed their microphone was broken. [ laughter and applause ] safe to say this debate last night was nastier than anything weve seen in american politics, and i think the networks knew what was coming, because look how they introduced it. Watch this. . . Tonights debate is sponsored by papa johns, eat your feelings, america. Nyquil, the nighttime, pass out, it will be over by morning medicine. And air canada. On november 9th, well be gassed up and ready to go. [ cheers and applause ] jimmy gassed up, ready to go. November 9th. Steve wow. Jimmy of course, the debate was just the end to a really long, bad weekend for donald trump. By now, weve all heard about the leaked tapes from 2005 where trump makes offensive remarks about women while riding an access hollywood bus, and trump admits it was a low point for him. They tried to tell me it was a a tall limo. Wrong. It wasnt. It was a bus. [ sniffing ] [ laughter ] it was a bus. Trump later tried to down play the comments, saying it was just locker room banter. People didnt know what was crazier, his excuse or the idea that trumps ever been to a a gym. [ laughter and applause ] come on. Steve hey oh jimmy locker room banter. At one point in the tape, trump talked about seducing a woman shopping. [ light laughter ] we got our hands on the extended clip of that moment. Steve really . Jimmy lets listen to this. She was down in palm beach, you know, and i moved on her very heavily. Im telling you, i did everything i could think of. I took her furniture shopping. We picked up dry cleaning together. I took her to the podiatrist [ laughter ] his office is in trump tower. And we went to walgreens to pick up my prescription. Could think of, but she wouldnt go for it. But i did get a lot of my errands done. [ applause ] jimmy with the election just a month away, it seems like everyones encouraging people to vote. In fact, i saw that last week, some politicians in arizona took part in a Voter Registration event at a strip club. The politicians said the hardest part was pretending they had never met the strippers before. [ laughter and applause ] oh, hello. Your name is cinnamon. Well, i wouldnt know. How would i know that . What do you mean the usual . Ive never been here before. Steve cinnamon. Jimmy oh, theres a photo of me and cinnamon. Thats interesting. [ laughter ] i must have a twin brother. [ light laughter ] and finally, i saw that facebook has the new secret conversations mode that lets you automatically set messages to delete or as hillary put it, like. There you go. We have a great show for you tonight. [ cheers and applause ] . . . . [ cheers and applause ] jimmy that is singer, song writer, producer, and guitarist Doyle Bramhall ii sitting in with the roots. [ cheers and applause ] thats a nice guitar there, brother. His new album, rich man is out now, and you can catch him here, buddy. [ cheers and applause ] thanks for having me. Jimmy good to see you again. Stay here. Hang out with us. Alright. Jimmy it is monday. Were very excited to be back. We have a big week of shows coming up. Tomorrow night, the very funny kevin hart will be here. Steve yeah [ cheers and applause ] jimmy kevin and i are going to play a brandnew game called would you rather. Be sure to tune in for that. Then later this week, Bryan Cranston will be here, vin diesel [ cheers and applause ] vin diesel will be here, and john hamm will be joining us. [ cheers and applause ] steve yeah, hambone jimmy and we have oh my goodness. Steve oh [ cheers and applause ] jimmy and we also have a a performance from kings of leon. This is a big week. [ cheers and applause ] but first, we have a very fun show tonight. We love this woman. She has a new book. There she is on the cover of redbook. Come on. Steve shes the best. [ cheers and applause ] jimmy she stars on the hit show empire. This is her new memoir, around the way girl. Taraji p. Henson is here. Steve yeah. Great story. Were going to catch up with taraji, then she and i are going to play password later on the show. Plus, from the breakout series, Stranger Things, he was fantastic in this, David Harbour is stopping by. [ cheers and applause ] that guy can act. Steve oh he can act up a storm. Jimmy hes good. And we got great music from my pals, phish is here, ladies and gentlemen [ cheers and applause ] i love phish. Jimmy guys, i dont know if you remember, this is my pal blake shelton, right here. [ cheers and applause ] this is his new album. Looks like his head. Hey, man, get my new record, man. Its really good. Steve whats the name of it . Jimmy its the name of if im honest is the album. But he came on the show and i made him try sushi and he was not happy about that. Blake wanted a chance to turn the tables by making me do something ive never done. Jimmy hey, guys, im here with my pal, blake shelton, were at riverdale stables here in new york. Now blake, the last time you were on the show, i made you do something youve never done before, try sushi. Oh, my god. No. Can we get some more rice wine . Yes. Still having nightmares about that. Jimmy well, being the nice guy that i am, i thought id give you the chance for some payback. Now youre going to make me do something ive never done before. Milk a cow. Cant wait. I cant wait for this . . Okay, jimmy, this is oreo. Jimmy okay, cool. Meet oreo. Jimmy hi, oreo. Did i overdress . You dressed very disrespectful. You look like howdy doody right now. Do you think this is a game . You think this is a game . This is serious. Jimmy i was just dressed for the part. You should wear something over that, you know . Is your comedy show over yet . Were here to milk a cow right now. Jimmy what do i do . Whats the first step . Well, first of all, this is oreo, and youre about to be touching her in a very private area, which is totally normal if you act normal about it and dont dress like woody from toy story when you do it. [ laughter ] . . So now whoa, whoa, whoa. You dont just reach out and grab a teat. You gotta this is all about romance and finesse, okay . So, have a connection with oreo. Jimmy sorry. Have a connection. Jimmy hi, oreo. Go ahead and milk the teat. Jimmy just grab it like that . No. You dont just grab a girls teat like that. Jimmy like this . You gotta get in there like this. Little bit of this. You reach up, and you come down. You reach up and gently jimmy just dont do that anymore. Dont stroke it. Jimmy i wasnt going to. I was going to milk it. Okay. Youre going to get up there up there and youre going to gently squeeze and then push down. Its more of a squeeze push than it is a stroke. [ laughter ] . . Jimmy here we go. Im just going to get my bowl. [ light laughter ] are you kidding me right now . What are you doing . Of course. Of course, oreo, i know. Its insulting. It is insulting. Jimmy this is a delicious and nutritious breakfast. What are you doing . Jimmy what do i do here . Wait a minute. Stop. The milk is up in here. Jimmy okay. Squeeze here . You got to ease, push up, and then pinch in, and then gently pull down. Jimmy push up no, no, no, no. One hand. There you go. Jimmy right there . Pretend like youre now youre getting a little bit there and then youre pushing it down. [ laughter ] . . How much assistance do you want . Jimmy hey. See that . Jimmy hey, youre getting some. We got milk. Come on. Reach up jimmy hey, i did it. Look. Its happening. [ cheers and applause ] yes how much do you need . Jimmy thats enough. Thats more than enough. What do you mean we did it . [ laughter ] . . Okay, jimmy, its an old farming tradition that you do a a shot of your first milk. Congratulations. Im very, very, very proud of you. This is the first time ive ever been happy with you. Jimmy yeah. Yeah. Jimmy heres to more adventure. Yes, sir. How is it . Jimmy warm. It . Its got that nice creamy . . [ cheers and applause ] jimmy my thanks to blake shelton. I milked a cow [ cheers and applause ] his album, if im honest is in stores now. Be sure to check him out monday and tuesday nights on the voice right here on nbc. Stick around. Well be right back with taraji p. Henson, everybody [ cheers and applause ] . . . . You dont own me . . Dont try to change me in any way . . Oh . . Dont tell me what to do . . Just let me be myself . . You dont own me . Toyota. Lets go places. Discover card. Im not a customer, but im calling about that credit scorecard. to dog give it. Sure its free for everyone. Oh well thats nice and checking your score wont hurt your credit. Oh to dog im so proud of you. Well thank you. Get your free credit scorecard at discover. Com. . . [ cheers and applause ] jimmy our first guest is the golden globe Award Winning star of the blockbuster show empire which you can see wednesdays at 9 00 p. M. On fox. This is her brandnew memoir, around the way girl which hits stores tomorrow. Please welcome the beautiful, the talented taraji p. Henson [ cheers and applause ] thank you jimmy looking gorgeous as always. Thank you. Jimmy thank you so much for coming back. Are you kidding me . . I love round the way . Thats your favorite song, isnt it . Jimmy why do you call this around the way girl . Because he was talking about me when he sang that song. I had bamboo earrings, at least two pair, catch me on the right day, i had a bad attitude. You know. I just want it to resonate with, you know, i wanted people to not look at me as a a celebrity but or, yeah, a celebrity but a a celebrity with a a normal story to tell. Like, you know, i wasnt walking down the street and im so beautiful that i was [ cheers and applause ] jimmy yeah. Absolutely. Its great. Its very positive, too. Because obviously, it ends well. I mean, its great. Yeah. Jimmy yeah, it does, yeah. How is your son doing . Hes doing great. Jimmy marcel. I got a picture i have a a picture of him. Hes getting old. Yeah, somebodys getting old. Its not me. Jimmy no, its not you, no. Yeah, hes getting old. Hes 22 now. We were in south africa and i dont know if you guys know about thit jimmy is that a tiny little show . [ cheers and applause ] thats you. Someone painted a mural of you. Of cookie. In south africa, all the way in south africa. Jimmy are you kidding me . Are you freaking out . My son was like, whoa, mom, thats huge. Jimmy it really is. I was like, yeah, pretty much, your moms a rock star, kid. [ laughter ] jimmy thats got to feel great, right . Oh goodness, it was amazing, but i think what got me teary eyed when i went there is that they didnt then i found this when we did the International Tour everyone went to paris, they didnt call me cookie. They called me taraji. Taraji. Yeah, and they brought all of my movie jackets and ive been told all of my career that black doesnt do well overseas and im like, what . Every culture does great all over the world. What are you talking about . [ cheers and applause ] you know . And so i get overseas and im like, i told you so. Its a myth. Jimmy a myth, yeah, theyre painting me on the sides theyre painting me on e buildings. Yeah. Yeah. Im just so happy for you. Im excited that you got this story. I will say the story is great, but the pictures are just fantastic. Oh, here we go. Jimmy i got to show. Because come on. This is just come on. Look at this. How cute. Look on this side first. Look at this one. And then look at that nice that mushroom. Jimmy yeah. Thats a great look. It was falling a little part right there. But my mom was a hairdresser. Jimmy you look exactly the same. I do . Jimmy yeah, exactly the im a baby. Jimmy your mom was a a hairdresser . My hairdresser. Jimmy oh, yeah, of course. She was quite annoyed when i went i showed up one day in the ninth grade, being grown, and cut all of my hair off, and she was like, im not going to wake up early in the morning and do your hair and i said, okay, ill do it. Jimmy really. And thats where those great haircuts came from after that if you look at the back. Jimmy thats like four haircuts in one. What you dont see is the rat tail in the back, baby. Jimmy you have a rat tail . Theres a fifth haircut. Yeah, theres a fifth, and it was blond. Yes. Jimmy one part that really got me and this is when you realized that you wanted to do this, and this was where did you sing debarge . That was junior high school. I was at Friendship School without walls i didnt grow up in the hood. I guess it happened several times in life. There was one time when i was in kindergarten and i remember get out on the stage and i was loud and the audience laughed and i was like, i like that feeling. I remembered that. And then there was another feeling in the fifth grade, i happened to see my teacher, she saw that i was very rambunctious and she channeled that energy and she put me on stage. And i remember the feeling in the fifth grade. And then again in the seventh grade i did a variety show with my best friend and we sang debarge and i hit the high note and the audience went nuts and i was like, i was born to do this. [ laughter ] jimmy i am a star i must do this. I must do this. The people need me. Jimmy they respond to me. They like me. They really like me. Well, everyone pick up this book and get it and give it as a gift because its good and its moving and its just uplifting and i think right now we need something to all bring us up a little, something positive. I think so. [ applause ] jimmy i think we do. Empire, i dont need to set this. Just going as strong as ever. Its like football numbers. If the world is watching empire and i love it. Its always great. And do you want to say anything thats going on with this clip . This is taye diggs. Youre back with taye diggs is the Love Interest on the show. Okay. Is it incriminating . What is it . Oh, from the show. Oh, okay. Okay. [ laughter ] because jimmy you got to watch th o ive been doing this too long. I know this guy. Jimmy what is wrong with you . Is it incriminating . Nothing bad. I had to ask that. Jimmy what is wrong with you . This is taraji p. Henson and taye diggs in an upcoming episode of empire. Here, take a look. Good evening, ladies. Wow, we didnt think youd show. Its more of a sabrina thing. His latest cookie, this is we did jack and jill together and bridget pearce. Our families summered together in oak bluff. Where do you stay on the vineyards . The vineyard . Marthas vineyard. Actually, cookie spends most of her summers running her familys multibillion dollar corporation. Actually, i have summered in connecticut. At the Danbury Federal Correction Institution for women. [ applause ] thats for all the mean girls. Jimmy n much we love you. Taraji p. Henson, catch empire wednesday nights at 9 00 p. M. Check out the new memoir around the way girl on sale tomorrow, taraji and i are playing password after the break. Stick around, everybody. Its going to be good. [ cheers and applause ] . . The microsoft cloud helps us stay connected. The microsoft cloud offers 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. . . . . . . One smart choice leads to the next. . . The new 2017 ford fusion is here. Of a wellmade choice. . . [ hawk squawk ] start boldly with the apple that bites back. [ whip cracks ] redds wicked apple. [ cheers and applause ] [ laughter ] steve welcome back. Very funny. Very funny. Welcome back to the show, everybody im your host, steve higgins, and were about to play a game of password. To my left, first her new memoir around the way girl is in stores tomorrow. Say hello to taraji p. Henson [ cheers and applause ] . . Oh gorgeous and talented, taraji, your partner this evening is the host of nbcs tonight show and saugerties sweetheart, jimmy fallon [ cheers and applause ] yeah . . And to my right are their opponents, from the legendry roots crew, questlove and tariq [ cheers and applause ] . . And were all here to play password [ cheers and applause ] . . Oh, the rules of the game are very simple. I will give each of you a and each of you are to give a a oneword clue. Thats one word only, to get your partners to guess the password. If the clue is illegal as determined by our judges, you will hear this [ buzzes ] and you will forfeit the turn. The team with the most points after four words wins. Any questions . Great. Jimmy what . Steve first clue goes to taraji and questlove. Jimmy i dont think tariq and questlove ever played the game together questlove ever. Jimmy as a team. Questlove i didnt even remember playing. Steve they dont play games. Questlove yes. [ laughter ] jimmy oh, yeah. Thank you, higgins. Thank yoha the password is. Steve the password okay. Taraji, why dont you start us off . Jimmy mm, everythings a a hint. This is all good. Im feeling this. Yep. You got this. [