Featuring Lunchmoney Lewis, and the legendary roots crew. Questlove 738, higgins. Steve and now, here he is, jimmy fallon [ cheers and applause ] jimmy look at how great you look. Welcome, everybody. Welcome. [ cheers and applause ] welcome to the tonight show this is it, baby. Youre here. You did it. [ cheers and applause ] heres what people are talking about. I saw that amazon is removing all the onestar reviews of Hillary Clintons new memoir what happened. [ light laughter ] but to be fair, theyre also removing all the 5star reviews that hillary gave herself. [ laughter and applause ] i i mean, she is very relatable did you guys see this . It came out that trump called attorney general Jeff Sessions an idiot, and sessions responded by sending a a Resignation Letter to the white house. [ light laughter ] but no one saw it, cause the guy who sorts through the Resignation Letters had also resigned. [ laughter ] so there was no one steve what are you gonna do . Jimmy he just decided. I dont know if you know this. Steve he left. Jimmy but this is very nice. An 11 yearold kid from virginia wrote a letter to the white house offering to mow the lawn. [ light laughter ] and today, they had him come do it. [ laughter ] isnt that great . Reporters actually filmed the moment when the president came out to greet the kid. Check this out. Youre way better at this than sean spicer was. [ laughter ] jimmy he made sean spicer mow the lawn . Steve he made him mow the lawn . [ cheers and applause ] my gosh. Jimmy listen to this. I read that california wants to ban selfdriving cars from delivering weed. [ laughter ] partly due to safety issues, but mostly because theyre worried itll freak out the customers. [ laughter ] dude, whos driving the car . Are you an alien . Take me to your dealer [ laughter ] this is crazy. Yesterday, olive garden sold out of 22,000 unlimited pasta passes in less than a second. Its actually the fastest anyone with an unlimited pasta pass has ever moved. [ laughter ] i got one. Steve i know you got one. We gotta go. Jimmy we gotta go. I love it. I love the idea. I love that theres pasta. Steve you like bread . Jimmy and bread. Steve you like salads . Jimmy yeah. Steve you like pasta . Jimmy yeah. Steve there you go. [ laughter ] jimmy i know that we own the slogan, when youre here youre family. Steve thats true. Jimmy do you remember that . Steve yes. Jimmy the owner of olive garden came and legally gave us the slogan. When youre here youre family. So we have that. We dont use it. Steve no. Jimmy but [ light laughter ] steve their new ones pretty close. Jimmy what is there new slogan . Do you know . Steve youre all family here. Something like that. Jimmy we should sue them because they stole [ laughter ] steve sounds like a a lawsuit. Jimmy stole our idea. Thats our slogan. Steve yes. [ light laughter ] jimmy meanwhile, you guys, the movie it has already made over 200 million at the box office and is expected to be the number one movie again this weekend. Higgins, did you see it . Steve did i see what . Jimmy it. Steve did i see it . Jimmy thats what im asking. Steve wait, what happened . [ light laughter ] jimmy no, thats Hillary Clintons book. [ laughter ] steve did i read it . Is that what you asked . Jimmy no, im asking, did you see it. Steve theres already a a movie of Hillary Clintons book . [ laughter ] jimmy no, what happened is a book. It is a movie. Steve the movie of Hillary Clintons book. [ laughter ] jimmy the movies not biased on the book tariq actually, it is based on a book. Jimmy but not what happened. Tariq yeah. What happened is just a lady lashing out at other people. [ laughter ] jimmy kind of like look what you made me do. [ laughter ] tariq i didnt make you do anything. Hey, hey, stop. It is a movie thats based on a movie thats based on a book. What happened is a book about an election and look what you made me do is a song. And this is us. [ bell dinging ] [ laughter ] [ cheers and applause ] jimmy thank you, kamal. I get it now. Thank you. Hey, this is pretty amazing. I saw that a robot in italy actually conducted an orchestra performance. Yeah. While a roomba in the back of the theater was like, i should have followed my dreams. [ laughter and applause ] get this. A new study found that younger americans are having less sex because they spend too much time checking their phones. [ light laughter ] then ted cruz said, why not do both . [ laughter ] steve ho hey jimmy guys, it is the end of the week and since theres too much to talk about, instead of giving you a full week in review, we decide to put together a little montage that just focuses on the key words used this week. Its something we call this week in words. [ cheers and applause ] autumn. Baseball. Winning streak. Pumpkin spice. And fashion week. President trump and the democrats. Upset his voters. Must introduce. Miss north dakota trump facing. Criticism. Even from the. Pope. Hillary revealed. How shes able to cope. Chardonnay. My dog. Does yoga. And alternate nostril breathing which i highly recommend. Cleveland. Indians. Cannot be stopped. Harrison ford the traffic cop. And the president. Working with the dems. He swapped. It is such a hit. The success. Wont quit. The Steven Bannon interview. He looks like [ bleep ]. Im a street fighter. Okay. I dont care what they say. As obvious as night follows day. Ted cruz. Speaking out. Because pornography. Right from his twitter account. Fifty shades franchise. Trailer debut. I like that one too. [ laughter ] jimmy we have a great show tonight. Give it up for the roots [ cheers and applause ] [ cheers and applause ] jimmy we have a great show tonight. [ cheers and applause ] this guy. Steve come on. Jimmy people love this guy. He is such a fantastic actor. He stars in the upcoming new film the current war. Benedict cumberbatch is here tonight. Steve yeah. [ cheers and applause ] jimmy and benedict and i are going to play a fun game called sentence sneak. Steve ooh. Jimmy be sure to stay tuned for that. Also, our pal from the today show and author of the new Childrens Book, princesses wear pants, Savannah Guthrie is stopping by. Steve yeah [ cheers and applause ] jimmy i love it. Love kids books. I was talking to savannah and i go, look at all these words. [ laughter ] steve its a lot of words. Jimmy yeah, you dont need that. Dada. [ laughter ] this is one word. Steve one word. Jimmy work too hard. Steve saves a lot of jimmy you work to hard. Yeah. I dont know why you do that. You dont need that many words. [ light laughter ] oh, we got great music tonight. I love both these guys. Andy grammer. [ cheers and applause ] honey im good if it hadnt been for Cottoneye Joe id been married a long time ago where did you come from where did you go where did you come from Cottoneye Joe jimmy he is teaming up [ laughter ] with Lunchmoney Lewis. [ cheers and applause ] i got bills i got to pay so im going to work work work every day if it hadnt been for Cottoneye Joe id been married a long time ago where did you come from where did you go where did you come from, Cottoneye Joe jimmy anyways, Lunchmoney Lewis steve yes. Jimmy is teaming up with andy grammer. Tonight, on our show. [ cheers and applause ] give love is the song. And its catchy. Its good. Its a great tune. I love it. Guys, it is friday. Thats usually when i catch up on some personal stuff. You know, check my inbox. I return some emails. And of course i send out my thank you notes. And i was [ cheers and applause ] i was just running a little late because i was just steve what were you doing . Jimmy i was doing some charitable work. [ cheers ] and i was running late and i was wondering if you guys, would you mind if i write out my thank you notes right now . Is that cool . [ cheers and applause ] you guys are the best. Thanks. James, can i get some thank you note writing music, please . [ laughter ] steve wow. Jimmy oh, man. Hes a hes a blast at kids parties. [ laughter ] steve wow. Hes giving you one note. F. [ laughter ] [ cheers ] jimmy thank you, tailgating, for tricking my brain into thinking its okay to eat chicken in a parking lot. [ laughter ] steve come on, man. Jimmy somethings wrong, right . Thank you, ted cruz for liking a porno video on twitter and then blaming it on a staffing issue. Whoever did it sounds like a a real jerk. [ laughter and applause ] steve looks like he had a a handle on his staff. Thats whos he got to deal with. [ laughter ] [ audience groans ] jimmy i think he sounds like a real whack job, whoever he is. [ laughter ] steve id tell that guy to go beat it. Get out of here. [ laughter ] jimmy but have you seen his poll . His polls steve his polls are going up, i heard. Jimmy the polls are going up. I mean i steve but then it went down again. Jimmy i talked to the head of his staff. Steve did you really . [ laughter ] did he get debriefed . Did he get debriefed . Jimmy hes nuts and then he debriefed me. [ laughter ] [ cheers and applause ] [ laughter ] steve is that a frying pan . [ laughter ] what the . Oh, my gosh. Jimmy thank you, Cincinnati Reds mascot, mr. Red, for showing us what it would look like if the pringles guy lost his mind. [ laughter and applause ] steve surprise. Can he jimmy sequel to it. Thank you, using a plunger, for making me feel like im performing cpr on my toilet. [ laughter and applause ] dont leave me dont leave me thank you, grandmas, for being the only reason this candy still exists. [ laughter ] [ cheers and applause ] what is that candy . Steve come on, what is it . What is it . Jimmy its great. Its like strawberry something. Steve strawberry something or other. Its in a bowl. [ light laughter ] jimmy take a candy on your way out. [ laughter ] steve grandma sandler. Jimmy why dont you take a a candy on your way out. Thank you, bumper cars, for letting me introduce my kids to the concept of road rage. [ laughter ] [ cheers and applause ] they have the worst seat belts ever on bumper cars. Steve oh, do not even. Dont even. Jimmy just put this over your head. Yeah. [ light laughter ] steve get a rope. Jimmy hold this rope. Thank you, wearing your favorite players jersey for being the only time its socially acceptable to say you like someone by showing up to their job and wearing their clothes. [ laughter ] [ cheers and applause ] i love you. Youre my favorite. Thank you, eating a croissant for giving me the chance to wipe crumbs off my shirt for the next 30 years. There you go. Thank you very much. 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Jimmy and you are nominated for another emmy award. Yeah. And yeah [ cheers and applause ] thank you. Jimmy good week. Its a good year. Its all good. Yeah. Jimmy its fine right now. Yeah. This is for sherlock, right . Abcs sherlock and its always very nice you find yourself in a list alongside robert deniro. I mean, its insane and im very, very flattered and really, when Something Like that happens and raise, and jump through, and everyone i mean, it that is trust. Jimmy its a good list of people. That feels like winning. So, yeah, im very made. Jimmy well, best of luck on that. I want to talk about the current war. cause i was wondering, why is this movie not been made already. But it is. I know, or why any one of the three, or the main three that this is about. Thomas alva edison who i play and nikola tesla, and George Westinghouse these three titans of invitation and pioneering science and, any one of them could have their own film and this is about a very specific time where theyre all vying for control of the distribution of electricity, very near the early days of it. And one part of old skyline back here was lit up whole square mile of wall street was lit up by edison and from that moment in its charge to the finishing line to try to get business from every state in the in the a country. Jimmy it has Michael Shannon in it. Hes in the movie. Hes like well, you know what hes like. Hes wonderful. Jimmy hes the greatest. I made a joke once hes a true, true original. Jimmy i made some joke about wearing a cape or something and he just found one and showed up. When he came out wearing a a fullon cape. [ light laughter ] like it was thats what he wore the day. Hes so dry. And i think cause hes so hes so internalized. Hes so ridiculously, potent. Brilliant as a film actor. Jimmy yeah. Because hes just hes a a heavy weight. Everything thats going is inside and the camera reads that so deeply hes a but people sometimes, sort of, really scared by him. And i was not alone. Hes got a hell of a statuate tall guy, like you. Jimmy intimidating a little bit. Yeah, a little bit. And but he couldnt be nicer. Hug the shannon. I think im going to get a a tshirt that says, hug the shannon. Jimmy hug the shannon, yeah. Absolutely. Thats a good hug the shannon. Or [ bleep ] out of shannon or Something Like that. Jimmy Something Like that. Yeah. I want to show a clip here. Heres Benedict Cumberbatch as Thomas Edison in the current war. Take a look at this. Did i mention that his systems lethal . I mean, you reach out and touch a doorknob or a rail, and well, you become the circuit. Just to be clear on that point when you die. Dc current, you can reach out and touch anything at any stage of the line and with your bare hands and its safe. It works. And it bears the name of edison, so its pretty. [ light laughter ] our government has been trying for some time now to get me to invent a weapon but i wont use this brain to invent anything that hurts people. For that, you can shop in pittsburgh. So you say westinghouse wants to hurt people. No, i cant say that. But you can. Jimmy yeah. [ cheers and applause ] love the hair. The hair. Jimmy right down to the last bit curl. Perfect. Thomas edison hair. Very cool. That comes out november 24th, the current war. Benedict, i saw you do a magic trick on somewhere, online and i didnt even know that you were a a magician. But i was neither did i, jimmy. [ light laughter ] jimmy but i was wondering if you could do the trick . Oh, god. Jimmy for us tonight. It involves it involves water. Oh, okay. Well, last time i did this, i had a magician off camera teaching me. So, ill give it a go. Hows best to do it . Shall i come around there . Or can i do it from here . Jimmy yeah, sure, yeah. So ill be your assistant . I cant promise that this will work. Yeah. Jimmy do you want to be on this side or that side or does it matter . Okay, okay. Jimmy which side . I dont think it matters as long as ive got. Jimmy all right, guys. I dont want to be to near electronics in case it goes wrong. Jimmy yeah, okay. Ladies and gentlemen, here we have a bottle of water. Jimmy okay. Bottle of water. Yeah, yeah, okay. Yeah, america, yeah, america. Water in england. But maybe it was jimmy could have been imported. Could be water. Jimmy but now its water. [ light laughter ] so now i just i just broke the seal. That doesnt matter. Theres the bubble. Bottle of water, bottle of water, water. Im opening a bottle of water. Could be imported. We dont know. Its an unbranded bottle. Jimmy unbranded bottle. Not part of the magic. Not part of the magic sort. Okay, so. Jimmy the trick gets better than this, you guys. [ laughter ] its him holding water. Thats the whole trick. Okay, so, if i get this right. If i think really hard. Should be able to im shaking because im so nervous. I should be able to take my hand away and no water will come out. It might not work. It might not work. Ahh. There we go. Okay. [ cheers and applause ] got to keep this cup just in case it does come out. If i concentrate no i think i got it. If i concentrate really hard, the water should then come out. There you go. Jimmy thats un how [ cheers and applause ] thats a normal bottle of water. Its a normal bottle. And its not its, you know jimmy thats what im talking about right there. Water, yeah, what. [ cheers and applause ] Benedict Cumberbatch, everybody. The current war opens november 24th. When we come back, benedict and i are playing a fun game. Stick around. How did you just wait. [ cheers and applause ] dad molly, can you please take out the trash . sigh dad molly trash whoo mom hey, molly . It